bicycle diaries

Well, the food was plenty and my own belly began to grow some. so i decided to buy a bicycle and drive to work and back from now on, in order to do something about the state of mine. timewise it's the same distance as by train, from door to door about 50 minutes.
very interesting experience so far. today i took my camera to shoot one of the most amazing nightly activities of japanese streetlife: construction sites on roads. just like the shopping district in shinjuku the same saying applies: less is a bore. there are uncountable warning mechanism around construction sites and here are the three variation of what i call the darth vader mechanism: a old grandpa working for ( i guess) 5 euros an hour, swinging the old lightsaber.
version 1 is the natural form - the old grandpa. he usually is very shy. it took me some distance to take a picture succesfully.
version 2 is the techno screen. it might not look very much, but the animation is very smooth vor a 100 by 50 pixel screen
version 3, finally, is what i call the kraftwerk stile. it's a fully automated doll swinging the saber.