Toys (Are Us) Exhibition Opening
Last night, there was an opening of
the Exhibition titled Toys (Are Us)
at the Crypt Gallery, Euston, London.
It was organized by Kosha Hussain,
and my old friend, Wayne Chisnall
brought his sculpture, Magnet as a
major piece. And I joined the party
wearing Rotating LED Disco Costume
which was created out of £0.5 Chinese Toy.
(So, it was in line with the concept of the Exhibition) 🙂
(Kosha Hussain, a Kurdish Artist who organized Exhibition address )
Some more information about the Exhibition, please see this.
Mind you, I joined the party to see old friend, as a
photographer, not to show you a journalistic report
of each piece and the artist.
(The photo above was taken by Concentric-Double-Density Pinhole
— for my fun)
This was the Wayne’s piece, Magnet (in normal view ) 🙂
(It seems, Wayne is giving a lecture. = make a jaw of the people drop) 🙂
As a Crypt of the Church, they got quite a collection of Grave stones,
though I have no idea what those white staffs were and doing what.
Well well. Some good staff, some not so staffs. Still, the exhibition
open till 21st (two more days) it must be interesting to pop in and
see the exhibits.
They got one of the most unusual atmosphere among art galleries.
(By the way, photo above was taken by 5 seconds exposure,with
Canon Fish-eye 8~15mm, on 5D-MkIII —– if the image was not
fuzzy DD Pinhole, the lest were all by the same Fish-eye Lens)
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What is MUSHIN ?
May be I’ve talked about this ten of the times if not hundred.
—– Still, I was asked the same question.
So, this is the most up-to-dated straight answer.
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It is a well known medical symptom among the Alzheimer patients
who lost the nerval connection to the Emotional region in the Brain
lost the recognition related to the SELF such as to recognize own
possessions even to distinguish the face of the own family.
So, Emotion judge the interest of OWN — in other words, this is the
center of EGO, Greed, Well being, Safety, Security, all those Instincts.
Of course, they are the key to the survival though, the total amount
of the signal/Data the brain has to deal is burst, so that there is a
rationalized economical saving was designed = coming data was
selected according to its importance.
The harmless insignificant data or repeating same data, are ignored.
We wouldn’t pay any attention to the same boring TV CM etc. and when
we do the repeating same work, we do automatic without Emotion. = In
deed, in such a case, the Motor Region of the brain would be programed
to do such routine work automatic, involving no Emotion at all.
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So, if we block the data/signal reaching Emotional region, we can do
the job automatic, without the Emotion. (= With highest efficiency !)
Without Emotion mean without the feeling of “Mine” = SELF —
because of no feeling of Ego, Self interest (mean, no envy, jealousy to
others), Own Greed, even No Cling to own Life, be free from the SELF.
This state of Mind mean, no need to cling the past, nor need to imagine
a dream= in other words, just see the world on front of the eyes as it is
Now, without having any Thinking.—– This eyes IS clear eyes.
And this state of Mind IS the “Mind of No-Mind” = Mushin.
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In order to acquire “block the Emotional process” Buddhists use
the long repeating practice for the brain to learn “How to
Opt-out the signal process” and DO the job (or Life) automatic.
(Like, you can branding “The matter” same as to the boring TV CM
and make it no longer recognized to be exists —
we know it’s still there though, it became a remote landscape.)
In certain extent, Zen Buddhism is very cool, even cold.
But, use this to live the life very hot is the other stage of Zen.
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PS : The Related Readings :
Clear the Deck for 2013 Reverse Engineering of Zen
Emotion / Meditation —– they are good to read. = It’s amazing
how Google Algorithm worked out to see the contents !
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Crèche in the Zen Buddhism
There are quite few Crèche in the Zen Buddhism.
Such as Mindfulness, Middle way, to live in Now,Selfless etc etc
and indeed, I did talked about those topics in the early posts.
Yet still, funnily enough, in the Agama Sutra, there was no word of
Lord Buddha for about those topics. And I realized that, the talking
of those Crèche started to appear in the Mahayana scriptures,
typically like Middle way.
—– as a matter of fact, I too wrote in somewhere, the Middle way is
not in the both extreme, somewhere in the Middle.
Though, think about the extreme — in the Nature/Dharma, if it was
too little, we may not noticed it was existing. And if it was too much,
there is no such things in nature. It was only a product of imagination.
