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👨🏻‍💻: @jeanpaulmca

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It’s funny how some of your strongest memories of your parents are attached to music.

This is my mum and I driving through Roppongi on a Friday night, sometime around the end of 2001.

Trance playing in the car from one of the CDs sitting in the 10-disc stacker that was permanently loaded with trance, techno and dance music. That sound is basically the soundtrack to my childhood.

My parents always had music playing in their cars, and even now, certain tracks instantly transport me back to Tokyo and being a kid.

But watching this footage now, it’s not just the music that gets me. Tokyo was a different world then.

Roppongi on a Friday or Saturday night was absolute chaos. The streets were packed. Yakuza were something you’d see openly. Their black and white Mercedes and vans lined the sidewalks and African touts lined the streets outside clubs. Salarymen in suits, hostess girls in heels, expats, tourists, club kids, taxis, neon, noise. All of it existing together.

Roppongi felt rawer then. A little more dangerous. A lot less polished. Alive.

The strange part is, it was so normal to me, none of it seemed unusual. It was just Tokyo.

Now I watch this old MiniDV footage and half the places in it are gone. Buildings changed. Clubs disappeared. People moved on. The city became something else.

A few minutes of a Tokyo disappeared for ever. And this random video I filmed without thinking twice somehow became a time capsule. Not of some famous moment. Just an ordinary Friday night.

And now, more than 20 years later, one of those memories I’d give almost anything to step back into for five minutes.

Turn the music up. Sit in the passenger seat. And just keep looking out the window watching it all pass by. taken in Roppongi 六本木, Tokyo Japan by @thirdculture

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I quietly posted my first Third Culture YouTube video at midnight, last night. Still sitting on one view.. me 😂

As a teenager, I was always filming everything. No edits, no real purpose, just life, recorded. Eventually I put the video camera down
and picked up a still one instead.

I’ve wanted to start filming again and create a YouTube channel for years… But I kept worrying what people would think. What if it’s not good enough? What if no one watches?

But when I moved to Vietnam,
I promised myself I’d get out of my comfort zone. So… this is me doing that.

It’s nowhere near the cinematic quality of my favorite YouTubers or where I want it to be yet.
But every challenge starts at the bottom and every channel starts with zero subscribers.

But really it’s not for views, it’s just to document. To get me out of my comfortable bubble and to create a visual archive of life as it’s happening.

And maybe one day, my kids or even grandkids might watch it and say,
“So that’s what life looked like back then.”

…Or they’ll just think Papa was really cringe 🥴

Either way, let the journey begin.

Link in my bio 🫰🏼

#thirdculture #thirdculturejp taken in Saigon, Vietnam by @thirdculture

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Various vintage aesthetic, Japanese 'Pocket Albums'.

These small, paper photo albums were super popular in the 80's and 90's in Japan and used to be given to customers for free when developing 35mm and getting prints made, at photo development shops back then. The Japanese ones in particular always had lots of misspelled and nonsensical english phrases on them. They were also usually paired with 'stock' type photos, kind of like what you would see in a blank photo frame.

I always loved these and felt they had a nostalgic charm about them. I regret not picking these ones up but I do have a good collection from old family albums of my own.

These particular ones were found in the photo section of BIC Camera and were still for sale in 2023.

#ThirdCulture #Thirdculturejp #ポケットアルバム #35mmフィルム #35mmfilm #35mm #vintagephotography taken in Japan by @thirdculture

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2 years ago

📍🇻🇳 Camera Store Shopfronts in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

📸: @jeanpaulmca

#ThirdCulture #Thirdculturejp #kodak #kodakexpress #kodakvietnam #35mm #35mmfilm #35filmphotography taken in Saigon, Vietnam by @thirdculture

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📸 Fujifilm Klasse W
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
📍 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

#35mmfilm #35mmフィルム #fujiklassew #fujifilmklassew #fujifilmklasse #fujiklasse #KodakUltramax400 #Thirdculturejp #ThirdCulture taken in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by @thirdculture

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Assorted Japanese Phone Cards (Circa 90's ) Featuring Film or Film Cameras.

Before the mass adoption of mobile phones, phone cards were widely used across the world as a means of making telephone calls domestically and internationally. In Japan in particular, phone cards played a pivotal role in promoting businesses and connecting with the pop culture scene. Businesses realised the potential of phone cards as a medium to reach a large audience, and they collaborated with phone card companies to create branded cards with their logos, mascots or promo messages. Many anime series, movies and idols were featured on the cards making them collectable and adding an extra dimension to their popularity.

