I think I missed posting this timelapse video: http://www.vimeo.com/12112529
(Hayaku, another Japan one by the same guy who did the Saijo Matsuri one.)
Looking through his favorites, I found these other videos by different videographers:
http://www.vimeo.com/10655199 (Stomacher - Untitled/Dark Divider, a nature timelapse music video, may be better without sound if you don't like this genre)
http://www.vimeo.com/10988919 (Get up and go - one of many Tokyo city timelapse videos, but I loved the brief airport footage)
http://www.vimeo.com/10859897 (Timescapes: Death is the Road to Awe, Southwestern US footage. I <3 wind farms)
http://www.vimeo.com/7977632 (Nature Timelapse III, gorgeous nature scenes with original piano music - 9 minutes long, and you can DL it)
http://www.vimeo.com/12824847 (floating point, another Tokyo timelapse by the well-known static : pulse/etc. guy, maybe repost)
http://www.vimeo.com/4430479 (Miniature Trains II, tilt-shift timelapse trains ... maybe it's just me, but I think it's relaxing, LOL)
There are two recent photo series on the New York Times site that made me think of /yuu/. The photos are much smaller in size than the usual run of photos that get posted here, but several of them have a lovely spirit.
One is a travelogue of Madeira -- http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/07/01/travel/20100711MADEIRA-2.html -- and another is an album of Yemen -- http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/07/11/magazine/20100611-yemen.html . If anyone doesn't have access and is interested in seeing them, I can extract the most scenic.
Toilet looking drab? Here are some decorating ideas, Japanese retro style. All taken from the same washroom, inside the 'live house' with the Chaplinesque scene outside.(By the way, sorry about the typos in my last post. I do know how to spell garbage')
This image look staged but it's a recent, candid snap outside a live house in Nakatsu, a rather down-at-heel neighborhood not far north of Osaka's main station.
It's begging for a funky title. Here's mine: 'The gabage collector's dilemma', or 'In with the old, out with the new'. Any wannabe picture editors out there who can do better?