film clip

Film clip I helped collaborate on. They misspelled my name, but it makes it more mysterious that way.

broken cameras and broken dreams

In Japan there is a common promotion where significant discounts are given if you bring in another model of whatever you are buying. So, for example, if you are buying a digital camera, you can often get a few thousand yen off the retail price if you trade in an old digital camera. So when my wife found a prehistoric digital camera for a few hundred yen at a flea market, she jumped on the chance to buy it. It didn't seem to work, but that was not its purpose. We just wanted an old camera that we could trade in whenever a good deal came up.

After doing a little bit of tinkering I managed to get the camera working. Well, working if you carefully held in a plug from another adapter at a certain angle. To my delight there were some photos still recorded on the internal memory. I started to get worried when I saw a theme emerging. That particular them was of (apparently random) women's legs. What was even more fascinating was that they seemed to be pretty ordinary legs- the photographer wasn't targeting school girls or ladies in mini-skirts. Perhaps I should have handed it over to the police. Anyway, what do you think?