Dale’s Studio
——– (Note: Photo above by Zeiss 18mm lens for Nikon = Virtually no Distortion ! )
Yesterday, I went to the studio of Dale in the east London who also run the Cafe,
Small White Elephant to help a documentation, photographing his paintings.
As always, when I go out to take picture, it was a sunny blue-skyed day. = Almost
like the first spring day of this year.
(In fact, I’ve told him “If the weather was like this rainy, it would be a sign of
that the Heaven doesn’t like you” as the day before was rainy.)
As always, the studio was in a disused big industrial building,
some walk from the Bromley by Bow station. = Real East End ! —– the area
“was” really a derelict, disused industrial land though, in the past few years,
suddenly new development was started. = would become posh town soon ! ?
Utterly out of my guess, Dale’s paintings were the riot of colors with tons of paint.
— paint was not painted but more likely, deposited on the canvas. (= so that,
even after few years, some paint was still not completely dried yet.)
I only say ” Wao, Amaaaaaaazing”. and then, I realized the connection, why
he interested in Zen = those process to dripping the paint without having
much of pattern or figure = almost endless work of Mushin (Mind of No-mind
= Do the task without needing to have the Thinking.) —– And the result
—– it showed nothing or it is the everything ! (色即是空，空即是色 = like what
Heart Mantra said ) —– He was not trying to copy a style of Zen painting
but “Do the Zen” in action.
And, for the next step, for exhibition and for a publication, he needed
to have his paintings digitized.
When we finished the shooting, his friends came to the studio with cans of beer.
In most of the case, the studio of the artist never be tidy —– so, looks like this
pile of mess = was not a mess = it was a collage of the doodles or a draft of plan
etc etc. in his past (= said to be. 🙂 )
Therefore, I wouldn’t make any question “What is this ?” to an artist.
(with obvious reason. 🙂 )
So, I even didn’t have an attempt to guess what they are — why the blobs of
the paint was kept and treasured ? ? ?
In some distance, over the Bow Creek, landscape of the East End.
The life is there as usual. (of usual kind. 🙂 )
(Camera used was: Nikon D810 with PC Nikkor 35mm F2.8 and
Carl Zeiss 18mm F3.5 for Nikon)
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Ai Music — What ? ? ?
This music said to have composed entirely by a computer. It’s mean, a computer
(its program) had its mind how to compose a music, in other words it was an
Artificial Intelligence to be a classic music composer in Bach’s style.
—– It’s pointless to talk about the music without listen it first. (So, ask your ears.)
Sound somewhat a part of J.S.Bach’s clavier collection —– though, what did you
find of this composition ? — In my feeling, I found this, very irritating to listen.
So that, it convinced me that how the man who composed the original
Well Tempered Clavier, Book one = J.S.Bach had human mind and a sensitivity.
I think, the mind was conceived phrase by phrase such as “I like this flower”,
“A is equal to B” or “As A was equal to B, therefore A plus B will be the amount
of twice of A” kind. So, the music expression has more or less the same structure,
whether it has a poetical dialogue inside of the composer or the description of the
landscape etc, in any case, each phrase, description etc is a complete packet.
They never drug the argument endlessly, as they ought to settle somewhere.
Yet, this “so called, Ai composed Music” has no such packet structure, but just
continuing on and on for the sake of making it to the length. How irritating !
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—– My guess is, that the man who programmed this so called Ai, just made an
algorithm “What most likely choice of a note after the note, according to the
statistical tendency of J.S.Bach” not the artificial emulation of Bach’s Mind.
Music is not a permutation of the note, but the emotional phrase induced by
a musical language. —– Language need to have a structure and the words.
They are not an endless line of alphabet.
I don’t mind if this music was played to a computer, but human ear is not a machine.
If you like to follow this Ai story, the link was :
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Fake Lens ? ? ?
