Comments on: Stone and Myself

Stone and Myself

kenko — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:51:13 -0800

Stones of the World. Photographed by Yoshida Tatsuya.

By: wakko

wakko — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:13:22 -0800

Hm. Not bad.

By: RockBandit

RockBandit — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:25:29 -0800

A Hoodoo!

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:20:13 -0800

Huh. The Yoshida Tatsuya, of the Ruins. I don't know why it never occured to me before that they have a penchant for putting rocks on their album covers.

By: Milliken

Milliken — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 04:35:17 -0800

Is this a waste of a life? Touring about the planet armed only with a camera and a penchant for all things "rock"? Is this one mans quest to see how low he can set the threshhold? The only thing more pathetic than rock photography? Coming back tomorrow for more metafilter badness.

By: ancientgower

ancientgower — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 04:53:28 -0800

Maybe I'm a sucker for rock photographs, but I thought they were beautiful.

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:07:22 -0800

Milliken "Is this a waste of a life? Touring about the planet armed only with a camera and a penchant for all things 'rock'? Is this one mans quest to see how low he can set the threshhold?" Odds are low. Yoshida Tatsuya has quite a prolific discography (this is the discog for just one of the bands he is in). His life does not solely consist of taking pictures of rocks.

By: Drexen

Drexen — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:20:26 -0800

Christ, those are amazing. I can't imagine what it what it must be like to have been to all of those places, and see the artifacts of the unknowable impulses and motivations of whoever made them - completely changed from how they were intended to look, but still just as magical. Some of them must have been really freakin' difficult to build, too. Wow. I could go on, but I'll let this Thai guy make my point for me: Milliken : If you can't appreciate this kind of thing, I think it's you who's wasting your life. Open your eyes some (like the statue!)

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:53:48 -0800

This is great, thanks for posting this. Really Milliken, if you hate Metafilter so much, maybe you should look elsewhere for your entertainment. No loss, really.

By: QIbHom

QIbHom — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:04:33 -0800

Nicely done. I've been to Hampi and a few of the other places in India he photographed, and he's got a good eye. There is something about stone, especially old stone.

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:25:20 -0800

Isn't most stone (other than lava) "old stone"?

By: kenko

kenko — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:25:29 -0800

Nevertheless, bugbread, it might be fair to say he's got a penchant for all things rock. (And jazz, these days.)

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:52:41 -0800

Better update of Yoshida Tatsuya's non-photographic work (via Metachat, via kenko): Probably relatively complete Yoshida Tatsuya discography

By: invitapriore

invitapriore — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:54:03 -0800

These are beautiful, but I'm curious about the first four or five in the japan1 section: they look unmistakeably face-like, as if they had been carved, but nothing about their location really supports that fact. Any insight into that?

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:18:28 -0800

They are carved. Japan (and other places in Asia) seem to have a history of people carving religious figures out in the middle of nowhere. Location number 2, by the way, is actually part of a much larger out-door carving.

By: nylon

nylon — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:51:59 -0800

Wonderful. It makes me so happy when people you wholeheartedly admire for one thing turn out to be accomplished in other areas as well. And even if not necessarily accomplished, certainly with other passions. Milliken: don't fuck with Ruins.

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:25:32 -0800

They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table. They'll stone ya when you are young and able. They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to make a buck. They'll stone ya and then they'll say, "good luck."

By: gwint

gwint — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:54:39 -0800

Wow. I'd never heard of Yoshida Tatsuya before, but on the strength of those photos I bought a Ruins album. Great stuff.

By: thatwhichfalls

thatwhichfalls — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:44:55 -0800

This is great stuff. Milliken - speaking as someone who's job is to make obsessively detailed descriptions of rocks I say back off. OK?