Sukaatoman @ Shibuya ( Tokyo-no-ningen / Gens de Tokyo / Tokyo people chap.7 )

i like her shoes! :D

Photo by e-chan © 2007 All rights reserved - Downloading and using without permission is illegal.
This photo had a big success on flickr, also among hackers and thieves. This photo has been used sometimes with permission, many times without permission, misused (thanks to some search engines, i found it on porn websites and blogs with ugly comments), probably stolen or usurped more than once. Which letter you don' t understand in the word "COPYRIGHT"?

A very cool and obviously efficient sukaatoman ( guys who are talking to the pretty girls wearing miniskirts in the streets, in order to hire them usaually for pinku or porn videos ) is on the verge to succeed - she will leave with him.
I like their attitudes on this picture.
Un sukaatoman ( mecs qui baratinent les jolies filles en mini-jupes dans les rues pour les convaincre de tourner en general dans des videos pinku ou pornos ) plutôt arty et efficace est sur le point de convaincre sa proie - elle partira avec lui.
J'aime leurs attitudes sur cette photo.

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Comments

murburger01 says:

great shot The World Through My Eyes
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

FHBA says:

beautiful.......
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

bizzlenj says:

Lucky him
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

FrizzText says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Cultural Boxes, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

tanakawho says:

Would you consider to post this to the following group?

www.flickr.com/groups/19245576@N00/

View admin's Faves of the Month to know what the group is like.
Once you are a member, you can post as many as you want without any invitations. But remember--1 at a time & a comment on the photo before you is necessary.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

dadou~ says:

Superbes expressions...
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

e-chan says:

murburger, if you say it...
FHBA, thanks.
bizzlenj, maybe, maybe not - don't know the full story.
FrizzText, thanks for the fav and the invite. Your group seems intersting. Think i'll post in it.
tanakawho thanks but i don't understand the way the group is ruled and i can't join it from the link you gave (or maybe there's a bug in those days of hacktivism against flickrcensorship ?).
David, merci pour le commentaire et le fav. Oui, j'aime bien leurs expressions, du gars qui veut se donner une prestance et de la fille qui minaude.
Thanks for the favs prinses d., rabidturtle2501, princess_of_llyr, sklave
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Christine Lebrasseur says:

--
Seen in the interestingness archives. (?)
Seen in the 500 interestingness pictures, Felicitations :)
[?]
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

e-chan says:

Christine, sans déconner ? Bizarre, il n'y a ni chaton, ni toutou, ni bébé, ni sein, ni coucher de soleil, ni macro de fleurs et ni Nicht mit uns sur cette photo... Merci en tout cas - tu es vraiment d'une redoutable ubiquité.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

I See AEE [deleted] says:

Nice shot. I did see this happen when I was in Japan. So this is what's happening? Thanks for the info. Learned something new.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

femme_oursin says:

c'est bien vu mais je suis pas d'accord avec ta description. les skautoman ne sont pas forcement la pour le film porno ou quoique ce soit. y'a de la variete. par exemple y'a des mecs comme ca pour vendre des choses ou pour chercher des filles pour un bar ou un "club". y'a des mecs qui sont la pour embaucher des filles mais en meme temps pour les draguer et ca marche bien en general.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

fatapilar says:

Nice pic. and the comment very nice i never knew whats happening.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Femi de France says:

wow, j'adore tes photos et les explications allant avec ! Un veritable reportage sociologique et ethnologique. J'ai fais des etudes sur la culture japonaise pour mon cours de management inter-culturel et cette civilisation m'a vraiment passionnee...
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

femme_oursin says:

fatapilar
please don't believe what he whote! it's not true!!

Femi de France
faut pas croire ce qui est ecrit !! faut que je lui donne des cours de la culture japonaise.

c'est quand-meme une tres belle image.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

FrizzText says:

+
your excellent photography is an interesting example
for different "CULTURAL BOXES" in our world -
seen in the cultural-boxes group.
+
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

FrizzText says:

+
your excellent photography is an interesting example
for different "CULTURAL BOXES" in our world -
and is now presented in the feature "TEN PHOTOGRAPHERS" (23) at
www.flickr.com/groups/cultural-boxes/discuss/ 721576003806...
+
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

arnet says:

Explore !

