"Outside the Boxes"
Rushing wind, steel
on steel, blurred & varying intensities of light and color... these
are all to be experienced if you but poke your head out of a speeding
train. It used to be a normal thing to do, but now people seem to
think it's unspeakably dangerous, and so most of the time we ride around
in sealed boxes on wheels; work within larger sealed boxes, and rely more
on air conditioning than on open windows. (Incidentally, the photo
on the left above is in full color and is just as it came out of the camera
- that's not a software sepia-tone or black and white - it's just the
real world under some structure that the Yamanote Line train I was on
passed under.)
The color on the
side of the Yamanote Line train going in the opposite direction is an
advertisement - for iPods I think. It depends on the ad of course,
but some ads actually make the trains look better.
Copyright 2006 by Lyle (Hiroshi)
Saxon, Images Through Glass, Tokyo
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