Ben-Day
Urayasu is Up to Old Tricks
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010Yep! It is that time of season again. The time when the citizens of the wealthy enclave of Urayasu head to the polls to vote for their next mayor. I don’t know maybe its me, or maybe its my age, but I have become so jaded by the political process. All these slick glossy images don’t pull me in; however, they do pull in my eye, and are captured with my lens.
It is time to rethink the way we are all impacted by politricks. To deconstruct the images of the clean, and dirty politician, and see them all for what they are.
Four Days till E Day
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010I don’t mean that everyone on the planet will take ecstasy, I am talking about that the Japanese will go out to cast their ballots in an election. I hate the noise of the loudspeakers, but I can’t control myself with the political posters. I love taking them and flipping them. Subverting them and converting them into an artistic expression.
Get out and vote with your cameras, and brushes.
One Week to Go
Sunday, July 4th, 2010Material for the Mash Up
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010It is high time for the political campaigning. At every station those politricksters are out pressing the flesh with their bleached white gloves. The posters have been and are being hung across the entire country of Japan. They all become visual media to be remixed with my lens.
Colors, lines, fragments take on expressions that challenge there sincereness in which those politicians are portraying themselves. But we all know better, don’t we?
Take what you see, and flip it like a giant flap jack.
Flip it baby, flip it!