--
Seen in the interestingness archives. (?)
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

e-chan says:

Thanks Tu Foto Sometimes this is the way it happens.
Yoko pfffffrrrttt... Tu as raison de protester et c'est vrai que ce sukaatoman n'avait pas trop l'air du genre à travailler pour l'industrie du porno - c'est plutot le genre qui travaille pour un bar ou même une galerie, je sais pas... En tout cas, il drague et ça marche apparemment pas top mal. Pour les cours de culture japonaise, j'accepte avec plaisir
Fatapilar, don't trust me, OK ? (maybe i'm a sort of sukaatoman)
Femi faut pas croire ce que je raconte, compris ? C'est pourtant pas si faux et, dans deux semaines environ, je posterai des series sur Osaka, avec un sukaatoman un peu plus trash que ceux de Shibuya. Tu viens avec moi pour les cours de culture de femme_oursin ?
FrizzText Thank you very much, it's an honour to be featured in your group.
arnet eh oui, explore, sans chaton, bebe, chienchien, soleil couchant, fleur en macro, grosse voiture avec femme sexy, ni meme un "Nicht mit uns", comme quoi je reprends confiance dans Explore (meme si je crois pas que ce soit ma meilleure photo sur Tokyo). Merci pour le fav.
Thanks for the fav ridley05, chrisusax, Toothwalker, catswhisker, Nahual, pjosephinej, sekihan, RickLC88
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

FrizzText says:

maybe you have time
to share your opinion
about the topic GLOBAL PEACE INDEX at
www.flickr.com/groups/cultural-boxes/discuss/ 721576003900...
+
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

ғυηķү g!rl says:

الصور رووعة
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

bens▲n says:

great shot. my guess is she wont leave with him...

either way she is cute.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

niceric a.k.a Eric Tan says:

nice one, porn is one of the biggest industries in japan
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

claimsmantoo says:

I can't imagine why she stopped to talk to this guy in the first place.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Bertocci - Alberto Mattiussi Photography says:

Beautiful Capture Award
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

fabio c. favaloro says:

lovely

Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

wwwlandedru says:

perfect
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

ike_gc8 says:

anyone know which video she is in? LOL..that was wrong of me -=(

nice shot! great chemistry, ne?
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

-Monish- says:

well captured... ur story and the image fit perfectly well... good work
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

I.Diabaté says:

Belle prise !
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Wild Banana/Miles Guidetti says:

Whaooo. I'm not normally like this... but that guy just made me really jealous
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Wild Banana/Miles Guidetti says:

a new favorite, but thanks to the story.... and the event
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

e-chan says:

Wild Banana, it's up to you to train for becoming a sukaatoman. You'll need not only the look, but also the skills in spoken japanese. Good luck.
I don't know if i should be very grateful for the fave and the comment but anyway, you should not waste too much time on my Explore set, this is not always very interesting pictures and the critic is a bit too easy for overrated photos like this anyway...
When i look back at pictures like that, saved by stories or descriptions but with lousy technical aspects, like crappy contrasts and not so great framing, i see how fast i improved (partly due to flickr's sometimes interesting people and constructive critics) and how deep is the bad taste that makes a photo "interesting" for flickr robots.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Wild Banana/Miles Guidetti says:

To tell you the truth it was just the explication to an event that I had never even imagined that incited that excitement. The photo displays you story, and for that it does it's does it's job. Besides that, it's not a very good photo, and it doesn't portray the situation with any emotion or style.

Well to be honest. I respect you and your photostream. your photos are interesting, some more than others. And I saw that you've improved greatly from your first pages.
I critique but only because I feel critisism is lacking on flickr, a race for views and comments instead of a forum for photography. I want to improve and I feel people should also comment on what they like less. Helping the photographer to understand more integrally the thoughts about his/her photo.

Anyways have a good evening or day. Can't wait to hear back

Miles
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

e-chan says:

Wild Banana
I agree on the fact that criticism is lacking on flickr, and that one should comment not only on what is great but also on what is not, of course. I also agree on the fact that some critics are far more helpful than thousands of enthusiastic and complacent comments and faves. If you read my answer, you would have found this opinion already. Flickr is fortunately not only a race for comments and views and lots of interesting people and great photographers might help to improve, by their critics, witty comments or simply by watching carefuly their works displayed on their photostreams. Some groups are also very helpful.
I'm totally open to critics and i think it's necessary, but maybe not when the things pointed are not only obvious, but pointed and already commented not only by the viewers but also by the author himself - otherwise this is what we call in french (a language you seem to understand apparently) "enfoncer des portes ouvertes".

Regarding what you say about my photo, once again if you read my answer you'd find the elements you just wrote here. So let's explain this more clearly since you think you deserve (and i think you deserve this indeed, because you're apparently talented and young enough to change in the good way) to hear back about this.

This photo is actually a good illustration of what were most of my pictures in the years 2005-2007, when i started using digital cameras (after having used old-school cameras when i was part-time journalist in the early 90's and a long break without images) : not so great pictures (in terms of technical skills displayed and yes, after all, why not also in terms of emotion) or even crappy pictures, sometimes on purpose though, often saved by the interest of the event they described or most likely by the description. In these times, some interesting people used to say they liked to visit my stream mostly for the written contents than for the quality of the pics themselves. This were some of the things that made me improve the quality of the pics, while trying to keep the written contents at a good level in the same time. Well, enough said about that, ne ?

This leads us again to the same observation : critics are necessary for leaving a comfort zone, provided we are able to see what should be improved, to take time to understand and to have the real will to improve, probably some of the aspects of a certain maturity, eventually.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )