Monday, April 13, 2009

5 years in Japan in 3 Minutes

I put together a collection of photos to celebrate over 5 years I've been living in Tokyo now. Hope you enjoy. The song is "I could never be a dancer" by Yuksek.

13 comments:

Jaime said...

Abram that was spectacular!!! I was very entertained and in Ah of all your wonderful photography. All the best to you and keep on rockin.

T.J. said...

that's was really rad. good song choice.

Anna said...

Awesome. Brilliant. Spectacular. Geniusness.

So fresh and so clean, clean! Nice work, Mr. Plaut. We are all now cooler by association ^.~

gabuchan said...

Lights, good food, kicks, energy. tons of great pics. must have been a BIG job to filter through to get the good pics and narrow down the choices. i like the song choice, because its rock, bass and some future sound. Tokyo loves you for another 5 years.

JD Schaefer said...

Abram - Brilliant! Most of the photos I wanted to slowdown, the opposite of most slide shows that I want to speed up. Did you spend a lot of time on sequence or just do a Burroughs "cut-up"? Hope to see more.

Abram Plaut said...

Thanks for all the comments. I used Windows Movie Maker, at first I tried to sequence the photos to match the music but because the song speeds up and slows down so much I realized it would take me forever. In the end I chose a speed of 0.5 seconds per photo which I thought looked good and picked out enough photos to last for the duration of the song.

johnelliott said...

yeah i pretty much co-sign all the below.. its really rad!

JD Schaefer said...

When you find something in Nippon worthy of a photograph because it strikes you as funny, sad, whatever, . . . Do your Japanese friends see the same thing you do, or is just part of the tumble of urban Japanese life for them?

Abram Plaut said...

Sometimes Japanese people view the same things as funny or amusing, but not nearly as much as foreigners, and their perspective is most definitely different. I guess in a way it's the same for any culture when we are on our own soil. In the eyes of my Japanese friends a lot of things in America that I wouldn't give a second glance at are quite interesting.

Chris333 said...

Fucking DOPE! It makes me want to come back NOW! Sick track too!

Aren said...

o gosh! spirytus salicylowy! how you get this in japan? cheers from Poland!

Barbara said...

creative, intelligent, compassionate, honest, loving, forgiving, successful: that's YOU! Oh yes, i agree with everyone else's comments, too. xoxo Mom

Scooter said...

makes me want to buy a plane ticket this second. Very impressive.