p.4 #1 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
Krosavcheg wrote:
Lol, classic. I think idea for the next haloween is given then! Hm...receding hair of mine requires a wig though in that case.
Got assaulted few times by older ladies who wanted to take snaps with me and started shaking hands. Was around time of Nagoya basho. Had to explain that I wasn't him..
You should have remained silent about that part and just said that autographs were $250 each (no refunds). j/k of course.
It's a live-house just down the street from the Museum there on highway 19. You can see the utility access box in the G-Map that Kenta-kun (the punker) is leaning on. I dunno what it's called. I've been there a dozen times or so before. Some were fun, some less so. I always seem to leave with a girl (whether I like it or not). The last time there was like, this herd of gaijin hunters in there. I was sitting at a table and watching them choose the gaijin they were going home with... After all the gaijin were picked there were still 3 or 4 left in the hunter-herd - They all swooped on me and the highest in the pack said: "I guess you get me...". I replied: "Sure, I dig VD baby, do you come with a shot of penicillin or do I need to buy my own?". Not understanding what I said she sat down next to me, grabbed my thigh, and flashed her cow-eyes. I looked across the table at some other awesomely cute girl about 18 or 19 who I had been noticing all night, grabbed her hand and said: "I'm with her. Sorry." Later the cute one, her brother, and I all went out for munchies after and they all slept over at my place till the subways and busses started running the next morning.
The girl turned out to be an awesome lead guitar player in then a punk-band. We're still friends. It was a good day.
p.4 #7 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
Lol! I love the story. Could have been illustrated as you are photographer after all!
Nice tip, suppose I visit the area then..
My walking pattern is Kanayama - Higashi Betsuin - Osu - Sakae - Fushimi - Nagoya Stn but not during the night time. Never got hunted so far, but I hope to improve on that. Wife might object though, but she is fairly democratic occasionally...
Today was quite fun - visisted a camera shops in Fushimi which sports all sorts of MF lenses. Met up with owner and another 3-4 old men who are going out shooting together.
one of them got impressive collecion of all Nikkor lenses, Nikon cameras, Canon FD cams and glass, Rollei, Hassys and all Olympus. Shooting only film - hates digital.
Had good fun chatting about classic glass and then got invited by them to join their group.
I suppose I will be only one shooting plastic Rebel..hahaha
p.4 #8 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
At the time I was a lead programmer in a Japanese game company and not really using photography in my personal life - besides the wife & kids and trips of course.
I was married at the time. Tho they slept over I slept with my wife so the story might have been a little misleading in that regard .
Now that sounds like fun! But don't feel too bad about you're camera... If you and I ever shoot together your camera will be miles better than mine. I'm on a 5-year-old bridge camera.
p.4 #9 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
That was awesome! Yeah it's a ton of shots, but scrolling through, it really feels like walking through the crowd and noticing different people, buildings, clothes, or events that catch your attention. Great presentation style!
p.4 #10 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
Wow! So how long have you been living here?
I am also from IT related field - Wintel/infra engineer myself. Suppose we are kind of opposite fields - you create something for people to enjoy, while I make sure to take that opportunity away from them between 09.00-18.00.
I don't think the equipment substitutes the creativity in the photography. Enhances it, perhaps, but my sister is a photo genius with her PS Ixus 850IS...
p.4 #11 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
Thanks Ariel Bravy,
So it worked for someone... Awesome!
Thanks for taking the time to comment too!
Mr. Reyer,
I've been here for about 30 years I guess. I think Wintel didn't exist at that time as there was no windows. I think MicroSham was probably shipping DOS 2.0 (a CPM rip-off) or something. It wasn't till about 4 or 5 years later when they ripped off Apple (who kinda ripped off Xerox) for the GUI and made "Windows". By the time that was released (or usable) Amiga was already out with it's own beautiful mixture of Unix in a Xerox GUI "Workbench" metaphor. SGI was also soon out with their own IRIX and the Next Step OS was on the scene around then as well. I even still have all those machines and an odd one out from Sharp with Hudson's OS called Hu-Man or Human in a twin-tower configuration known as the X68000 later referred to as the X68K and X68K Pro - basically Amiga hardware clones but with a CPM/DOS layer instead of built on a UNIX base. In home computing I started out on a PDP-8/E in the late 60's or very early 70's when ML Assembly was still pretty common and running a program required flipping a physical switch. I wonder if I've dated myself yet? My 1st "Windows" box was also built by DEC and the 1st and only time I actually liked using Windows was NT3 on DEC's Alpha processor.
