============================== README.TXT ================================ Welcome to the Japan.JPG CDROM! This CDROM contains 763 pictures of Japan taken by David Leong. ========================================================================== Quick Start Instructions: Windows 3.1/NT/95 ----------------- Go to "File" menu under program manager and choose Run. At the Command Line box, type: "D:\setup", assuming 'D' is your CDROM drive. This will install a group folder with icons for this CDROM. Under Windows 95, inserting the CDROM into the CDROM drive will also automatically start a CDROM browser program called WinView. MSDOS ----- Change to your CDROM drive and type "view". For example: C:\> D: D:\> view ========================================================================== Here is a list of some important files and directories on the disc. setup.exe Installation program for Windows 3.1/NT/95 view.exe File Browser/Uncompressor for MS-DOS. utils\w32view.exe File Browser for Windows 95, Windows NT, and Win32s. utils\w16view.exe File Browser for Windows 3.1. 00global.txt Global index of this CDROM docs\ Documentation regarding this CDROM docs\view.doc Documentation regarding VIEW.EXE _bbs\ BBS support files ========================================================================== WinView and View To make browsing the disc easier, we have included the program WinView for Windows, and the program VIEW for MSDOS on the CDROM. These programs allow you to page through index files, browse through directories on the CD, view documentations and uncompress/install the program(s) you want onto your hard disk. ========================================================================== ABOUT THE IMAGES The images on this disc were taken with either a Minolta 35mm with three lenses and a UV filter, or a pocket size Olympus that was old and battered, but took great photos. The Olympus was small enough to carry everyday, and most of the candid shots were taken with it. The Minolta did the brunt of the work on longer trips. I used whatever film was at hand, normally Fuji film. The images may give one a false sense that there are no people around, and that Japan is green and serene. The truth is that I often waited excruciatingly long times for the omnipresent crowds to thin enough for a clear shot. If you have sharp eyes, maybe you can see the loudspeakers on a pole in a otherwise beautiful temple blaring the temple's prestigious history to the tourists. The negatives were scanned using the Photo CD process, and the choicest morsels chosen for this disc. I hope you have fun poking around Japan as I saw it, and I hope you go see it for yourself. David Leong 1/16/96 =============================================================================== ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: David Leong David Leong was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois (home of the University of Illinois and the birthplace of the Mosaic Web browser) in 1966. Abandoning Illinois' chilly winters, he became a California boy at age three when his family moved west. He was to remain blissfully ignorant of snow for almost twenty years. During high school, David's steady interest in art lead him into a job working at a comic book store. During his tenure there he was to become fairly proficient at pen and ink artwork, hovering on the shadowy border of being a "semi-professional" comic artist. (A genuine No-Prize to the first person to correctly identify his first published work.) He was also became interested in the world of Anime, or Japanese Animation. This interest was to come back to haunt him, and to indirectly lead to the disc you have just purchased. Since drawing comics (or working in a comic shop) was not a likely source of stable income, David turned to another abiding interest: computers. Starting with a 128K Macintosh, he taught himself how to operate the beast by reading everything he could get his hands on. Quickly ditching the 128K for a used Mac II, he went on to learn the major graphic software packages. This allowed him to move into the field of graphic arts, where David utilized his computer and art skills to freelance as a graphic artist. By 1990, David had been taking Japanese classes at a local junior college, stemming both from a desire to study a second language, and also to finally learn what the characters on those Japanese animated shows were saying. Through this class he learned of a unique opportunity to go to Japan, and he applied for it. In August of that year, David's annual vacation to the San Diego Comic Convention was interupted when he learned that he was selected to represent the city of Concord, California as a teacher and good-will ambassador to the city of Kitakami, Japan. Kitakami is Concord's sister city, and had requested that Concord send someone to teach in Kitakami's public school system. Spending the next two and a half years in the rural north of Japan, David traveled widely and always carried at least one camera. Shooting over seventy-five rolls of film and capturing over two thousand images, he carefully recorded the wonders of Japan as he saw them. From the Northern most island of Hokkaido, to the tragic memorials of Hiroshima in the south of the main Island, David sought out the beautiful, the garish, the traditional, and the rampant modernity that makes Japan such a fascinating and occassionally frustrating place to live. David also began learning taiko drumming in Japan. After his return to the US, in addition to continuing to play taiko, David began ROLLING THUNDER, THE TAIKO RESOURCE: a World Wide Web page devoted to the art of Japanese style drumming. It is the only resource of its kind on the net, distributing information to taiko drummers around the world. Rolling Thunder is dedicated to giving exposure to taiko groups without net access, and provides server space for several such groups. Currently, David is finishing up a degree in Asian Studies with a focus on Japan at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to polishing up his language skills, he has been continuing to play with computers, expecially in the area of the internet. David is the webmaster of several World Wide Web sites on Campus, including the Asian Studies dept., and the Financial Aid dept. His duties also include writing the HTML code and producing the images used on those pages. David's interest in the Web has lead to the recent efforts of learning the programming languages, Java, and C. Upon graduation, David hopes to find employment as an international facilitator and provider of internet solutions. David Leong plays and makes taiko in Berkeley, California. He strongly encourages anyone who wishes to send him abroad to take more pictures to contact him. David Leong email: wateya@uclink2.berkeley.edu (preferred, but this email address will expire in fall 1996) taikoweb@aol.com Snail mail: 2465 Baltic Dr. Fairfield, Ca 94533 Rolling Thunder: http://garnet.berkeley.edu:80/~davesite/rollingthunder.html (until fall 1996, new address to be announced) =============================================================================== Shareware This disk contains many shareware programs and images. Shareware can be considered to be a sort of try before you buy system where you are expected to pay the program author a registration fee if you find the program or image useful. You will find details of registration included in the document/text files provided with each program. ========================================================================== Disclaimer Walnut Creek CDROM makes no warranty about any file on this CDROM, including any written by Walnut Creek. 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