Ken Ohyama's remarkable Flickr set of Tokyo freeway interchanges is all graceful, swooping curves and spirals. Link (via Making Light)
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May 22, 2008
Tokyo freeway interchange photoset
Ken Ohyama's remarkable Flickr set of Tokyo freeway interchanges is all graceful, swooping curves and spirals. Link (via Making Light)
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I hate to admit it but my first thought when I saw this was that if someone did something like this in the US the pictures would probably be accompanied by a story about how an Authority Figure questioned the taking of the pictures and insisted that permission was needed to take them.
That said, they are pretty neat.
Great pics! I wish our two-storied highway in Mexico City looked like this!
More classic visuals of Tokyo interchanges — from Tarkovsky’s Solaris:
Great scenes, it seems they put a lot of work into design!
Of course, if he were taking pics of US freeways, he’d be detained indefinitely….
Beautiful pictures, but freeways? Nearly all highways in Japan are toll, and the per-kilometer charges are crazy high.
I couldn’t help but first think of Futureshock’s “Late at night”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avNIo9ojg8o
The opening shots are uncannily similar.
It really reminds me of young adult novels.
In Los Angeles 40 years ago I argued with someone that the freeways were beautiful. Thanks for proving me correct. Great photos. Amazing what mankind can do!!
Wow, gorgeous! Some look as though they were taken with a fish-eye lens.
Tokyo also has nifty halos (or at least one) they use to mount traffic lights at big, roads-in-many-directions intersections:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37759092@N00/2422799597/in/set-72157604609410497/
I’m sorry Mr. Ohyama, we’re going to need to take your camera, make a list of all of your contacts in your cel phone and hold you here until we figure out what to do with you. Why do you need to take pictures around here anyway? Don’t you know that’s what terrorists do?
I think NEONCAT is probably right. Today, we’d be questioned if we started taking photos of highway infrastructures.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s I did a photo documentary, called In Our Path, on the building of an L.A. freeway. I’d often go into construction areas without question simply by donning a hardhat and safety vest. No one questioned me. I don’t think that could happen now.