Lunch

River Fish + Salt + Stick = Lunch!

Tokyo Street Peeps

More photos from our not so recent trip to Tokyo.


Street drummer outside of Harajuku station.



The bridge behind the Harajuku station. Every weekend, teenagers from all over the Tokyo urban area come to show off their latest goth/princess/??? costumes. Murph the Gwampire would fit in perfectly here.




Sake Labels.



This is the funniest part of taking photos in Tokyo. Every time you see something interesting, compose a shot and take a photo, you turn around and see at least 2 other people with cameras with the same idea.


Searching for the meaning of life.


Outside of the Meiji Jingu Shrine.

Nami Fest

Here are some pics and a video clip from the annual Nami(Wave) Fest surfing contest that went down this month in Hamamatsu, Japan. Special guest Al (from Al Surfboards fame) came all the wave from California to attend.

Please pardon the video quality, this was all shot with a digi still camera and a crusty tripod.

Nami Fest 2010 from Bart Templeman on Vimeo.

Photo by AL






Photo by AL

Shibuya Crossing

The famous Shibuya crossing in Tokyo. According to the omnipotent wikipedia, over 2 million pass through the Shibuya station every day. Most of those pass through the scramble intersection. Plenty of action here, a great place to people watch.





Note the Starbucks on the corner, a great place to enjoy an overpriced coffee and watch the human river.

Street performers abound...



Playing around with some slow shutter speed panning shots, trying to capture rush hour.

Day at the River

The other day I took a bike ride down the river because the waves were completely flat. Usually I have my camera, but today all I had was my tiny Ipod nano. Inspired by the magical video clips flowing daily out of the hit blog site TheBlurfCurve, I tested out the video camera function on my Ipod nano to grab some clips using my hat as a tripod. I then had to remember how to use imovie to throw this together. Please enjoy this ghetto fabulous river scenery.

Day at the River from Bart Templeman on Vimeo.

The World Keeps Spinnin And There's No Time To Waste

Cojo Cup

This late breaking news is a few weeks old, but I participated in a surf contest a few weeks ago at a fun beachbreak down the road, the "Cojo Cup." Kind of like the infamous Burning Bowls, but with Bento lunchboxes and Asahi instead of Hotdogs and Budweiser. Nori-san of Cojo surfboards gets all of his team riders together for the contest every year, this year I was thrown into the "riders cup" division.


This is Nori-san, he shapes Cojo (yes named after the ranch) boards, recently he has been letting me try all kinds of test shapes, from shortboards to EPS/Styrofoam 4-fin rocket fish boards.



Akihito preps for his first round heat...



I ended up winning my division and taking home the coveted trophy and a cool 10 grand (yen). The prize money went straight to celebratory beer and sushi.



If you can read Japanese, you can check out Nori-san's website with all of the results HERE, (scroll down further on the site for exclusive photos of "Bert Templeman").

And some more photos of the action HERE