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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 21, 2016 0:03:55 GMT -5
It's freaky and also wow, but there are several people working who have this ability. A couple of ballpoint pen wielders, one in NYC and one in Spain, some guy I can't remember who uses finepoint felt tips. And the graphite crowd. One person who got some fame on Twitter made very little of his talent. He didn't value it, considered it a big waste of his time, asked why he should bother when he already has a camera on him 24x7. So, he won't be invited to the photorealist artist lodge picnic and barbecue this year. He showed a drawing and a photo scaled the same, split-screen. Since both were scanned reductions, you could NOT tell one from the other.
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Post by lazybone712 on Jun 30, 2016 5:22:58 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 1, 2016 13:41:51 GMT -5
I didn't get the oiran-owner's comment but it sounded like snarking on over-commitment to a short-lived style. I thought that was the whole point.
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 1, 2016 13:44:02 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Jan 15, 2017 23:59:11 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Jan 20, 2017 16:44:27 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Jan 23, 2017 8:55:21 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jan 23, 2017 13:39:25 GMT -5
The slope above the tower of the Chureito Pagoda is *the* tourism bureau perspective of Mt. Fuji. This might be the pre-dawn hours, since the sky is pretty light and early morning in winter is supposed to be best for avoiding clouds and the haze of civilization. If you google "chureito pagoda" you'll see around 400 versions of the scene in all lights, at all seasons, all different. The shrine sits in a park loaded with cherry trees on the SW slope of Mt. Arakura — which is nothing but a wrinkle next to Fuji-san. There's a catch: if you go to nearby Asama Sengen, you get a little shrine with a view, but no pagoda. It's got to be the Arakama Fuji Sengen Jinja shrine. In the valley below, the town of Fujiyoshida. Although the site is only a day trip from Tokyo, and you can drive practically to the door, it's not very busy except for the sakura season. That might be because Arakura is pretty steep! 2014 visitor writeup at Trip Advisor, 120 photos2008 Photo Viewing Room at the Arakama Shrine website (JP, staff and visitor photos, click the pink bullets by the Spring / Summer / Autumn / Gifts kanji in the lefthand sidebar)
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Post by tangerinesun on Jan 24, 2017 6:04:32 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 3, 2017 12:27:17 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Feb 10, 2017 8:44:18 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 13, 2017 1:51:15 GMT -5
Pickup story from the Bloomberg news service that'll cost you one monthly article view. The Japan Times / National Rural Japan’s folk traditions fading as residents age2017 FEB 09 by Toru Fujioka and Connor Cislo Bloomberg japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/09/national/rural-japans-folk-traditions-fading-residents-age/
“The disappearance of Japanese festivals means the disappearance of communities,” said Hideo Nigata, deputy executive director of the Nippon Matsuri Network, a nonprofit organization that supports and networks festivals. “That’s how Japanese communities have been held together. Even if you no longer live in your town, a festival can be a cause for a temporary visit.”Focus on the small hill town of Kanegasaki, where the Kitakata dance troupe's annual deer dance is suspended this year because the lead dancer has back pain, and there's no understudy.
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Post by lazybone712 on Feb 14, 2017 11:10:56 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 14, 2017 14:21:57 GMT -5
He went all ukiyo-e with the image filters. The Yasaka Pagoda, Tokuriki Tomikichiro (ca. 1950s)His cover photo is Kyoto, too, pretty sure. A frequently photographed walkway through a bamboo grove in the hills. Snow on a bamboo grove by Higuchi Yoshimi at Facebook
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Post by lazybone712 on Feb 15, 2017 23:33:47 GMT -5
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