Tokyo Dreams

"Every man sees something different when he looks at the heavens." -Joseph Toschlog

Since the Japanese spend so much time being introverted, such as on buses and trains, I would assume that they spend this time elsewhere...at least...elsewhere in their minds. Because of the rigid structure to their social systems, escapism and fantasy culture has become extremely rich and well developed. Take your pic of any fantasy role playing game from Japan...the worlds are vast, the creatures are fantastic, and they takes dozens of hours to play. What better way to escape from the mundane hustle and bustle where it's impolite to start a conversation with a random stranger than to play a game where you HAVE to talk to random strangers to win? Eh...anyway...this image here is what I see when I'm in Japan. I see people on the trains and I wonder what they're thiking...where their mind is...what they're dreaming.

The photograph at the bottom was taken by me during my summer trip to Japan. It was taken from the 18th story of the Ramla building, also known as the Tokyo International Youth Hostel. This is over looking Iidabashi. Notice the sign at the bottom that says Twin Star.

I know this is an old and tired theme of fantasy star-scapes over some real terrain, but I wanted to play around with some great tutorials I found with regards to cool sci-fi stuff. Forgive the cliché image, but it was fun and exciting to delve into genre I've never played with before.

(The photograph was shot with a Minolta DiMage A2, if anyone really cares I can put the exif data up)

The rest of the image was created in Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2