Archive for November, 2009

Uchujin

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

adrian 500x371 Uchujin
See his genius at work here -> Uchujin
While I was in the film archives the other day I found a few shots I forgot to scan. A case that so often happens to me “ah, not bad, I’ll do that one last”. As usual, I forget or run out of time.
Figured it would be nice to add to the rest of the shots considering everyone else got a look-in a while back on the blog.

Tokyo tower part 2

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

tokyo tower closeup 370x500 Tokyo tower part 2

This is what I love about old cameras and film. You can’t plan this type of old feeling you get from this type of combination. The random combination of film age, film type, developer, fix, fix age, fix duration, developer duration etc. etc. all add up to a look that makes film special. You can photoshop all you want but you’re not going to get the same happy accidents you do when you play with the real thing.

wasting film

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

flower b and w cropped 500x372 wasting film

Too busy to go out and make an effort to shoot anything.

Tokyo blossoms

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

white out spot removal 496x500 Tokyo blossoms

Another archive shot while I work my way very slowly through a roll of film.

Sagamihara

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

hills near sagamihara city 500x500 Sagamihara

Shot taken from around here while on a bike ride around the mountains.
The Hasselblad is a bit heavy to lug around while trying to race up mountains so the Holga has become the substitute on rides. Can’t have great views and not shoot medium format!

Thanks to Manny Santiago for the REALLY old expired (march 2000) Fuji once again.

Train man

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

train man with rushing train 494x500 Train man

Caught him early one evening on the way home.

Morning paper

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

man on a train 499x500 Morning paper

Man reads a morning newspaper. Caught on the edge of the frame with the Rolleiflex as I went to work.

Clemens

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

clemens 500x378 Clemens

Clemens shot in yoyogi.

SugarDisaster

Monday, November 9th, 2009

bret 500x376 SugarDisaster

AKA Manny Santiago, AKA…
Go see his new site here
Shot pulled from the archives.

Tommy Oshima

Monday, November 9th, 2009

tommy 500x381 Tommy Oshima

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Subway collapse

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

lying in the station 493x500 Subway collapse

From an ongoing series that doesn’t seem to have a beginning or an end. This guy at first glanced looked drunk but after closer inspection seemed to have something else wrong with him.
This was taken at about 8:45am which, as you can see from the onlookers reaction, gained a bit of attention. He managed to get on the train and pass out again and then somehow remembered his station and got off only to pass out again on the platform.
Never a dull moment in Tokyo.