Party pictures from last nights Splash Fest with many DJ's from Japan. This is a huge gallery so I have divided it into two parts, part 2 is here.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japan, Japanese, Korean, American, People, Club, Bar, Party, 2011, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Makaha, Daishi Dance, Mitomi Tokoto, Kentaro Takenaka, Toshi Deejay Loquito, Atomic Mike
As a consumer of media and art something is always happening that bends the rules of reality, the implementation of it determines if its easy to accept and transparent or if it sucks and therefore not believed. We can apply motion, actions and characteristics for other organisms and objects independent of the natural state of the said being or object (we do this a lot in architecture). Take for example Disney's original animated Alice in Wonderland which is quite a lovely movie. There are all sorts of trippy and fantastic things that happen in the movie but the one that caught my eye the most as being quite odd was the white rabbit. Its not because he was the gateway drug to the other world for Alice but he was so similar to myself. He did something no other rabbit can do, something I'm not sure their mechanics would permit; simply put if I was a Rabbit I would walk and so does he.
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Tiwanese, Filipino, Asian, Andrea, Makaha, Joshua, Mike, Io, Maya, Lily, Mayaka, Orva, Karen, Im, Kira, 2011
A quick check and this is the 12th time Haruna DJ Barbie has been in a gallery here at dEaringfilm and her 3rd solo gallery. That is pretty cool since she only shoots with me and our buddy Yasumasa Yonehara "YONE."
"Is that him over there? Hmm yeah funny floppy walk, that's about right six feet tall and wearing hightops and shorts. Ok now for the audio confirmation.. yeah hes saying crap like "boom" and "bam" after a few good shots." If you see that on the streets of LA yeah its me. If he look like he's having too much fun, yeah that's me, If he has a pink camera or pays no attention to any camera settings or light, yeah that's me. People bump into me when I am having shoots; admittedly rarer when I am having a classic dEaringfilm nightshoot but when they are out and about during the day it happens and I always try to give them a few jokes or pointers before I go about my stuff. My point is though its ok to invade one of my shoots for a few minutes I love everyone so come join in on the fun and get a free hug and photo!
Gallery Categories: Model, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2011, dEaringfilm Studio, La Brea, Mr. Brainwash
Obsession is beautiful. Beauty is not a poem. Its something unintended for beauty's sake that interests me. I am totally obsessed with reality and I will forever search for the root of that obsession through human sexuality, the suns beautiful crepuscular rays and art. In this gallery I attempt to turn such a everyday things as stains on the streets of Los Angeles into objects from my past or memories of a distant object almost half blurred by the slow degradation of my memories.
Gallery Categories: Los Angeles, People, 2011, Stains, Far-Reaching
Beverly Hills High repping at dEaringfilm with this Midsummer Night's Dream girl. When I am deep into a shoot and creating its a special kind of feeling because its not just me, its absolute synergy between the model and I. I can never take full credit for the end result and sometimes I just like to put the pieces into place for a creative environment and see what happens. I hope I can take the white light and turn it into a rainbow for you.
Gallery Categories: Model, Korean, Chinese, Asian, Cindy, 2011
Let others attach themselves to your dreams for a while, let them ride the waves of your exuberance for the goal. When it is their time to get of the dream wave wish them the best and keep going. For your chance is but a chance of a chance.
Growing up in Iowa left me a lot of time to explore many interests, among those were choir and show choir (think Glee the TV show). Even photography was one of those passing phases; yes I earned my photo street credibility by doing my time in the darkroom with those smelly chemicals. Anyway in show choir I learned to love a love of music among which were STYX and Queen which I had listed to before but performing them on stage was quite a thrill. One of my favorite lines from a STYX song was "long nights, impossible odds." I feel that is what everyone has to do to give the work they do a chance to be seen, so keep dreaming and putting in those long nights whether they be shooting, or otherwise :)
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Asian, Jeri, Elizabeth, Madeline, Andrea, Rachelle, Ami, Makaha, Eva, 2011
When I wake up in the morning I don't exactly sing the lyrics to the song "here comes the sun." I make it no secret that daytime is fantastic for a number of things like outdoor activites, tennis and day trips. Nighttime is mysterious sexy and fantastic, its when all the good things happen. In my world night time is where all my daydreams come true. A friend of mine and I were talking the other night and she gave me quite a compliment that sums up my approach in photography, she said "I like that you see the beauty in everyone and back it up, no matter if they are a model or just normal person." I am inspired by the people I shoot, some upgrade my vision and will be longed forever, others come and go and I am grateful for their time and effort.
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Vietnamese, Mexican, Asian, Mieka, Dana, Madeline, Haruna, Karen, Andrea, Stephanie, 2011
Everyone who loves the Sakura (Cherry Blossom) and lives in Los Angeles has a reason to go the the Valley once a year and check it out at Lake Balboa Park. I try to get there every year; sometimes I miss it and sometimes I make it. I couldn't tell what the case was this time but I enjoyed it nevertheless. The dry LA riverbed was also very interesting.
Gallery Categories: Model, Maya, Japanese, Asian, 2011, Car, dEaringfilm, Sakura, Stickers, Sakura
Life is not a game, we create games to escape and delay the hard decisions we have to make every day. Rather I believe that life is a large playhouse; or rather simply put life is truly unique and there is nothing to compare it to; because all comparisons are life itself.
Gallery Categories: Model, Ami, Japanese, Asian, 2011, Car, dEaringfilm, Stickers
Photos from a party/club fundraiser at the Luxy 101 named "TakeOFF! LUXY 101" to help the victims of the Tsunami and Earthquake last month. Please continue to keep giving to the Japanese Red Cross.
Gallery Categories: Party, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinses, Asian, Makaha, Madeline, Lily, Charlice, Eriko, Joshua, 2011
While shooting there is a quiet party happily dancing the time away in my head. I am a story of bliss while shooting and to some extent editing, and hopefully you all can see that in my photos. I may appear like this crazy Flaming Strait guy but its a quiet contained party, like a rock and roll Tea Party, one that has a great time with engaging conversation.
Also for my fans in Rowland Heights, this Saturday Night April 9, 2011 (9pm to 2am) please stop by the Luxy 101 @ 18043 Gale Ave.Los Angeles, CA 91748 and see me and get pix taken and donate for Tsunami/Earthquake Victims in Japan. Facebook event info here.
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinses, Asian, Rika, Makaha, Tiffany, Madeline, Lily, Xuan, Ami, Joshua, 2011
She didn't know how much importance it would hold in our lives, but after more than 20 years of brother and sister give and take she bought it for me. Once upon a time in the early 1990's on Christmas my little sis "Hil Bil" got a present that would forever change our preference in music and introduce us to genres that our ears had never tasted before under the cold Iowa air. Immediately after the "opening" ceremony of Christmas presents had taken place I took my sisters new music CD "Songs Of The Cat" downstairs to my bedroom to play on my fancy Pioneer 5 disk 1st generation CD player. What happened from that time on till just a few years ago was a fierce almost never ending battle of ownership over the CD. It was this CD that opened my virgin ears up to the wonderful voice of Garrison Keller, compound that with never hearing a Johnny Cash song and it was bliss to a young boys cold winter. Songs of that Cat's funny remakes of Cash and other songs make the actual versions seem like the fraud (almost).
