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The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge runs between the city of Akashi* and the island of Awaji and has the “longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world.” (Wikipedia) It’s an engineering marvel and a beautiful bridge. I took these shots from Maiko Park, which is situated just below the point where the bridge leaves […]
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, analogue, わたるくん, film, Kodak Portra 800, Maiko Park, mascot, suspension bridge, Voigtlander Bessa-L, Wataru-kun, 明石海峡大橋
Hikone snow
I’m not sure why I’ve been thinking about this trip to Hikone, which took place about four years ago, so much lately. Perhaps it’s because my last two entries both had to do with cherry blossoms and snow always rhymes visually with those white blooms of spring for me. Or perhaps it’s because the temperature […]
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Tags: 15mm Heliar, ひこにゃん, 雪, film photography, Fujifilm GF670, Hikone Castle, Hikone-jo, Hikonyan, snow, Voigtlander Bessa-L, 彦根城
Expo 70 palimpsest (2)
Riding the Osaka Wheel takes you up above the Expo 70 Commemorative Park and you end up looking down on Okamoto Taro’s famous Tower of the Sun, the centerpiece of the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, as if from a helicopter. I’ve already written about the way in which the traces of the Expo can […]
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Tags: A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, Expo 70, Expo 70 Commemoration Park, Expo City, 観覧車, Ferris wheel, Kansai watershed, Manuel De Landa, mineralization, Okamoto Taro, Osaka, Osaka Wheel, REDHORSE OSAKA WHEEL, Taro Okamoto, Tower of the Sun, trade history, urban space, urban sprawl, urbanization, 大阪, 太陽の塔, 岡本 太郎, 万博記念公園
Expo 70 palimpsest (1)
A visit to the Expo 70 Commemoration Park is a visit to the ruins of the future. The 1970 World Expo held in Osaka was one of the last great future-oriented modernist productions held on an international scale. The theme of the Expo was “Progress and Harmony for Mankind,” a vision of a united humanity […]
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Tags: architectural models, architecture, experimental musical instruments, Expo 70, Expo 70 Commemoration Park, Expo 70 Pavilion, Francois Baschet, futurism, Kunio Maekawa, remains, retro-futurism, steel instruments, 前川 國男, 万博記念公園
glitchopolis
This series of photographs was shot from the train window between Osaka and Kobe on the Hankyu line using the panorama function on my iPod touch. The rapid shifting between foreground and background focus points ended up confusing the camera and resulted in these gloriously fragmented views of what would otherwise be a mostly bland […]
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Tags: All that is solid melts into air., broken panorama, digital glitch, glitch photography, glitchopolis, iPod 5, Lebbeus Woods, panorama, radical architecture, systems in crisis, urban disasters, urban space, urban transformation
Kunio Kato’s beautiful and melancholic Academy Award winning animated short, Tsumiki no Ie (つみきのいえ) — The House of Small Cubes — is a film infused with the sadness of disappearing time. The source of melancholy seems obvious at first: it’s the classic melancholy of old age in which the gradual erasure of the world one […]
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Tags: animation, つみきのいえ, climate change, diminishing resources, end of civilization as we know it, global warming, Jorie Graham, Kunio Kato, loss, melancholy, posting, Sea Change, simplified living, The House of Small Cubes, Thoreau, tiny house movement, Tsumiki no Ie, Walden
troutfactory notebook 