Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2009 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
Just in time for Halloween I published a series of portraits I took at the Kawasaki Halloween Parade today and in 2005 and 2004.
When it comes to Dinosaurs, the Japanese are losing their edge…
October 27, 2009 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
I just found this footage of a new animatronic Gomora suit being tested in a parking lot at Pink Tentacle, but I must say, I am not impressed.
Exhibit A:
Now lets compare it to the latest in dinosaur animatronic as evidenced in a recent TV show in Germany.
Exhibit B:
Guess the Japanese still could learn a thing or two ;)
The mystery camera reveals their secrets
October 20, 2009 by Juergen Specht · 1 Comment
Some years ago my wife found an old disposable camera near an abandoned hotel resort somewhere in the mountains. In all these years we kept it on a shelf and wondered what kind of secrets this mystery camera will reveal when we finally bring it to a lab…now we know!
Looks like it was a lavish party :)
My newest invention – the light gun
October 19, 2009 by Juergen Specht · 6 Comments
For an upcoming fashion shooting I was in need of a battery powered, extreme focus-able concentrated light source. And with some stuff I had lying around, I was able to build my own light gun for a material price of about 300yen ($3US)…
Test shot with my new light gun
The DORYU 2-16 Pistol Camera
October 8, 2009 by Juergen Specht · 1 Comment
This Pistol shaped camera gives the word “photo shooting” a totally different meaning.
Originally made in 1952 for the Japanese police, the pistol-shaped image capture device was used to photograph criminals in the act, as well as to record the faces of protestors. It even came with an adapter for Nikkor lenses!
(Via World Famous Design Junkies and Spartagos.)
Redundancy
October 7, 2009 by Juergen Specht · 2 Comments
Photographers at work at a Japanese wedding
The ultimate guide to understanding Japanese Kaomoji
October 7, 2009 by Juergen Specht · 24 Comments
In Japan hardly any email or IM message get written which doesn’t contain some form of smileys or emoticons.
While emoji (graphical presentations of emoticons) are probably most known, “kaomoji” (from “kao” = face, “moji” = character) are the Japanese version of Western emoticons and there are practically endless variations available. The biggest difference to the Western counterpart is probably that they are read horizontally and you don’t need to turn your head to understand them, for example the Western emoticon for “Happy” looks like this :-) while the Japanese version looks like this (^_^).
There are many stereotypes about how the Japanese convey emotions and feelings, the most popular one is probably “the Japanese show no emotion“, but in fact the rich culture of kaomoji shows just how different the perception between Westerners and Japanese is. To fill in this blank, lovely Ako and I decided to create the ultimate visual guide to Japanese kaomoji.
Smiling
The world of disposable digital cameras starts now
October 7, 2009 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
Yashica just announced the EZ F521 (Google Translation), a new just 8000yen (~$80USD) expensive digital camera. The specs are not that bad, it sports a 5MP CMOS sensor and has just 2 settings, macro or land scape.
Photo: Exemode
CNet calls it a digital Holga and I agree, it might be the perfect “disposable” camera or perfect for all kinds of experiments involving many cameras. Very interested!
(Via CNet.)
Their Eyes
October 4, 2009 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
These are the eyes of 5 of 7 models I shot yesterday. They all survived ;)
Nikon discovered a market gap…
October 2, 2009 by Juergen Specht · 2 Comments
I could not imagine a good use for it as I read about Nikon’s new CoolPix camera with an integrated projector. But now I am a believer!
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