type marseillais

april 2008
new york city

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uc santa cruz
april 2008

hidden in ginza.

the obvious is worthless. the majority is wrong.
all there is, is love, and life. that they may be the same.

i uh.

not to put this into my portfolio or anything, but.




inspired by the "CALL YOUR PARENTS" PSA billboard between new orleans & baton rouge.

u.s.s. capital idea!

here's an arts and crafts project gone horribly wrong. i wanted to make a boat, but this came out. ahoy!

i must say i am a little indebted to cadet lydia for the high seas media inspiration.


media: wood, wood glue, paints, whiteout, string, american flag, dollar bill. (& plastic shopping and newspaper bags.)

photo: kodak professional ultra color 400 film.

assembled march 2008, new york.

new name.

my blog is now named "it's fake of the lens technology!" because this is what my photographic genre is. but photography is just as much interpretation as the next art form. if you're conscious of it.




kodak porta natural color 120 (ASA 400)
new york, new york
march 2008

here is my first trial with color film in my new camera. i'm amazed by how nicely the photos turn out despite the camera being over 50 years old and not being too expensive. then again, a camera is a precision instrument (not a percussion instrument) and shouldn't break unless YOU break it. but i did buy it from a second hand shop above a shoestore in shinjuku, and it was the cheapest TLR in the place... anyway, i'm also pleased enough with my manual exposure skill so far. i sort of like color. sometimes. i just love shooting film.

the space alien of my dreams (reprise)

what is real and what is not?


here's a pet project i've had in photoshop for most of the day.


kodax tri-x 120 film (ASA 400)
multiple exposures
taken march 2008, new york

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photoshop

squares.

yashicaflex (1956 model)
kodak tri-x 120 (ASA 400)
new york
february 2008

my first foray into lightmeterless manual-exposure TLR medium-format photography: where the rule of the day is "make every photograph look like it was taken in the 1950s."

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shinto wedding procession en polaroïd
meiji shrine
tokyo
february 2008




i love you, art partyers. talk with you soon?

once a cat a time.

minato-ku, tokyo, japan
december 12, 2007

this is not journalism.

january 14, 2008
tokyo, japan (from shiba kouen to hibiya kouen)
demonstration against japanese and american governments

portrait of the girl

memphis, tennessee
january 5, 2008

powerlines

this is based on steffi's powerlines drawings, melded with a certain scene by my house in new york, of which it reminded me.

archive

see some of Tom's past work