Urban Decay Part I

Posted on May 16th, 2011 in Stuff I Like | 0 comments

The muggy rainy season – typically May and June – is one facet of living in Japan that I find especially hard to tolerate.  Ask anyone around me, and they will testify to the fact that as the heat and humidity rise, so does my irritability. However, the one upshot of the moist climate is its oxidizing effect on all things metal, turning mundane objects from their erstwhile boring, sterile selves into a rainbow of  rusty and decrepit hues. Here is a fine example of a weather-worn mailbox in an industrial section of Amagasaki where I work.

And since I was in the neighborhood, a monochrome shot of a deserted junior high school hallway. All the kids must have been in class. If these walls could talk…