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I have been printing a lot more than scanning. The scans (and workprints) are not all that great but you get the idea for now. My Fall/Winter project is to make a portfolio of my Japan work.

the last one is my favorite.

Nobu, Tsubasa and I went to Niigata. Sometimes I meet people who are for me, always photogenic.
I can’t explain why, but Tsubasa is one of those people.

I am not photogenic, but I like to mess with cameras and mirrors.

It is dark out there tonight. It will be like that for a while.

the view from my window

There is this chain of stores in Shimokitazawa that sell used stuff. Not Book Off (or “Hard Off, a store that sells used hardware), but a smaller chain called Dorama. They have their CD shop, one for novels, and another for comics and art books. Everything is wrapped up in plastic but they have no problem with opening a book for you to see. Here I found an issue of the now defunct photo magazine Blind Spot for 500 yen. Last night I was looking through the wealth of precariously stacked photo and art books when I spotted Joel Sternfield’s “Stranger Passing”. For 2400 yen! Fantastic. This book is just about or slightly under 10,000 yen in Kinokuniya or the Tokyo Metro Museum of Photography.

But this find came with a cost. The cost of the minute it took for me and a store clerk to pick up the books that I knocked over with my umbrella as I turned to go to the register.