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You need to see some of Bradley Peters’ work. Did I put the apostrophe in the right place? With people’s whose last names’ end in “S”, I am never so sure.

For the past few weeks I have been going over in my head how much I can’t look at Flickr, and why I loathe it but this is not the time, not when there is good work like Brad’s on there. And besides I can’t quite yet formulate my arguments out concerning my reaction to that site and how it reduces all photography in it’s own way the way I want to in words just yet. Brad we need to get you a better venue for photo posting. By the way, Brad is a very good photographer who got me to liking silver bodied cameras and printing on 16 x 20 paper. When at UNL there was Ian, Justin, Brad, and me and some other very talented folks (who probably have websites but I don’t know where those are), that photo department was awesome. I am sure it is in it’s own way now but damn I always enjoyed photo crits. Then you get out in the real world and everyone is so focused on their lomos and super high concept photos that win prizes, and so it gets daunting but you need to keep working.

and if you want to read it, click on the next two images:

and for the ladies:

This was in the November 24th Yomiuri Shimbun Tokyo editon. They were not for sale here in Matsudo so I went in to Kitasenju and after some searching, found a konbini that had a few left over morning editions for sale. The only slight change I would have made would have been to say that I shoot 36-frame rolls of film, and not 40-frame. But other than that, the kids at school all think I am cool now so I won’t argue. I might not be motte-ru with ladies my age but as long at the 7th grade crowd will scream and cheer I guess I can’t complain.

for those of you in Tokyo, do a favor for a major newspaper by buying a Yomiuri newspaper tomorrow, Thursday Nov. 24. There is a weekly article written by Koichi Edagawa called Tokyo Story, and I am the subject of tomorrow’s piece. There will be a photo with me in it, probably doing something with my camera near either the Minami senju kubi-kiri jizo, or the Minowa chin chin trains. Yes that is what they are called.

明日、１１月２４日の読売新聞の中に、私についての記事があるはずです。東京に住んでいる方、見てください。また、来月”カメラ　マガジン”で私はでます。変な日本語も仕分けないなー

some snapshots of recent: