The Lost Dreams of Japanese Love Hotels

I have been so unfaithful to this blog.  How do I expect to get any sweet sweet lovin out if I put nothing in?  SO to bring us back to that hot buttered love place I'm featuring Kyoichi Tsuzuki's Satellite of Love: Vanishing Beauty of Japanese Love Hotels.  Since I know nothing about the subject I will allow Kyoichi to explain his quest to capture the fleeting FANTASTICAL visually orgasmical love hotels of Japan.  BLAST OFF

 Hotel The Rich : This "Space Shuttle" bed used to slide on rails.

 Satellite of Love, equipped with Revolving bed.

The frosted glass bathroom, created in the image of porn film director Shinya Yamamoto with his trademark sunglasses and mustache.   Perfectly equipped with film lights :)

 Set the revolving bed in motion and lights flash.  Intricate ceiling mirrors make for kaleidoscopic effects y'all!

 SPACE CAVE!

 Inter-You where everything is painted THE TRUTH

 Angelo Baiser Kita Branch, S&M stage chair!

 "Swapping" room 801 joins twin bedrooms.  The "Bungee Tarzan" harness lets you dangle from the ceiling.  Walls and floor are sponge matted, completely safe.

 Gotta love an 8 person GROTTO bath.  Equipped with juicy Frank Lloyd Wright meets Mondrian glass windows.

 We were all expecting something like this.  Nothing to be said.

 Apparently this S&M room sees many customers, hence the easy-to-clean vinyl flooring...

 Caption reads: Some costumers have changed rooms because the white fish in the windows affected their "prowess." 

Birth of Venus tub is a necessity. duh.

WINOGRAND

As promised I'm including some scanned images beginning with WINOGRAND : Figments from the Real World.  I've begun with 4 images from a series he took at El Morocco in the 50's because they're fabulous and surreal.  The rest are some that really struck me as enigmatic, nostalgic, subtly intense, casually iconic, funny, or just plain emblematic of times gone by.  Everything that goes along with Garry Winogrand as a prolific American photographer...  ENJOY

Image on Cover: New Mexico, 1958

 Reminds me of a rayonist painting, but so intense.

There will be blood?  I love the cross shape made in his hand too.