http://blog.tokyobeats.com A motley crew of dharma bums Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:25:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (a woman releases a white dove to pray for world peace at Yasukuni shrine August 15th 2009) August the 15th is the anniversary of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. Every year on this day 1000's of people go to the controversial Yasukuni shrine in Kudanshita to pay ... http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/08/17/yasukuni-august-15th-2009/ In conjunction with the Tokyo Beats and in honor of the ever improving conditions of human existence across the globe I am announcing the TBTC (Tokyo Beats Twitter Challenge...YES!) featuring various Tweet superstars such as Uchujin, Eiichi, Zebrio, Motion ID, Manny Santiago & newly added super cool thing: HESO Magazine. ... http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/06/28/tweet-this/ It is with great pleasure to announce two new photographic works titled Skylines and Nipponikong by Tokyo Beats photographers Manny and Zebrio respectively. These works are brought to you by our dear friends at the Association Bricolages Ondulatoires et Particulaires (BOP) until September 15th. Please enjoy... Skylines by Manny Santiago Skylines is a ... http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/06/16/skylines_nipponikong/ A belated thanks (its been crazy around here;-) to all of you that made it down to the exhibition. Which was extended for a week at the request of the bar owner, the lovely Oishii san. After all the blood, sweat and tears it took to realise it, we were very happy ... http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/05/15/the-war-against-reality-is-over-and-we-won/ photo by uchujin My associates, people like Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, we all knew each other. We felt like a secret society that believed in each other. We never criticized each other’s work; although we took extremely different kinds of pictures, we would just look at each other’s work. ... http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/03/23/164/ I got an email today from someone asking about portrait lenses. Looking at her Flickr stream, she seemed to be using a Nikon D-80, which is a DSLR with a cropped sensor, so my answer leans a bit towards users of those cameras. For a long time, I used a Nikon ... http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/03/18/lenses-for-portraits/ I just wrote a reply over on Lightstalkers to a young photographer of eighteen, asking about what it takes to be a working photographer, The comment before mine brought up the subject of beards, so I started with that: The beard is a must if you decide to pursue landscape photography. ... http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/03/15/advice-to-a-young-photographer/ The Tokyo Beats 2nd Group Show is at the stylish Osteria La Vela Cafe in Shibuya from 4/1-4/30. Featuring more than 30 largescale prints and centering on the "War Against Reality" the Tokyo Beats will be hosting an opening reception at la Vela on Saturday, April 4th from 5pm until ... http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/03/11/the-tokyo-beats-present/ Short sweet and to the point. The Tokyo Beats are now on Twitter. If you move your eyes slightly to the left you will see a twitter widget in the side bar showing recent tweets from us all. Follow away ;-) http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/03/04/the-tokyo-beats-on-twitter/ Presented by Namazu in Shimokitazawa (North gate, behind station). Sunday, February 22nd (one day only), from 12:00 to close. Note: I will be there until 3pm and after 10pm. http://blog.tokyobeats.com/2009/02/19/skyscrapin-by/