Monday, September 1 2008  The DNA Experiment: Introduction
When I made my trip to Japan last year, I took a friend. He took
a lot of pictures, too, but hasn’t gotten around to posting any
of them. We backed everything up onto my laptop, though, and I
have his permission to pick through them and post them here.
Obviously we were pretty much always at the same place at the
same time, and we even used the exact same model of camera a lot
of the time, but we were frequently looking at different things,
and sometimes at the same thing in different ways. Today, I went
through his pictures and tried to select a representative sample
of what he saw in Japan.  I’m posting them in batches, generally
without commentary, and for more fun, I’ve randomly shuffled
them. Actually, I hadn’t planned on that part, but Aperture does
a terrible job of renaming on import, and not only scrambled the
file names, but also created a number of duplicates. Since they
were already out of order, and I didn’t feel like starting over,
I