self portrait

Blog, I have not forgotten you. I've been traveling a lot. Hopefully this means I'll be updating you retroactively. Here is a self portrait at a Tokyo press conference. I know it's cluttered and I'm obscured, and it's hard to know where to settle the eye, but that invokes the feeling of what these press conferences are like for me. Manic, innumerable people, trying hard not to have my vision completely obscured by the 100's of photographers more determined and ruthless to get a shot than I've ever been. Of course, you're not really seeing the other photogs and reporters in this picture, mostly just the extra people. I don't really know what all of these extra people do. I'm sure they're important, as the majority have clipboards and iphones, and stay busy seeming.  There are always a ton of extra people at every such event in Tokyo. It certainly makes said events crowded and chaotic...but what fun would it be any other way?