Daily Photo: Badass red Mustang in Omotesando

September 18, 2008

I love Ford Mustangs.  I love them in a unique way that is only possible by American dudes.  My first ever car was a white 1979 Ford Mustang.  The love an American teenager has for his first car is one of the deepest loves in the whole world.  I loved that car.  It was never referred to as a “Ford” or even as a “Mustang.”  No, it was always reverentially referred to by myself, and even my friends, as “the Pony.”

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Brief cycling for Shinjuku night photos

September 2, 2008

RIDE STATS:

  • Distance:  2.13 miles  
  • Time in motion:  13 minutes 39 seconds
  • Average speed:  9.4 mph
  • Max speed:  17.4 mph
As you can tell from the stats, this wasn’t a hardcore ride, or even a light exercise ride.  Rather it was my first time to try riding with my Nikon D80 in the handlebar bag.  It worked well as I made the brief ride to the Shinjuku skyscraper district to try my hand at handheld night shots of the skyscrapers.  

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