Tetrapot tetrapot tetrapot

[petronia]

Another one of those Japanese words that sound like English loanwords but aren't. Means "concrete drum breakwater". Way too much time was spent by me piecing together this fact. At first I thought it was the barnacles on the concrete drum breakwaters, due to this one guy's underwater photography, and was puzzled. I mean, what sort of person takes photographs of breakwaters?

Ob Mirage of Blaze note for evening:

Naoe::Armani = Chiaki::Versace = Ayako::Chanel = Kagetora::?

(And they complain artlessly about rips and things. See, if it were me and I knew getting up that morning that the day was going to feature me against all of enemy headquarters with odds about even - "Reinforcements? I am the reinforcements" - I'd wear something I could ball up and toss in the rubbish that evening. But no, Bishamonten forbid we do not look stylish while fighting evil. Even Asaoka Mary Sue Maiko gets into the act and digs out a pair of black jeans for Takaya. I bet they're designer.)

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Christmas... not really done, but what absolutely needs to be accomplished for Christmas Day is done. If I could I'd spend all of next week making mix CDs.

Comments

[meril.livejournal.com]

I mean, what sort of person takes photographs of breakwaters?

Considering (due to MeFi) I have seen a Japanese website consisting of nothing but pictures of playground slides, pictures of breakwaters do not surprise me one bit.

[tsutanai.livejournal.com]

I mean, what sort of person takes photographs of breakwaters?

Dude, me. XD

Well, if we had any in Yokohama that I could see and all. As it is, I have taken pictures of faucets.

They're neat and have interesting shapes and you could get pretty abstract stuff out of it, j0. (Both facets and breakwaters.) (And "break glass in case of fire" or "pull to activate fire alarm" things too, which I've also taken pictures of.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay, I take it back. XD They do make interesting shapes - from a distance rather like giant grey coral colonies.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Gosh, so that's what those things are called.

Tons of them in various places along the southern coast of Shikoku. Can definitely imagine why someone would photograph them. I find them sort of creepy and horrible, invasive and intrusive on the natural landscape in a blatant way (as opposed to insidious invisible pollution like runoff or dumping)--you've got this lovely natural Pacific shoreline, and then this pile of huge geometric concrete things dumped across it, like...like the Borg, taking over.

[doremi-paris18.livejournal.com]

hmmm i wonder what kind of style would Kagetora would have dressed too.