Komamura ViewCamera Converter for DSLR

Convert your Horseman, Nikon, or Canon DSLR camera into a View Camera with Komamura's View Camera Converter

details here http://www.komamura.co.jp/digital/VCCpro/index.html

English Press Release here
http://www.komamura.co.jp/e/press/PR090817vccpro.pdf

Pirelli 2010 Calendar Preview NSFW

Eniko Mihalik, Rosie Huntington Whiteley, Catherine McNeil, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Daisy Lowe, Gracie Carvalho, Marloes Horst, Lily Cole, Ana Beatriz Barros, Miranda Kerr, and Georgina Stojiljkovic all appear nude in the 2010 Pirelli Calendar as shot by Terry Richardson, though this is a preview.

http://www.fashionising.com/pictures/s--Pirelli-2010-Calendar-Preview-NSFW-3181-1.html

"It's not who you know, it's who you blow."
--Terry Richardson

Chris Jordan Interview

Digital photographic artist Chris Jordan interview on Bill Moyers Journal

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08072009/watch3.html

Olympus E-P1

Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds camera is the world's smallest 12.3-mexapixel interchangeable lens system camera, video and audio recorder in one.

From dpreview:
When Olympus launched the legendary Pen series of cameras in 1959, this bold and revolutionary achievement rewrote the history of photography. Designed by renowned style guru Yoshihisa Maitani, the Pen represented the perfect marriage of simplicity, style and performance. Five decades later the Olympus passion for innovation is still setting the pace.

With the release of the E-P1, the digital era’s next generation Olympus Pen has arrived: mirrors are no longer a necessary component for digital cameras with interchangeable lenses. The first groundbreaking Olympus Micro Four Thirds model impresses with its incredibly small size, retro style, and ease of use – without giving up any of the benefits of D-SLR quality.

more here:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0906/09061601olympusep1.asp

and here:
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1461

TrueGrain

TrueGrain is a creative tool for accurately recapturing the aesthetics of black and white film with digital imagery.

TrueGrain takes the form of a stand-alone image processing utility that imposes the physical characteristics of a real-world film stock onto a digital image. The synthesis is done through measured and sampled data gathered from the actual film and development process being reproduced.
The library of film stocks TrueGrain implements are detailed here: http://grubbasoftware.com/filmlibrary.html

A single TrueGrain license costs US$300.

The inspiration came from necessity. Recently, we realized we could no longer get the films we were accustomed to. The majority of black and white films have gone out of production and entire manufacturers have left the film business. We decided the only way we could continue to achieve the look we got from film was by processing digital images. We went on a film hunt on eBay and bought just about everything we could find. Between that and the films we already had stockpiled, we had a good basis for TrueGrain’s “digital grain library.”

details: http://grubbasoftware.com/index.html

Escalator Ride to Kaiyodo

Escalator Ride to Kaiyodo by whiterabbitpress

My first 'chiptune' 8-bit track. Composed entirely of Nintendo Gameboy samples, this will be used for a short segment in my upcoming "Tokyo Realtime: Akihabara" audio tour.

In my tour this will have Voice Over (VO) but here I'd muted the VO track.

Details to emerge here:
http://www.tokyorealtime.com