<-- Windoze
I also don't even think "the equipment" enhances creativity. It's just a convenience factor via more accessible set of tools than its analogue.
p.4 #13 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
Wow. You touched a soft spot there
But I think you are a little more fossil than me...=)
You guys built the founding blocks for us to step on.
My first was C64 (handed to my mate in Sweden to look after) and A500 and A1200 are still at home. Amiga OS puts Win to shame and Amiga architecture is something current PCs try to mimic (not very sucessfully).
Former X-Trade member myself actually with FLT and DCS connections (if you know the scene!)...hehehe
But, I have to thank MS for creating a job for me. If MS ever managed to create something as stable and small as AmigaOS 2.0, I and many others for that matter would be out of work.. (let it be our little secret)....
In a way I can't help but feel a bit like the useless people loaded into rocket and sent into space to later become Earth's population (as per Douglas Adams'es Hitchiker's Guide to Galaxy)
p.4 #14 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
Yup, me is ancient.
Oh you were into the groups aye? I've heard of FLT. I did some small copper coding for Mitch and Bytor of Eagle Soft (ESI) very shortly after the Amiga 1000 was released. They were also big on C=64 I think. C=64 is where I got into programming synths, SID hardware mods, and composing tracker tunes which of course followed over to the Amiga and other platforms. Current favorite tracker: Renoise
MS.. heh... don't get started..
I loved the ending of HGTTG film... That's my kinda CG.
p.4 #16 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
Bifurcator wrote:
Yup, me is ancient.
Oh you were into the groups aye? I've heard of FLT. I did some small copper coding for Mitch and Bytor of Eagle Soft (ESI) very shortly after the Amiga 1000 was released. They were also big on C=64 I think. C=64 is where I got into programming synths, SID hardware mods, and composing tracker tunes which of course followed over to the Amiga and other platforms. Current favorite tracker: Renoise
MS.. heh... don't get started..
I loved the ending of HGTTG film... That's my kinda CG.
I love M$ for $$$$, that's why I am MCSE...
I love Amiga for what it is and OS. Heard a lot about Eagle Soft, but that's prior to my scene appearance.
I'm more at the time of the Anarchy, Silents, FLT(amiga), Phenomena time. Worked in ProTracker and did some pathetic attempts at Assembly.
SID is simply super! Every now and again using QuadraSID plugin. There is a SID sporting sound card though I am keen to get my hands on.
p.4 #18 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
Krosavcheg,
I remember Protracker. And OctaMed... Amiga, yeah, those were good days. I've always wondered why no one brought up charges of industrial espionage against Meni and his MicroSoft loyalist CEO who purposely under-ran the production batch for Christmas that year and bankrupted the company. There were orders for like 2.5 million units or something and the guy limits production to 200K - Then they rape the remaining resources, Meni skips country and Jeff almost immediately gets a high-dollar, low-duty, "pay off" position with a MicroSoft subsidiary. But no one said squat and they just made off with the bank. Weird.
SID.
I wanted to build one of these:
And even bought all the parts (now in a box "somewhere") but just never got around to it. I did that stereo SID mod back when it first came out though. That was kinda fun! Wrote a little player/editor for it too.
Seth,
Sorry to have smoked your modem man. I hope nothing broke. How long to it actually take to load? I'm on at 120 megabit in Japan and host is in the US. Here it takes about 7 seconds or something like that if none of the images are in my cache - after cached it's about 1 second though - fairly instant anyway.
p.4 #19 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)
The pic makes me salivate!!!
Looks really cool - need to speak to my mate in Sweden to make few of those!
Never really heard that side of the Commodore story. Big shame indeed. Ami never recovered after that blow.
CD32 and CDTV were also way ahead of their time and with the proper management could have seen Commodore ruling the market for years to come!!!
Well, M$ can continue provide for me thanks to their cert system, but I find more companies on Linux and Solaris in Japan. It is completely opposite to Europe.
j/k of course. 
Hard to pick a favorite. 
