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Category: Photography

  • Metropolis’ Photo of the Week

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    This week’s METROPOLIS “photo of the week” (in the issue out tomorrow) is by Neon Sight‘s Katsuyoshi Ueno. It was taken in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai district. Update (16/09/10): The photo is no longer available.

  • Tilt Shift Lens Photography

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    Tilt shift lens photography is popping up everywhere (including various Japanese magazines), and the latest PingMag article shows what you can do with Photoshop to achieve a similar affect.

  • Samurai Girl

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    Francesco, and editor for Hobby Media in Italy, sends me word of a new book he’s co-edited for an art book publisher there (Drago) called SAMURAI GIRL, covering the photography of Julie Watai, who you might have seen as an idol in the group Pikapika or in the pages of SMARTGIRL. S-Style strikes again! S…

  • Intentional Twins

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    I’ve mentioned GENEVEtokyo‘s art director Ani Watanabe’s photolog, Fotografia, in the past, but hadn’t checked it out in a while. I still have trouble believing that all the pictures in the “Intentional Twins” gallery are real! Update: As a reader points out, these pictures are indeed manipulated (look at the creases in the clothes).

  • 3+5+6+8

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    Nao Suzuki has an upcoming exhibition, “3+5+6+8,” featuring works from her published series no. 3, 5, 6, and 8. It takes place at Gallery Omotesando, March 6-11 (open 12:00-19:00 daily). More info here (in Japanese).

  • Curious QP

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    I love that Patrick continues to search the city for signs of QP. His latest moblog find (what you see here) is a bit of a strange one (found in Minami-Asagaya). Update: And while on the topic of street tags, Patricks points us to CBCNET‘s photolog, TANK.

  • Missing Pages

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    I mentioned the works of Tokyo-based Canadian video artist Jerome Olivier a while back, and he lets me know that his 24-minute short film, “Missing Pages (amended version),” an interesting motion/photo mix that he describes as “fotomation,” is now completed. You can view the opening 7 minutes on his site.

  • Lil in Metropolis

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    Lil gets another of her pictures selected as the “photo of the week” in the new issue of METROPOLIS (out tomorrow). Hey, I always new that was a great pic, and even posted it on my site back in November of last year!