Posts Tagged ‘photography’
The 2012 Aqua Metropolis Osaka Festival offered a series of delights, including a giant inflatable kokeshi doll produced by the artist collective Yotta Groove. There’s something both benign and menacing about the cute blankness of the kokeshi doll when it’s magnified to kaiju proportions. Yotta Groove wasn’t the only collective active at the Aqua Metropolis […]
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Tags: 2012 Aqua Metropolis Osaka Festival, art, artwork, こけし, イッテキマスNipponシリーズ”花子”, プロジェクトオバチャーン, film photography, Florentijn Hofman, giant inflatable kokeshi, giant inflatable rubber duck, Holga, installation, kokeshi, mascot, Osaka Obachan, Osaka's drinking water, photography, Project Obachaaan, rubber duck, sculpture, water purification, water purification plant, Yotta Groove, 四十七人のオバチャーン, 巨大アヒルちゃん, 水都大阪2012
I’ve been to see the Yodogawa Hanabi fireworks festival several times. It’s glorious and amazing and definitely the singular largest annual display of fireworks that I’ve ever seen. They launch something like 20,000 fireworks at Yodogawa Hanabi and hundreds of thousands of people come to watch. It may not be as large as Osaka’s famous […]
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, available light, 花火, fireworks, fireworks festival, night, Osaka, photography, Voigtlander Bessa-L, wide-angle lens, Yodo River, Yodogawa Hanabi, 大阪, 淀川, 淀川花火
the happenstance quadrille
Many of my favorite photographs are the result of accidental openings of the shutter, miscued snappings, bizarrely disfigured exposure times, and unexpected slips in the winding mechanism. My back catalog is full of mistakes like these, which were especially rampant when my primary camera was a LOMO LC-A. These photographs are like dreams that have […]
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Tags: "beautiful imperfection", "photographic mistake", 15mm Heliar, 35mm Ultron, 50mm Nokton, accident, chance, happenstance, LOMO LC-A+, mistake, photography, rangefinder, Ricoh GRD2, Voigtlander Bessa R2A, Voigtlander Bessa-L, Voigtlander Bessa-T
All photographs taken using a Ricoh GRD2, spontaneously and without design.
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Tags: お花見, blossom viewing, cherry blossoms, night walk, Osaka, photography, Ricoh GRD2, spring, square format, 大阪, 春, 桜
interlude: Terra Haute, Indiana
Since I didn’t have time to take any photos on my way through Indiana, I thought I’d upload a few shots that I took while I was visiting Terra Haute for a conference several years ago. Obviously these shots were taken in winter, rather than the green spring when I was there most recently, but […]
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Tags: Indiana, photography, rangefinder, Terra Haute, Voigtlander Bessa-L, winter
interlude: Boulder, Colorado
I didn’t get to spend a lot of time in Boulder this time around, but here’s a series of photographs taken over the years from one of my favorite areas. Shots include the Flatirons and Chautauqua Park, where I went hiking with my friend Elbie, my grandmother’s house, shenanigans with my friend Leif, my grandmother, […]
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Tags: Boulder, Chataqua Park, clouds, Colorado, downtown, Flatirons, landscape, photography, view
Tower of the Sun
This year marks the 100th year anniversary of the birth of Okamoto Taro, the creator of Osaka’s Tower of the Sun (太陽の塔), who is famous for proclaiming that “Art is explosion!” The Tower of the Sun was the centerpiece of the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka and to mark the anniversary of Okamoto’s birth the […]
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Tags: 1970 World Exposition, Expo 70 Commemorative Park, monument, Okamoto Taro, photography, sculpture, Taro Okamoto, Tower of the Sun, 太陽の塔, 岡本 太郎, 万博記念公園
