finding *ways* to spark (in precedented times)
out of tune with world, yet sending sparks, backyard fire storytime: Appropriately out of tune both with the world and […]
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Forging Passports, so to speak (“life during wartime”)
Remixing expired passports from Romania and Albania into “dossiers of mystery and tactical intrigue” complete with endorsements, visas, assignments, sightings,
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Riff: Japan, working holiday visa, 1992 (& related circumstances)
Before arriving in Japan, I really knew very little about Japan, I didn’t have an interest in Japan, didn’t care
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Japan “opens up”* / A few things about #Okayama
* to tourism (not everywhere, not everyone blah blah blah) If you are curious, Japan is reopening to independent tourism
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Field Notes: Kyoto’s Gingaku-ji (6 instax-views)
Japan is a land of photographers and places to be photographed. Truly, there’s an endless variety of both the photographers (and of course their equipments) and the places to be photographed. This is all to say that you will see much finer photos of the Ginkaku-ji aka “silver pavilion” which, isn’t really very silver unlike it’s cousin the “golden pavilion” which is very gold.
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Japan Life/Travel
Llama & Legend discuss Kominka & Akiya #video
Minka Storytime video with Jaya Thursfield (Tokyo Llama) & Alex Kerr (Chiiori etc). Both speakers at the recent Minka Summit
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Scrapbooks + Journals, Video Dim Sum
Scrapbook Session: glueing and taping Kyoto stuff (with punk records)
Just hanging out at Giggling Piglet Studios – an historic kura storehouse in provincial Japan – taping and glueing ephemera, snapshots,
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Scrapbooks + Journals, Video Dim Sum
Scrapbook Session: snipping and sort-ganzing, Shimane + Kyoto (with troubadour records)
Sorting, cutting and organizing scrapbook items – snapshots, insta-photos, fliers, brochures, stamps etc – from trips to Shimane and Kyoto
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Japan Life/Travel, Spontaneous Snaps
Time traveling to Café Independants (sic), 2015 / 2022
Time traveling to sometime between the wars in a basement bar somewhere in France (or maybe more recently in Kyoto
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Japan Life/Travel, Portraits of the Artiste
Gold & Silver, Silver & Gold / daveo at Kyoto temples (years apart)
“Stake my future on a hell of a pastLooks like tomorrow is coming on fastAin’t complaining ’bout what I gotSeen
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Japan Life/Travel, Kinfolk + Pals, Portraits of the Artiste
Family at Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto
Your Olson pals at Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto (wiki / map / inside kyoto) on a trip in April 2022. Blurb: Ginkaku-ji
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Notes to Future Self, Portraits of the Artiste, Post'd (cards + letters)
“Do you send postcards to yourself?” asked from Gion post office
Do you ever send postcards to yourself? It’s a really good idea. You can remember bits and pieces of your
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Portraits of the Artiste
#daveo50 ~ 2015 / 50 years > days > photos
Project: Upon turning 50 years old on August 16, 2020, Dave Olson (me, hello) is posting a photo (or maybe
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Kinfolk + Pals
Making Friends with Renegade Ted (and various topics)
I spent an afternoon with a remarkably interesting new friend who *lives* in Kyoto but rambles widely. Please meet Ted
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel, Tactical Wandering
Japan: Travel primer / places to go, getting around, accomms, culture, etiquette and geography
A rather rough overview originally compiled in advance of friends coming to Okayama for wedding. Re-purposed in slightly more general