Funeral Party (of Space Hijackers)

On the Halloween night, an Anarchist group Space Hijackers had their own funeral.

Is it really mean the end of their organization or it was just another ploy to attract

party goers, are waited to be seen. (They might  say, Goodness, We were resurrected.)

Anyway, what ever the excuse, it was a good busy party.  (Though, with rather slow

music, I did little dancing and spent most of the time photographing the people.

—– on the big party, DJ doesn’t go to hard-core = they do soft focus too.  😀  )

Photo was taken by my  two-element homemade lens.  (Originally a small  plastic lens

came from a toy camera and its 27 mm focal length was extended by a short-eye-sighted

specs lens from Hoya.  It’s called Retrofocus Lens design and the focal length now is

38 mm which enabled the lens to be used on the DSLR.)   I like this soft focus lens

—– but, it has no control.  And almost all blind shooting. (No use of finder)

Still, pocket sized flash-light with umbrella worked pretty well.  I like it. 

I’m not putting caption to each photo.   They are as it looks.  

And you must know your own photo. = You can Copy if you like.

Some familiar faces are the old members of Hijackers and they do

all the work and DJ as well.

The members who is wearing red pants can get in free = so, they exposed theirs.  😀

M m m m m m m m — some are quite pretty !

BTW, if you are not happy with those fuzzy images,  you’ve bumped to the wrong man.

You should have asked your friend’s iPhone to have your own photo taken.

The photos were taken by the lens I made myself = (and I’m qualified to do this kind. )

They were aimed to be fuzzy. ( fuzzy but omnifocus = thanks, no need to focus.)

Photo is for a fun (of myself) = if you ask me serious business, I have to charge !  😀 

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PS :  Other photographer wondered the lighting technique, how they were done ? =

It was not an ordinary flash-lighting, nor white plastic cap kind or bounce flash.

It was a handheld lighting of a flash with small umbrella ( — see the photo.)

(Umbrella was an one-off special made and the support frame was my handmade.)

 

 

 

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3D View ?

On the second previous post, (to those Tri-color Photos) Photographer Karen

(drawandshoot) put a comment wondering what would happen if those picture 

 was seen under a 3D glasses.

—– My understanding of 3D image was, that if our each eyes receives the image

of slightly different viewing angle, our brain Re-configure them into one 3D image.

(but 2 different images has to be the images seen from the position, horizontally 

shifted about 2″ ~ 3″ distance = in short,  like the images seen from our eyes  😀 )  

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So, I tested it —– to see what happened ?    

The crucial point of my Tri-color Pinhole images was, each Pinholes were separated

 less than 2 mm. = It’s mean, the difference of each images in Sky, Pink, Orange 

colors were very small, almost identical. —> therefore they didn’t make 3D.  

Funny thing was, the brain (my brain) seemed to have a big difficulty to comprehend 

the images which got Sky and Pink in the same time.  —> So that, a moment to moment

the dominant vision Left or Right changes = suddenly the images changes Sky to Pink

or visa versa. 

(If you are good in 3D view in aerial photo kind, try the top photo here, = to see

Pink photo by the left eye and Sky photo by the right eye.  Actually, as each eyes seeing

different photo, this color change wouldn’t happen but more likely the brain sees

mixed colored image.    But if you try to see, such as this one with 3D specs (if you have

one, or use color gel) you may seen the phenomenon = dominance of Right or Left brain

changes.  =  This must be our brain’s defensive response.  Like our left eye is connected to

the right brain = a kind of evasive action to limit the damage when our head got injured.  

There couldn’t be a possibility  of one object having two colors in the same time = it’s  

mean, eye could gotten wrong, otherwise visual cortex got wrong —> hence the brain is 

testing the system by rapidly switching and changing the channel.  Interesting isn’t it ?

 

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Sky-Pink-Orange Tri-Pinhole Pictures (3) = Pretty Images !

Pinhole Photography is so easy and even Tri-color Pinhole is not difficult to make =

just put small (3×3 mm) color filter sticked on the back of each hole.  —– Only a

tricky part is, as the viewfinder was masked with black tape, shooting has to be done 

blind, it’s mean the composition and the angle of photos are all in guess work.

And those colorful images appeared after the image was tinkered, the shooting was

done more or less on the speculation —– still, after hundreds of the experiences,

I know what to look for.   When the results got a sort of sweetness, it got a maturity.

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Sky-Pink-Orange Tri-Pinhole Pictures (2)

If you are tired to see this kind of looks all same images, I should say sorry

but still, I would put you into misery few more times. 

In here those Tri-color pictures, the trouble of Orange color in the previous post

has been sorted out and the position of Blue and Orange were swapped. 

 As its character, Tri-color Pinhole images are inherently gorgeous.

It makes one flower suddenly trebled and put a color to each one.  

—– How marbelous. 😀

As I’ve explained in the previous post, those exaggerated color was not made by

any fancy program but by just darken and brighten several times that all.

(with an adjustment of  Wammer — Cooler color a bit)

For me it’s a fun.

