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Technology

Stop Motion Animation

April 23, 2009 · 7 comments

A week ago i saw a fantastic example of stop motion ( a technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own) on Kirainet which was yesterday followed up with reader Dave Lee sending me in a clip of his.

I wouldn’t have the patience for this sort of thing but i do like watching it.


Experimental Japan from Dave Lee on Vimeo.

Check out Dave’s other stuff on his blog.

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Shinkansen

April 13, 2009 · 26 comments

For my money, i can’t go past the Shinkansen for my means of long distance travel within Japan.

Not only is it a safer option, there’s much less stuffing around than with a plane, no security check, no carry-on luggage restrictions etc …

On my recent trip to Hiroshima and Kyoto i had the pleasure of riding the Shinkansen several times.

Shinkansen

Although as a tourist there’s a JR Rail Pass you can get it’s not necessarily the best and easiest option.

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The Golden Pavilion or Kinkaku-ji 金閣寺, as it’s known to the locals, was a major highlight of last weeks trip to Kyoto.

Once again i tried my hand at a few HDR images, both with different levels of aggressiveness applied, here’s one reasonably subtle.

Golden Pavilion

The 3 images i used to combine into one using photomatix were.

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