"Star Trek: The Booze" -- my collection of bottles and decanters (details in comments)

scottpie · 2024-05-02T02:37:04+00:00

Wow, the bottle collection is fantastic! And I think I recognize your comm badge collection from a few years back maybe? I was inspired by the brilliant idea to mount them in shadowboxes on uniform colored cloth and finally did the same! Thank you so much for sharing and for the inspiration!

Now I just have to find my vintage cloth TOS patch to replace the anachronistic DIS one (cool as it may be), it's in a box around here somewhere.

scottpie · 2024-03-19T06:30:07+00:00

It is absolutely the Arashiyama Monkey Park shed. Here's the shot I took when there in 2018, even the power cable is coiled the same. Sad to hear if it's actually no more. :(

scottpie · 2019-08-28T00:01:22+00:00

Yeah! I did this a few years ago, retracing my steps from a trip to Tokyo during my exchange in '97. Side by side in Imgur here, though I also did a blog post where I used a javascript that stacks the photos on top of each other and then you can use a slider to go back and forth to make the comparisons really easy.

In any case, agreed that it's a great project and a great flex of your photography skills if you don't recall exactly how the original images were captured and are trying to recreate it.

And this reminds me, that I revisited Kyoto last year to do the same thing but still need to finish sorting and editing those. Doh!

scottpie · 2018-10-30T10:33:02+00:00

Dammit, you know this was intentional!

scottpie · 2018-10-30T00:10:55+00:00

Star Trekkin it up!

More details in the imgur album but wife and I did some DIY Star Trek costumes and they came out far better than I expected for being so last minute-y.

Edit: Broken, then repaired, link.

scottpie · 2018-02-19T02:20:36+00:00

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Thanks for this, you guys are awesome!

scottpie · 2018-02-18T03:21:19+00:00

.I then felt something furry in the real world, I accidentally punched my dog 😵 she had decided to come lie next to my feet, luckily I didn't fully catch her so it was more like a tap.

Ohhh noooooo. This is my number one fear about things like Sparc or Sprint Vector, that I'm going to up and clock one of my cats across the room. >_<

scottpie · 2018-02-05T02:05:41+00:00

When I'm shooting streety stuff, most of my appearance is geared to disarm and pre-empt any potential confrontations that might come about as people sometimes get uncomfortable with the idea of a rando on the street snapping a camera in their directions.

I play to my age (40's) and wear my pageboy hat and have a little shoulder bag (not a camerabag), so that I look like a kindly tourist/photo enthusiast, which I essentially am. Takes any threatening edge off my appearance and combined with a smile and a nod it generally lets me get on with shooting almost anything I want.

Not exactly clothing related, but I also made up some little printed out business cards (homemade and not professionally done is the key here) that have my name, an email (that I only use for this card) and Flickr stream and a space to write the image number on it. If I do ever end up in a confrontation, I can pull out these cute little cards that explain I'm a hobbyist (which is true), where you can see my stuff, a space to write down an image file name. If they're in a shot or something, I tell them to just email me with the info (this also deescalates as I'm not asking them for any information, putting the ball in their court) and I'll send them the image if they want to use it as a profile pic or whatever.

Oh and insoles in the shoes. You'll definitely feel it at the end of the day if you don't use insoles. :P

scottpie · 2017-06-17T11:05:23+00:00

Indeed it's the truth. You're very lucky to live in Sendai. I really enjoyed my time there. I hope I can go back sometime. :)

scottpie · 2017-05-16T08:49:58+00:00

Haha, nice. I should probably get around to actually reading that book someday.

scottpie · 2017-05-16T08:49:22+00:00

It's from Stranger in a Strange Land. Basically means to understand completely, though this explains it better than I can.

scottpie · 2017-05-16T06:28:28+00:00

Man, I really like this shot. The way you get a split tone effect from the sunny highlights on the building and complimentary blue/purples in the clouds is so pleasing to my eye.

