So beautiful performance of Neil Gow’s music by Keisuke Teramoto.
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Hospital
I think we should visit a hospital at least once per year. Even for no reason. Just stay there a while and watch people in the canteen. Close your eyes breathe in that air between sterilized walls and imagine.
When we are in possession of extremely valuable thing we don’t realise it until we lose it. Health might be one of those things.
Song of Ocean
With Kayo, 2015.
Neighbor
There is elderly couple living near my house. I and my son go to visit them every now and then.
Last time they cooked tempura, fried vegetables. And they have soft Mickey Mouse dolls which my son loves to play with.
After I took her photo, her husband said “Isn’t she a bijin (beauty)?”. What a beautiful people. Today my son asked, “don’t we go to see grandma?”. I thought he meant my mother-in-law, but then, I’m quite sure he meant her. My grandma is no longer in this world, but I can find similar spirit with these people. I feel like we are connected.
Taking photos spontaneously like this makes me realise that I can’t separate my photography from my daily life. Rather my life is my photography. So I made a promise to never leave my camera home.
Weekend of Photos
I enjoyed taking photos of my friends during the weekend. I felt there was no need to explain much by words. I was just there.
Then, this invisible communication made me feel warm.
Araki said once that photography needs femininity. I don’t think he meant that we need to take photos of women, but we should take photos having woman’s mind.
Let me be
I’m tired, so tired of taking so many steps
I want to lie down on earth and rest
Let me be
when I sleep
(I let the oily black crow
eat fine art)
Talk Show パラトラトーク2015
It is now viewable in http://www.ustream.tv/channel/paratratalk
There was just a white office wall of NTT building. Then, I couldn’t shoot full body shots because of the lack of space. However I wanted to focus in the expression in their faces, so perhaps these images turned better this way.
Talk Show
I will join this talk show as a photographer tomorrow in 光House NTT. There are several paralympic sportsmen and I will be taking their photo. The stream will be viewable in here.
It is so exciting to capture the spirit of the great sportsmen with my camera.
Dream
Sir Richard Branson visited my dream.
We talked about many things, and we both absolutely love Mike Oldfield. Tears came to his eyes when I mentioned Tubular Bells.
Then, this dream somehow made me realise my personality and my real strength.
Secret Ingredient
What if there is some secret ingredient that humanity has missed, secret overtone that would once and for all stop war and enable us to live peacefully? What if we have just missed this one element of human psyche that has gone unsatisfied, one need for human that’s so essential that it’s causing all the trouble and suffering?
This discovery would change everything. This would undoubtedly be the biggest invention human has ever made. Bigger than finding extraterrestrial life.
I think we are closer now than ever for this discovery.