imomus | Photos I can't show you

• The photo of the world's longest bridge, which is also the most expensive to cross. I took this photo from the Tako ferry, in order to avoid paying $150 to cross the bridge. The sun was setting and the bridge was lit dramatically against enormous clouds.

• The photo of our satisfying stark and trad ryokan room in Takamatsu, the port town on the northern coast of Shikoku. Part of my naked torso can be seen framed in a dark doorway, looking very Francis Bacon. But the main subject of the picture is the beautiful red duvet, with a snap-on sheet rounding the futon's corners.

• The forbidden photo of the elephant's secret vagina in Shinro Ohtake's glorious Naoshima bathhouse, I (heart) Yu. Plus, I guess. the snap I furtively grabbed of myself naked there, when I had the room to myself. Very bad.

• The photo of Hisae "doing a Harry Worth" on the mirrored pillar at the SANAA Naoshima Ferry Terminal. Harry Worth is a British 1960s comedian whose opening sequence showed him bisected laterally by a mirror, raising one arm and one leg. SANAA are the world's greatest and most understated architects.

• Literally umpteen hundred photos -- all taken in perfect sunny weather -- of the artists' house installations on Naoshima, a sort of permanent biennial crossed with a cultural / religious theme park. I say "religious" because going into an underground chamber to see Hiroshi Sugimoto's glass staircase and his framing of the sea, or entering a pitch-black James Turrell hut and gradually "seeing the light" is like experiencing some ultra-slick new religion designed by artists.

I can't show you these photos because I don't have a laptop with me. I also can't show you tomorrow's snaps of my adventures with Yoyo and Hisae in the wilds of Shikoku because tomorrow hasn't happened yet, and because we have no idea what we'll get up to.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto's staircase was my favourite element of the Palais de Tokyo show.

Kind of a revelation - why are religious structures so much about stone when they could be about glass?

most of the top churches were made before central air. Try selling folks in 18C England on an all glass church.

Never heard of stained glass?

Sure, but windows are functional. Stained glass is decorated function. Glass steps, floors or walls are pure atmosphere. Less like a crypt, more like heaven. There is an element of "oligarchs's bachelor pad" to glass steps too, though..

There's a big church in the States that is used in televised church services that is all made of glass - the Crystal Cathedral.

I'd pray there. I see no reason why the Sagrada Familia is preferable!</>

Yuck. I think Jesus himself might even cast the first stone at that ugly thing.

I'd pray here though.

or here

and here

forget those places I'd only pray to have them burnt to the ground.

even these? (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/04/orthodox/ludwig-photography)

no... I'm not burning any churches. and not those for sure...

but I'd rather 'pray' somewhere like this....

Las Pozas, Xilitla

how does one resize images.... :)

kewl! I'd 'pray' there too :)

if I was in Japan, I'd go here

if I wanted to smoke opium I'd go here though

that would be an amazing place to smoke opium.

I think would be good for that too...

surely you wouldn't want to burn Chapelle Saint-pierre designed by Cocteau to the ground?

I like that.

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