Getting new-old photos: Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator
April Fool’s 2008 in English had a photo service for future, whilst Japanese has less exciting but more and more useful new photo service from past. Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator.
“Koshashin” means “old photo”. “Bakumatsu” is literally “end of feudal era”, the end of Edo shogunate era (circa 1860), when the whole country was facing to its turning point to open for outside of islands, led to Meiji Revolution. So the service name implies “Generator for photos like over 150 years old”.
Here are sample photos made by the service developer, which were posted as real Edo era photos on April 1st, then the next day, appeared to be this year’s made by this generator.
You may easily upload and convert your photo. The image will not only become monochrome but also applied fading and staining effects to make it legitimate-looking old photo.
blogger tundra made this iPhone photo, today’s photo could (if not digital,) look like this in 100 years.
Author Information Akky Akimoto is one of the first pro-bloggers [J] in Japan. As an individual he writes for Asiajin and his own Japanese weblog. He also produces web services including IvRead.com and Narabe.com. Twitter @akky No Responses to “Getting new-old photos: Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator”
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の方の合宿ですね(参考)。変なタイトルがついてますがフィクションであり実在の人物とは関係ありません。都内某所にてブログかきかき。 とりあえず一本Getting new-old photos: Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator[参加者のブログ] [N] 今宵は角瓶でハイボール（ブログ合宿） [を] 第四回ブログ合宿一日目 第４回ブログ合宿・秋元の春開催中 [裏4k]: ブログ合宿に来ている
called the 幕末古写真ジェネレーター (Bakumatsu old photo generator). Perfect for making your shots of Kabukicho neon last weekend look like they belong in an Isabella Bird book. (Hat tip toAsiajinfor this one.) Share This
“end of feudal era”, the end of Edo shogunate era (circa 1860), when the whole country was facing to its turning point to open for outside of islands, led to Meiji Revolution. So the service name implies “Generator for photos like over 150 years old”.Sourceအင္တာနက္ေပၚမွာ ရွာေတြ ့တဲ့ ဒီႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ ဓာတ္ပံုတစ္ခုကို ေျပာင္းၾကည့္ထာ