Uchujin -The Blog

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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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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A little video I’d forgotten about from when I borrowed the 15mm from Mr Eiichi Scart.
Mr Ellis reminded me of it on the very same route home after GnT’s last night, so here it is.
(Also wanted to post a little something as I’ve been away filming in Berlin for a few weeks and haven’t had time to edit any of that stuff yet, but it’s coming. Watch this space.)

Music by me from long,long ago

Just a little bit of fun.

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In Decemeber last year I posted a little video of a self service beer machine in an izakaya in Sangenjaya, Tokyo.
The video wasn’t very good, I had only just begun to shoot video and had no idea about encoding and all that jazz.
(plus for some reason I shot it in portrait orientation?? what was I thinking?)

Well, last night I ended up in the same izakaya (the name of which I still can’t remember) with Sean “motionid” Wood and Jon “it’ll all end in tears” Ellis and decided to shoot the video again, this time in Super-wideo-vision (Eiichi Scart’s 15mm lens from the previous post).

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Even better on Vimeo in HD (highly recommended)

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