Beaverton, OR.
A few months ago, I tried my second attempt at my game matsuri idea. I wanted to revisit it at some point, using some props that I had forgotten about.
I ended up taking about two hours to build the set, and another four to shoot. I was pretty frustrated by my tripod, which had a minimum height because of a shaft on it, and for a lot of the street level shots, they were taken on a couple of soda boxes. However, the tripod was a huge boon because there were some twenty second exposures going on; turns out, I’m married to 100 ISO.
There’s several neat elements happening with the set here: first, the main boulevard has been laid out like a roulette table, and every roulette table needs a zero – I used kabufuda, an 8, 9, and 3, which is a hand worth zero points in a game called Oicho-Kabu. Coincidentally, this is where the Yakuza gets their name from. There’s also a shogi king being checkmated in an alleyway, an artist painting another shogi piece, a riichi mahjong hand called thirteen orphans, as well as numerous other details throughout.
In addition, with clever editing and methods of capture, there’s weather now! I was delighted to see that it came out quite well.
Though a lot of this was frustrating, I think I’m fairly-well satisfied by the end product. There’s eight pictures in here, please see them all!
Thanks for seeing my work!
Here I go manplaining again, but just as a general FYI you can insert multiple images into the text body of a post on Lemmy. Some might say that I use this capability to excess.
I’m intrigued by the hanafuda… tiles? What the heck are they? They look too thick to be cards.
I tried so long to get multiple images in the body of the post but after 45 minutes of trying to figure out which ones rejected and why, I just put them in comments.
But yeah, those are hanafuda cards! I’ve been playing games with them since I was a kid!
They’re cardboard? They almost look like plastic. Are they really thick, like the pages of those toddler books?
Anyway, the limitation I’ve found with Lemmy or at least its API is that the hangup seems to be how much time it takes to upload an image before it freaks out and gives up. This makes the actual physical byte size of a picture you can attach highly variable, somewhat luck dependent, and also influenced heavily by your connection’s upload speed. I.e. I can upload big images at home (fast fiber) that I can’t upload from work (shitty cable). It’s really kind of absurd, actually.
On the bright side, a good portion of my habitually posted images are handily blank white space. This helps cut down on the file size a bit…
Yup, they’re thicker, so usually an overhand chunk shuffle gets the job done. Some US manufacturers try to print them on poker-sized cards, which makes it really hard to hastily stuff them in your kimono sleeves when the daimyo’s men show up to enforce the provincial ban on gambling and card games.
Maybe the thick ones make them more effective when you need to chuck them at fools.