While looking for the items in the ebay, I found a small article “How to spot
the fake Nikon lens” by gmek111 in which, they says 7 points to check — but
in fact, it was try to sell their App. —– Think about the “Fake camera lens”
—– on the market, there are thousands of the cheap camera lens though,
I never heard of such as Fake Nikon or Canon lens kind.
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In the world, one particular county is notorious for their fake products —– in fact
80% of counterfeits in the world found to be coming from there. And in there,
such as cooking oil made out of fat from the sewage has been sold and so on, the list
of the scandals were endless. And their cheap products such as the netphone of
Shaomi sold very well and eating away Samsong’s share. —– Yet still, its screen
was made by Japan Display, camera sensor was made by Sony etc etc = more than
60% of the component inside were imported from Japan = they can copy the product
using the same components imported from Japan = but they don’t have the
technology to produce those components by themselves.
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You might have seen a cheaper Memory Card from that country —– half price for
128 GB kind = do you know, only 5 companies in the world having such nano
technology and non in china. —– So, where those cheap memory came from ?
When those electronic component were produced, there always defective reject
found on the test, which goes to the bin — somebody pick-up those from the dump
and sorting them for such as the one, 90% of memory is still usable —> make a package
and the label then export. The device jump the address of dead memory = still usable.
It may have only 127GB, and due to register dead address and jump = a bit slow for
industrial use though, the amateur on the street wouldn’t notice on their camera. 😀
—– the reason of defect might be caused by the mis-process and the memory would
deteriorate further by its heat, then the photo would be disappeared next by next !
= on the market, you will get what you paid. There is no such things of good bargain.
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When Contax camera was produced in Japan, their “Carl Zeiss Lens” was said to
be made by Tomioka-kogaku — though, after the production of Contax camera was
ended, the rumor said that the Zeiss lens for other DSLR were made by Samyan.
(under license of Zeiss, using their design and microchip — in fact I have one, but
that one says “Made in Japan” and the other rumor says, it was made by Cosina.)
(But I couldn’t find where “Zeiss lens” for Sony camera was produced now.
—- of course, optical part of Sony was former Minolta, they got own production line.
And Minolta was the inventor of the Auto-focus system, = they got top technology.)
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To make a fake Rolex watch is easy = it’s a matter of making a copy of its outer case and
put a cheap moving-unit inside. = it shows the time, therefore not much trouble to sell.
Similar situation was such as a fake computer HDD — inside may have just a SD card.
Though, to make “Convincing, working copy” of the Nikon, Canon lens is very difficult.
Those lenses are as sophisticated as the camera body itself. In fact, having a Zooming,
auto-focusing drive mechanism, let alone the tricky optical design =
It wouldn’t pay for making counterfeit. And to defraud the buyer, it doesn’t need to
make a counterfeit —– just show a real photo, then grab the money and disappear.
If the company has such technology and capable production line, the company would
do much more profitable business, instead of taking a risk to commit a police matter.
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So, the article in the ebay, “How to spot the fake” is just a scaremongering
only to sell their App. This article or advertisement itself is the fraud !
I buy small adapter, filter-ring kind, from ebay, but about £2~£7 of cheap products.
Because, I prepared to lose money = I never trust them. In fact, I never be successful
with the internet shopping when it was more than £50 price. — Ebay is having useless
“Claim system” — we need to report the transaction-code kind — Type-in — they says
“Code is wrong” — Type again “Code is wrong” repeating for ever. 😦 😀 😀
On the End, sake of security, pay a bit more in the shop would bring more peaceful life.
Ha ha ha.
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Why Live ? ? ?
