On my way home on Friday night, this poster caught my eye. It shows a model reconstruction of the Kashiwa station plaza from a bird’s eye view. Sheer brilliance, I thought. I wonder who had this idea and who went through the pain of building this. I spent a lot of time last year taking picture on the station plaza. It is a great place to photograph. I have never really published the results, because I have not had the time to edit them yet. It was supposed to be my major output for 2004, but I never got round to it. I could photograph Kashiwa station plaza endlessly I think. The concentration of suburban Japanese life there is unbelievable and when I cross it without a camera I am feeling pain for not being able to capture it. I have to get back on the job to finish this series!

The poster is advertising the Tokatsu Film Festival in Abiko/Kashiwa/Matsudo in October. Seems to be the first time they do it, and if the poster is anything to go by, a must-see this autumn.