There has been a temporary 30 yen (roughly 25 cents)/liter consumption tax on gas in Japan for the last thirty years.  Don't you love the loose application of temporary?  But such a loose interpretation will not lose and election for your.  Having the public find out that the majority of that tax which is supposed to be used for road improvement has mainly been used for massage chairs, tennis courts, unbelievably stupid graft projects like plays or paper projects to promote useles...

April 27 was International Pinhole Day.  Note that I wrote PinHOLE not PinHEAD (I read somewhere that Pinhead Day is the 29th).  How many of you got your pinhole cameras out?  I missed it, but better late than never.  A great example of pinhole can be seen here. It's a flickr group for pinhole that really inspires me to try it.  This person has beautiful work.

 

I've been interested in Pinhole photography for a while.  I've seen some amazing work on ...