Archive for the ‘photography’ Category
visual spectrum: Kodak Signet 50
The Kodak Signet 50 wasn’t my first camera, but it was the first camera I used as a self-conscious photographer. My very first camera, like that of so many people of my generation, was a Kodak Pocket Instamatic that fired cheap 110 cartridges. My second camera was a sort of compact SLR that my mother […]
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Tags: black and white film, Kodak Signet 50, my first camera, viewfinder camera, vintage cameras
All photographs taken with a Voigtlander Bessa-L running a 15mm Heliar lens and Fuji Superia 400 film.
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, beach, coast, ocean, Pacific, Point Reyes, Point Reyes National Seashore, rangefinder, Superia 400, Voigtlander Bessa-L, wideangle
four textures from Sakurai City
Four photos taken in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture.
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Tags: せんべい, cat, countryside, 煎餅, 猫, 田舎, Hipstamatic, iPod 5, Nara Prefecture, portable toilet, Sakurai, senbei, 奈良県, 桜井市
Petals and Bones interview
About a year ago the excellent Petals and Bones zine/website asked me to do an interview with them. When they changed servers the interview disappeared for awhile, but now it’s back up and you can check it out right here. Originally, it featured the image above — a self portrait taken in the bathroom mirror […]
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Tags: interview, Petals and Bones
tayutau and jaaja at urban guild
Tayutau (たゆたう) is one if my very favorite bands. The duo — Nishimoto Hiroko on guitar and Ikagi Akiko on violin and found percussion — play music that is haunting, beautiful, playful, and cleverly quiet. Both of them sing and when they harmonize it’s as if a third, invisible instrument has suddenly taken the stage. […]
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Tags: たゆたう, ジャージャ, concert, Fujifilm GF670, Ilford 3200, Ira, J.M. DeMatteis, JaaJa, Japanese music, Jon J. Muth, live music, masks, Moonshadow, Nagoya underground music, Tayutau, Urban Guild, Vogtlander Bessa III
snow blossoms at yoshino
The plum blossoms are at full strength, the white magnolia in my backyard is covered with so many blossoms that it looks like a performing waiter balancing a thousand ceramic cups on a thousand arms like some kind of woodland Shiva, and the songbirds have returned to scope out all the good early nesting opportunities. […]
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, 35mm Ultron, aerial ropeway, ancient Japanese poems, asceticism, Buddhism, Buddhist statuary, cherry blossoms, 紀 友則, En no Gyoja, 金峯山寺, 蔵王堂, 蔵王権現, 雪, 西行 法師, Ki no Tomonori, Kinpusen Temple, Kinpusen-ji, Mount Yoshino, mountain ascetics, Nara Prefecture, Saigyō Hōshi, Shugendō, snow, snow blossoms, somei-yoshino, Voigtlander Bessa R2A, Voigtlander Bessa-L, waka, winter, Yoshino, Yoshino Ropeway, Zao-Gongen, Zaōdō, 冬, 吉野ロープウェイ, 吉野蔵王権現, 吉野山, 和歌, 奈良県, 役行者, 染井吉野, 桜, 修験道
hipstomatism (is the diagnosis)
Approximately 467 million eons after the Hipstamatic trend peaked and then was buried deep under the ground to be forgotten forever, like those E.T. video games for the Atari 2600 that were buried by the millions in an Alamogordo landfill, I have suddenly gone all Hipstamatic. I’ve been waiting forever for Apple to fit a […]
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Tags: Hipstamatic, iPod 5, Japan