Pale Blue-Pale Red and Yellow Tri-color Pinhole Pictures

The previous post [Blue-Orange-Red Tri-color ] was obviously too reddish.

Yes, Red + Orange was too strong indeed.

So, I tried Pale Blue (Sky), Pale Red (Pink) and Yellow next.

Though, the effect of Yellow was rather weak —

It gave only a bit warmer color-temperature.

Then I realized that the pinhole for Yellow was not clean round hole. (too late)

Still, end results weren’t too bad.

(But I need yet another try.)

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Zombie ? — What ?

Somebody who read the post [Key Mechanism in Zen Buddhists Mind] asked me

“Practising a repeated long practice, isn’t it a person in a zombie state, on the way

for brain-washing ?” — What ? — also long time ago, somebody told me that he was

thinking that the Zen is in the Trance State”.

Of course, those views were utter misunderstanding, it was a rack of insight toward

his own mind or own experience. —– From the context of the post, it should be

understood that the neurological state in the Buddhists Practice is not far from a

typist or riding a bicycle — in fact even from a walking.

Expert Typist is not necessary using his (her) lexical brain to check the spelling but

finger is just following the eyes picking the letter on a draft.    Or riding a bike or

walking, its body coordination was all in the motor region, hence no conscious  

thinking was needed for a walk. (I mean how to move each foot next by next.  🙂 )

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So that, being economical in the data process, is a norm in our brain and omitting

the process in the Emotional Region does not make anybody Zombie.    Far from it,

while bypassing the Emotion (Fear of Death kind) such as the Emergency Rescue Team

could see the situation with cool-head, not mention a Martial Artist could come closer

to the opponent and able to give more effective attack in a freedom of movement.

While eliminating the hindrance of emotion, the person get far more clear eyes and

the cool judgement, in other words it is exact opposite of a Zombie state.

Bypassing the same-patterned signal doesn’t mean get blinded.    While bypassing the

same pattern, any minute difference out of pattern would be instantly singled-out and

will be responded.

Think those phenomena in the own experience how you were doing then.

This is the best beauty of the Zen as well.

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Blue-Orange-Red Tri-color Pinhole Pictures

Who said, Tri-color is BGR. —– Tri-color on the French Frag are Blue, Red, White.

Any three colors can be Tri-color.  Why not  🙂

BGR tri-color images on the previous post looks too cold.   I want warmer image. 

(I tested with Green, Red, Yellow though, it looks still too cool.)   

So, I put Blue, Orange, Red. —– Images looks on fire.   I like it.  😀

Mind you, not all the Zennist is pale-faced cool person.  I’m not cool at all.  😀

In fact, only white flower would be rendered into those colors.

(Flower can keep their own color — more or less.)

I think,  direct sun light hitting the pinholes caused those red halation.

Anyhow, it’s a burning color in deed.  (Is there anything wrong ?)

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BGR-tricolor Pinhole Pictures

On that flower meadow, there aren’t much colorful flowers other than few Cosmos left.

On the other hand, there isn’t burning colored autumn leaves yet. 

It looks as poor as this. —– but, if there aren’t much color, why not make them !

(Though, I’m not a graphic designer.  I don’t like to create it on a computer.)

So I did, by pricking two more pinholes and put BGR color filters behind.

They became “Double density BGR-Tri-Pinholes” and created the images like those.

(There was a post showing simple BGR-Tri color Pinhole pictures.)

At least, they are colorful in deed.  🙂

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M m m m — Alien ?

On the street, I found a very very peculiar THING.

 

 It looks like a botanical thing still —– it could be a dried-up dead body of small animal, 

but what animal ? ? ? —– could be an Extraterrestrial THING like a Martian Octopus ! 

It most likely, a shell of nut belongs to a plant of Genus Quercus in the Fagaseae Family.

(Commonly known as an Acorn kind)  🙂  —– still, who knows, it could be a disguise. 

Though, so far, while I’ve observed, it haven’t started to move and sucked my blood nor

metamorf to a winged angel —– yet. 

But even more strange fact was, where this one came from ? ? ? — there was no such

kind of tree in sight, absolutely non.  

With its spiky “Tentacles” it could hook-up and hitch to have a journey though, —– ? ? ?

M m m m    Strange ?

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仏教の行と大脳生理 (Effects of Practice)

 (This is the Japanese version of previous post = Key Mechanism in Zen Buddhists Mind and in its brain function.)