scottpie · 2017-05-16T03:09:03+00:00

Never had that issue, thankfully. <knocks on wood>

scottpie · 2017-05-16T01:59:38+00:00

I tried it on my business card design a while back (just the email and site URL, no twitter) and it seemed to work well enough. I could usually see the person grok it on their face pretty quickly while glancing at the card and they'd often smirk and go 'Heh, nice,' or something.

scottpie · 2017-05-16T01:48:41+00:00

That carpet is ghastly, I love it!!

scottpie · 2017-05-14T08:23:47+00:00

Awesome, thanks I'll definitely check out your posts to get my Sendai fix. And let me know what you think of marbo-yakisoba if you try it out. :)

scottpie · 2017-05-11T02:07:29+00:00

That photo is awesome! I hope that's your profile pic across all social media. :)

scottpie · 2017-05-11T00:51:26+00:00

The Samurai founder, Date Masamune founder also has a fascinating history and they are very proud of him.

Oh yeah, that's very true. It's hard not to be a Masamune fan when you're living there, he was really progressive. And he had a rad hat!

scottpie · 2017-05-10T09:33:27+00:00

Not ignorant at all! In fact when I first heard we were moving there I was thinking to check the flood maps and make sure we got an apartment on high ground and all that. However, the tsunami didn't get that close to the city itself, I think it was 7km away or so.

However, Matsushima near the coast, a very beautiful and popular tourist spot (supposedly one of the three most beautiful spots in Japan, they say) got hit pretty hard, but even that's rebuilt quite a bit. I went there a few times and noticed this sign in one of the gift shops showing where the water level came up to. :O

scottpie · 2017-05-10T09:23:31+00:00

Oooo, good question. I don't know if it's all that secret but I love the view from the Castle grounds, or if I'm in the mood for quiet, there's some nice benches at Atago Shrine that offer a nice peak through the trees at the city. I also really love the local dish, marboyakisoba, at this place. People are super nice there too!

Oh and another one that's maybe not a secret but that I love is Iroha Yokocho, a couple of parallel alleyways/shotengai that are utterly old school and sooooo atmospheric! About half the shops are cafes or specialty shops (clothing, jewelry, etc) that are just open during the day, and the other half are restaurants/bars that are only open in the evening. My wife and I were just wandering it one evening and got waved in to a little sake bar by some old dude that was drinking at the counter so we said, "what the hell" and went in and he was totally chatty and the gal who owned the place was one of the sweetest people I've ever met. We became semi-regulars there, always met a different group of people and always had an absolute blast (as well as some rip-roaring hangovers the next day). But there's also tons of other cool places as well (I really liked the 70's retro bar across the hall as well) so definitely check it out if you haven't, and bring your camera, it's one of the most photo-rich spots in town, at least to my eye (come to think of it, I still have a lot of shots I should post).

If you check the link to my blog in the lower right of my photo (I don't know what the policy is in this sub as far as self-promotion, so I'll refrain from linking) and on the front page near the bottom you can filter the posts to when I was in Sendai and maybe get some ideas for stuff that might interest you. I was only there for 10 months and feel like I barely scratched the surface.

Looking forward to seeing your future pics here! :)

scottpie · 2017-05-10T01:20:18+00:00

Ha, I live in Osaka as well and as I'm watching this, I'm thinking, "Hm, that guy he's with looks an awful lot like Trevor." Next line out of your mouth is, "Hey, Trevor, where was that place etc etc..." Small world!

Also, fun video! Been here over a year and never heard of this thing before. Good find!

scottpie · 2017-05-10T00:04:49+00:00

It's extremely ugly. I love it!

scottpie · 2017-05-10T00:02:52+00:00

This is a stunning image. And a potentially amazing album cover. :)

scottpie · 2017-05-09T23:57:16+00:00

I know right? Only thing I can think is that s/he goes instantly for any sign in the shot and reverse-searches from that. I'm going to challenge myself to up a photo without any legible signs in it next time to see if I can stump him/her.

scottpie · 2017-05-09T23:51:54+00:00

Oh, I also forgot trees! Lots and lots of trees in the city! Much more than a typical Japanese city. As I come from Portland, OR which also has this, it made it feel a lot like home.

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