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TOKYO (AFP) - The hunt for a penguin at large in Tokyo after escaping from an aquarium continued for the third day on Wednesday, with eight separate sightings of the feathered fugitive. Staff from Tokyo Sea Life park were combing riverbanks in the Japanese capital for any sign of the bird, which is believed to have bolted from its enclosure at the weekend - leaving 134 other penguins behind. The search was raised after a photograph emerged of the one-year-old Humboldt penguin bathing in the mouth of the Old Edogawa river, which runs into Tokyo Bay, on Sunday. Keepers believe the 60cm bird may have been so startled by something that it was able to get over a rock twice its size and make a bolt for freedom. ‘We are still searching for the bird, said Mr Takashi Sugino, an official at Tokyo Sea Life Park. (via Sightings reported as Japan penguin hunt continues)

TOKYO (AFP) - The hunt for a penguin at large in Tokyo after escaping from an aquarium continued for the third day on Wednesday, with eight separate sightings of the feathered fugitive.

Staff from Tokyo Sea Life park were combing riverbanks in the Japanese capital for any sign of the bird, which is believed to have bolted from its enclosure at the weekend - leaving 134 other penguins behind.

The search was raised after a photograph emerged of the one-year-old Humboldt penguin bathing in the mouth of the Old Edogawa river, which runs into Tokyo Bay, on Sunday.

Keepers believe the 60cm bird may have been so startled by something that it was able to get over a rock twice its size and make a bolt for freedom. ‘We are still searching for the bird, said Mr Takashi Sugino, an official at Tokyo Sea Life Park.

(via Sightings reported as Japan penguin hunt continues)

Penguin on the loose

In a Houdini-like move, penguin No. 337, escapes from Tokyo Sea Life Park.

The one-year-old Humboldt penguin managed to scale a 13-foot rock wall and was last seen swimming in the nearby Kyu-Edogawa River.

The now wanted No. 337 is one of 135 Humboldt penguins kept at the aquarium and is described as 24 inches tall, with a blackish back and white chest.

Aquarium officials are asking local residents to help in the search for the loose penguin, “Please contact our aquarium if you spot it, without trying to capture or chase it.”

Meanwhile, the search continues for the fearless, feathered, fugitive bird. Officials are hoping they can stop the penguin before it swims out to Tokyo Bay.

Tokyo Searches for Escaped Penguin Tokyo residents should be on the lookout for a 1-year-old penguin today. The bird was recently seen swimming in a river mouth in the capital after apparently scaling an aquarium wall and escaping. “We first noticed the penguin might have fled when the director of a neighboring zoo emailed us Sunday with a photo,” said an aquarium official, referring to the photo of the swimming penguin. He said officials were unable to capture it because it swam “at a tremendous speed.” (via Tokyo Searches for Escaped Penguin)

Tokyo Searches for Escaped Penguin

Tokyo residents should be on the lookout for a 1-year-old penguin today. The bird was recently seen swimming in a river mouth in the capital after apparently scaling an aquarium wall and escaping. “We first noticed the penguin might have fled when the director of a neighboring zoo emailed us Sunday with a photo,” said an aquarium official, referring to the photo of the swimming penguin. He said officials were unable to capture it because it swam “at a tremendous speed.”

(via Tokyo Searches for Escaped Penguin)

Tokyo police are on the hunt for a fugitive. He’s neither armed nor dangerous, but they predict he has quite a penchant for fish. (via Penguin on the Lam: Tuxedoed Fugitive Escapes from Tokyo Zoo | NewsFeed | TIME.com)

Tokyo police are on the hunt for a fugitive. He’s neither armed nor dangerous, but they predict he has quite a penchant for fish.

(via Penguin on the Lam: Tuxedoed Fugitive Escapes from Tokyo Zoo | NewsFeed | TIME.com)

Escaped … the penguin is spotted swimming in a river. Photo: AFP The hunt is on for a penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo, and was last seen swimming in a river in the Japanese capital. (via Zoo hunts for escaped penguin)

Escaped … the penguin is spotted swimming in a river. Photo: AFP


The hunt is on for a penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo, and was last seen swimming in a river in the Japanese capital.
(via Zoo hunts for escaped penguin)
The AFP reports that the penguin “scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo. As one official at the aquarium said, “Of course it can’t fly, but sometimes wildlife have an ‘explosive’ power when frightened by something. Maybe it ran up the rock after being surprised… It’s a bit of a struggle to catch it when it is swimming, because it swims at a tremendous speed.” (via Tokyo’s Escaped Penguin Is a Speed Demon - Global - The Atlantic Wire)

The AFP reports that the penguin “scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo. As one official at the aquarium said, “Of course it can’t fly, but sometimes wildlife have an ‘explosive’ power when frightened by something. Maybe it ran up the rock after being surprised… It’s a bit of a struggle to catch it when it is swimming, because it swims at a tremendous speed.”

