Duet
Remnants of faces, clay positives after they were used to cast negatives for portrait sculptures. I made the one on the left. Clayface » mold » plasterface » artshow
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mmmilk
There was farm fair in my city a while ago and among the agricultural exhibits, there was a bovine manual lactation extraction simulator. I didn’t get to try my hand though because this cowboy came to clean the fiberglass animal’s insides via trapdoor. The sequence was shot with a Supersampler camera. It has four lenses [...]
The happy little ogre
A smiling oni (ogre, demon) in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido. The onsen town that is home to Hell Valley and holds an annual Hell Festival is full of hordes of sculpted demonic creatures. Some line the road as tourist photo-ops and others, like this guy, are in shrines. Taken up close on my Fujifilm INSTAX mini 50 [...]
Marathon beat
I woke up late on Sunday, August 29th and didn’t think I’d get to catch the running of the 2010 Hokkaido Marathon. Even though the course winds through the heart of Sapporo, I forgot how long marathons actually are and how much time they take to complete. Walking near the Akarenga — the 19th century [...]
Veloswarm
I live across the street from a high school and with the door to my building less than 50 feet from the school’s gate, it’s impossible to avoid the thousands of teenagers coming and going at all hours of the day. This photo was taken on the day of a school festival. The school’s usual [...]
Koi canal
Japanese carp swimming in a canal in downtown Sapporo. Taken on a 2 Way Vista toy camera with panoramic setting on AGFA 35mm film, uncropped.
Shima shima
I like lines and the exterior of this tower block is an intricate grid of them. Despite the symmetry and order of the stripes and shapes, every window offers a peek at something different (mostly just curtains opened or pulled shut to varying degrees though =P). The shot of these swanky high-rise digs was taken [...]
Pocket Fujica Flash AW
The “junk” bins at HARD OFF, a Japanese secondhand shop, are graveyards of gadgets resting, waiting to be resurrected or cannibalized for parts. Above the “junk video game parts”, next to the “junk computer components”, and below the “junk adult videos” (yeah, really) lay the “junk camera” cases, a collection of mostly film cameras in [...]
Sapporo lo-fi
Here’s a selection of four shots snapped in Sapporo on a Fujifilm INSTAX mini 50 “Cheki” camera. Lo-fi love
Yosakoi Soran Matsuri in Sapporo
The annual Yosakoi Soran Matsuri (ヨサコイソーラン祭り) in Sapporo is an amazing spectacle. The festival celebrates Yosakoi, a unique dance style that spins traditional Japanese and contemporary influences together to create wildly energetic and beautiful performances. Yosakoi originated in Shikoku in 1954 and is now all over the place. Dance teams can range from 10 or so [...]