One more full day of show left
HIGHLIGHTS:
-Walk-a-round/talk-a-bout discussion time with Onishi sensei last night, and Tsuchida sensei this afternoon.
-Meeting Mr. Digikazi and his lovely wife for the first time.
- Spending at least 2 hours a day (9 on the weekend) in the same room with the same 30 photographs on 3 walls. This in itself has been quite a photographic education.
CHALLENGE 1: Limit yourself to 30 photographs (Prints!) and put them on the wall and just deal with those alone for a week. Live with them.
CHALLENGE 2: Really look at one picture (a print!) for more than 3 solid minutes. Try it! Try 5 or 10 minutes and see what it shows you and tells you.
-Also! Many people have been fine with letting me get in close with my camera in the gallery and you will probably see some more Visitor Photographs here Sunday evening.
-BONUS! (on the way home from the gallery) I found a copy of Ume Kayo’s Ume-me at Book Off for 900 yen.
-BONUS 2 New photos! –> ongoing diary.
THINGS THAT WERE NOT HIGHLIGHTS:
-I will not eat a Ramen Dinner, and then a Ramen Lunch followed by another Ramen (tan-tan men) dinner in less than 24 hours ever again. People this is a bad idea and I got off at the station before mine to stretch my usual 15 minute walk home into an hour-long ordeal, something that involved telling 4 different whores NO in 2 minutes; PLEASE DO NOT GET IN MY WAY LADIES (and that one creepy dude).
Go Nuts! There’s something special about real prints and real albums. Thanks again for taking the time to guide me through a few of your prints yesterday and the show really is one of the better ones I have seen. Though a large body of work they all work well with each other and, as you suggest, looking in to them deeper reveals some hidden messages (something 600×600 on flicker will never reveal) that links them all together and makes them stand up very well in their own framed geometry.
Comment by akikana — 12/9/2007 @ 9:48 am