Oh and in this gallery little Kitty models for me :)
Gallery Categories: Model, Kitty, Chinese, Hong Kong, Asian, 2011, Dearingfilm, Car, Stickers
Photos from Operation Tomodachi Sunday night at Vanguard in Hollywood, to benefit the victims of the Tsunami and Earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011. Please donate to the Red Cross in Japan.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japan, Japanese, Korean, American, People, Club, Bar, Lily Kwan Gunawan, Party, 2011, Toshi Vdeejay Loquito, Lucia, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Makaha
A mashmitch of Fuji Instax Cheki
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Vietnamese, White, Mexican, Chinses, Filipino Asian, Tessla, Aya, Karen, Charisma, Madeline, Lily, Xuan, Ami, Mieka, Ann-Marie, Joshua, 2011
We shall not cease from exploring And at the end of our exploration We will return to where we started And know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, American, People, 2011, Iowa, Missouri
You wander onto the grass from the dirt path, the slight dew wets the bottom of your bare feet as you look around and don't see any other human beings. This is a familiar place you are in that you have never seen; the smell of your favorite daytime perfume is overpowered by the fresh wind that pushes your hair back just enough to tickle your ears. Your eyes close as you remember last night the crowd and the disco ball that looked like a Death Star shooting its beams into your eyes; it was a good time but you bring your mind back to the moment of now. You are young, you are beautiful, this only happens once... take a long breath smile and do everything you have ever wanted to do.
Gallery Categories: Model, Karen, Chinese, 2010, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Mulholland Drive, LAX, Miracle Mile
Once you get around the first corner after walking up the long flight of concrete stairs you would swear your not in your typical Architectural installation. The Walt Disney Concert Hall is impressive in all its light reflecting goodness. I'm sure several million people have shot this mangled Postmodern Frank Gehry dreamscape, but every trip back you just want to feel like you are among the first to see something new in it. Its a special place in the land of dreams, and its nice to feel special there.
Gallery Categories: Model, Bernadette, Mexican, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2010, Downtown Los Angeles, Walt Disney Concert Hall
Getting wild and having fun times with dEaringfilm. A myriad of photo shoots and locations over the great Los Angeles area.
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Asian, El Salvador, Mexican, Filipino, Io, Christina, Alexandria, Ashley, Makaha, Stacie, 2010
♥ Haruna DJ Barbie♥ stopped over at dEaringfilm the other day for a small promo shoot for her DJ events in Canada over Christmas, these are a few of my favorites from the drop by.
Gallery Categories: Model, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio, Santa
The night talks to the light on my images, I enjoy shooting when your most likely to be looking at this site :)
Gallery Categories: Model, Andrea, Vietnamese, 2010, Santa Monica, Miracle Mile, Downtown LA, LACMA
Creativity for me is not a stroke of genius its building upon previous ideas and shoots to get things done better than before while creating conditions for new possibilities in a collaborative manner. The Cosmos on a grand scale seems disorganized and random but once studied its randomness becomes very ordered and follows known scientific findings based on math and physics. The act of creating involves the same set of rules but on a much simpler scale. Everything is really just in a miniature version of something larger conducting business on its own proper scale.
So yes I'm building on my ideas and motifs and with each shoot I get better and explore more ways to present the ideas I have developed. Enjoy Rosa shes an amazing person and model.
Gallery Categories: Model, Rosa, White, 2010, Santa Monica, dEaringfilm Studios, Downtown LA
No picture is ever you. Its rather the light available hitting off of a animate object, while stopped in time. You are what is much deeper; that's what I try to find out. Models I shoot may pop up in many galleries while I try to figure out who they are; the more I know the better my results. Vision for me and my style is a collaborative effort; it can be one sided when one has a epiphany, but general day to day stuff is always better in a relaxed collaborative environment.
I remember once I woke up for a dream and came away with this embedded in my mind: "The moments before I went insane there was brilliant clarity in my thoughts..."
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Asian, Mexican, Io, Makaha, Andrea, Bernadette, Lily, Karen, Joshua, Eriko, 2010
West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnival 2010, had to be and maybe I sound like a broken Vinyl Record but it had the most people in one place I have ever seen in Los Angeles. Didn't take as many photos as I wanted to because I was busy enjoying the crowd.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japan, Asian, Japanese, Mexican, American, People, Club, Bar, Party, 2010, Karen, Makah
Last night at Vanguard in Hollywood Toshi Vdeejay Loquito (Twitter) spun on stage for over 3 hours in one of the most amazing DJ appearances I have ever been witness too. He rocked the more than packed house as people parties in their Halloween gear. Makes me wonder what will happen tonight :) Please give the gallery a minute or so to load since this is the largest gallery this site has ever had! My load script loads all the images so the viewing is super fast when loaded.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japan, Asian, Japanese, Korean, American, People, Club, Bar, Lily Kwan Gunawan, Party, 2010, Toshi Vdeejay Loquito, Stacie, dj innovate
Los Angeles is full of magical little spots that within them have a magic sweet spot of time to visit. With the right combination of chemistry there is not much thinking to do and that's how I like it best to just feel through photos rather than think them through too much; its not for every occasion but were never the same person twice. Fashion designers are awesome people and Trixie has a eye for motion and how it relates to projecting a look. Enjoy these hand crafted images.
Gallery Categories: Model, Trixie, Filipina, 2010, Santa Monica, Mulholland Drive, Downtown LA
HM Sound System put on a terrific event this past sat night in Chinatown at Mountain Bar, featuring a hundred or so of my images along with the super talented Sam Comen. It was great to meet and talk to people about my work while showing off my new stickers and shirts, thank you for all coming and making this event a success and hopefully we can do it again!
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, American, People, Club, Bar, Party, 2010, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Makaha, Lily, Atomic Mike, HM Sound System
I have seen the Sun rise in the land of the rising sun, only because the trains close from around 12am to around 5am forcing you to either hang out or go to a love hotel. Living on the west coast gives one a very easy laid back lifestyle; probably faster paced than the lifestyle of the United States south but clearly not as fast as that in Metropolis like Tokyo and New York.
People come here for the consistent weather and great looking people. Its a great combination, but I must remind those that are natives of the left coast; its nice to get out of your element once a year at least, it wakes you up.
We power on with the never-ending beautiful sunshine; here is Rui to show you a few moments in her life here.
Gallery Categories: Model, Rui, Japanese, 2010, Alhambra, Downtown LA, Malibu Point Dume, dEaringfilm Studio
A few weekend parties, the JPY party at My House club was great; I just wish JPY would not associate with the members of the koreatown reality show; its gonna give them a bad name for sure. I also dropped by my friends party where things go super crazy for the rest of the night :)
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, American, People, Club, Bar, Party, 2010, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Makaha
The faster we travel the less we age. Science dictates all rules and yet we are led to believe that the faster and more fun life will lead to a quicker end to it all. I for one believe in fast and furious; fun and colorful and leave a pretty hard drive full of pictures.