In other words, if we follow the Nature/Dharma, we are
naturally live in the Middle way. Likewise, to live in Now, if we don’t
cling Past, neither indulge imagined Future, we only deal with Now.
In the same way, Mindfulness is not a special notion, it was the state
of Mind, when there was no other imagined matter / things, but seeing
the subject on front = what else can you think of ?
— in short, there wouldn’t be any of those issues exists in the Mushin.
= Mushin mean, live Selflessly. So, it became to clear / too clear that
the script writer of the Mahayana has written those Crèche from an
overheard rumor “That the Enlightened said to live in Middle way,
live in Now and facing the life in Mindfulness”etc etc = and started
mimicking the antic = pretending of “Middle way” “Mindfulness”
“Live in Now”etc. and talked a lot blah blah — While not knowing
what the “Middle way” was = because he hasn’t even experienced the
Mushin, there was no way to know what the real “Middle way” was.
The people who doesn’t know, talk a lot, to pretend !
Still, the matter IS very simple. = once you vacated (emptied) your
Mind, what you can see is only the matter on front (= no memory
of the past, neither imagined future) = when the matter only on
front exists, what else to think about = this is Mindfulness.
And when you follow what you instantly conceived (on that Moment
= so-called intuitive perception) is the way of the Dharma.(what else ?)
(Because the Dharma is rational and harmonious as a whole system,
inherently, there is no extreme = this IS the very Middle way)
—– You see, it’s so simple in real (practical) life.
But, “talk about” the misconceived concept is much more complicated.
Because, such concept (=Crèche) is in the intellectual thinking, BUT
Zen Buddhism is a matter in the state of Mind (the way to handle the
data in the Brain) so, try to find the meaning by way of thinking is like
“To THINK HOW to ride a bicycle” instead to make own body to
“LEARN it”. 😀
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Pinhole Machine in the Field
It’s not a Pinball Machine. And a photo above is a Japanese maple !
As I explained in the Previous post, it is a combined / selectable Pinhole.
Single Pinhole, Multiple Pinholes and a Concentric-Double-Density Pinhole
were all in one panel, with or without a Wide-angle Front Lens.
Those were taken by the Concentric-DD pinhole.
They too, by the DD pinhole with the typical radiating halation.
And those images were taken by the Multiple (4) Pinholes.
If you carefully check the photo, you will find the 4 repeated images.
And DD pinhole image again. (Some years ago I made similar image !)
In the same time same subject but by the Multiple Pinholes.
Taken by a single pinhole though, with a very slow shutter speed =
camera was shaken, bird has moved = hence utterly blurry image. 🙂
Still, they were the very painterly images which I wanted.
By the DD Pinhole.
Last moment of sun hit the Single Pinhole and created
fantastic diffraction pattern.
Single Pinhole with half a second shutter speed = camera shake. 😀
And this image —– 1.6 second exposure.
(I would rather say, not too bad for a hand-held shot !)
I think, the Lens (?) worked well for the purpose to produce
impressionists like / painterly image ! 🙂
(You must have seen the most unusable photos here though,
if you like to have so-called good photo, use Phone-camera.)
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Evolution of PINHOLE System
Till now, I made quite a lot of Pinhole to take pictures for my
Canon, Nikon and invented “Concentric-Double-Density Pinhole,
and Wide-angle Pinhole.
On top of those, even Double, Triple Pinhole, Tri-Color Pinhole
— on the end, it’s a mess. = In order to rationalize, I designed a
Convertible Type = Simple Single Pinhole, up-to-4 Multiple Pinhole
and Concentric-DD Pinhole with Selecting Tab, on the Nikon Mount
(Which is easily converted to the Canon) together with Detachable
Wide-angle Lens on front.
So, the sample images were, Top photo Left = by Single Pinhole,
Middle = Triple Pinholes, Right= Concentric-Double-Density Pinhole.
In this photo, Left is the Detachable Wide-angle (Diverging) Lens.
In the Middle, Triangle-ish panel which got 3 selection of Pinholes can
be moved to each position. Right is a NikonAI to CanonEF adapter.
Photo left is my kitchen.
Or you may call my work shop.
—– you may realized, how
my work is casual. 😀
Still, it’s OK to produce
properly machined like quality !
And the photo here showed the effect of = with or without the
wide-angle lens.
