Electric Pig » Japan http://www.electricpig.org Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:56:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Stationeri http://www.electricpig.org/2009/07/12/stationeri/ http://www.electricpig.org/2009/07/12/stationeri/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:44:55 +0000 Electric Pig http://www.electricpig.org/?p=506 [See post to watch QuickTime movie]

This is a little experiment me and Eri did while I was in Japan. The lights presumably strobe in real life too, but I never really pay attention or my brain compensates or something, but here it's pretty noticeable, which I quite like. Eri did a pretty good job of staying still too!

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Olympus OM1. f1.8 Kodak 160NC

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Hoya R72. f2.8

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50mm f1.8

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2 shot panorama. 50mm f1.8

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]]> http://www.electricpig.org/2008/08/27/last-day/feed/ 6 Recent T2s http://www.electricpig.org/2008/08/11/recent-t2s/ http://www.electricpig.org/2008/08/11/recent-t2s/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:53:22 +0000 Electric Pig http://www.electricpig.org/?p=181 What with my manic attempts to move out of my flat by tomorrow, I haven't had time to post much recently, so here are some of the Contax shots I've had developed recently. I like these shots. I think of any film I've taken with the T2, this film probably had the highest proportion of decent pictures. Not that that was to do with anything more than luck, but still, nice to get.


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]]> http://www.electricpig.org/2008/08/03/edo-river-fireworks/feed/ 5 Tokyo Bay Cruising http://www.electricpig.org/2008/07/27/tokyo-bay-cruising/ http://www.electricpig.org/2008/07/27/tokyo-bay-cruising/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:12:41 +0000 Electric Pig http://www.electricpig.org/?p=150 Yesterday, for the first (and probably last time), I went out for a cruise in Tokyo Bay. It's a big piss-up on a boat, 2 hours at 2500円 (about £12) for all-you-can-drink beer and wine. Good fun, and lots of young, drunken Japanese people to chat with, which is always a laugh. Also lots of chances to fail to take good photos. These are again probably the better ones of the night. Click to open the gallery, or just click read more to see them all.


]]> http://www.electricpig.org/2008/07/27/tokyo-bay-cruising/feed/ 1 Emotional http://www.electricpig.org/2008/07/24/emotional/ http://www.electricpig.org/2008/07/24/emotional/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:17:31 +0000 Electric Pig http://www.electricpig.org/?p=139 Today, I went to my school for the last time, to collect the last of my things from my desk, and to check the progress of the speech contest students as they start trying to learn their speeches. I also wanted to take a photo of the Emotion beauty salon on the main street on the way to my school. It's a pretty average beauty salon, mainly used by local, well-off housewives and students at graduation and other important occasions. Walking past this place on the way to work every day for the past year, I have always wondered about the decision making progress that could have lead to the following being chosen as one of the photos used to illustrate the talents of the artists within. Maybe the area is, unbeknownst to me, big with circus performers...incidentally, the other two photos chosen seem to be of continental European lesbians circa 1990, and it gives me great pleasure to know that somewhere in the hinterlands of suburban Chiba, there is a sect of militant Prussian lesbians, shunning the modern world, whose only contact with the rest of us is when forced to work as clowns to earn money to make ends meet...it must be true. Emotion is the proof.

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