The ghost thing — I’d like to know more. The thing I’ve been trying to figure out is how you could make some people ghosts but not everyone. I mean, I guess if you film a place empty and then film it again with people, then overlay the two you get ghost people, but what if you want a single ghost? Any ideas?

speaking of which, i know how to make ghosts on video!! i was going to do it in a film i`m hoping to make this spring! it`s really easy, you can do it on a mac!

High technology plus perving — that’s such a Japanese combination! Your story reminds me of that incident we witnessed in Kyoto, involving a girl in a short skirt, a pasty young man with a cameraphone, and a policeman. Only your camera-in-the-shoe story is even weirder. Modifying his shoes, for Christ’s sake! Surely that sort of talent would be better spent cheating at roulette or stealing top-secret blueprints or something.

Spies and peeping toms: so similar in so many ways.

i saw a `spy` on the subway in osaka last autumn. the car was busy, and i was sat down. at one station, this wierdo guy stood in front of me and clicked on a dictaphone. i thought he was taping the ambient noise of the subway at first, but the way he was pointing it was really wierd and something seemed suspicious about it. i got paranoid he was trying to tape people`s (my) conversations… then i looked at the dictaphone more closely, and noticed it wasn`t audio at all… it was a remote mini-dv tape recorder! it took me a while before i noticed he actually had mini spy cam in a hole cut in his shoe! he was taping up girls skirts! he ran off and switched cars at the next stop.

later, i saw such `security` cameras and recorders for sale in akihabra. they are pretty expensive. there was a big documentary about it on tv last week too, particularly spy cams in hotels, so it`s been quite big news here! i like japan, but the perverts here are out of control… give me a muttering london spy anyday…