Media, Events, Experiments
Posts tagged photography
Shinagawa, Tokyo, 2007 品川、東京
Jun 24th
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A digitally manipulated image of the crowds of commuters in Shinagawa station was recently retrieved from my digital archives, readjusted and submitted to a photographic competition. Whether or not it wins, I still like the photo.
Japan is arguably the world’s most technologically driven society. Common assumptions of society in Japan are that salarymen are all the similar in thought and mind, yet this is not the case. My photograph depicts a man resisting the surge and heading upstream, possibly to forge ahead and conquer unknown goals. A part of a greater whole, yet as individual as anyone on earth.
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Exivision
Aug 23rd
A friend of mine emailed me to express his wish to attend my Art show and misspelled the word exhibition as exivision. I was impressed with his new word and named the show after it. The longer title was “Thunder Dragons and Flying Tigers: Visions of Bhutan.
Exivision toured through three exhibition spaces, two in Tokyo (2006 and 2007) and one in Kyoto (2007).
P1X3L5
Aug 22nd
Digital photographs from outward journeys, Digital prints from inward journeys.
December 10th-20th 2005, at Art Cocktail in Nakatsu, Osaka, Japan.
Experiment in Infrared (IR) Photography
Aug 22nd
A Canon IXY 500 camera was modified to take the following photos. Almost all digital Cameras have a Infrared cut filter installed over the sensor to filter out unwanted IR radiation. This ‘problem’ can be ‘fixed’ by opening the camera, electrocuting yourself with the flash capacitor, removing the cut filter, replacing it with a filter that cuts out the visible spectrum and only allows IR radiation, and putting the camera back together. Warranties will be voided, frustration will grow, and difficulties will be overcome, and in the end, you too can take Infrared pictures with your very own digital camera. Buy a cheap used camera in Akiba to use as the victim. Now if I could only figure out where that one extra screw fits.