(via Tokyo’s Escaped Penguin Is a Speed Demon - Global - The Atlantic Wire)

The hunt was on Monday for a penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo, and was last seen swimming in a river in the Japanese capital. (via Japan Zoo On The Hunt For Runaway Penguin : Discovery News)

The hunt was on Monday for a penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo, and was last seen swimming in a river in the Japanese capital.

(via Japan Zoo On The Hunt For Runaway Penguin : Discovery News)

Bluetarpia Do projects. “Everywhere you go, there are certain things which play heroic roles in knitting the world together, and which somehow remain anonymous, even unseen. Our first book, Tokyo Blues, is the story of one of them: the common blue PVC plastic construction tarp. Tokyo Blues is a photographic record of Nurri Kim’s 2002-2003 investigation into this humble industrial material and the very wide variety of uses to which it’s put in the everyday life of Japan. From construction sites and homeless settlements to cherry-blossom viewing parties in the park, the ubiquitous blue tarp is a constant of Japanese life and a bearer of multiple registers of meaning. In sixty-four images from the boulevards, alleys, sidestreets and interstitial spaces, Tokyo Blues explores these dramatically different contexts, returning something “we see too often, and then forget to see” to full, vivid visibility. The result is a book that provokes its readers to see the city around them with new eyes — whether that city is Tokyo, or their own.” Tokyo_Blues ^see post below for yet more uses of the blue tarp…

Bluetarpia

Do projects.

“Everywhere you go, there are certain things which play heroic roles in knitting the world together, and which somehow remain anonymous, even unseen. Our first book, Tokyo Blues, is the story of one of them: the common blue PVC plastic construction tarp.

Tokyo Blues is a photographic record of Nurri Kim’s 2002-2003 investigation into this humble industrial material and the very wide variety of uses to which it’s put in the everyday life of Japan.

From construction sites and homeless settlements to cherry-blossom viewing parties in the park, the ubiquitous blue tarp is a constant of Japanese life and a bearer of multiple registers of meaning. In sixty-four images from the boulevards, alleys, sidestreets and interstitial spaces, Tokyo Blues explores these dramatically different contexts, returning something “we see too often, and then forget to see” to full, vivid visibility. The result is a book that provokes its readers to see the city around them with new eyes — whether that city is Tokyo, or their own.”

Tokyo_Blues

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see post below for yet more uses of the blue tarp…

Bluetarpia Do projects. “Everywhere you go, there are certain things which play heroic roles in knitting the world together, and which somehow remain anonymous, even unseen. Our first book, Tokyo Blues, is the story of one of them: the common blue PVC plastic construction tarp. Tokyo Blues is a photographic record of Nurri Kim’s 2002-2003 investigation into this humble industrial material and the very wide variety of uses to which it’s put in the everyday life of Japan. From construction sites and homeless settlements to cherry-blossom viewing parties in the park, the ubiquitous blue tarp is a constant of Japanese life and a bearer of multiple registers of meaning. In sixty-four images from the boulevards, alleys, sidestreets and interstitial spaces, Tokyo Blues explores these dramatically different contexts, returning something “we see too often, and then forget to see” to full, vivid visibility. The result is a book that provokes its readers to see the city around them with new eyes — whether that city is Tokyo, or their own.” Tokyo_Blues

Bluetarpia

Do projects.

“Everywhere you go, there are certain things which play heroic roles in knitting the world together, and which somehow remain anonymous, even unseen. Our first book, Tokyo Blues, is the story of one of them: the common blue PVC plastic construction tarp.

Tokyo Blues is a photographic record of Nurri Kim’s 2002-2003 investigation into this humble industrial material and the very wide variety of uses to which it’s put in the everyday life of Japan.

From construction sites and homeless settlements to cherry-blossom viewing parties in the park, the ubiquitous blue tarp is a constant of Japanese life and a bearer of multiple registers of meaning. In sixty-four images from the boulevards, alleys, sidestreets and interstitial spaces, Tokyo Blues explores these dramatically different contexts, returning something “we see too often, and then forget to see” to full, vivid visibility. The result is a book that provokes its readers to see the city around them with new eyes — whether that city is Tokyo, or their own.”

Tokyo_Blues

thiscitycalledearth: by zuru1024, Tokyo.

thiscitycalledearth:

by zuru1024, Tokyo.

(via aphexual-deactivated20120626)

Tokyo - store shelves

Tokyo - store shelves

Tokyo

Tokyo

“Eyes mark the shape of the city. Through the eyes of a high-flying night bird, we take in the scene from midair. In our broad sweep, the city looks like a single gigantic creature – or more like a single collective entity created by many intertwining organisms. Countless arteries stretch to the ends of its elusive body, circulating a continuous supply of fresh blood cells, sending out new data and collecting the old, sending out new consumables and collecting the old, sending out new contradictions and collecting the old. To the rhythm of its pulsing, all parts of the body flicker and flare up and squirm. Midnight is approaching, and while the peak of activity has passed, the basal metabolism that maintains life continues undiminished, producing the basso continuo of the city’s moan, a monotonous sound that neither rises nor falls but is pregnant with foreboding.”

-Haruki Murakami (from: After Dark)