[ —– 以上のように、名越さんはご自身が仰るように仏教の專門家ではない「門外漢」ながら、
お坊さんでも避けがちな問題に正面から取り組み、行や瞑想を実践することで気付いた
大乗仏教のあり方にまで思索を及ぼしています。大きな問いを掲げ、その具体的な
解決方法を述べつつも、最終的には身近なところからの方便の実践に尽きるという結論は、
お寺やお坊さんの社会貢献の必要性が叫ばれる現代において、非常に大切な視点であると
思います。ぜひ本書を手に、まずはとにかく簡単な行や瞑想を試してみて、そして少しずつ
方便ができるようにチャレンジしてみてくださいね。 合掌
http://www.higan.net/book_review/2015/01/whylive.html?utm_source=mm&utm_medium=245
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I’ve come across a small book review (as it was so small, I should say “introduction” )
of a book titled “Why live as we are going to die anyway” on a Buddhist’s website
called Higan-dera. Its article is small and only minute portion of the book was
quoted, (and I haven’t read the book itself) I may not to have enough source to talk
about —–still, what I noticed was, that despite the “review” was written by a
Pure-land sect monk, and the book was written by a psychiatrist/alienist doctor,
their understanding of the Buddhism were so casual and romanticized. =
May be the indication of the social/spiritual situation of Japan today.
= So much (too much) information of everything, hearsay they-say, stereotypical
idea (not necessary correct) saturating the society yet, non of the correct,
systematic understanding of the Buddhism was upheld.
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The author of the book, Dr.Yasufumi Nagoshi was deducing how individual was
connected to the human-network from a mandala drawing —– what a fancy idea !
Mandala was a symbolic depiction of the Buddhist’s idea of the world, created
2000 years or so ago, — still, long before any Mandala was drawn, human being
has been living in their network/society. —– or Nagoshi was try hard to make a point
“Human relation HAS to be in the Buddhist’s context” — was he ?
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It seemed, Nagoshi didn’t give the answer to the question “Why live” but telling that
the Buddhism is providing the Rules, the Practices, the Guidelines for the daily living
and through this daily life, we can connect to the others, and this vital helping network
makes the people to live and make their life living-worthy.
—– and a Pure Land monk, Jokun who gave this review seemed to have very impressed
by this view, as this human network is the way of the Mahayana Buddhism. —– sound
sweet though, still it didn’t make the answer. Obviously they two were talking about
“How to live” but didn’t aware, or know how and why we exist here.
Otherwise, the burst majority of the world population is living without good cause or
living-worthy reason. The reason why we live is not dependent to the romanticized
Buddhist’s idea but by the hard rational.
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So, Why live ? ? ? — the answer, which they should have given was, that We are having
the life which was given by the Dharma. (Mind you, since Dharma runs the Universe, it
covers non Buddhist as well. = Same as the gravity affecting anything any people.)
We didn’t ask or chose to exist. We exist neither by accident or random occurrence.
Our existence came from all the cause in the moment of the conception and all the
preceding condition of which the Buddhist calls Karma. So that, the one exists here,
was made by those cause and the condition = it was a rational consequence almost like
a direction. This direction can be seen almost like a will or the plan of the Dharma and
the reason why such direction created the Person WAS that there was a needs of which
the person to fulfil. = This on-going total system IS the Dharma. Law of the Universe.
—– It’s mean, we were here to fulfil the role. = it was not our free choice, neither we can
refuse or escape. Therefore we live, = we have to.
—– (So that, actuary to undertake the project, “to be me” = we need to find “who me”
and the role to play. This was the reason why “Self awareness” became crucial to be a
Buddhist — though, don’t mix-up with the “self conscious Ego”. —– the
difference is, the detached eyes to see the self or the self imposed imaginary self.)
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Camera shake
(This image above was shot by tri-color pinhole and 10 second exposure. )
Among the photographers in the net-sphere, Karen McRae of “Draw and Shoot”
must be the master shaker of the camera. Not only incredibly precise macro
photography, she covers fantastic landscape, some of them were mixed with
subtle camera shake, multiple-exposure, layard images etc.
(I strongly recommend you to visit her site and see them by yourself !)
Her effective use of camera movement for the sake of creative imaging, such
subtle blur of the image, showed not only the movement but also a
flow of the time, depth in our time and space =
even a feeling being in the spiritual infinity.
