This has to do with something: Photo-related Review 1
Black Boxes for your pictures.
They do four things:
1. Hold your photographs.
2. Open (you can put in or take out your pictures after doing this step).
3. Close (you can’t take out your pictures when it is closed).
4. Look nicer than the boxes photo paper comes in.
Closed:
Open:
There is another thing they can do and that is Be Taken Places. Need to show your work to a trendy japanese photo magazine? Black Boxes are good to bring the pictures they won’t want to publish in. The Indie sticker labels with my name give it the edge of a mass marketed Punk CD album cover. You should use your own name though. And you can put the portfolio’s title on it too.
When the boxes are open, the lid gives you a great place to put the photos as they are looked at. You don’t have to worry about wet spots on a table in a coffee shop or say that the table in the coffee shop is not much bigger than the box (this is common in Tokyo) well hey there, looks like the lid protects your pictures from gravity as well as spills.
What I can’t tell you is the brand name that these have but I can say that the kinds like this that have hinged covers are better than the ones with separate lids. I get mine at the Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku, B1 of the Camera shop, back in the corner near the registers. The 11×14 size ones are about 3800 yen each.
That’s a lot of yens for a box. Are they empty when you get them? That’s a lot of yens for an empty box.
Comment by Nick — 7/29/2006 @ 12:14 am
I used to work part time at a home center in Lincoln. One day this couple came in and they bought a lot of copper pipe fittings, and pipe. I help up a piece and said that while they were paying for copper, what they really wanted was the space on the inside. I was totally ripping off an old persian proverb about a clay pot, but the message was there. That is a lot of yen for some empty space between 6 panels of cardboard but it is what is done with that space that makes it worth it. Although I am sure that since the boxes are imported from America that they are probably half the price online.
Comment by John — 7/29/2006 @ 8:36 am
Besides Yodobashi Camera, where is a good place in Tokyo for unique and good quality camera accessories? eg. strap, cover, tripod, etc.
Comment by puree — 11/23/2007 @ 7:53 am
Map Camera in Shinjuku is fantastic. They have a lot of their own custom created items for sale, their strap selection is also quite fine. check: www.mapcamera.com
Comment by John — 11/23/2007 @ 9:00 pm
Thanks John ^^
Comment by puree — 11/24/2007 @ 12:19 pm