Posts Tagged ‘nature’
March 29th, 2010 | 
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Beautiful skyscapes beyond the trees choreographed to the mesmerizing sound of “Daylight” by Kokin Gumi from their “Zen Garden” CD. The music for this CD was written by the late Masakazu Yoshizawa, who is also heard performing in this recording. For more info visit: www.kokingumi.com, or visit the ‘more info’ section of my “There’s More To It” video, featuring “Snow” by the same great artists of Kokin Gumi. The depictive photography was carefully choreographed to quotes written by me that are sure to awaken your spirit, stir your soul, and provoke your thoughts.
Photography by me. Hope you enjoy 
Doesn’t the cloud at 5:36 look like a bird?
Duration : 0:7:4
Posted in japanese landscape photography | 
Tags: Bamboo, bass, Belle, Beyond the Treetops, clouds, Daylight, flute, Garden, Gumi, Idaho, japanese, Kokin, koto, landscape, Masakazu, meditation, music, nature, photography, piano, relaxation, scenic, shamisen, skies, sky, skyscapes, sun, sunrise, sunrises, sunset, sunsets, Utah, video, Yoshizawa, Zen | 
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Sunflowers are starting to bloom here in Japan. There are many around where I live and I think they are quite fabulous to see. They can get pretty big and the yellow is very beautiful. This is just a short clip taken with the Creative Vado HD to give you an idea of how they can be seen in Japan. This particular shot was taken near Nagano city in a residential area. Although these are pretty big, you can actually find sunflowers much bigger than this around the countryside. There are also a lot of bees around them too so you have to be careful. Video by Jim Atwood Photography at http://www.jimatwood.net
Duration : 0:0:54
Posted in japanese landscape photography |
Tags: Atwood, city, Flowers, James, japan, japanese, Jim, jimatwood, landscape, Nagano, nature, photography, season, Street, Summer, Sunflowers, Tokyo, Urban |
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NY Premiere
Friday, July 3, 6:15 PM
Tuesday, July 7, 6:30 PM
The July 3 screening is followed by the Exposure Party!
@ Japan Society
333 East 47th St.
NY NY 10017
Part of Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film
June 30 – July 12, 2009
http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts
Q&A with director Sion Sono!
Sensational indie filmmaker Sion Sono returns to JAPAN CUTS with this much anticipated, gripping four-hour hentai (pervert) epic brimming with absurd gore, cross-dressers, sin and love triangles while exposing the contradictions within human nature. Yu feels compelled to commit sins for his father, who has become a catholic priest and demands daily confessions from him. As a result, Yu joins a local gang and becomes a master of hentai photography. Amidst the chaos that ensues, he falls in love at first sight with Yoko, whom he later discovers will become his new step sister. With an evil religious cult leader determined to convert his family and steal his precious Yoko away, Yu must go to extreme lengths to save the love of his life.
http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=6f265ab6
2008, 237 min., 35mm. Directed by Sion Sono. With Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima and Sakura Ando.
Duration : 0:2:11
Japanese Cranes and Sea Eagles in Japan
Red Crowned Cranes (also known as Japanes Cranes) and Sea Eagles, Hokkaido, Japan – In Hokkaido you can see Japanes Cranes, as they wake up and fly off from their roosting spot in the early morning, watch them at designated feedingspots in order to help them survive the harsh winter and see them fighting with Sea Eagles over fish. Another spectacular sight are the Sea Eagles that migrate to Japan from Kamchatka with the pack-ice. Hokkaido is the perfect destination for photography. Join wildlife & nature photographer Marsel van Oosten on a Squiver Photo Trip to Japan and come back with great pictures! Visit www.squiver.com and sign up for the White & Wild Japan Phototrip, learning the tricks from a professional.
Duration : 0:3:40
Posted in photography in japanese |
Tags: Cranes, Crowned, Eagles, Hokkaido, japan, japanese, nature, Photo, photography, photosafari, Red, Sea, Squiver, Trip, wildlife |
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A colorful and stylistic spin on leaves in Japan. This is cool! Video and Slideshow by Jim Atwood Photography at http://www.jimatwood.net. Music Soundtrack by http://stan-sb.newgrounds.com.
Duration : 0:5:1
A nice chilled out HipHop track set to a collection of photographs that fall under the theme category of “green” here in Nagano City, Japan. One of the things I often do in photography is to shoot with a specific theme in mind. This could be a color, object, motion, texture, etc. I find shooting for specific colors to be a joy and especially in collecting the photographs over time. Most of the photographs taken in this collection were photographed sometime in the summer or late Spring. I hope you enjoy they slideshow as much as I have enjoyed photographing the scenes within. By the way, “Midori” means “Green” in Japanese. “A Midori Summer in Japan” is by Jim Atwood Photography at http://jimatwood.net. The music soundtrack is courtesy of http://teddygram.newgrounds.com. Thank you!
Duration : 0:2:25
This is the promotional video for my first full book, ‘Japan From The Inside’. The book contains collected photos and writings on Japan from 2003 to 2008.
This clip includes images from Tokyo, Yokohama, Hiroshima, Kamakura, Nagano, Kyoto and Okinawa, to name a few of the places featured in the book, which also has sections on the people, culture and nature of Japan. It ends with brief, previously unreleased footage shot at a traditional summer festival (‘matsuri’) in Tokyo.
”Japan From The Inside’ is a window into a land of superlatives.
Experience the world’s biggest city, its busiest train station, recovery from the first atomic bomb, or the planet’s longest life expectancies in this country steeped in tradition yet eye-poppingly modern at the same time.’ (from blurb.com)
To preview or buy ‘Japan From The Inside’, visit:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/856331
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All original photography by Dominic Pates; the promo was edited and produced by Globalism Films.
Original music by Shelf Life. Extract from ‘The Tokyoite’ (Pates/Cheryo), available from iTunes on the ‘Best Before End’ LP. See http://www.myspace.com/shelflifetokyo for more on the band.
Audio production by Control K (http://www.controlk.co.uk). Soundtrack includes a variety of authentic audio samples taken from http://soundtransit.nl and used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. Original sources: Jean Francis Cavro, Frederik Froument, Alexandre Nakamura, Yuko Nexus6 and Ryo Takasaki.
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Globalism Pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/globalismpictures/
Dom Pates Collected Writings:
http://pateswritings.wordpress.com/
Duration : 0:2:1
Japanese Snow Monkeys – Watch Japanese Macaques as they enjoy the steaming hot spring baths and play in deep snow. It is filmed in the Jigokudani Monkey Park (Jigokudani Yaen Kōen) near Nagano. Join wildlife & nature photographer Marsel van Oosten on a Squiver Photo Trip to Japan and come back with great pictures of snowmonkeys and much more amazing Japanese wildlife! Visit www.squiver.com and sign up for the White & Wild Japan Photo Trip, learning the tricks from a professional.
Duration : 0:2:42
Posted in photography in japanese |
Tags: bath, hot, japan, Jigokudani, Monkeys, nature, Photo, photography, sneeuwapen, Snow, springs, Squiver, Trip, wildlife |
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