What were your previous usernames?

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

So Stardust Queen is your alt?

Perchance..

 

[Tsukishima]

All my usernames are based off Space. So if you see anything based on space then thats me!

Is this going to be your next nickname twin?

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

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Is this going to be your next nickname twin?

Lol after today ill change _Galaxy to Tsukishima instead

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Actually my next nickname is going to be this @Tsukishima

 

[Tsukishima]

No way .. it's really them ... Mega Man Star Force ?!

Lol after today ill change _Galaxy to Tsukishima instead

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Actually my next nickname is going to be this @Tsukishima

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

No way .. it's really them ... Mega Man Star Force ?!


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I knew I should have went with Grimface but that name was taken all over the internet

 

[Zerpina]

I literally have never changed this username since I joined.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Had this username the whole time I’ve been here so far. Sometimes I do think about shortening it though, but I don’t know if I ever will lol.

 

[shaggi]

I had only my current username here. It was going to start with capital letter, but i wrote it all with small letters out of a hurry and then left it this way.

 

[daido]

Yup, no plans to change my username here, though I go by Sol Invictus on other platforms. Chose this one in honor of the master of the snapshot photo, Daido Moriyama. He will always be my idea of the embodiment of cool.

 

[Tsukishima]

Yup, no plans to change my username here, though I go by Sol Invictus on other platforms. Chose this one in honor of the master of the snapshot photo, Daido Moriyama. He will always be my idea of the embodiment of cool.

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Sol Invictus is a fire name, I'd love to hear more about Daido and your personal experiences with him if you've got the time.

 

[daido]

Sol Invictus is a fire name, I'd love to hear more about Daido and your personal experiences with him if you've got the time.

For sure! I only know him through his work, but what always struck me about him was his kind of detachment to life, and even to his own photography. He rarely stages scenes or imposes a vision on his subjects, preferring to just kind of wander around and take what he finds. Most of his photos might be things that would be banal to anyone else, but his camera recontextualizes them in ways that turns the detritus of life into art, and life into something approaching myth. I particularly love how he plays with mannequins, turning them from shop equipment into things that almost feel human.

He’s been compared to an itinerant poet, although he’s always preferred the image of a stray dog—the subject of one of his earliest and most intense photos. And that’s always resonated for me, the idea of going through life, seeing connection but not often finding it.

That was a bit of a ramble, hope I didn’t derail the thread too hard!

 

[Sleepstate]

Only had this one

 

[Tsukishima]

For sure! I only know him through his work, but what always struck me about him was his kind of detachment to life, and even to his own photography. He rarely stages scenes or imposes a vision on his subjects, preferring to just kind of wander around and take what he finds. Most of his photos might be things that would be banal to anyone else, but his camera recontextualizes them in ways that turns the detritus of life into art, and life into something approaching myth. I particularly love how he plays with mannequins, turning them from shop equipment into things that almost feel human.

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He’s been compared to an itinerant poet, although he’s always preferred the image of a stray dog—the subject of one of his earliest and most intense photos. And that’s always resonated for me, the idea of going through life, seeing connection but not often finding it.

That was a bit of a ramble, hope I didn’t derail the thread too hard!

That's amazing, it invokes a sense of latent 'neutrality' about the hidden side of our world because we close it away with things like attachment, personal sense of bias.

I had a friend a few years ago that opened my senses more to the idea of connection which is often times not mentioned or kept under-wraps. That tiny, invisible thread which links us all is how I think of it.

I had that kind of emblematic prose to photography with the outings I did to my local park (as small and insignificant as that may seem) when snapping these photos, I wanted to deconstruct the context surrounding things like water ravines, its inhabitants and architecture alongside tree formations which I only took a picture of in certain conditions or angles.

Your ramble's inspired me to check him out in my free time, thanky for the explanation!

 

[daido]

That's amazing, it invokes a sense of latent 'neutrality' about the hidden side of our world because we close it away with things like attachment, personal sense of bias.

I had a friend a few years ago that opened my senses more to the idea of connection which is often times not mentioned or kept under-wraps. That tiny, invisible thread which links us all is how I think of it.

I had that kind of emblematic prose to photography with the outings I did to my local park (as small and insignificant as that may seem) when snapping these photos, I wanted to deconstruct the context surrounding things like water ravines, its inhabitants and architecture alongside tree formations which I only took a picture of in certain conditions or angles.

Your ramble's inspired me to check him out in my free time, thanky for the explanation!

Honestly, much as photography is thought of as dramatic landscapes in far-away vistas these days (particularly when used to farm clicks on social media), it’s been at its most powerful for me as a way to find those hidden connections, unseen angles, and things that reveal meaning to you in daily life. I was walking around downtown on a snowy morning, and saw buildings being torn down in the shadow of skyscrapers, themselves starting to disappear into fog. I didn’t know why I snapped that photo in the moment, but over time I’ve come to understand what it means as an image, and as a reflection of my own thoughts about life.

I do think you’d appreciate Daido’s work and philosophy, and I hope you give him a look! There’s a fascinating documentary about him that I watch every year in October