Enjoy your weekend everyone and make this fall as if your jumping from the stratosphere.
Gallery Categories: Model, Karen, Mexican, 2010, Mulholland Drive, Downtown LA
There is always something happening in Los Angeles, you just have to find it. From the 2WJD store show in Santa Monica to a Koreatown movie shooting to the south bay birthday parties and Karaoke.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, American, People, Club, Bar, Party, 2010, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Makaha
Walking around Downtown LA at night, one never knows who they will bump into.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, American, People, Club, Bar, 2010, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Atomic Mike, Makaha
Tokyo Style was amazing, more people that I have ever seen at a single club event in LA. To put it in perspective its kinda supposed to be the little brother of Tokyo Night but it surpassed the Tokyo Night number by almost 500 people... which is amazing, it felt soo much bigger than Tokyo Night. I am sure a lot of is has to do with the Tokyo Style Promoters and team. Anyway great night with great people, there are two galleries because of the large number of images. You are currently looking at Part 2 to get to Part 1 click here. The DJ Ami Suzuki and DJ Mayumi photos will get published once they are approved by their teams. Enjoy these large galleries and ill see you at the next party!
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo Style, Japanese, Korean, American, People, Club, Bar, Lily Kwan Gunawan, Yone2, Party, 2010, Swan, DJ Ami Suzuki, DJ Mayumi, Toshi Vdeejay Loquito, Karen, Lucia, Haruna Deejay Barbie
Tokyo Style was amazing, more people that I have ever seen at a single club event in LA. To put it in perspective its kinda supposed to be the little brother of Tokyo Night but it surpassed the Tokyo Night number by almost 500 people... which is amazing, it felt soo much bigger than Tokyo Night. I am sure a lot of is has to do with the Tokyo Style Promoters and team. Anyway great night with great people, there are two galleries because of the large number of images. You are currently looking at Part 1 to get to Part 2 click here. The DJ Ami Suzuki and DJ Mayumi photos will get published once they are approved by their teams. Enjoy these large galleries and ill see you at the next party!
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo Style, Japanese, Korean, American, People, Club, Bar, Lily Kwan Gunawan, Yone2, Party, 2010, Swan, DJ Ami Suzuki, DJ Mayumi, Toshi Vdeejay Loquito, Karen, Lucia, Haruna Deejay Barbie
This Sunday Night one of the biggest events of the year happens in Hollywood, California; Tokyo Style 2010. Come to get your photo taken by me and a free hug or high five!! I will have dEaringfilm XL t-shirts for people to pose in along with keeping my eye open for new models for future galleries on these pages. Please go through my friend Lily to get your ticket or if you can't do that but it off the website here. The official website is here and here is the Facebook Event. If "Tokyo Night" was any indicator, the lines will be super long if you arrive late, so get in as early as you can! I hope to see you all there.
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Asian, Io, Swan, Lily, Tokyo Style, 2010
Event pix from JFS Summer Nights at Crown Bar, JFS events are always a must attend. Also pix from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena which until January 2011 has the amazing works of Utagawa Hiroshige among many impressive exhibits.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, American, People, Club, Bar, Party, 2010, JFS, Crown Bar, West Hollywood, Akihiro Kitamura, Io, Makaha, Utagawa Hiroshige, Norton Simon Museum
I cannot teach you how to think like I was thinking while looking at my photos, your interpretation is probably much better then my intention. It was a beautiful, long & mild weathered summer here in Los Angeles. Here are some of the photos I liked as I lived my life. The sun is about to set on summer 2010 in a few weeks so lets all get out and enjoy its last few breaths.
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Korean, Asian, Russian, Io, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Yukari, Im, Makaha, Ann, Nadia, 2010
typical weekend in Los Angeles, J Restaurant and Lounge with Toshi Vdeejay Loquito and Atomic Mike and other parties!
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, J Restaurant and Lounge, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, Mio, Atomic Mike, Toshi Vdeejay Loquito, Karen
Celebrating the 60th Gallery on this new dEaringfilm website I invited over a bunch of friends and had a great time, good people good company. I just let the girls be girls. There are 2 promo posters available for this shoot, a drawing and a Seibu Department Store Mash up. Please check them out.
Gallery Categories: Model, Japanese, Korean, Asian, Mio, Io, Rui, Lucia, Haruna Deejay Barbie, 2010
Inject yourself into the world around you, see beyond the normal limitations of the retina; open your eyes and enjoy visions which could normally only exist within the mind.
About this Gallery's Motivation
I set out to try to create something different; while trying to embrace the truly digital world of photography I grew up in. Legions of people embrace the limitations and qualities of analog film and its cameras. I strived to create something truly unique to digital in a way which has not been done. I hope that I give it a like-able quality akin to the love people show for the wild light leaks of Holga and other toy analog cameras. Using a variety of techniques I embraced digital limitations unlike I have seen before, limitations that are could be frowned upon but I hope you can see the beauty within My Wicked World.
About this Gallery's Tech
The camera I used was strait out of the box with no modifications at all, a simple point and shoot digital camera (non DSLR or SLR). There were no in camera Photoshop like settings used either, just auto white balance and sharpening set on high. I created these by using the limitations of our current digital point and shoot cameras. Again, no Photoshop cropping or any edits; strait from the camera! The images were re-saved for web size and copyright info.
Gallery Categories: Los Angeles, Point and Shoot, Far-Reaching, 2010
The sun is our largest neon light, giving us a healthy diet of pure life. Enjoy it every day, since it has only about 5 billion years left in it and it average sized among its peers. I would think that to Americans NASA is our best hope for the life as we know it to survive after the sun starts to dim and move into the red giant phase which will end our planet. Everything that has ever been created will be completely destroyed and recreated, this is true of everything in our universe and known space.
Gallery Categories: Model, Kitty, Chinese, Hong Kong, Asian, 2010, Mulholland Drive
Truth be told I am a late bloomer, or rather it may seem like that with everything I become interested in. I start something new and it seems like people years younger than me have years upon years of experience ahead of me. But late bloomers are given a advantage of having a fresh approach after others are stuck in a similar, hard to get rid of approach from when they started.
This gallery is a partial clothing collaboration with Shiho Oribe's brand 2WJD. She designs a nice fresh approach to West LA's Sawetell and Olympic's stratosphere. Stop in and see them or purchase through their online store. I hope to have many more collaborations with her brand.
Gallery Categories: Model, Nanami, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, Downtown Los Angeles, Venice Beach, West LA
One of the most difficult things I find myself attempting to accomplish is to live inside a moment. Truly living in a moment means you have relax and live with little thought for the future or past, which is herculean for most people to do. I don't call it letting your guard down I call it opening your mind up. When these conditions are met the moments captured are not as important as the moments remembered.
Gallery Categories: Model, Io, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, Palos Verdes, LACMA dEaringfilm Studio
There is a place where the sidewalk begins, and before my mind ends. Its a place where the photos, ideas and good times flow like a neverending rainbow. Come join me and will never forget our time together, regrets or no regrets you will forever be changed. Thank you for your support and the most precious gift of time.
Gallery Categories: Model, Kaori, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio
The Caterpillar has turned into the Monarch and wandered to her home country of Japan give a dream a shot. With the human condition and survival of the fittest we must deal with things as the come and as they go, dreams constantly change and have to be reevaluated and assessed for their likelihood of completion. Failing at a dream can be very tragic, but as one dream fails it leads us into a new path. Once on this new path to a new dream, we might have never imagined that things could happen any differently.
Gallery Categories: Model, Yumi, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio
As a child I was not interested in fairy tales before I went to bed, I much preferred being sung to by my mother because it was more calming and natural. One of my favorite songs to hear (and I think my sisters too) was "Cotton Fields Back Home," as any great songwriter knows a good song can tell a great story and take you into the moment with more richness than the words alone. With any art you try to tell a story, sometimes its totally linear and other times its more like Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. This is part one of a two part gallery in which the second part will be released in a few days.
Gallery Categories: Model, Yumi, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio
Oh My Darling, when circular sound is hovering over your head moving to the beat the times are good. The stars above our head emit the light of the past which we reflect with smiles and hopes for the future perfect. In that past which has been filled with lessons learned and moments enjoyed, we grow wiser and more open to the adventures of the future. Embracing things once not embraced and realizing that while it seems things won't ever end, our inevitable fate as stardust will come. We will be reincarnated as the light emitting on some other far off world as they dance to their music under our light.
Gallery Categories: Model, Sang-Eon, Korean, Korea, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio
Photos from the "Memorial Sunday Special Event: ♥ ♥ Special Lingerie Fashion Show!!♥ ♥," lots of buddies there and good times and to top it off a few of my friends in the Lingerie show; there all so awesome!
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, Mio, Atomic Mike, Makaha, Maurice, Akihiro Kitamura, DJ Barbie, Toshi Vdeejay Loquito, Djj SherryCat
Mike Maceda a.k.a. Atomic Mike rocked the house last night at MyHouse in Hollywood. It was nice to see a DJ that does not need a laptop to rock and enjoys the crowd as much as they enjoy him, hopefully I will have a chance to follow him around more cause he knows how to spell fun!
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, Mio, Atomic Mike
Enjoy these photos of new LA Barbie Girl "Haruna Deejay Barbie," shes rising in fame and I tried to give a side of her we can all enjoy. She recently shot with YONE so check out his rendition of her on his website. My photos tend to have a story that involves the background and his are tight and sexy.
I know a lot of women love the color pink so I created a pink wall here at dEaringfilm. Pink has its roots recently in women's culture as their color but most women will say they like a man to wear just a bit of a aggressive color like pink in his outfit. Heck you have to admit colors like teal and pink really can make you stand out. Anyway I degress... I wanted to get into a little ditty about the Pink Film industry in Japan that has quite a fan base even though it was for all intents killed out by the AV industry; but I really don't know much about it other than I really love the films I have seen. There is a Pink Film Festival here in LA next month that looks quite interesting called "A Pinksummer Night's Dream: Exploring the World of Pink Eiga." I think ill be attending it.
Gallery Categories: Model, Haruna Deejay Barbie, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio
First off there was a live photo shoot at Siren Studios then the Cali Jammin' "DJ BARBIE + MC H-SLANG * Birthday Bash!" Both had great crowds and especially loved the free food and Wine at the Siren Studios shoot... always a plus. Tokyo Legend YONE was in town for WeSC and was at the Cali Jammin' event @ the awesome J-Lounge.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, Runway, Makaha, Yone2, DJ Barbie, Mio, Yasumasa Yonehara, Yone
I attended a few events first was a private event where I did not take photos. Then the wildly artistic "Sugar and Spice Art and Fashion Show le premier," where my friends Makaha and Maurice ran the runway. Next was Haruna Deejay Barbie's birthday party at Cabana Club in Hollywood. The night ended with the Human Centipede, at the Nuart Theatre in Santa Monica where Quentin Tarantino was in appearance and Akihiro Kitamura took questions about the movie. Some of those questions can be found on my Vimeo stream.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, Runway, Makaha, Maurice, Akihiro Kitamura, Yone2, DJ Barbie, Mio, Human Centipede
Life can be short or life can be as long as we imagine it to be. As the years creep up its important to have tried many of the things you set out to do. Hopefully you took the opportunity to do many things that were not in your comfort zone, nothing is given in this life nor do we know what we are truly good at until we give it a spin. Try as much as you are comfortable with once; your body is the greatest tool you will ever own. Regret is something we all have to live with, it teaches us and gives us character.
Go outside,don't even look at this gallery; and live.
Make your moments.
Gallery Categories: Model, Makaha, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio
David Choe's "Nothing to Declare" is amazing and running at the new Lazarides gallery in Beverly Hills. Its a free show and much better than anything I have seen at LACMA and their multi million dollar expansions in the past few years. Also pix from JFS's "Sake Slam" that happened in Little Tokyo's Chop Suey, it was a great time for all and look forward to their next event.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, JFS, Japan Film Society, Yone2, Sang-Eon, Little Tokyo, Akihiro Kitamura, Michael Simpson, David Choe
Photography and music go hand in hand. I don't get as much into my photo shoots without playing music for the model and I, it makes us all feel better. When I am taking landscape photos they turn out much better when I am listening to Philip Glass or Ludwig. I saw Starlight Express in Iowa in 1989 and enjoyed it, it was the first time I had ever seen a musical and I loved the music with the motion, I feel this is very similar to photography and acquiring images.
Gallery Categories: Model, Mio, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio
Shinichi Osawa is pretty amazing, especially if you hear him live. I particularly like his mix to "Star Guitar" which I can listen to over and over again... his version is Sublime. This photo set is about emotion and feeling what the model is feeling and not as stiff hopefully... less poses and more feeling could be another good name for it. Please buy Shinichi Osawa's "The One+" off of iTunes (or preferred service and format) play it and flip through these photos... that's how I edited them :)
Gallery Categories: Model, Sang-Eon, Korean, Korea, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio
Kissy kiss kiss. Japonica in Redondo Beach hosted the "SaKuRa 2010 Thank You Party" over the weekend. It was a super small venue so I didn't expect much but was completely surprised by how great the people were and how many people showed up. Lots of ladies and men having a great time, kissing, hugging and partying!
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, Yone2, Japonica, Mio
My favorite book is a ancient book written over a 1000 years ago about observations in daily life, a lot of my photography is inspired by these observations and my wanting to create observations of my own that are much like them. Sei Shonagon's: "The Pillow Book," is not a typical book, its more like what the experts call a Poetic Diary. Its a must read for anyone who loves people observations and behavior.
These shots were taken in "dEaringfilm Studio" and are raw and emotion based given the white background.
Gallery Categories: Model, Io, Japan, Japanese, Asian, 2010, dEaringfilm Studio
JFS; Japan Film Society threw a event for Aaron Woolfolk to show his Short Films from Film School to give his audience a little more background on his feature film coming this Friday "The Harimaya Bridge" @ Laemmle in Los Angeles. Aaron is a great guy and every dollar spent to see this film will help the cause of cross borders film making. Thank you Royal/T for hosting the event, your place rocks!!
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, Royal/T, JFS, Japan Film Society, Aaron Woolfolk, Io
Natural expressions picked up through environments that a person has spent time in are always my favorite to catch. Observers often know a lot about a person's background based on the few default expressions they make. Lily is bleeding with non verbal expression influence from her time in Tokyo. I try to capture the essence of what the person is rather than paste a ideal-set and background into them, but I am guilty as the rest by sometimes injecting my opinion about what I think this person should be.
Tokyo party girls are my favorite people, especially when they are American like Lily. Unknowingly we have quite a few mutual connections in Tokyo, just to show you how small this wonderful little planet is.
Gallery Categories: Model, Lily Kwan Gunawan, Indonesian, Chinese, Asian, 2010, LACMA, Park La Brea, dEaringfilm Studio, Downtown LA
Hopped over to pick up MRB @ the Merry Karnowsky Gallery on La Brea where it was the opening night of Camille Rose Garcia's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and the last night of Victor Castillo's "Strange Fruit" which I absolutely loved. Then off to "On the Roxy" where eyeshine's Maurice Salmin was playing.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, Yone2, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, On the Roxy, eyeshine
We all went to support Aya Masuda at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery's "Everything But the Kitsch 'N Sync" show. After that some madness at Gonpachi Beverly Hills where we saw Sea "awase" in persom and it was amazing.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japanese, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party, Michael Simpson, Yone2, Akihiro Kitamura, Gonpachi Beverly Hills, La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Once upon a time in Las Vegas...
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Filipina, 2010, People, Club, Bar, Party
I love taking pictures of you. Come over we will hang out and ill take some dandy looking images of you, and we will have a good time. There is a lot of love in these images, these are my friends. I hope to see you too in my galleries someday but for the time being enjoy these moments in my life presented in multiple formats and a lot of feeling.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, Filipina, Far-Reaching, 2010, Steff Alyce OBrien, Tokyo Night, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Tomoyuki Tanaka, People, Club, Bar, Lily Kwan Gunawan, Michael Simpson, Yone2
Pix from the Contemporary Japanese Cinema Film Festival at USC, Little Tokyo After-party and Koreatown After-After party. Featuring such great Japanese directors as Ryuhei Kitamura, Shunji Iwai, Shinji Aoyama. I really loved Shunji Iwai's Love Letter... a personal favorite.
Gallery Categories: Joshua and You, Joshua Dearing, Japan, University of Southern California, Japanese, American, People, Club, Bar, Yone2, Party, 2010, Yuuki, Ryuhei Kitamura, Shunji Iwai, Shinji Aoyama. Nora
Pretty Pink Princess sits on the hill with many options, the trick is to choose the one where she gets the most flowers in the end. Not everyone has these options or these hills but I am sure she will choose wisely or regret. This universe is the only thing she can know and there is only one chance to live it well as far as we know.
Who knows it may all be a joke, lets laugh as hard as we can.
Gallery Categories: Model, Steff Alyce OBrien, American, Irish, Caucasian, 2010, LACMA, Park La Bread, dEaringfilm Studio
Tokyo Night 2010 was a blast especially because the great Tomoyuki Tanaka (pictured above with me) a.k.a FPM (Fantastic Plastic Machine), was there to spin to give a the crowd a feel for the real Tokyo style. I saw him twice last month in Tokyo and he was on his game reading the crowd and making us all happy. Club Taotou was a great venue even though I heard a few bad things about it it was great for the huge crowd it attracted.
Gallery Categories: Joshua and You, Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo Night, Japanese, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Tomoyuki Tanaka, American, People, Club, Bar, Lily Kwan Gunawan, Michael Simpson, Yone2, Party, 2010
Beethoven has his 9th, I am not ready to call this that but I did enjoy making these.
Some people really like to capture images with groups of photo buddies, while I do love the crowd and the party when I am out taking those types of image there are times it is good to separate from others influence and take photos that say the most about yourself. That being said these images are about the relationship between people in Tokyo but not necessarily people images. I choose to take photos that can paint a picture of the relationship they have with one another in a city that is flooding with people that they have to create a almost Solitude state while dealing with one another in public.
I really love to put my feet to the ground in Tokyo and walk forever with no certain destination. I can walk in almost Solitude without worry of being bothered and go about my business of making images in the giant Metropolis. This is something that is hard to do in other cities I have visited and live in, especially when photographing people on the street. So you could imagine that taking photos that say something about inner city Solitude is best done by putting yourself in the same state when going about capturing them. Cheers (not a pun), and Enjoy!
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo, Shibuya, Ayasae, Roppongi, Yurakucho, Kokkai-gijido-mae, Shiba Park, Minato, Tokyo Tower, Highway, Far-Reaching, 2010
No, I'm not wearing the 3-D glasses because of Avatar... heheh. They give a new meaning to the term Beer Goggles when at a party. Enjoy the pix.
Gallery Categories: Joshua and You, Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, lebaron de paris, Velours, Yasumasa Yonehara, Yone, Mami Tanabe, Vivienne Sato, Party, 2010
Some random shooting around Tokyo hanging out with friends including Yasumasa Yonehara at his Creeps Gallery which is where he conducts quite a few of his shoots and the famous couch that is in so many of his photos. Including a few random observations of cute and neat stuff around Tokyo.
Gallery Categories: You are my Subject, Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, lebaron de paris, Yasumasa Yonehara, Yone, Yoko, Creeps, Far-Reaching, 2010
Some pretty great events in Tokyo are thrown by Tokyo Dandy at pretty much my favorite small little club called the Trump Room; other places are bigger but every time I go to the Trump Room I really like the crowd. I also hung out a lot at my other favorite places like lebaron de paris and Velours.
Gallery Categories: Joshua and You, Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, Trump Room, lebaron de paris, Velours, Yasumasa Yonehara, Yone, Mami Tanabe, Vivienne Sato, Party, 2010
Congratulations!
Today is your life.
You're in Great Places!
You're here and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the person who'll decide what to do.
You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any
you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you'll head straight to Japan.
It's opener there
in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.
And then things start to happen,
don't worry. Don't stew.
Just go right along.
You'll start happening too.
OH!
THE PLACES YOU ARE!
Gallery Categories: Los Angeles, Pentax 645, Medium Format, Far-Reaching, 2010
Notoriously and generally the Long Beach does not like photography, more specifically the security for the Oil refineries and ports in Long Beach do not want it due to some movie plot George Bush enabling policies. Department of Homeland Security has no law in place about taking photos from publically viewable places so I often enjoy taking photos of the refineries in Torrance and Long Beach. You might notice that in a few of these photos I managed to avoid any altercations with security and capture the Oil refineries in the background.
The world's Endless Desire for Black Gold as a magical potion of movement will have to end at some point and be redirected to a more green power based energy source. The point that this will happen is rapidly approaching and can be slowed down as we practice better more efficient energy use and demand products we use do the same. The best of times are over for the oil industry and they need to be more publically friendly and realize it like Frank Pentangeli said in Godfather, "Those were the great old days, you know... And we was like the Roman Empire... The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire..."
Oil is a magical wonderful potion and we should treat it so and taper down our use of it. We have had a good run Texas Tea, don't be a sore winner.
In other news check out the wonderful model Io in this gallery :)
Gallery Categories: Model, Long Beach, Oil, Io, Japanese, 2010
DJ Hilow and "Top Stage Fashion Show & After Party @ Gonpachi" rocked Beverly Hills with a great event and prelude to the coming event in February "Tokyo Night 2010 @ Claub Tatou." Hope to see you all there!!
Gallery Categories: Joshua and You, Joshua Dearing, Japanese, American, People, Club, Bar, DJ Hilow, Party, 2010
Fun in Ayasae, Shibuya and Roppongi on New Years Eve 2010, all photos taken between 20:00 (8pm for us American) and 10:00(am).
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, People, New Years Eve, Shibuya, Roppongi, Ayasae, Party, 2010
I will be in Tokyo for the next few weeks making photos during the day and shooting clubs and people at night. If you are in Tokyo drop me a email and Ill try to make time for everyone :) I'll be promoting dEaringfilm with shirts and conducting other business. The above shirt design is by Serge Fiedos, with the concept by myself.
Gallery Categories: Joshua Dearing, Tokyo, Serge Fiedos, Party, 2009
The Japan Film Society and Yuzo Presents: An Early Christmas Party!! was a smashing success. It was also a super duper good place to meet the movers and shakers in the Japanese film community in Los Angeles. Here are 79 totally fun images for the members and you to enjoy.
Plenty of good sitings of the Asian film industery in these photos so look carefully :)
Gallery Categories: @ the Party, Joshua Dearing, Japan Film Society, Japanese, American, People, House Party, Party, 2009
I am the director of photography for a short film called "The Light Path." It is a great little multi-weekend project to get me started in real film-making. Its premiering at the EL CID @ 4212 Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles Tuesday, December 22, 2009; 8:00pm - 11:00pm. Come check it out and meet the cast and crew, especially the guy the make it all work Maximilian Law. This gallery is a few of the stills taken from the movie, some of these scenes or actors did not make the final cut but it represents the character of the movie and character is a friend of mine. For more information check out the Facebook page here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195982932590 or the official website here: http://www.thelightpath.piczo.com/?cr=6
Gallery Categories: Movie, Film, Maximilian Law, Far-Reaching, 2009
I walk the streets at night with my camera in hand with my trusty "Camera Hand*" grip and nothing else except for a subject. The subject is like a flower in the dark and we have to find the correct amount of light to show the delicate petals. When all other creatures are sleeping my creativity and hunger for perfection is given a meal.
Enjoy this quick little photo shoot and expect to see a lot more updates this month that last. I had a lot on my plate last month and was not able to update as much as I would have liked.
*Coming soon :)
Gallery Categories: Model, Sachiko Ishida, Japanese, Little Tokyo, Downtown LA, Actress, 2009
When I think of black and white photography so many great artists come to mind, most of the great masters of photography have done their work in black and white. Among my favorite photographers is Masahisa Fukase who's "Solitude of the Ravens" is one of the most fantastic photo studies ever made. That series of photos seems to exist in a half awake and half in a dream state of mind where the ravens are some alternate form of human existence, this leads well into his current state of being. As eerie as it is to think the truth is that he is somewhere in Japan in a hospital sleeping away in a coma which he has been in for 18 years while people around the globe are enjoying his great works.
This photo series I present contains images shot around Japan that have a special dark or beautiful feeling to me. Even though we exist in a world which color dominates the landscape of photography I feel that black and white images provide more feeling and mood than the same image in color. If you agree or don't agree with me hopefully you can enjoy these images and they take you somewhere and inspire thought.
Gallery Categories: Japan, Tokyo, Akita, Taro Okamoto, Masahisa Fukase, Kenzo Tange, Waseda University, Kamakura, Catholic, Nakagin Capsule Tower, Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Far-Reaching, 2009
As I was picking out my favorite misc photos from summer 2009 and listening to the new Jay-Z album "The Blueprint 3" which was borrowing samples from the Alphaville song "Forever Young" I could not help but to think what my favorite movies of the 1980's were. I cannot imagine the 80's without thinking of Gremlins, Goonies, Spies Like Us, Rocky 4, Transformers the Movie (original animated version) and Return of the Jedi and the influence they had on my life at that time. Much later I learned to appreciate Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China, Tampopo and The Princess Bride. These movies all has that 1980's innocence to them that was lost into the 1990's which I have no issue with but it defines a time period quite well.
These images are from either small shoots, some parties I attend or hang outs with people... they don't fit in a gallery of their own but are some of my favorite images I took all summer. Thus this is the theme of the category "You are my Subject" galleries.
Gallery Categories: You are my Subject, Joshua Dearing, Fedora Gang, French, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Pilipino, Pinay, Malibu, Redondo Beach, Far-Reaching, 2009
Will one of the next great Japanese Movie Directors, Actress or Actors make their break in America? While I can't answer that but what I can say is that the "Japan Film Society" is alive and strong in Los Angeles and gaining support with every event they throw. These events are a good opportunity to network within that community and find people for your motion picture based projects. Check them out at their website: http://japanfilmsociety.org/. Thanks to Winston's on Santa Monica for hosting the event.
Gallery Categories: Joshua and You, Joshua Dearing, Japanese, American, People, Club, Bar, Party, 2009
Dearing: A Post in Four Chapters
I think its nice to defy a great deal of the the normal conventions in life, to live the way you think you should. Its a super easy thing to say this but in practice you face many obstacles that make for a lot of confusion when dealing with others. This is a shoot that I shot mostly from the hip and hoped that that photos would come out good; I was more concerned with energy than perfect focus and framing. I think a lot of the normal photographic conventions are great when a photographer is starting out or shooting weddings or such where people expect a certain look. Eventually we need to insert more into our photos and approach each shoot like its the first day of school and not finals week. SO'B is a fly by day and grin by night kind of person, her funness and attitude is easy to feel from quite a few of these creations.
As a kid I used to eat Sardines out of the can with my dad, rather he taught me that it was the preferred way to do so. Does anyone know what the proper way to eat canned Sardines is? We would put a little bit of Mustard on them and walla a instant meal (or was that snack?). Speaking of Mustard my dad told me that when he was growing up and he used to eat French Fried with Mustard the people used to look at him weird because everyone used Ketchup. Well the last laugh is on them with their High Fructose Corn Syrup because unless your Mustard is one of those stupidly fancy or McDonald's Mustards it has no calories at all and tasted better than the Ketchup :)
Don't get discouraged, I for one think that anything can happen if you believe it to be. Remember that if you have the right mindset its not too late to become what you might have become irregardless of your age or gender.
