Under the volcano

[imomus]

If you click the photo above you can see a strip of pictures of my weekend in Hokkaido. Friday night saw a project by Lehan Ramsay's students at the Future University, with coloured projections aimed at ice sculptures. On Saturday I drove with Lehan and her artist friend Tatsuzo Hyakuda to a volcano north of Hakodate, Mount Komagakate, a 'pyroxene andesite stratovolcano', apparently. It's still active, and still so dangerous that the route to the top has been closed since the last eruption, in 1996. We skirted the lake in a soft blizzard, lunching on the freshest, most melt-in-the-mouth sushi I think I've ever tasted, then watched a geyser while dipping our feet in seismic water. Finally we bathed naked in a rotenburo, a gorgeous outdoor bath at a big hotel on the slopes of the mountain. I sat, wearing nothing but a straw hat, in an outdoor rockpool surrounded by deep, smooth snow, replenished by a carefully-framed mountain stream of steaming water straight from the volcano. Bliss! (No red-nosed monkeys, though.)

Comments

[pinkfoils.livejournal.com]

I like how in the 4th picture, right column (top to bottom), it looks like those seats have stylish little cushions, alas, I assume it is snow? Neat. Nature is a good designer. So pretty!

[(Anonymous)]

On the other hand the picture next to the one with the snow cushions shows that sometimes it would be good if our hero wore some slightly more stylish clothes (only slightly).

Everything else is a beauty.
As always :)

pablo

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Whaddya mean 'slightly more stylish clothes'! Military gear is never out of fashion! (More's the pity...) The only way I could look cooler is if I dressed up as Death himself, in a red hood, and brandished a viking longboat.

[(Anonymous)]

now that's a funky idea!
how about going to your office dressed up like that?

(please please do post the pics when you do)

Easy to understand how delighted you feel, the place looks gorgeous. What's happening on top of the iconic momus pic? those are not tombstones, I guess? and who are the people behind the postbox in the next one?
And do I read right "medieval wintersports"? eg?
And whose nooto is that?

pablo

[(Anonymous)]

*red* hood?
(I missed that at a first reading)

pablo