Diving into a bit of history with this week's blog and newsletter.
The blog this week is about my first impressions of Tokyo and how I got the pictures used for the first Virtual Journey. Read all about the why and how it all began.
In this newsletter I will share my thought process how I got to the collage idea and what triggered it. Happy reading!
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Tokyo's first impressions
of an exotic metropolis
My first glimpse of Tokyo came through an exchange project that captured the chaos of Shibuya Station on film. Those images soon transformed into collages that reimagined the energy of the city’s famous scramble crossing.
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Bus Stop 33
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When I had the negative films developed and put on PhotoCD (read the blog about that) I still did not have an idea on how to proceed. I had about 140 usable pictures and zero clues on what to do with them. All I knew was that I wanted to display this far away, foreign place.
As I went over the pictures over and over again trying to make sense of it all I started noticing some points of reference that came back. The first one I noticed was bus-stop 33. It appeared in the background of one of the first images. Then I found it next to the zebra crossing, next to people boarding a bus, in a window reflection. From the reflection to the girl in the flower shop, then the crossing, the floor tiles, bus stop 32 showed up and gradually in my mind the square started to take form.
Next I saw the guys wearing the 'Nippon' work wear and a gave me a feeling of a cinematographic zoom in used in cartoons. Step by step everything fell into place. I connected more and more reference points and found the way I could represent the experience of exploring the square, without ever having been there physically.
Next came the part on how to present this all. As a teen I was interested in graphic novels where the story and artwork are more important than in the more popular cartoons. As I wanted to use cut-outs of the photo's to put emphasis on parts and show the flow in-between the images I experimented making collages in a graphic novel style.
Next became the issue of photorealism that will be part of next weeks blog and newsletter.
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