Samuel Benoit

A couple days ago I left Ottawa and I am currently in Japan for a few days on my way back to India.  I’m staying with one of my home-town brothers Zach and perennial travel partner Anis Sobhani has come along for the adventure.  For many of us, Japan holds the promise of being so unlike the western world that being there is the closest that we will ever come to space travel.  It’s industrialized like Canada, but only completely differently.

According to fancy pants Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail, GIFs are currently enjoying a renaissance.  GIFs are those clunky looped images things that used to crowd the internet before flash and video.  To capture the awe and wonder of being in Japan, we made some GIFs.  The above is of Anis on top of Zach’s apartment building in Chiba, outside Tokyo.

These two were made at Shibuya crossing in Tokyo.  Shibuya crossing is one of the busiest pedestrian crossings on the planet.

Here is a very special behind the scenes making-of video for the last GIF in the crossing:

More on India when I get there later this week.