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– My powerbook returned to me with a much larger, non-injured Hard Drive.

and then:

– Pictures from this year’s Kimura Ihee award reception.

– Scans of some recent work (color and black and white).

– Hopefully announcing a photography based website project that Mark and I are working on.

– Shooting in Urayasu some more.

– Pictures (?) from the Mikiko Hara gallery talk show at Tosei-sha.

In case you are not already my friend on Facebook (thus not being able to see my profile pictures) and you stay up late at night wondering how I might look posing with my Pentax, find out by doing this:

1.) Go to the bookstore and crack open a May 2008 copy of Nippon Camera.

2.) Open to the special section called “Go for it! Film Based Photography!”

3.) Read the interview with the Fuji Film folks where they say they will never stop producing photographic film, and why they are releasing a 6×7 camera this winter.

4.) Turn the page over and see this:

The gist of the whole section is that Analog provides something that Digital does not, mostly a love of process and experience, and that there are lots of people out there who choose to shoot film because they like it.   A gallery owner on the next page spoke of how if you are going to buy a print (and there are few in Japan who do) it ought to be a good silver print. I agree, and will say that I don’t care who took it– I would not pay more than 5 bucks for a digitally captured inkjet print made by any photographer.
Anyways, a few other Film Shooters are profiled, each one pictured holding a camera of our choice. Getting a haircut after the photo was taken– that is the opposite of how it should have been.

To the clerk at Map Camera- “I really did not expect to buy a camera today”

and then “I bet you hear that a lot”

he said, “yeah, that’s usually how it goes”

Now I really can’t justfy owning my Leica M5.