ここまでのいくつかのポストで，原始仏典のアーガマ（阿含）経から大乗仏典のほとんど全てに至る

までがいかにヒンズー教に書変えられていたかを書きましたが，

それにもかかわらずいったいどのようにして

釈尊の無私，無心，空の教えが失なわれること無く２５００年の永きに亘って受け継がれて来てい

たのか？－－－実はここに仏教を仏教たらしめる核心があり，そこに表立って書かれる事の無

かった［行］の問題があったのです。

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仏教では宗派にかかわらずどこでも信者や修行僧に延々と続く勤行を勤めさせます。

それは延々と題目を唱えたりあるいは太鼓をたたいたり，ぐるぐる歩き続けたり

（比叡山での修行とはひたすらこれである－－－若い頃禅に傾到したアップルの故スティーブ．

ジョブスが延々と歩かされて頭に来たと言うのは有名な話，

中には水を満した丼を持ってぐるぐる歩くなどという［行］をさせる寺が中国に在る。

あるいは座禅とともに特別な呼吸法を習得させたりもします。

しかし何故このような［行］をさせるのか？－－－実はこうした［行］自体に特別な意味が有るわけ

では無く，それをすることで条件付けされる脳の側に要点が有ったのです。　　　　　　

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人の脳は受覚した情報を処理する時，全ての情報を等しく扱う訳ではありません。

間断なく，五感から入力される情報に加え体の内部情報や運動器官からのフィードバックｅｔｃと，

処理せねばならぬ情報は将に膨大でそれの処理をいかに合理化，効率化するかは生体維持の

生理作用同様に極めて重要な問題なのです。（入力される毎秒１１００万ビットに対し脳が取

込める情報はせいぜい毎秒１６〜５０ビットが限界と言われる）

完璧な健康を維持できていても敵の発見が一瞬遅かっただけで全てが無駄になってしまう。

可能な限り自動化，自律化し処理量を減らす事が生存のキーなのです。　従って脳に達する情報

は，その刺激の強度に拘わりなくその重要度（価値観，損得好嫌，危険性など）に応じて処理され

る訳で重要度ナシと分類されたものは完璧に無視される。 　

あるいは同ーの刺激が繰返される場合，それを評価する閾値  (threshold) が高くなりそれに達し

ない強度の情報を無視するという対応も取られます。

（臭いや騒音に慣れたり，毎日見ている物が注意を引かなくなるｅｔｃ）

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脳の情報処理で重要な事は，この情報の評価分類は生理作用のコントロールにも関与する

大脳古皮質の情動域で行なわれているという事です。

感情が大脳新皮質での価値評価の思考と決定的に異なる点はそれが『己れ』の利益（損得，

安全，生存）に直結した直観的判断に立つという事と，同時にホルモンの分泌をともなっている事で

す。危険の徴候を目撃し“ヤバイ”と感じた瞬間にアドレナリンが分泌され脈拍，血圧が急上昇，防

御や逃走に即応する。しかし危険性も無くあまり損得に関係の無い，延々と繰返される勤行となる

とその同一パターンの情報は感情的には全く無価値，無害のものとして無視され，情動域を素通り

して処理されるようになります。　一方，体の所作は脳の運動領域にパターンとして刷り込まれ

体は自動的に動くようになる。

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＝つまり延々と続く勤行は『己れ』という利害意識に関わる事なく，自動的に処理されるようになる訳で，

実にこれが仏教における勤行の機能だったのです。つまりこれが

釈尊の教えの核であった無私，無心の現象に外ならず長年この勤行を（無条件に受け容れ）

続けるうちに物事を感情抜きに淡々と処理する心理，脳の対応が身に付いていく。　

我執，我欲の源である情動域を素通りしてしまうので我にからんだ妄念に捕われる事も無く，

そもそも執着が無い。 これは元々誰もが脳の中に持って生れている情報処理簡略化のメカニズム

で，何ら特別の現象でも，まして神秘的なものでもありません。  これが，無私が全ての人に普遍で

ある事，かつダルマ（法）が万人に内包されていると言われる根拠に他ならないのです。

この［行］の伝統が保たれていたからこそ，仏教の真髄は今日まで綿々と保たれて来ていた。

つまりその［行］からもたらされる無我無心が実に仏敎の真髄＝空無に外なりません。[行]を経て何か気の利いた観念や思想に到達するのではなく、そうした観念や思想のかけらすらも無い空っぽに至る。これが悟りといふものです。

空無であり、何も存在していないのだからそれを形容描写する事もできない。しかしそれの解っていない坊主が無理をして話を作ったものだから後世の仏教は怪し気なオトギ咄で溢れた。そもそも合理主義者の

釈尊が輪廻転生は元より三千世界などを夢想していた筈が無い。＝だからこそアーガマ経の中には夢想も空想的奇跡も登場して来ないのです。（前世が無いから生来のカ一ストも無く、当然、サンガにカーストの区別は無かった。）

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(それでは，同様に万人に共通な感情，情動はどうなのかと言う疑問が出て来ますが，)

単純な因果関係を見ただけで情動域での判断傾向，欲やエゴ，愛憎執着がトラブルの種になる

事は有っても悟りを開き静寂な生を得るには何の足しにもならないと見たのが

釈尊であったのです。（だからこそ情動域の関与抜き、無心に作業する事が教えられた＝キサーゴータミに教えられたのは何の観念でもなく、只走り回る事であった）

（ーーーで，すったもんだの騒々しい人生を送って来た僕個人としては，

騒さいへビーメタルロックも悪くないとは思うのですが） （笑）

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（必読＝修行での矛盾）

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