{"id":1168,"date":"2013-06-03T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T05:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2013-06-03T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T05:17:04","slug":"pocket-japan-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/2013\/06\/pocket-japan-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket Japan 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3QGmHm_b9UQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>I was in Japan mid-last year for about a month and loved every minute of it. The people were so friendly and polite, the food from anywhere (even from their 7\/11 equivalents) was delicious, and their railway system is world-class\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven in the rickety-older parts of town. I was so used to bowing to everyone that for about a week after landing back in Sydney, I kept bowing and kept having to stop myself mid-way.<\/p>\n<p>What I love most about Japan is the greenery. For a civilisation that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so advanced with technology, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so lovely to see an abundance of leaves and trees amongst the sky-high buildings. Many of the population, both young and old, ride around on bicycles too. None were the hipster fixie bikes, but just plain old push bikes. So cool. Japan just has this feel to it that makes me feel so at peace.<\/p>\n<p><b>The video<\/b><br \/>\nAll I wanted to make was some sort of montage of the trip with a backing track\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it. The only part I planned was the beginning where you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see my feet walking in different shots. Everything else more along the lines of shoot-anything-interesting-for-5-seconds, and hope it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be useful in the edit later. This had to be balanced with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcseeing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Japan with my own eyes too, as I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want most of my trip with a camera in my face. So, what we usually did was just experience the place first, then re-walk the space and record things of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The reason the video is called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPocket\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Japan is because everything was shot with the available camera in my pocket: an iPhone 4S. A friend of mine was carrying a pro dSLR (with stabiliser) too, so there was no way my shitty phone footage could match that. So I went with the more humble, pocket-sized take on the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Japan mid-last year for about a month and loved every minute of it. The people were so friendly and polite, the food from anywhere (even from their 7\/11 equivalents) was delicious, and their railway system is world-class\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven in the rickety-older parts of town. I was so used to bowing to everyone that [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invertmethod.com\/bravo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}