またまた小田急線へ〜

Just a few notes before I collapse and faint....

A bunch of us dream fans decide to get together at a friend's place to trade photos and other memorabilia we gathered (which we gathered when we all partied at Shibuya the previous week.)

Avex and Axev must know what they're doing, if the goods sales grossed 1,000,000 JPY in 10 minutes flat. As for what that means to us fans who are driven to spend 10,000 yen without a second thought is another story altogether. A bunch of Polaroid-like instant photos at 200 yen a piece with a 50 photos per person per purchase seems to do nothing to curb the appetite for the said photos. Having said that, I am probably just as insane as the next person in spending 10,000 yen.

Saturday noon, 4 people gather with photos from concerts. We all start looking at other people's photos (initially sold in an envelope, packaged in a completely random fashion so you have no idea who's photo fell into your lap) Three of us take out a photo, or two, or three and all three of us turn in unison to the owner of the room "hey, can you make wallpapers for PCs and cell phones and icons for chats from these photos?"

The guy smiles, turns on his scanner, starts scanning the photos.

After about 3 hours, one of the sites dedicated to dream (http://www11.ocn.ne.jp/~taishi/dream/index.html) starts displaying wallpapers for PCs and cell phones. Not one or two, more like 9 or 10.

I watch him work with Photoshop, with the migic wand, the stamp tool and it just dawns on me that this guy knows his tools. It's not necessarily his equipment that allows him to create really clean wallpapers and the like but rather his ability to use the hardware and software, probably the same way I use database applications.

I ask him for some pointers and he explains his logic for working the way he does and you know what? I think I understand it, my god, I think I understand it.