Field Notes: Tepemok Record Fair in Ushimado
Feb. 2, 2023 Ushimado, Okayama, Japan: as it goes, we learned about a record fair at a unique community creative […]
Field Notes: Tepemok Record Fair in Ushimado Read Post »
Feb. 2, 2023 Ushimado, Okayama, Japan: as it goes, we learned about a record fair at a unique community creative […]
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July 7th, 2024 – contemporaneous annotations follow: Make a start: Because I’m a hermit, this kind of slipped past my
Field Notes: Hokusai & Hiroshige – woodblock masters exhibit in Okayama Read Post »
Field Notes: Anyway, this preamble suggests this article will share something useful about the region however it does not :)
Since then, I’ve learned much more but really the best resources are below in the form of Setouchi Explorer blog and Island Art Center’s dispatches. But hey, some fun snaps of ferries, outdoor installations and other cafe and villages vibes here.
Consider this a placeholder for further documentation {if you have something “non-generic tourist pablum to share, let me know}
My experience, despite living so close, is very limited and in this case the following snapshots are from a simple day trip to Naoshima in which I visited zero museums
You see, in June 2019, my arborist wife was working nearby Uno port, a jumping off point to the islands, so I bussed over (along, the way documented my reading, coffees and flashbacks per usual
Field Notes: Naoshima art island & Uno Port, Setouchi 2019 Read Post »
Sensei keeps sensei-ingCutting dinosaur fishFrom morning auction #dro420 While visiting the brilliant and magnificent Hongo sensei on the Noto peninsula
*Dinosaur* Fish – buy it, cut it, eat it in Noto / Shinkonryoko Ramble Read Post »
*Adelaide Epiphany at South Australia Maritime Museum* While I’m tempted to dive into a whole soliloquy about my time in
Museum: South Australia Maritime / Adelaide, 2015 Read Post »
But these memories from a wallet on the way to another place where i had a house where some magical things happened, found that banknote – somehow with smell still attached, then remembered the ants, the sand, the fruits, the lingering conversations under palms, covering myself in fresh aloe and soaking in freshwater pools, trying to improve diving technique off of “the jumping rock” which also saw some bonfires, signal fires really…, learning how to jerk meat, cooked low and slow over charcoal made under giant dirt mounds – But mostly i’ll remember my first night where a wild Bush tiger (who I later a retained as my personal roller when he wasn’t out gallivanting in some suspect activities) pulled out a giant box of weed – leaves, small flowers, stems, stocks and buds – and threw it on the bonfire, never forget that smell, wafting into a night of endless stars after another truly spectacular sunset
Jamaica: Banknote and Little Bay Flashback Read Post »
Along the way on our shinkonryoko (honeymoon) ramble, we rode all sorts of trains which are documented in various ways
Shinkonryoko Trains, round-up, vol. 1 / Thunderbird, Hanayume Noren etc. Read Post »
For reasons which no longer seem important, during the “wander and wonder “a.k.a. “lost and found” years during the later
Field Notes: Vegas Neon Museum /boneyard Read Post »
Unnecessary Preamble: The trip was meant as a little adventure and to visit relatives and also get away from the
Nagasaki Ramble, Feb. 2020, part 1 (trains, trams, food & rumours of a…) Read Post »
Nov. 22 AM: Quite paralyzed by exhaustion and overwhelmedness – but things to do so I’m just saying this out
Field Notes: overnight’r w/ sports, kids, bunks, baths, ports & burgers Read Post »
Months, so many months since we returned from the #BCInvasion and still, stacks of ephemera, loads of records, so many
BC Invasion: so lost, so far behind Read Post »
Adventure Tour Guide Ted Taylor and DaveO riff in a historic Kura barn in Tsuchida, Okayama, Japan talking about exploring…
Japan Renegade Travel Musings (specifically *not* Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka) Read Post »
Field Notes (brief) Kurashiki day-out during the “Jazz Street“ event (first in-person since 2019) with little pop-up concerts happening in
Field notes: Kurashiki Jazz Street day-out snaps Read Post »
For #postboxsaturday comes 4 views of Japan pillar style at (one of several) museums for famed artist (painter, print maker,
Postbox / 4 views: Yumeji Takehisa home & atelier (for #postboxsaturday) Read Post »
Intro / Disclaimer (longer than actual notes): I hesitate to publish this flashback diary, not because I fear away from
Field Notes: Auroville, observations feeling lost (at first) Read Post »
* to tourism (not everywhere, not everyone blah blah blah) If you are curious, Japan is reopening to independent tourism
Japan “opens up”* / A few things about #Okayama Read Post »