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Tokyo, 2024.04.19

I shot this from my employer's office in Shibuya, looking toward Shinjuku. I had the camera turn on the blur at the bottom and top of the frame to generate that curious model-like look.

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud