Uchujin -The Blog

Just a little timelapse sequence I threw together of the total lunar eclipse on 10th December 2011 as seen from Tokyo.

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A good and ridiculously talented friend ‘Muju’ recently hired me to do a few promo shots of his newest T-shirt designs (hand screenprinted onto climate neutral organic cotton T’s) but being the contrary trouble maker that I am I decided to make a promo video instead – a trick you can only really pull when the client is one of your oldest and dearest friends.

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Charlie Kirk a.k.a. “Two Cute Dogs” is a 37 year old oxbridge educated Englishman who has been living in Japan for the last 9 years. He has been taking photographs for about 2 years and has been reasonably happy with some of his pictures for about the last year. He recently quit his job as an obscenely well paid lawyer to take a shortish sabbatical in order to scare more people with his flash.

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A short trailer for my soon to be released documentary on Charlie Kirk a.k.a. `Two Cute Dogs`, a Tokyo based street photographer.

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It gives me great pleasure to present my latest short film, a collaboration with writer/photographer/armchair philosopher and handsome bastard – Mr Sean Lotman.
Written by and Staring Mr Lotman, it was filmed basically in 1 day on a 5DmkII at various locations around Tokyo and Directed, Shot and Edited by me.

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Finally my tattoo back piece is finished!

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5D in for repair? (*see note below)
No problem, shoot loads of clips using your iPhone 3GS , edit them together in Premiere Pro with some music from your old band and voila a music / personal confession video.

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On October 12th 1960 Inejiro Asanuma the head of the Japanese socialist party was assassinated by ultra-rightist Otoya Yamaguchi during a televised rally.

50 years later Right wing groups celebrated the assassination by holding a ceremony to honor the assassination at Hibiya Park in Tokyo’s Chiyoda ward.
3 weeks later they held another ceremony in celebration Of Yamaguchi’s suicide.

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Population of Japan – 127,000,000
Population of Tokyo – 13,000,000
No. of Muslims in Japan (estimate) – 100,000
No. of Japanese Muslims (estimate) – 10,000
No. who converted to Islam NOT for marriage(estimate) – 2 or 300
No. of Japanese Imam’s in Japan – 5
No. of Japanese Imam’s in Tokyo – 1

Abdullah Taqy is the only Japanese Imam in Tokyo.

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I’m very pleased to present the “Twende Berlin” documentary trailer.
For those of you with short memories, “Twende Berlin” is the documentary I went to Berlin in Novemeber last year to help shoot and be the director of photography for.

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