Lombok House, Gerupuk, Indonesia

architect - Paula Hueta (Bambook Studio)

http://bambookstudio.com/

Photoshop becomes geekish.

When your curve is hitting the mirror of your mountain (histogram), it means something. 

It means I can cut time, work faster and better. 

I don't care the rest but it works out like its like the other you , trapped in you, trying to come out, so I mirror the pattern and somewhere in the color, that missing link comes back to you. In color. 

Oh that photo (mirror reality) had this much color (realness)!

Is the effect I end up with. 

Of course you cannot do consciously because each mountain (histogram) makes a different story. 

Sometimes it doesn't look like a double-helix. But just like dancing. 

I went to Gerupuk

I went to Indonesia.
There's an island called Lombok, where pirates and tribal war still exists.
It is still in modernization, and globalization is currently taking over.

The surfers and travelers slowly bring culture into their land.

Lombok House, Gerupuk, Indonesia

architect - Paula Huerta

"What did the Americans do?"

I asked a local man. He used be in the watever government system where nobody was heard. 

I already forgot. 

"They took our land, our culture and our history."

"And so, what about your people? What did they do?"

"You mean those people in the government? The riches and the powerful. They sold us out."

He was from Gerupuk. 

A village east of Lombok, where things are not far from reality. 

Lombok House, Gerupuk, Indonesia

architect - Paula Huerta

These are my new shots. 

Imma architectize you!

Somewhere back in the history, 

Somebody said "Architectize it". 

It is not Architecturalize, but Architectize. 

What is it?

What does it mean?

Gerupuk Villa, by architect Paula Huerta

Gerupuk Villa, by architect Paula Huerta

The term is confusing, but accurate. 

To architectize. 

To make into Architecture. 

Architecture is a celebration of life that has meticulously gone through "System". 

Sanitization system, foundation system, ventilation system, structure system, poopoo system. 

It even sometimes mean to present your phallic status. 

Gerupuk Villa, by architect Paula Huerta

Gerupuk Villa, by architect Paula Huerta

But let's get back to basics, because things are simple. 

The more complicate the shit you make, you suck, as an architect. 

You'd waste material, resource, time, money and labour. 

So there is no space for phallic status here. 

Only the system to make things better. 

In architectural photography, that becomes the pursuit of light, space and harmony. 

ARCHI FIRM:

http://bambookstudio.com/portfolio/gallery-style-condensed/four-columns-wide/

Memes

I've been looking at memes for a while now.

It's mostly pictures / photos.

It's REAL.

picture I found on social media. 

It's interesting that the power of photography has transferred to the people through social medias. 

We are all photographers, truly, at speaking of which the influencers of our civilization are now anyone. 

New stuffs

That Cebu deal is going on. 

Cebu... 

It's grudgy at some times. 

Colorful too. 

My new story I titled "My bro's pimp job" is out on my web now.

http://www.charlesosawa.com/my-bro/


「兄貴のピンプ職」は私がある夜、遭遇した出来事を短く簡潔にまとめた「ストーリー」です。

写真の世界では（欧米wですが）「ストーリー」という言葉にこだわります。
文を省いたバラバラの写真達は、どうやって一つの思い出を連ねるのか。

見てのお楽しみです。

しかし文を省くと足りないモノがあります。

真実の世界というのは、一枚の静止画を通して表すことができるのか。

実際には難しいのです。

この写真はなんなのか、と考えるとします。

半分裸のような若者達は列に並べられ、まるで子牛のようだ。

シンガポールで一番背の高い摩天楼の、一番お値段が高いバーで、数千万するダイヤモンドのオークションパーティがあるので、客を楽しませる余興を演出するのに人手が必要だ。

「アンドリアーノ、若いオンナ知らないか？男も数人必要だ。ついでにダンサーも調達できれば幸いだ。」

そうやって兄貴のブラザーは仕事を回してきた。

「オーライ、数人用意してくるぜ、ギャラはいくらだい？」アンは景気良く都合をつける。

アンドリアーノは血の繋がらない兄だ。

「へい、ボーイ。仕事いらないか？一晩カメラでパチってくれりゃいい。」にっこりと笑いながらアンドリアーノは私に言った。

そうやってこの写真は出来上がったのだが。

なんとも地獄を撮っているようだ。

My bro's pimp job

My bro' does shady business sometimes, and I help him out.

That day, he was a pimp getting girls for a party. 

I guess you're not a real pimp unless you've got a gun and girls selling themselves, but watevs.

Andriano, where are we going today?

Diamond auction party, at the tallest building in the metropolis's business district. 

I wonder what we sell to survive. 

Some people sell themselves. Some, their time. 

And others, who knows. 

There was a story about photography being the most perverse job. 

You're a pervert in life, snapping moments, not even laying a hand. 

Those who went to war would have known.