Comments on: Instax Interview: Daisaku Nishimiya http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/interviews/instax-interview/ Little Brown Mushroom Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:34:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: katelynmariah http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/interviews/instax-interview/#comment-8468 katelynmariah Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:27:00 +0000 http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/?p=1176#comment-8468 Tom,

That’s funny…”can I see your secret fortress”!

From personal experience there was no way I was divulging the location of my “secret fortress”. First of all it was the way I got way from my family/parents and found sanity. I am intrigue now and want to read the book.

]]> By: Tom http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/interviews/instax-interview/#comment-8467 Tom Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:20:41 +0000 http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/?p=1176#comment-8467 Question: How long did it take Daisaku to compile his series? You can’t just google “secret fortress” and get a listing of kids’ forts in your area (for the record I did google “secret fortress” and you get an eclectic mix of hits). It must have taken him a while to find these things. And just walking up to kids and asking “can I see your secret fortress?” sure sounds like a fast track to the police station. I’m curious how he approached this. It’s a clever idea.

I can appreciate your feeling of illiteracy in Japan. I remember wandering the streets near the New Otani hotel (where I was staying). The shops at street level easy were enough to understand — just look through the window and you could pretty much determine the type of business. But the shops not at street level were simply baffling. There would be a sign on the street, which I couldn’t read, pointing up a narrow stairway. What’s up there? It could be anything. It’s a very unsettling feeling.

]]> By: Andrew Bruce http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/interviews/instax-interview/#comment-8466 Andrew Bruce Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:09:48 +0000 http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/?p=1176#comment-8466 The last issue of english magazine Photoworks was edited by Jason Evans and focused primarily on Japanese photobooks, well worth a look!
Bruce

]]> By: Jeremias http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/interviews/instax-interview/#comment-8465 Jeremias Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:18:01 +0000 http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/?p=1176#comment-8465 Great post! I ordered the book! Interestingly enough, I’m about to start a series on tree houses…

]]> By: katelynmariah http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/interviews/instax-interview/#comment-8464 katelynmariah Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:02:05 +0000 http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/?p=1176#comment-8464 This is such a cool photo project. I love it! I was into building forts in the forest when I was a kid. I had a secret fortress in the woods when I was a young girl. It had all kinds of cool “house” things that I took from home to make it cozy. I spent a tone of time there. There was a community of forts in the woods where I had mine. There was an unspoken rule that no one messed with other peoples forts. I don’t think that would happen these days.

]]> By: Carrie Thompson http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/interviews/instax-interview/#comment-8463 Carrie Thompson Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:12:55 +0000 http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/?p=1176#comment-8463 Daisaku Nishimiya also asked me:

“Did you have a secret fortress when you were young? I would very much like to know.”

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