Yoshizen Phenomena

Alongside the peculiar phenomenon found in the Google Search, such as

“Yoshi – Zappa” which lead to my circular fisheye photo on the top page,

or “Tiny Life Egg” which lead to my photo of the Green lacewings’ Egg

( = on top of the 3.4 million items on their list,)

— the search term “Art Figure – St. Lucia” will have this image

on the top page of the 850,000 items in their listing.

 Really ? —- is this an Art ?

 Isn’t any better art work or painting of

 St. Lucia exist in the world such as the 

 Spanish old masters religious paintings ?

 —– I have no idea how the algorithm of google,

 worked-out to select an image of a twisted wire.

 Never the less, this is the Google certified “Art”

 on top of the million items.    😀 😀

 Even more peculiar phenomenon was, the artist

can recognize this as an art in one glance,

while holding the breath.   (If you think otherwise, you are not the artist.  😀 )

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The same question again.    Is this an art or even a sculpture ?    If this was a

sculpture, where IS the sculpted substance ?   We are seeing a mere contour of

something.   Something of What ?

—– to see, it was a frightened woman while she was hit by a blue line (purported

to be a lightning from the God)  🙂    was in fact in the mind of the viewer.

—– otherwise it was just a twisted wire.  —– And in its contour, we are seeing a

woman’s body — are we ?   Where is the body. = it IS just an empty space between 

the wire isn’t it ?  —– You believe this or not, this is the very ZEN Buddhism.

(In the term of the liberated mind and the eyes,  the mind of complete selfless 

Buddhist is very close to the complete open minded artist. — and the children.)

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What you are seeing is the wire and the VOID between.   Seeing the twisted wire and

in the same time, to see it was a figure of the woman in one glance. (Without hear or

read any explanation still capture the meaning instant, by a naked subconscious.)

To know the meanings in one glance while seeing its twisted wire as it is.  = This is 

the clear eyes and the mind.   Indeed, this is what the Buddhism teaches.  We might

be seeing just a contour or shadow, and the substance may there or may not =

Who can see everything anyway ? = and, does it a matter ?

—– as long as we can see its clear face and the meaning, we know what we have to do

and how to live without being bothered by a wrong thinking.

This IS the very enlightenment.   (You may say what is the difference between a wrong

thinking or delusion to the clear mind. = the former was a result of the thinking with  

a lots of desire and the greed kind so on, and the later will come only on the moment, 

without thinking, like as an intuitive, spontaneous reflection.

(= this is the reason why, Zen never give a second thought or negotiation.) =

The interaction of the million factors in the Karma gave very reflection of very moment.

And that was what the Dharma gave the person to pick.  —– this Confidence “To be with

the Dharma” is the core of the Enlightenment, hence no hindrance in the life though,

on the face, it looks the life just as it IS = it’s mean no fancy magic or mysterious

supernatural manifestation = hence it was described as common and ubiquitous

as a Dog Shit. = if anybody was saying something “Special Enlightenment” it is a sign

of that the person haven’t learnt what the Zen Buddhism IS.)

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So, look at the photo again.   What do you think of this. —– do you see, is the VOID

between the wire, still a meaningful existence ?  (or the illusion ? = Did the Google too,

saw the illusion and said that this IS the Art ? ? ?     Ha ha ha ! )

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Chinese Fake Egg !

Well, this is about the Fake Egg, made and

sold in China.