(I’ve been trying to learn and simulate her movement of the camera,
while calling them “Karenisque Photography” — I succeeded very little. )
(The trace of the light while camera has been shaken = 10 second exposure here)
( While try to copy the movement of her photo, I realised that she must have
exposed the camera even minutes long — with 10s of test shots if not hundreds.)
—– On her photo of ” lingeringlights 1.jpg ” = camera might be held and exposed
even 30 second long.
But, the use camera shake to the everyday objects, = it become clear, not only
the choice of the subject but also the lighting (weather / cloud) overall darkness
become crucial. —– otherwise, the photo become just a mess. 🙂
Karen’s use of camera movement was very complexed = not only the overall movement,
but also a combination of a follow-shoot (such as to keep aiming to one subject while
moving in a car) the background would be totally blurred but the aimed subject would
maintain less blurred image. = still, it’s just a technique.
The matter is the end result. = and she’s been creating utterly puzzling images. =
I couldn’t guess what she did it —– So, I described it a “Magic”. 🙂
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Report—Firework ? ? ?
I suppose, everybody blogging on the WordPress platform saw own annual report.
—– m m m, nothing new or surprising though, — ? ? ? How that firework fired ?
I mean, who selected the day, with what criteria ? —– it was nothing to do with the
day’s access or number of comment received.
It seems the posts selected were somewhat interesting and slightly funny. Still ? ? ?
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The post on 4th Feb’ about a Pinhole combined with optical lens might be the first
ever attempt on the history. (Notice me if I were wrong.)
Post on 31st March which showed the way how to make electronic circuit to control
F-aperture in a dismantled junk lens might be a very unique practice. But a post
on 13th June, about the dried orange peel —– was a funny selection but I like it.
And the Post 8th Sept’ was talking about how the oldest Buddhist Scripture was
NOT faithfully written down according to the original teachings —– was the very
important post to me though, I didn’t expect others would share the same view.
The post 19th Oct’ was showing the photo of the morning sky = taken by the
Tri-color Pinholes = pseudo Turner’s paintings = WordPress liked my joke. Good !
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I thought, WP’s Stats were operated purely by automatic counting program, still the
design of Annual Report seemed to be overseen by a human (who got a wit — but
how many manpower they got to deal with million of Blogs ) —– or
their “Automatic program” got human-like AI now ? ! (It’s horrifying) 😀
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New Year’s Card Design for 2015 (Free from Japan Post)
Yet another big provider of the free card design is the Japan Post (日本郵便).
This year, they got the Anime Character style designer ! — Cute !
Their Web Link is — << http://yubin-nenga.jp/index.html >> — though,
they are offering so many services from Card design to Blush writing Program,
so that, without Japanese reading, it’s not easy to use their site. — added trouble
was that the downloaded image is very hard to use with its compatibility = they
push the user to use their Mailing Service = Mailing can gather the information
of the sender and addressee’s real name, address, on top of the banking info’. =
Very valuable reliable info’ = can make big business ! 😦
Above photo left got blush drawing —– I think it was
an ancient Pictgram (origin of the Chinese letter) of the sheep.
Manga, Anime is now almost a global young culture.
And their cute character is not only for the Otaku now.
(But don’t count me in. 😀 )
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So,—– hope us to have A Happy New Year,
with or without, pretty Anime Costume Player.
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New Year’s Card Design for 2015 / Sheep Year ( Free from Canon )
Those card designs were provided by the Canon of printer. 🙂
(Why Printer division is such generous, you may read last year’s post =
https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/2014-japanese-new-years-card-design-free-from-canon/
You may better go their site to see and download from 1000 times more selection.
http://cp.c-ij.com/ja/event/nenga/index.html > —– Their front page
Their site is in Japanese though, its layout and function is very user-friendly =
anyhow no harm would be done, just try click and see =
Formal card design, Casual card design, Design material, Blush Calligraphy, etc.etc.
http://cp.c-ij.com/ja/contents/10n202/list_45_1.html?log=nt-02 > — Casual card design
http://cp.c-ij.com/ja/contents/10n201/list_45_1.html > —————–Formal card design
(Choose a design, Click Download —> Copy and save from the small window)
Photo above, Left = you may see white blush calligraphy or pictogram, it was
the ancient graphical depiction of a goat/sheep and from this, a letter [未]was
made though, this letter [未] was used only to tell yearly guardian’s case.
