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Photography

Matsumoto Norio

Have a look at photographer Matsumoto Norio’s online gallery for some absolutely stunning photography. Those Alaskan ranges and Northern Lights are breathtaking. Link via Newstoday.

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Photography Web

Flickr

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I’ve had an account on Flickr for ages, but never did anything with it. I’ve never really found any use for all the community sites that have come and gone over the past few years, and this just felt like more of the same. But I recently read an article at Wired News that made me see how cool Flickr really is, and I started thinking that I should start playing around with it a bit. Well, today’s the day, and I finally uploaded a few pics. I think I’ll start uploading more and more pics there, and see what kind of feedback I get from it. One of the selling points for the site is that they offer a lot of RSS feeds. For instance, you can subscribe to a feed of just my pics, or subscribe to feeds of certain keywords, say “tokyo,” which will see my pics included in it. There’s probably more fun stuff to do there, so I’ll continue to play around, examining the various features.

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Photography

Tokyo Films

Another link from Octopus Dropkick: Tokyo Films. Some nice photography in the diary section.

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Design Photography

More Designers Block Pics

The Designers Block website has a bunch of pics up from the event, taken by various designers that were in attendance. Link via Dezain.net.

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Photography Tokyo Walking

Documenting Nakameguro

Chad has just posted a bunch of pics he took while he was living in Nakameguro. A document of everyday surroundings.

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Events Photography

Tokyo Exposed

A fellow Tokyo blogger (he runs the following Lomo site) is holding a photography exhibition called “Tokyo Exposed,” with the opening party happening this week.

This series of over one thousand photographs captures the Tokyo lifestyle from the unique vantage point through the lens of alternative photography. Using a well known technique called cross processing this exhibition promises to transform Tokyo and creates otherworldly images characterized by blurring, oversaturated color, a “hot spot” in the center of the frame and “vignetting” effect in the corners.The vivid, colorful and artistic images from Tokyo-based photographers Damon Armstrong and Will Robb will line the walls, floors and other surfaces of the prestigious Lounge O nightclub in Ometesando, Tokyo. Armstrong and Robb call the exhibit a “tribute” to life here in unique, busy, fast, colorful, expensive, demanding Tokyo.

The photography will consist of fifteen 120 cm x 90 cm mounted shots and five multi picture shots also 120 cm x 90 cm. Live tokyo + exposed film documentary display via the venues three large video screens of how the shots were taken.

Tokyo + exposed Opening party Friday 15th October @ the Lounge O nightclub from 11:00 pm – 5:00am. 2,500 Yen 1 drink. With Flyer 2,000 yen 1 drink.

Opening party DJs: Ari & Yan (Sunday Sessions @RubyRoom, Tokyo Collaboration @Womb), Dave Twomey (Womb, Simoon, Spice), Mike McKenna (Kokimura @yellow, Addiction @Simoon, Disco Science and Futique management.) Live Performance: Moments of Truth (Air, Nuts, Simoon and Fuji Rock Festival.)

Lounge O/Orbiant Nightclub. Address: B1-B2F CRYSTAL BLDG 3-5-12
Kita-aoyama, Minato-Ku, TOKYO. Zip 107-0061 (map)

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Photography

Swedish Eyes in Tokyo

Take 4 Swedish photographers, give them Nikon digital SLRs, and you get the beautiful photo project Swedish Eyes in Tokyo. I would love to have a camera like that to play around with.

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Photography

Yuko by Nao

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A picture of Yuko taken by Nao.

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Photography Technology

Tokyo Picturesque

At the OK FRED event last night, fellow blogger Christopher Kobayashi not only moblogged while there (as did quite a few others), he also logged in the coordinates at Tokyo Picturesque. It’s a site where you attach pics you’ve taken with your mobile phone, and it then associates that image with the location on the map where it was taken. Makes for a very interesting and visual view of the city.

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Art Photography

Suzuki Nao

Suzuki Nao is an artist that attacks all mediums: video, photography (traditional and mobile), painting, sculptures… She’s done VJ performances, and had a few gallery shows already. Based in Yokohama, where she shares a studio space (Ateliero-Eksperimentoj) with a band, she is currently preparing some video work for a contest. Robert wrote this about her a while back:

Nao is a twenty-something, art making (video + photo + object + painting, etc.) young woman who lives in the Yokohama area and maintains a studio (Ateliero-Eksperimentoj) with two of her friends (both musicians). I first became aware of her activities after the indefatigable Ludo Pierre (French sound & visual artist based in Tokyo) introduced me to her last year, as we were all to appear together (along with Midori and other friends) at one of his soundscreen events. Nao seems to have worked in the past with more or less ‘traditional’ mediums, but has been making a move recently to more ‘normative’ (i.e. digital) modes of expression. Personally speaking, I’ve only seen her in action in her ‘video artist/VJ mode’ at a few events in the Shibuya area. She seems to have found a comfortable niche in the international experimental arts community in Tokyo, and this due in no small part to her diverse, refreshingly sensual art.

Do yourself a favor and check out her site for examples of her work.