#PhoneCard #JapanesePhonecards #Fujifilm #Konica #Thirdculturejp #ThirdCulture by @thirdculture

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3 years ago

'55 Minute Speed Print' Capsule Collection

Limited Edition Of 33

www.thirdculture.jp

#Thirdculturejp #ThirdCulture by @thirdculture

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3 years ago

📸 Fujifilm Klasse W
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
📍 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

#35mmfilm #35mmフィルム #fujiklassew #fujifilmklassew #fujifilmklasse #fujiklasse #KodakUltramax400 #Thirdculturejp #ThirdCulture taken in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City by @thirdculture

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Assorted Japanese Phone Cards (Circa 90's ) Featuring Film or Film Cameras.

Before the mass adoption of mobile phones, phone cards were widely used across the world as a means of making telephone calls domestically and internationally. In Japan in particular, phone cards played a pivotal role in promoting businesses and connecting with the pop culture scene. Businesses realised the potential of phone cards as a medium to reach a large audience, and they collaborated with phone card companies to create branded cards with their logos, mascots or promo messages. Many anime series, movies and idols were featured on the cards making them collectable and adding an extra dimension to their popularity.

I remember always seeing these as a kid and you would always see them littered around phone boxes after they ran out of credit. I had a few Dragonball Z themed ones back then but they got lost over the years 😪.

#PhoneCard #JapanesePhonecards #Fujifilm #Konica #Thirdculturejp #ThirdCulture by @thirdculture

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3 years ago

📸 Fujifilm Klasse W
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
📍 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

#35mmfilm #35mmフィルム #fujiklassew #fujifilmklassew #fujifilmklasse #fujiklasse #KodakUltramax400 #Thirdculturejp #ThirdCulture taken in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by @thirdculture

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It always amazes me when I think about how the 'life' of a photograph unfolds and how it eventually finds it's place on a tangible canvas..in this context, this Third Culture hoodie.

Four unique processes led to the existence of this hoodie..

Light was reflected onto microscopic crystals, called silver halide, and captured on 35mm film (real magic).

That magic 35mm film was then developed in the back room of a lab in Tokyo, using a combination of photographic chemicals (science).

Then that film was digitally scanned into a computer (technology).

Finally that scanned file was sent to a printer and water based ink was precisely sprayed onto a hoodie, recreating the image once more (technology again).

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Besides the physical, there was the actual moment itself. I walked through this underpass/bridge hundreds of times before but never photographed it. Not sure why I decided to that night, but I'm glad I did.

The iconic astro boy @invaderwashere artwork is no longer there today and you can barely make out the remnants of the @nastyneckface piece on the left too. All the nameless tags are gone now. All the homeless have moved on.

The underpass has been cleaned up and concrete cubes installed to block the homeless from coming back. The walls have been repainted and years of historical bill posters and stickers removed.What once was an underpass full of life is now just another nondescript, sterile underpass.

That's the cyclical nature of Tokyo though.

The eternal cycle of creation and destruction.

The Ouroboros of the big city ♻️

Glad this scene got immortalized, light leaks and all.

Limited Edition of 33, once sold out, never to be printed again 🌐✅

#ThirdCulture #ThirdCulturejp taken in Miyashita Park by @thirdculture

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3 years ago

'Hong Kong Kiss' By Nobuyoshi Araki

Published by JUSTSYSTEM on July 1st, 1997

With Hong Kong's handover to China approaching in 1997, Araki headed to Hong Kong to create a box set of photobook + video CD-ROM recording the final days of Hong Kong under colonial rule. The handover ended 156 years of British rule of Hong Kong and was a time of uncertainty and apprehensiveness.

The boxset includes a Photobook packed with hundreds of photos of Hong Kong as well as a CD-ROM that includes a slideshow of more than an hour, 30 'making-of' videos that capture Araki shooting the photos and a 4 minute 33 second Quick Time movie of photos included in the photobook.

Araki also released the boxset on the exact date of the handover, (July 1st, 1997) to further commemorate the day.

This book is a special one for me because I was actually growing up in Hong Kong at the time and will never forget the handover day. I moved back to Japan a few years later, but this era of Hong Kong is the one I cherish the most.

Photos/Video credit: @852archive

"CD-ROM Requirements

CPU: Pentium or higher
Display: 640 x 480 dots, 65000 colors or more
Required free memory: 8MB or more
System software: Microsoft Windows 95 Japanese version
Others: CD-ROM drive at double speed or faster; Sound Blaster 16 compatible sound board; Quick Time for Windows2.1"

#荒木経惟 #アラーキー #NobuyoshiAraki #ArakiNobuyoshi #Araki #35mm #Thirdculture #필름카메라 #필름사진 #필름 #필름사진 #フィルムカメラ #フィルム写真 #アナログカメラ #35mmフィルム #フィルムに恋してる #フィルム写真普及委員会 #PhotobookJousting #JapanesePhotobook #HongKong #852 #🇭🇰 taken in Hong Kong by @thirdculture

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