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Category: Photography
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Be a Fundoshi Model
Yukie Kaneko is a graphic designer who has been specializing in modern takes on Japanese family crests. For her next project, she’s designed a collection of fundoshi, a traditional type of Japanese “underwear,” similar to a loin cloth, often worn during festivals. She’s currently looking for non-Japanese men to model her fundoshi collection, and so…
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Meeting Modernity in LA
Enjoying Ian’s “Meeting Modernity” ongoing series of found photography on Neojaponisme? If you’re in LA, you can enjoy it as an exhibition at Young Art Gallery, September 13 to October 4. More details in this post.
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PingMag: Architecture Tour of Ginza
PingMag takes us on a new architectural tour of a Tokyo district, this time Ginza. The piece was shot by Tim Rudder.
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PauseTalk Vol. 24 Gallery
Remo Camerota has put up a gallery on Facebook of shots taken during last night’s PauseTalk (Vol. 24). Pictured, me and Andrew, discussing “important” things. If you have photos taken during an edition of PauseTalk, please add them to the Flickr photo pool. Update: Apologies for my Facebook ignorance, but it seems that only “Friends”…
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Yasukuni Clashes
Great photo coverage by Max on the right-wing nationalists clashing with police near Yasukuni Shrine yesterday. A lot of them appear in this “Japanese Police” Flickr photoset, but there are more in his regular photostream as well.
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Lolita Goth by Rudder
Tim Rudder shares a bunch of rather nice shots of Lolita Goths he took in Harajuku. I really like his selection of backgrounds for the photos, as well as the fact that they were taken at night.
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Arcade Mania Flickr Group
We’ve created an Arcade Mania Flickr group to collect shots of Japan’s game centers — join and add yours! The photo above is by Yuki.
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Photo Gallery: Negative Series
Max has taken some stunning photos of pieces from Chris Kirby‘s “Negative Series” exhibition, that was held last week at Cafe Pause. Check here to see them.
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Palla Poster Update
Over the past few months I know a few of you have asked about the Palla poster that was being offered as part of the “A Swarm of Angels” project. I’d ordered one — same as many of you — back in August of last year. I’ve been in touch with both Palla and Matt…
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PingMag: Japanese Rooms
PingMag interviews artist/designer Sven Ingmar Thies about his book Japanese Rooms, which I mentioned a while back.