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5/18/2008

be careful with your infobar2

Filed under: japan — John @ 9:55 pm

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If a button comes off of your infobar2, there is no way you are going to be able to put it back in place. All of the buttons are glued to one clear rubber piece that holds them above the contacts, and is kept in place by the outer shell of the phone. If your “0″ button gets caught on something when you slide it into your pocket, it will tear right out. Luckily the AU shop I stopped in later in the day said that the phone can be sent off for repair.

And yes, Abu-chan is the first beautiful thing I see every morning and the last beautiful thing I see every night. アブちゃんは最高です。本当のインテレジェンス美人だ。
She lights up when I get emails. Unfortunately they are not ever from her though…

kamakura!

Filed under: japan, Photography — John @ 9:21 pm

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Next week: kamakura! but this time with ninth graders

5/16/2008

Black Dog (Bangs)

Filed under: japan, Photography, portraits — John @ 6:54 am

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While most of the best photography ever produced still exists unseen in private albums, sometimes we get lucky and a few of those pictures find their way to the internet. This is a photo of Yuna taken in the early 1980s.

Love those silver pipes, that tree, and her with this shadow-black dog. The dog is so inky that it melds in with it’s own shadow which makes it look like it was cut from something else and either placed in, or maybe cut out and the black is what remains from underneath.

That little real shadow in the left corner is a nice touch.

5/12/2008

Canon Demi X Rainbow 7 = ? ? ?

Filed under: japan, Photography — John @ 9:34 pm

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The other day a friend gave me his grandfather’s old Canon Demi half frame camera. This camera is corroded, the advance lever does not go back in place very quickly, and the lens is clouded with fungus. In other words, it is the perfect machine to shoot the roll of Rainbow 7 film that has been in my fridge for several months. Now if it would just stop raining…

I do really dig the meter (still works!) and the exposure system: Match an arrow with the needle by rotating the biggest grooved ring around the lens. That’s all you need!

So how about this “Tokyo Gratzy”?

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