＜中国食品＞初公開！

ニセ卵の製造過程が明らかに―河南省

配信日時：2007年8月14日(火) 16時21分

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写真を大きなサイズで！

13日、中国河南省鄭州市のメディアにより、鄭州市内の市場で、化学薬品や食品添加物で作られた

ニセ卵が販売されていると伝えられた。

2007年8月13日、カメラマンは、ニセ卵を製造する業者をよく知る人物Aさんとの接触に成功した。

Aさんは、今までベールに包まれていたニセ卵の製造過程を明らかにした。

A さんは説明を交えながら、カメラの前で実際に作ってくれた。Aさんの話によると、このニセ卵は

10年前から中国東北地方で製造を始め、3～4年前から杭 州・香港などでも販売されるように

なったという。数年前からニセ卵が発見され、取締りが行われたが、いまだニセ卵の流通は後を

絶たない。卵は安価で、なぜ コストをかけてまでニセ卵を作るのか、中国の人々も理解できないという。

Aさんは、ニセ卵製造に熟練している業者は1日一人で1000個以上作ることができ、コストは本物の

卵の10分の1で、卸販売価格は本物の2分の 1。業者にとってはコストパフォーマンスがよい。

ニセ卵は普通の卵と一見変わらないが、ゆで卵にして食べるとゴムのような食感で卵の味はしないという。

このニセ卵は、主に褐藻に含まれる多糖類の一種で、ミョウバンやゼラチン、でんぷんなども使われる

食物繊維の一つであるアルギン酸ナトリウムが主 原料である。卵の殻は炭酸カルシウム製としている。

中国の専門家達は、こうした材料を使った食品を長く摂取すると、記憶力が減退したり、認知症などの

症状 を招く可能性もあると注意を呼びかけている。（翻訳・編集/YO）

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The original article = http://www.recordchina.co.jp/a10497.html

The fake Eggs has been known to be sold in china many years.  And I’ve

been wondering how it was made ? = at last, I found the report how it was made.

It seems this report was made by a Chinese reporter who met a man who

demonstrated to make Fake Eggs.—– According to the article, the Egg was made by

Aga aga jerry from the seaweed, with other ingredients, and the shell was made by lime.  

The most amazing things were, they were so well made and the people has been buying

them without noticing the fake —– until they were cooked. (taste was not the Egg)

To find the way to make it and perfected the product —– isn’t this genius ?

It seems, this ingenuity was parallel to the way how Chinese invented the Acupuncture. 

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Jessop’s Fun-camera Lens

I found yet another fun-camera (One-time use Camera / Camera with Film)

in an Odds and Ends Box of a Camera shop. (for a couple of pounds)

This time it was a Jessop’s product though, since Jessops disappeared many years 

ago, this product was also pretty old.   Old enough to be rotten deep = supposed be 

an unused battery inside was completely corroded and the chemical has been leaked.

Branded Jessops though, it was a Chinese made = hence cheap battery was rotten.

This was an interesting product.   As a Chinese made, it could be a complete

Copy-cat product though,  the Jessops then was a well known English company 

= they could be an easy target of a lawsuit for a Copyright infringement.

So, they didn’t copy the lens by taking a mold —– instead, they put their own

Two-element Lens for this camera.     When Japanese film company, Konica,

Fuji, invented the disposable camera (one-time use camera), they designed the

omnifocus lens using pretty fancy aspherical design.

And to make the camera able to take photos under different lighting condition

with fixed shutter speed (about 1/60th second) on ISO 100~200 film, the

lens has to be about F4~3.5.  Especially after flash light was incorporated,

to have a reasonable picture for 3m, the lens can’t be smaller. = It’s mean,

pan-focus with smaller F-aperture was not an option, therefore, they had to

design sophisticated aspherical lens which could produce a reasonably well

focused image in any distance with F4 diameter (7~8mm).

—– But, without using aspherical lens, Jessops opted to the simple two lens

design with smaller F8 aperture setting, while taking advantage of the

higher ISO sensitivity of 400.

 The trick here was,

 F4 x2 = F5.6  F5.6 x2 = F8    while

 ISO 100 x2 x2 = ISO 400 (the same)

 —– and F8 can give much deeper

 depth of the field

 (= Pan focus effect using ordinally 

 lens though, F8 is not enough for

 close focus). 

 I tested this lens attached with rather

 heavy concave lens to extend the 

 original 27mm focal-length to 44mm, 

in order to use on the Canon EOS, (Photo left)

(thus, 3.5mm lens diameter, now gives F13 = pretty dark to see the finder image)

 

—– Not only that, the image produced by this lens was utterly rubbish. = when F13

lens could make only trash image while having no fancy fuzziness (F13 couldn’t 

have any chance of nice fuzziness) = there wouldn’t be any point to use this lens.

—– Well, not all the experiment has been a successful one.   😀

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Awa-odori — Most popular dance in Japan

—————— Awa-odori at Koiwa / Tokyo — Photo from Tokyobling blog.

Following the post, Tanbo-art, someone asked me why some of the Japanese

culture were not introduced or even reported to the west at all ?

And, what is the current popular culture in Japan — are those well known

“Japanese culture, such as Manga, Anime, Cos-ple” really popular in there,

or are they only on the exaggerated western media ?