If you can't figure out the title of this galley, then you need to check out the wonderful RGB value of (204, 255, 0) and watch a few old movies with a Lime in your Diet Coke (or drink of choice).
Gallery Categories: Model, Steff Alyce OBrien, American, Irish, Caucasian, 2009
Tomoya is going back to Japan after finishing his masters degree program here in the United States and Akihiro Kitamura is just getting his Hollywood career started, and thats pretty much everything you need to know; hehe.
So take some time to enjoy these strait up nonsensical people having a good time house party photos. I do however love to entertain the crowd with as the Japanese call it "High Tension" :) so enjoy!
Gallery Categories: Joshua and You, Joshua Dearing, Japanese, People, French Maid, Venice Beach, Party, 2009
I never considered myself a flower child, but one might think that growing up in the era which I did and parents of the Hippie era that might be possible. Even though they are both incredibly artistically talented and probably enjoyed that time as much as anyone living in it I'm not sure I would ever call them full fledged Hippies. I think all the Hippies became the Yuppies that everyone hated, my parents never went that route.
Here are a few photos of Mami I took in the Aoyama area in Tokyo, Japan. She has the free spirit and party girl mentality somewhat reminiscent of the hippie era. I really enjoy working with people that are free spirited and never take this kind of stuff serious because it shows in every photo and it looks great.
Gallery Categories: Model, Mami Tanabe, Japan, Tokyo, Aoyama, Japanese, 2009
If our government's social programs some day get in order we might have enough spare money left over to do the kinds of things that have only been seen in dream like waking states in our mind. The universe is ever reaching and beautiful and could do more for the human spirit and mind to see these things and separate ourselves from the things that take up our time, energy and brain that have little to do with what is important for the advancement of our species. The waking state of the human is typically 16 hours per day, a chunk of this time is spent doing regular routines and chores while only a small amount can be spent on the kinds of things that our brains love. Everyone should take just a few minutes each day to give their mind food for its passion of exploration because deep down the seeds of survival of the fittest are rooted in travel and exploration to find better and more livable places. So until our planet can find enough money to at least step on Mars I will never be able to see things you people wouldn't believe...
Here are a few things you may or may not have seen, maybe not even as good as C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser gate, but are sufficient for our pale blue dot.
Gallery Categories: Japan, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Akita, The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, Taro Okamoto, Joshua Dearing, Mount Iwaki, Far-Reaching, 2009
As the great Piston Honda once said "I'll give you a TKO from Tokyo." Tokyo gave me a TKO from its life and energy, you just have to be out in Tokyo to see what its about. Its like when your a child approaching summer vacation and you hear the neighborhood kids playing outside when you are trying frantically to finish your homework before the sun goes down. You too want to enjoy those precious moments in the sun with your friends. I feel like that in Tokyo, if I'm at my computer uploading or backing up photos I feel like I am missing out on something great happening. Therefore I am a Turtle in the Sun while hanging out in Tokyo, I just have to be out exploring and meeting people because one never knows who you are going to run into. Its a huge city but I bump into people I know over and over again. These photos document my night travels, whether they be in a club or in the alleys of "Club Shibuya,*" I'm out there getting it done! But I digress and to my pleasure Piston Honda also said "Where is the NHK TV camera? Hello, Tokyo!" Well I say, "Hello Tokyo; I am Joshua hear me Snap, Snap, Snap."
*Club Shibuya refers to the practice of hanging out in Shibuya outside of convenience stores or Don Quixote buying cheap alcohol and talking to people that walk by. Its the best experience in Tokyo one can have for a night of unplanned activities.
Gallery Categories: Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, Party, People, Shibuya, 2009
There are a few things that resonate with me when I am in Tokyo, one of them being the motion of the city. Very few cities in the world can match the continuous motion of humans and objects, its utterly addicting to sit and watch or to watch from within the motion. Another layer of the "Tokyo Jungle" is the unique styling of the some of the textures and buildings... intentional or earned that way due to wear and tear. The layers of building over building and wires around poles that some might think are distracting some views but are quite a beautiful thing to behold much like in the tranquility of a forest the overgrowth of vegetation. In this gallery I look at both concepts and try to blend them together showing that the Architect can definitely run with Achilles.
The name of this gallery plays off of the new wonderful Takeshi Kitano movie Achilles and the Tortoise. After his last two movies I was about to give up on him but he completely surprised me once again and made a wonderful movie about a artist who constantly tries to make it his entire life.
Gallery Categories: Japan, Tokyo, Kyoto, Nakagin Capsule Tower, Waseda University, Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Takashi Murakami, Far-Reaching, 2009
I might pass you on the street and ask you to model, I know you for years and ask you to stay put for a few seconds, I could possibly jump out of nowhere and start making pictures, you may recognize me and ask me to shoot you. However we do these impromptu short shoots or photos they deserve a space of their own, so every once in a while I will have a "You are my Subject" gallery and throw all my recent favorites in there.
These photos were mostly taken when I was doing my day and night Wandering around mostly in the Kanto region in Japan. The next series will probably be in Los Angeles, but who knows. Enjoy these moments, I find them better or at least as good as any regular photo shoot because real people make photos. By the way Kanto Wanderer is what I am for sure, heart and soul but its also the name of one of my favorite 1960's Japanese movies by Seijun Suzuki, "Kanto Wanderer."
Gallery Categories: You are my Subject, Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, Osaka, Kyoto, People, Cheki, Kanto, Far-Reaching, 2009
You are not a Party Person, Lomographer, DJ, Snapshot Aesthetic or Sexy photo lover in Tokyo if you don't know who Yasumasa Yonehara is. Yone, which he goes by is the iconic editor and photographer who claims that hes not really a photographer; whose style was blatantly ripped off by American Apparel to propel them to fame (among many individual photographers that try to mimic his style). I had the opportunity to party and chill with him last month in Tokyo and talked a lot about his intentions with photography, editing and art.
The greater Kanto area is over 42 million people and the deeper you get into the central Tokyo 23 wards the more and more each person attempts to have their own individual look. If you so happen to catch a glance of Yone you will know him dead on sight. His classic modified but clearly derived from Los Angeles Latino gangster style with hat turned to the side is a look that he pulls off perfectly in a city that people try to be anyone but the boring Salarymen that overpopulate the Yamanote line. He pulls off his look as the same as he pulls off all of his activities, which include partying all the time at Tokyo night clubs, photographing incredibly beautiful models with point and shoot cameras which include his signature Fuji Cheki camera. I have personally used the Cheki for eight years because I always loved the size of the images better than the Polaroid format. A few of his other activities include being the photographer and editor for ad campaigns with KFC, Zippo, Diesel Jeans and numerous other international brands along with throwing photo/art shows in China and Taiwan at the moment. Most 50 years old should be so lucky, just watch him in a crowd of people; everybody loves him, anyone can admire that kind of love from the people. Still with all this love he is entirely approachable and might even be willing to give you his valuable time.
