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ASX excerpt on William Klein from The New York School Photographs 1936-1963

Miscellaneous, Photography

A great excerpt from Jane Livingston’s The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963 on ASX Klein’s comment from the book on the role of Vogue as a “monthly shot of culture” compared to the art and photography magazines of the time is salient: In the 1950s, there weren’t many magazines publishing ‘serious’ photography. The art magazines almost [...]

Caffeinated App For Mac

Apple

Caffeinated is a new client for your Google Reader RSS feeds and, since I’m always on the hunt for a good Google Reader client, I thought I’d give it a try. I don’t mind the Google Reader interface, but it sometimes feels really tiring on the eyes and reminds me too much of being in [...]

The eager hot dog

The eager hot dog

iPhone, Japan, Miscellaneous

In the spirit of ōsōji (the annual year-end major cleaning of every square inch of your house), I am going through the 50,000+ images on my hard drives and sorting, tagging, and deleting. I just came across this odditiy, which I snapped with my iPhone at Narita airport in 2010. It still makes me laugh [...]

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Tokyo Sky Tree Light Up
I happened to have my big lens out for a shot of this weekend’s “super moon”, so I was all set up to shoot when I glanced out the window and saw that Tokyo Sky Tree was lit up. I didn’t actually realize it was lit up for a special reason until I came in […]
Ueno Park in the Pink
By this point in the week, I’m sure everyone is sick to death of seeing pictures of cherry blossoms and I think I’ve almost reached my life-long saturation point for shooting them. A couple of years ago, I realized there’s really not much point in me making any effort to shoot them anymore: they basically […]
March going out with a bang
Growing up, I always remember hearing the saying “March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb”, which always seemed to hold true with the ugly transition from winter to spring in Toronto. Today, however, the Tokyo weather has turned that saying on its head with some extremely high winds and stormy […]