Well, I’m not on the street of Tokyo today, so, I can’t tell you what exactly though,

at least I can see the news, info etc on the Net, deeper than the western people.

And I can tell a reality I could read from the photos etc. = like random photo of

a Tokyo street never show the people walking in a fashion of anime character or

in its costume = they gather only in a very limited place or occasion, such as an

anime-festival. Very different from such as the Punk culture in the west on the 80^th.

What the most popular culture in Japan I can tell you these days is, Awa-odori.

(Improvised street dancing originated from the Awa region of Shikoku.

— You can Google and read it in the Wiki.)

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Apparently, the spread of this dance started after 80^th (after I left Japan) =

(when I was in Japan, Awa-odori was limited only in Awa (Tokushima on Shikoku),

then after it sprung out to Koenji (west of Shinjuku / Tokyo) it was copied and

spread all over Japan.)  The dance was organized and practised in the each local

group which was called “Ren” while having their own musicians too.

(= Somewhat an equivalent of Brazilian Samba.)

In the Net sphere, an English blogger lives in Japan, Tokyobling, showing many

local Awa-odori events, in fact so many, which made me realize that it was now

almost a national culture held by the men and women, young and old alike.

(Indeed, it amazed me “How on earth, from where so many people came out to do

such a silly dance ?” —– While people dancing they chant “Odoru Aho ni Miru Aho,

Onaji Aho nara Odoranya Son son” = Dancing fools and the watching fools, be the

same fools why not dance !)

Japanese local festival, Matsuri was originated from the local Shinto Shrine, but

now, on top of the traditional Matsuri, the Awa-odori became even more popular

community event and the established culture in Japan.   I guess, this must be

utterly new to your knowledge.  (and you may feel it’s funny but not cool. 😀 )

(When I try the dance, I found its movement was slower than the Aflo, more like

a staged comical acting = doesn’t taxing the body’s dynamic balance nor fire the

reaction on the rhythm.     Awa-odori’s emphasis was created by the gap or

the moment of holt = “Ma / 間” which is

the opposite of the western syncopation (compressed force).)

—– Well, this post is, for your pass time.  🙂

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Tanbo Art (Rice field Art) in Japan

————————————————— (Photo from Jiji news)

I’ve been seeing those news every year on this season.  This is a Tanbo-art,

exclusively in Japanese rice-field. (of course, not everywhere of their field)  

—– it was a picture drawn by the different colored rice crop.  And in here,

a famous medieval samurai Keiji Maeda (famous in his eccentric behaviour, 

called Kabuki-mono = origin of the name Kabuki) was depicted in Yonezawa. 

(You may better Google “rice field  art  japan” or watch this youtube.)

Amazing isn’t it ? !!!

( It is completely different from an on-the-spot, one hour prank = Crop-circle. — To do

this, four or five different colored rice crop has been kept many years and the seeds

were sown to exact position — and wait and see it’s grow ! = Typical Japanese Mind )

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Garden Flowers @ Greenwich Park

Lots of flowers from the Greenwich Park. (They were taken by the Homemade

Two Element Lens and the Homemade Gaudy Lens on Canon 5D Mk-III.)

Don’t see this as a botanical picture.  (If this one was for botanical use, it must be a

nightmare for the photographer = may be even beyond the  Hi Dynamic Range process.)

= So, see this as an abstract painting. —– black petunia kind and the white one.  

After green and the blue Chrysanthemum was created, next by next, rather fancy

colored flower has been appearing in the market.  

Another day, I saw an almost perfect black Tulip —– and started wondering, if the

flower industry managed to crack the genetic-code of black color or found the

chemical to tint the flower.  In either way, it is a very very uncomfortable situation. 

They are extra = I found a huge Tulip Tree in the park. = I may need to visit

again to see its ancient flower !

And realized, in fact there are lots of Chestnut tree = better come again

on October to pick the nuts.  🙂

It was a very hot day —– still some people like to enjoy the sun.

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Cosmos and Hydrangea @ Greenwich Park

While checking the photos I’ve taken this time at Greenwich Park,  I went

back to the post I did last year and found that it was one week earlier, yet still

I did shoot almost identical photo then.  = not only the tree, some of the plant was

perennial and stayed the same patch, keep flowering with the same face.  And the

approach to the same plant is the same = amazingly persistent as the same person.