When speaking of his work he details his approach to photography like this "I want it to seem like there are no cameras at all, and I am capturing the real essence of the person." Yone details that he loves photos of real people, and after all only the real people in those real peoples lives can take such great photos of each other. When he showed my his photo compilation of his first very successful magazine "Out of Photographers (1995-2000)," I felt that this was his proudest work because it really exemplifies the style of photography that he loves. The latest and easiest to acquire book "Tokyo Amour" details Yone's famous lo-fi sexy style that the world has come to love and imitate. He claims that everyone likes to look at photos and people are horny, so if you search for his work he uses the "HornYone" or "Horny Yone" moniker at times to brand his style of photography. Companies like lomography once discovering him have been seeking his help since their beginning in the 1990's, in which he threw shows for them in Austria. Yone's style must have rubbed off onto the famous American photographer Terry Richardson after spending a week in Tokyo with Yone in 1996. Take a look at Terry's work, his famous work has been done post that trip to Japan. The beautiful thing about their relationship is their distinctly different approach to a similar subset of photography. Both personalities transcend photography and possibly even their own work, that is one of the many things that is so great about them.
Like any artist, if you like his work support the products that he produces. In America is a little hard to do unless you attend one of his shows, which he has had several.
When in a Tokyo night club keep your eyes wide open for a baseball cap and a group of the best looking women in the club and you might just have a encounter with the horny one :)
Gallery Categories: Yasumasa Yonehara, Yone, Tokyo, Japan, Party, 2009
Old friends make good models too. Vicke has had a tough year and really needed something to get her mood back up. I suggested we take photos; hehe like I never suggest that to anybody. It's probably the first thing I say to someone when I meet him or her :)
So on with it, we shot in Shibuya, Shinjuku and the Yoyogi Koen area. There are some very nice places in Yoyogi Koen and we really enjoyed trying to find the right kind light late at night to get the type of sexy and moody photos we were going for. He funniest thing to me is that she's the kind of person that when people are looking at her she smiles, but I was able to get her without a smile so that I could change her character dramatically for this fun shoot.
My apartment in Tokyo was technically in Yoyogi Koen, but we shot a few kilometers from my place. There are a lot of nice places to live in that area once you go a block or so from Yamate-dori. I really enjoyed getting up every morning and walking two to three kilometers to get to the Shibuya station. Most of my destinations could have technically gone from the Tokyo Metro Yoyogi Koen station or if I was going to Shinjuku I could take Odakyu's Yoyogi-Hachiman Station.
Gallery Categories: Model, Vicke, Japan, Tokyo, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Yoyogi Koen, Japanese, 2009
Miki and I met up in Shibuya at Hachiko, who ever meets anyone anywhere else in the Shibuya area? She is a race Queen and some other stuff, but this was her first time on a shoot other than the standard stuff. She's making her way with her career, which I think, is great; you have to make your moves when you are able to do it. We shot for a few hours total, among the places we shot were the major crosswalk in Shibuya and a few other smaller stations.
So we took a few fun photos and then went on or merry way, we were both pretty tired that day so the shoot only lasted about 2 hours. She's pretty tall for a Japanese woman and her friend that introduced us says she calls her the Japanese Beyonce; I guess its up to you to see if that is correct :)
I have always been fascinated with the crosswalk at Shibuya, I have been told that is 10x busier than Times Square in New York. What that means to me is that pretty much every single every day even in the least busy time in the early morning there will be a decent amount of people crossing it. I'm pretty sure that that cannot be said about many places in the world.
Gallery Categories: Model, Miki Moriki, Japan, Tokyo, Shibuya, Japanese, 2009
I am back from Japan and have got quite a few galleries to put up over the coming weeks. This first one is a bit lighthearted and is part of a new Motif I will be working on called Joshua & You. So if you know me you will probably end up in one of these galleries at some point, and if you don't know me you I hope you will too! Some photos are blurred and no where near perfect and I never intended them to be, but try taking photos drunk and excited like I am in many of these at clubs in Tokyo.
A special thanks to Le Baron Tokyo, Club Velours in Aoyama and all my other club stops. Also thanks to my buddy Yasumasa Yonehara for several of the invites.
Speaking of the upcoming galleries, I will have a write-up on Yone and his unique style along with killer exclusive photos. I will also be throwing up several model galleries along with other interesting galleries of things I find special in Japan. So enjoy this one and check back often :)
Gallery Categories: Joshua and You, Joshua Dearing, Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, Osaka, Kyoto, People, Party, 2009
Everything old is gone again. As you may notice this site is now a blank slate with just these few new galleries, well it just feels good to do that. I may at some time show older work but with the workload that I see coming these next few months I will have more content this year than possibly the last 3 years combined.
Lets just say this looking at these photos, I will be shooting Aya again and sooner rather than later. People that have followed my site for a while know I tend to go to proven models I have worked with rather than always looking for new talent. I hope to do more of both, the models that I find that are really special will be shot again, and I will looks for new models actively. So far so good, six new galleries do far this year and six new models. That being said I will be posting other types of galleries too, which are really my true passion.
Aya is talent that shows through in each and every photo, its one of those times that I just have to worry about my end and she does her stuff. One might think that I would want more collaboration and that is true and we will see even more of that next time.
Gallery Categories: Model, Aya Nagasaki, Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, 2009
Dreams are what drive me. I have seen photos in my dreams which I have tried to reproduce in my waking life, I strive to make them as convincing as my dream state. As I write this I am in Tokyo, which is my dream city. It would not be so perfect to me if I lived here, sporadic visits make it much more sexy. I will be shooting models that will be posted here within due tie and most importantly new non model galleries.
Emi has the American Dream, while it is different for each person that has this dream she is doing it herself without any outside help and I really respect that. She knows that people have her back but no one loves yourself truly like yourself. She is another first time model that once we got going were ale to produce shots she was very happy with. I see another gallery of her coming in fall.
Gallery Categories: Model, Emi Kamito, Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, 2009
There are few colors like red, it says above all colors look at me and respect my beauty. What is more beautiful than Dracula standing over his prey with red blood smothered over his face? Just to be clear, when I say Dracula I mean Bela Lugosi. That being said, very few people can wear read and get away with it, I for one have very few red items in my wardrobe, besides a few bloody tuxes hehhhheehehhe "I come to suck your blood!"
I really enjoyed working with Anneken (Yes like Luke's father), because she already had a pretty good idea of the types of looks that she looks good in. Working with her reminds me of how much I love working with models that are not afraid of their own body.
Gallery Categories: Model, Anneken Meerits, Estonia, Estonian, 2009
Lets face it in America Columbia is pretty much know for its crops. That being said I bet the first two you can think of are Coffee and Cocaine, I guess its to each their own! But as seen in this gallery it can be known for its timeless beauties. The things that really stand out for me are her absolutely perfect teeth and golden brown eyes, those catch you without you knowing your caught.
I spent about a hour working with Yaneth (pronounced like Jaanee, like the Japanese good bye phrase. She has quite a lot of confidence as a first time model and really hit some decent poses even though she was just having fun with it all, which I will say is much like myself.
Gallery Categories: Model, Yaneth Rojas, Blonde, Republic of Colombia, Latina, 2009