We arrived in Haneda on Tuesday at about 6AM, but didn’t leave for Kyoto until about 1PM. We stayed fairly close to Kyoto Station but it was central enough to every JR line to get anywhere we wanted! Two days were planned in Kyoto, so we did as much as we could, as my grandfather insisted that we do a quick trip to Hiroshima for the memorial. In Kyoto, we basically did all the touristy sites, with Fushimi Inari shrine being our first stop (literally an hour after we dropped our things off at our hotel. We also did a small stroll through the Bamboo grove and made sure to eat at a local spot. Hiroshima was definitely a different vibe, due to it being a smaller city. I felt the reverence throughout the grounds of the memorial and the Bomb Dome. If you ever have a chance to go visit the memorial, please do take it it is a powerful experience. I had no idea what the fuck was going on during the Shinjuku Robot Restaurant. Obviously menswear was a bit part of this trip and I can tell that your loins are already burning, so let’s get into it.

So don’t worry, those will come in due time! And yes, some of my major visits are missing, but that’s because I decided to give them their own space instead of putting them in this overly long blog post. If you follow me on instagram or are friend with me in real life, you already know that I took a LOT of pictures. Pretty early on in the trip, I decided to relegate my DSLR for serious portraits/pictures and to simply use my phone for quick snaps. There was a lot to get through, visit, and try on as you will no doubt see. So please bare with me and my mix of phone and DSLR pictures! Second Streetįirst off, let me say that second hand shopping in Japan in insane and completely awesome. As far as I saw, there were no thrift stores where you had to sift through bad clothing to have the chance to find the good shit. Most likely because almost every store and brand makes some great stuff.Ģnd Street is most comparable to places like Buffalo Exchange and Crossroads here in the States. It’s filled with designer/brand clothing that’s marked down to pretty damn affordable prices! There are two locations in California (Pasadena and Santa Ana) so I thought I was pretty familiar with the products. For example, I found United Arrows shorts once (among CDG, BAPE, etc) and thought “okay cool, that’s one piece of classic menswear”. But when I got to Japan, boy was I wrong.Īlden, Crockett & Jones, and Edward Green shoes are what greeted me in a somewhat narrow 2nd Street store in Shibuya. I have literally never seen these shoes outside of their original store or on eBay. Intrigued, I began to foray further, finding great aloha shirts, sack jackets, and just great stuff in general. It helps that some of these stores have a big focus on “American/Trad” as a separate section! Quite a contrast to the mainly streetwear focus of the 2nd Streets back home or the pretty barren Crossroads/Buffalo Exchange (which are filled with old J. First, select a photo from your library.Crew).Īdjusted for the currency exchange, prices ranged between $30-200 depending on the item. While the selfies AI Gahaku produces are unlikely to fetch half a million, they are likely to brighten up a day. The artwork was sold by Christie's in 2018 for $432,500.

The ' Portrait of Edmond Belamy' was produced by artists Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel, and Gauthier Vernier, who gave a system thousands of images and asked it to produce its own original version. This tool sifted through 70,000 works of art to find a match, creating what's called a 'faceprint' to match unique characteristics together. Google Arts and Culture released a face match tool in January 2018 that compares faces with works of art to identify a user's closest match. and fine art have come together like this. developers, who can struggle with biases in data sets. The site notes there's some development work that still needs to be done, particularly around 'the output of the AI artist,' which 'has been biased.' The developer is aiming to 'use a wide variety of learning data and increase the diversity of output in the future.' It's an issue not unfamiliar to A.I. You versus the meme she told you not to worry about.

Watatani gahaku