Greenroom Festival, Yokohama, JAPAN '12- 1日目

Its almost a year since I was there for my 4th Greenroom Festival in Japan, and its a bout time I put up these photos!

It was a great 3.5 days in Yokohama with my mates. 

First day was spent driving down from Tokyo, sourcing velcro from Tokyu Hands with Masa, setting up my wall of photos with Liam's help, then beer drinking, then Chinatown food eating, sake slingin with the TCSS crew.

Day One of Greenroom was awesome. Mai, Nadia, Liam and Jan came down from Tokyo to join in the fun- well make my day fun as you really have to hang by your artwork and try and "sell it" to the non English speaking Japanese festival punters. Thank you Nadia and Mai for being my translators! 

It became dusk and I became tipsy. All of us were sitting outside TCSS booth getting stupid on cheap Asahi tall cans. Mikey and Doc were especially hilarious as always. We soon all went side stage for The Drums set- then Mai and I asked for the bands number- we got it.

Pics as follows---->

Nadia + Mai

The Drums were fun, and thanks for the esky of beeru

Doc

My photo wall

Yokohama Ferris wheel, I love it

Mikey + myself

Dare and Dustin

Masa

Nadia, me, Mai and some new friend?

I made badges

Mikey

Chinatown lazy susan- felt pretty lazy after all that joy

Jim

Sam, Coombes, Liam and Doc- backseat snuggles to dinner

Masa + Doc saying "Maybe No" to shark fin soup

Dinner crew followed by beeru

Hi Mai chan

Hi Masa san

Hi, its me

Liam slicin up velcro

We were bored in the morning so Harry and Mikey made paper planes out of Harry's art. Pretty sure they hit people.

Dragon artist

Masa's kiddies

Japan No. 7 Could This Be Heaven?

Here's a little ditty of my 7 day trip and 7th time to Japan last May!

My main reason to go to Japan again was to exhibit my photos at Greenroom Festival in Yokohama on the 19-20th May. Naturally I decided to stay an extra couple of days to party with my beautiful friends........here's how the week played out

Greenroom Festival 2012 lead up

I am so pumped to be invited back to Greenroom Festival in Yokohama, JP this May 19-20th!
It will be my 4th Greenroom and my 2nd personal works exhibiting amongst the other artists. I have always been blessed going and shooting for The Critical Slide Society (TCSS), for their blog and other events we do in the 2 weeks we are in Japan.
Every year I go to Japan I gain more amazing new friends from all around the world. Those friendships I hold very closely still to this day......


My trip to California in 3 weeks is going to give me some fresh new pictures for my show. Pretty darn excited. I basically go to Cali for 2 weeks (which is already jammed packed with fun), fly to Melbourne for 3 days seeing family, back to Sydney for a week to get my photos ready and printed, then head to Tokyo, frame my prints over there, hang the show, sing karaoke and have some beers! 


I'm all set.


Here's my write up in Japanese on the Greenroom website-


http://greenroom.jp/art/1135/


Here's my write-up in English via google translate- its pretty hilarious,


El Green is people obsessed with travel photographer, and blogger, frequent. She isthe mecca of Australia - are living in Bondi Beach there is a relaxed and easygoinglife. El is the viewpoint of rough, raw, which is fair.
It is said that "capture the side of the truth of the material always" she.
Young people were taken in recent years, but she is well known that the surf and skatephotos, etc., of the journey
That praise in the fashion and portrait.

Here's my photo wall I did for Greenroom 2011, my shots from Noosa-

Pictures from Greenroom '11-

Masahiro + Coombesy

Myself, Tina, Michelle and Nadia. 

What the hell was so funny? Im gonna say it was something said in Japanese as clearly, by the photograph, I didnt get it. Ha

2 pups sitting in a park getting photographed

Yokohama by day

Nadia + Michelle

Tina

Yuta + Ryoko

Angie, her son Ryder and I

The boys from Basque Country

Xabi

Clovis

Shogo

Sho

The Tree House man

TY

Mr. Jet Lag