(It’s mean not much fresh innovation or improvement.)  🙂

Two element homemade lens was the same though, this year I brought

“New” Gordy Lens. (Looks somewhat the same fuzziness, but Gordy Lens

can give close focus. = further background became out of focus ! )

Hydrangea was one week too early and having dry hot weather they looked

a bit withered. = I may come again and change the photos here.

Those heavily fuzzier photos were taken by the Double Density Pinhole.

But those closer images were taken by the Gaudy Lens.

(One more post of Greenwich Flowers would follow.)  🙂

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Riot of Colors @ Greenwich Park

Yesterday I went to the Greenwich Park to take picture of Hydrangea. (Its photos

may come next post, though, for the Hydrangea, it was a week too early.)

So, I start with other flowers photo of which I don’t know the name.  = some

of the readers must be more knowledgeable about them = I just put the images. 

The lens used here was, Homemade Two-element Lens or

Homemade Gaudy Lens on Canon 5D Mk-III.

Be like a fire.  I like it.

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Cool for Hot day

Few days ago there was the hottest day so-far in this year.  

Fortunately or unfortunately, unlike Japan where the season has distinctive

extreme, but this is the England = even hottest would be mere 30°C though,

with no air conditioner, 30°C is pretty hot.

Other locals might be having a chilled drink with ice on it or ice stick,

ice cream kind.  But a poor man like me can not afford to buy an ice cream. 

Instead, I’m making an ice sherbet / frozen juice, what ever it’s called.  

Just put a fruits juice (here an apple juice) into a tin cup and make it frozen.  

Then break an ice with a knife / ice-pick to make it flaky and eat it.  How cool.  

Provided the juice was a pure fruits juice with minimum additives, or 

homemade would be even better  (though need to have a machine !)  

It is very cheap = two day’s supply would be as cheap as £0.70 !

To make the frozen juice flaky, use a knife held firmly against the wall of the

ice pit and rotate the cup to scrape the ice.  ( The photo above right )

When you try, you can get a knack soon. ( = Move the ice, not the knife)

(But the cup got to be a cylindrical tincup

— never try this with typical flower-shaped teacup.)

Japanese women’s football, Nadeshiko team lost  W-cup to US — still,

Have a nice day.  🙂

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Follow the Flow — Karma / Dharma

Those who, the kind regular reader of this blog might have noticed that the past

5~6 months or so, I seemed to become an intoxicated junky of junk cameras.

What happened on me ? = Give a thought or two, in terms of the flow in the life.

(= Follow the flow mean, not chase it, not cringing the mater or notion, let alone

obsessed.  It would just happen = so, just follow.)

I gave a glance to those cameras —– then, I found the serial number of the camera

I first disassembled, (which was given by my friend) was like this.

Oh my goodness, 8150 again ? !!! —– This sign appeared wherever I go, but

crucially, it will be sign-posted to the matter or thing which got “the concern”.

= May be concerned to the Dharma, and to my Karma hence I have to take the

matter serious. — to show some more hard facts, if you think it sound dubious.

Photo above left was Canon EF Macro 100mm F2.8 = the most useful lens to me.

And the Photo middle was the most frequently used Canon Fisheye Zoom 8~15mm.

Which got the number 2***1850*.   And the right, Zeiss 18mm for Nikon.

They are the numbers happened to appear onto my camera lenses.

They were in the shop purely by chance = as if they were placed there for

me to pick-up, though,in most of the case I bought it even without seeing

the number. —– Without any explanation of why it’s there = is the

natural flow of the fate or given task or opportunity to pick-up, whichever

the way we interpret.

—– as it comes.    So, I pick up and do what I can do, regardless whether it is

worthwhile or profitable, or please others — or NOT. (in a hindsight, at least

I can say “I did a lot” to respond what the moment required to me.)

I think, what comes is in fact, what was given —– for each of us to fulfil what we

were born to do. = It’s mean, my Karma think, that me to play with junk camera

suits me !   Or the Karma even like my way to play with the junk.  😀

—– And may be my Karma noticed that I’m not sensitive enough to see the

hidden sign, they started to put a noisy notice shouting 8150 to make me aware

that we are a part of the Dharma and they are watching us.

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