And the photo here, right, the panel shows 4 holes — by moving
rear panel, the selected Pinhole will come to the position.
Photos from the window —
Left = Single Pinhole, Middle = Triple Pinhole.
Right = Concentric-DD Pinhole.
—– So, I have to go out to make worthwhile pictures !
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Incidentally, a test shot of “that rose” with this DD Pinhole was:
Considering it IS mere hole, without focus or any control, still
the image was somewhat comparable to a good German lens
—– isn’t this, amazing ?
—– Or, unlike the Leiz, the Zeiss might have kept their belief
on “Natural Optical Image” like this !
—– Mind you, the Pinhole is not a “Light-bending” Lens or a
Grass, therefore neither has aberration inherent to the Lens at all.
Still, the outer (larger) hole of Double-Density Pinhole here is
acting as a “Dispersed” Light-pass, hence showing similar effect of
the Spherical Aberration (= effect of light coming from not only the
center but the outer area of the lens as well which is not necessary
converges the light to the same point = make the image softer.
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Bonfire
I got quite few typical round flower like Fire-work photos of film
time, somewhere. but nothing special of such ubiquitous photos =
no interest to find the photo from bottom of the box.
Instead, I just clicked the shutter and found the expected exposure
(ISO 200, 1/2 sec, F-5.6) was correct, when I saw the Fireworks
over my window. —– Then, I set my camera (5D Mk-3) to 5 frames
Multiple Exposure.) So, this is the end-product.
Those Fireworks were just made by locals and seen over the roof,
so, nothing grand at all, still it was a fun to watch.
And the Golden Rule to make a humble subject looks rich =
give multiple exposure while shaking the camera, worked perfect. 🙂
So, it was my Bonfire Night.
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Kyocera Junk Macro — in Practice
I’m well aware, making lens etc is one thing and actually use it is the other.
Still, whether any worthwhile photo was created by it or not, is totally
different matter. —– I know, in this world, some of the people is having
a pleasure of possessing something rather than use it = just for a show-off
(of his, her wealth or So-called Good taste) —– and the manufacturer is
well aware of this phenomenon too. So that they are producing specifically
designed outrageously expensive model for this target, with “Art” or “Opus”
kind of the name. A camera, recently introduced from Leiz, Leica SL is one of
the extreme case, = the camera which can takes more or less the same kind of
picture but priced whopping $7450 for body. Even if non of the photographer
would buy it, still 10 of the “Leica Collector” in the world ought to buy = because,
it was made by Leiz and listed in their catalog. (Collection has to be complete.)
A Camera lens, I made out of junk
Camera has been with me a
while = waiting to encounter
good subject. ————————
Then, I found a tiny tiny dot on a Fig = it was an egg of the Green Lacewing.
Not very fashionable subject still, it is good for a macro-photography.
So, that’s how the top photo was made. ( x4 Magnification. though, quality
of the lens in comparison to my previous work, was not very impressive
—– shows chromatic aberration etc, hence, not very sharp.)
—– still, it was a proof that the lens was in operation.
(= I’m not feeling happy for just possessing the lens.) 🙂
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PS : In order to have a bit more sharpness and the evenness of the image,
I put a hole of Black tape to reduce the effective F-Aperture to half of the
diameter (equivalent of 2 F-stops down) = the image quality was dramatically
improved ! — You might be realized that how the optics behave in simple
manner and lost a faith to worship expensive lens. 😀
(In fact, we are paying for the Brand image, not necessary for the quality,
otherwise who pay £3000 to a plastic camera ?)
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Shake shake (2)
There was a very similar photo of this, taken by a completely different technique
in this blog. = It is interesting to see an image of the 3D movement (depth) in
that photo was still captured as a 2D spread (shift) of the element.
What ever the technique or accident created its image, the matter is how the image
boggle the mind. And what ever the origin of the image, some of them stuck and
remained in the depth of the mind very very long time.
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Shake shake (1)
There is nothing special of those photos, no trick, they are just
blared photos because of the camera shake.
Camera shake because of the slow shutter speed = 1/2, 1/4 sec’ kind. — And
to have such slow speed, lowest ISO setting and a dark ND filter was used.
Make the situation worse, I was in a moving bus. 🙂
So, it’s easy to have un-sharp pictures —– just shake the camera.
(Of course, if you like.) 🙂
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