NUMBER 1
To those people who read this and are in Japan: Are you getting enough Grapefruit Coolish?
I know you are not because one can not. Billboard lady and I are down with this flavor of drinkable ice cream.
To those of you not in Japan: Coolish is a rock-hard frozen milkshake in a pouch that you knead with your hands to get into a drinkable state.
With Coolish you can say “I need ice cream!” and also mean “I knead ice cream” at the same time.
Last year’s Pear flavor was a little better than the Grapefruit kind for this summer, but unlike the Pear, Grapefruit is much easier to find.
NUMBER 2
MACK AKASAKA for whatever it is he is running for! He represents the Japan Smile Party! He jogs! He wears his leotards and stands on top of his van all the time in front of Shibuya Station with a microphone (connected to really loud speakers) and a smile !
Plus, he can tie a bowtie! WOW
From Nebraska, of some of the Japanese students who helped out with our jr. high school trip in Lincoln.
Aya (kato!)
Ayako
Mai
There is not much out there with the nuts and bolts aspects to putting up a photo exhibition online, with less about doing so in Tokyo in English. This month’s Phat Photo has all kinds of details about putting on an exhibition, in Japanese though.
An exhibition does not Just Happen. It takes work to get realized, and you will see some updates about how I am getting my show together from here until December.
今年の１２月コニカミノルタプラザで写真展をひらくことになりました。これは私の二回目の個展になりますので、ちょっとこんかい少し写真展の準備についてブログに書こうと思ってます。いつものように日本語は泣いちゃうほど下手なんですけれども、とりあえずがんばって書きたいです。
This morning I took my portfolio to the local 7-11 and made a photocopy of each 11×14 workprint, shrunk down to 25% it’s original size. After work tonight I glued each little picture into a blank B5 size notebook. Next to each thumbnail image I wrote the negative file number, and then frame number. This way I have an easy reference manual for when I begin printing.
朝起きて、毎日の朝ご飯（ピナツバッタートースト）を食ったらまだおなかすいてた。料理できへん私が七十一はまいりました。ツナ卵サンド買った。そしてポートフォリオ持ちで、コンビ二のすてきなコーピ機械の前立てた。隣の人が雑誌を持て立読みしてたけど俺は立ちコーピーしました。ポートフォリオから全部３６枚のワークプリントを。。。なんというんだっけ？「拡大」の反対。。。まーあ ３６枚のワークプリントをスモールさせた（ドラえもんみたいね。スモールライト）１１x１４のプリントのコーピは２５％ダウンにした。この小さい写真をムジで買ったB５ノートにはった。その写真のとなりに、ネガファイルとフレームナンバーを書いた。よし、プリントをする時に便利なノートあるはず。
Now, the photocopying and gluing was the easiest part of all this. Looking through 1424 sheets of negatives (roughly 51,264 frames) for a mere 36 particular negatives was a little more difficult.
２００４年の来日から今まで１，４２４枚のネガファイルある。それはだいたい５万千２百６十４枚のフレームだ。３６枚の写真と展示します。コンタクトシートをちゃんとつくってないんですからその３６枚を探すのは大変だった。”だった”と実は言えないなー まだ３枚ネガ不足です。
ネガ不足で寝が不足になる。
It is even harder when you don’t make contact prints(!) but having worked with my negs for 3 years now, I have a pretty good feel to what is where. They are loosely in chronological order and the fact that from early on I had made thumbnail sketches next to the good pictures on my To Print lists helped tonight. I still can’t find 3 frames, but they are in there somewhere, with quite a few more that had never caught my eye before. And so the To Print list grows.
きっとその三枚どっか見つけるだろう。
ネガファイルの中探しながら急に”うわーこれこそプリントしてみたいなー”と毎ページぐらい思ってしまった。「プリントリスト」はどんどん長くなった。
Coming up next time: CUSTOM EASEL MASKING or dammit my choice of paper is a mere 3 cm wider than the widest my easel can go
