bokeh

[George Papantoniou]

That's great ! From now on, I'll call anyone that gets on my nerves "Bokeh". Not only I will have lots of fun with him not understanding what I'm calling him, but I'll simultaneously put a Japanese curse on him (and he'll turn to an eel or a snail :-)... OR, even worse, he'll be forced to watch all Yasuhiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa films in a row...

[Soeren]

Originally Posted by George Papantoniou

That's great ! From now on, I'll call anyone that gets on my nerves "Bokeh". Not only I will have lots of fun with him not understanding what I'm calling him, but I'll simultaneously put a Japanese curse on him (and he'll turn to an eel or a snail :-)... OR, even worse, he'll be forced to watch all Yasuhiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa films in a row...

Poli Kalla George. Ise Bokeh
Kali Mera, Søren

[firecracker]

Originally Posted by George Papantoniou

That's great ! From now on, I'll call anyone that gets on my nerves "Bokeh". Not only I will have lots of fun with him not understanding what I'm calling him, but I'll simultaneously put a Japanese curse on him (and he'll turn to an eel or a snail :-)... OR, even worse, he'll be forced to watch all Yasuhiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa films in a row...

Also, Bokeh implies dementia, and Alzheimer's disease is (at least viewed in the Japanese culture) in the same category. It could a real insult to some people in certan ages and certain health and mental conditions.

For example, my grandmother, who is 91 years old, is a little too sensitive to hear the word, "bokeh." She doesn't know anything about the technicality of photography at all.

[George Papantoniou]

Yeah! It's amazing how little the actors in Oriental films speak (how brief their sentences sound to me) and how much is translated on the undertitles (yesterday I saw the Korean "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance", by the way). Sometimes I can't keep up with the action because I have to focus on what is written on the undertitles, although I listen to the actors only phrasing some scarce words every now and then. I guess that each (short) word must (potentially) mean dozens of different things, while in Western languages (and especially mine) there is a different word for every bloody thing there is (and isn't)...

[Ed_Davor]

Hi Dann

Yea, that's it..

now that you have mentioned it, I took a look at some of my old
Practica pictures (LTL) and they also have that kind of bubble bokeh.
Really nice

[butterflydream]

Firecracker reminded me: "renkyu bokeh" is well spoken japanese expression among "salary men" which means a dull state of mind after the long holidays.