Pictorial Adventures

Here's an amalgamation of the last few weeks... about a week or so of what I've been up to... I'd usually fill in with some text but I'm pretty tired and got a decently big day ahead of me tomorrow... Fridays usually are. Tokyo was unreal... while my first time there was as a true tourist when I went with Dee earlier this year, this time around it was a true submersion (or at least a much deeper one) into Tokyo's under-belly of culture. All the shit I dig and crave was before me and never before has it made me so inspired to jump shit and move there. Probably sort something out for that mid-2009 but who knows. Most people wouldn't consider HK boring... but to me it has become exactly that. Whether a city like Tokyo will fall victim to my own personal changing tastes, I won't rule it out but if you've ever been you'll realize how special it really is.

-eXtreme

SNAP SNAP SNAP

It's sort of ironic that following my trip to Japan, my whole perspective changed quite quickly on a great deal of things within such a short period. Looking to perhaps make a middle-term move to Tokyo is definitely something I want to explore for beyond just better work opportunities. Having felt that new challenges are in order, hopefully I can do something interesting and fruitful over there and break-free from a certain level of staleness I'm met within Hong Kong.



I actually missed Andy's second last post regarding intentions of life. I think that I still have the same measuring stick in some aspects which I'll never truly be able to escape from, but yeh it does come down to how hard you can cake it haha... But I think that my reasonings some how justify my position a little better... but Andy is still the little humanitarian angel ahahaha... now onto what I was going to talk about...



I'm not sure when I got super down in photography, but like many things in life, it takes awhile to "connect the dots" as Steve Jobs would put it. As a kid, I was absolutely terrible expressing myself visually with things like drawing, painting etc... my little brother Nathan got the long end of the stick in that regard. However, that's not to say that I didn't have (in my opinion anyways) an eye for aesthetically pleasing forms... I just couldn't replicate it on my own.



Enter photography and the advent of digital photography. I definitely don't want to take anything away from seasoned professionals and world-class snappers, but unlike other forms of visual communication, photography is something much easier to pick up then say actual illustrations and painting. And while good equipment will help grab you that Kodak Moment, obviously consistency and a good photo sense speaks volumes for the best around.



However, I guess another great drawing point to my "photographic career" was that I took shots that I genuinely liked on my own. Regardless if everybody else thought they were shit, they were something that appeased me and in some ways were a split second memory in life for me... however inconsequential.



It's been quite comforting to just take some shots which even surprise you... and I guess as a hobby my opinion is the only thing that matters is my own thoughts. I have an album of what I considered some of my favorite pics which I printed out and it's just nice to leaf through them whenever you're bored... feel down or in a general state of poopiness.



I ran out of text to insert photos... so I'll just put up some of my favorites from the last little while hahaa... I wish I had more "photography" pictures rather then just candids... as of right now it seems like it's a bit contrived to make artistic photography rather then just let it happen... hopefully it becomes a little more organic and natural.

-eXtreme

PS: Click on images to see them @ 800 px wide.