Day 1

Big in Japan, phrase used to do describe western celebrities failed in the western world, but more successful in Japan

Big in Japan is also a phrase I use to describe Eastern European girls in Chanel flats measuring 5ft11inches which makes us part of the second tallest structural group after the Tokyo Tower and the Midtown tower (due to aesthetic and engineering concerns, Japan's Building Standard Law set an absolute height limit of 31 metres until 1963). 

Big in Japan is also a song performed by Alphaville in 1984  (Pierre this one's for you). Some say it is about a western businessman having a good time with drugs and girls.Others say it is about a couple going off heroin. I think it’s more like Frankie goes to Hollywood. In 1984 they thought, whatever, lets spray our hair and have people decipher song names forever…


I was going to name the blog 'Na Poume' after my dear friend photographer extraordinaire Nicholas Samartis but after much deliberation I'm going with the obvious...big in Japan- to be continued...