Normally, we use a letter [羊] for a Sheep/Ram. (Goat got another letters［野羊］)
Those Link also provide Free Design Templates.
They are reputed, trouble-free good site. = Worth visiting. 🙂
http://www.designbank-nenga.com/
http://nengarank.com/html/index.html
http://www.wanpagu.com/top_illustration.html
As long as you use those design for your personal purpose, it would be no problem.
( But sending out thousands of customers from your company is a business. )
So, prepare a greeting for the coming New Year 2014 !
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Poppy Talk
The regular reader of this blog might have noticed that the talk in the previous post [Poppy Poppy] became increasingly lecturing. Yes, I know it. The reason was the same why I made an exception to come to a public event and took picture. —– A while ago, I had a chat with a photographer who has just finished the school and learning to become Professional while doing an assistant work. As she asked me “How to make a good Photograph” I answered ” Just press the button” she stunned and burst into laughing. “Oh gosh, I never heard such answer”.
“When you see a beautiful light, press the button. — It’s mean, if you couldn’t see it’s beauty, you don’t have the eyes to see. And even if you could see it, still not able to press the button, you don’t have a good reflex, either case, you are hopeless and any sort of advice or knuck to take picture would be useless. Otherwise, you were lucky enough to take good picture. Then do it.
Anyhow, it is pointless to speak about photography => it’s better to see the real situation and a way of the photographic approach, and the captured images —– good or bad. = Everything is self explanatory. So, those photos (with the photos of Last Post) were the finishing part of the chat or the “lecture”. 🙂
—– Just press the Button, mean, “Just take picture with the own intuition”, but not a theory or special thinking kind. Still, it is better to know about the subject, history, episode in human term (mean, not politics or technology) which did hit your emotion, but the most important point is to capture the image, sweet to your eyes. (it doesn’t mean looks nice, cute person smiling, but in the image, context and the emotion has settled and balanced) = DON’T chase dramatic image, until you yourself experienced a drama in your life.)
So, this is the picture which was not a settled image but make the mind to stray away. It’s mean, this is not a sweet picture. —– even after 70 years, Poppy field has not settled calm for some people yet.
Peace to the dead soldier’s Soul.
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Autumn Color — in Japan
When this kind of photo is the standard, it’s quite discouraging for me to attempt a
substitute. 😀 This is a photo from one of the climbing club in Japan.
And this is the notorious mountain, Tanigawa-dake, otherwise known as the
Graveyard of the Climber. When I went there (yet, the easiest rout “Nan-ryo”)
with many younger members, — then one of them fallen from the face.
= it was literally free fall of 10 m, while pulling out three anchor-pins.
I could see him flying down mid air in slow motion.
But miraculously, the man landed on his Rucksack, and tumbled half on the
narrow terrace, stopped on its edge with small bruise on his knee ( that’s all ) !
While he was in the air, I was thinking “Oh dear, I become the first leader to have
a fatality on the history of our club. So the question is, how to carry his body =
carry him down on the tricky face or carry him up and ask rescue helicopter ?
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—– After thoughts, I realized that, how cold-blooded man I AM !
While seeing a man going to die, still able to think how to deal with its body.
(But mind you, I had to take care of other member’s safety as well. — Remember,
Zen is not for shedding a tear but keep clear eyes on even the harshest moment.
—– Can any “Sweet compassionate mind” stop him fall ? — Joking. )
—– We simply gave-up the day’s climb and came down the face.
It was a beautiful day like this photo of the Ichinokura. 🙂
(The link to the original photo —- http://www.bunanokai.jp )
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