I’ve been meaning to call you
but I don’t know the number
and still can’t figure out time zones
But still,
I’ve been meaning to call you…
just to say hi
and that I’m thinking about
you.
Fondly, daveo
Been meaning to call you… (phone poem)
Tag Archives: artifacts
Artifacts: Commemorative item-making devices at Korakuen
Stamping documentation at Korakuen Garden here in Goldilocks Okayama Japan. Tip: Always have a notebook with you (and/or buy postcards) and stamp to remember your times.
Sure there’s lots of nature and plants and trees and bridges and gardens and tea houses and turtles and cranes and flowers going back to the Edo period here at Korakuen Gardens… but also machines of various mechanical, electronic and analog persuasion to commemorate your visit to Korakuen (1 of 3 “top official super official great special” gardens in Japan) in pleasant Okayama, the “Goldilocks“ of Japan. Also postcards and tea (naturally).
Examples, lightly annotated below:
* Stamp your notebook with a commemorative stamp and an extra stamp with today’s date (checkmarko)
* Buy a Okayama Momotaro pin (check mark)
* Buy a coin to commemorate your visit (checkmark)
* Engrave the coin you just bought with a special message (checkmark) {note: this machine was so interesting with mix of digital and mechanical-ness, and clackety-clackety sounds]
3 Phones for teleporting and transmission (+ haiku for Mom)
+ Mother’s Day haiku +
Our home phone number
Felted inside rubber boots
So I was never lost
{note re haiku form}
Where have you teleported recently?
Phone to the Wind: give a call, no matter where in the universe. ¥10 optional.
Noticed: School uniforms (of a sort)
Observed in a community centre exhibit on an outing to Kojima, Okayama, Japan. Kojima is the “denim capital” of Japan and the Okayama area is also noted from producing the ubiquitous school uniforms worn around Japan. This exhibit was an homage of sorts.
Stationery in Cinema, vol. 3 (2 ID cards, a painting, a telegram & a letter)
Due to an affection for stationery, letters, scrapbooks and whatnot, i notice such items when viewing moving pictures. As such, i am often inclined to capture screenshots for my memory.
Sometimes, oddly enough, these are printed and put into scrapbooks in a sorta meta-remix. Either way, to keep these tidbits close at hand, assorted specimen are collected within.
Items: for communications, mostly – at “salt house” in Kojima
- Gramophone
- Camera
- Accordion
- Lithograph
- Telephone (wall)
- Radio (vaccum tube)
- Telephone (table-top)
- Gramophone v.2
- Calculator
End of Dispatch
Memo: seen at Nozaki-te salt compound, Kojima, Okayama, Japan 野崎家旧宅
Diary: “where i’m calling from” (re: creativity & endeavours + caramel apples)
* where I’m calling from *
{i} Diligently send out creative goodness all the time / is doing so a worthwhile endeavour? I mean I know “yes” but…
My point: I just hope items/musings/artifacts are enjoyed and care is noticed (so i don’t feel like the family who handmade caramel apples for Halloween just to have them all tossed out when kids return home from trick or treat).
Am i making sense? Didn’t think so
** Fck Stats, Give Inspiration
Items, observed: Camera and Radios (various), Okayama
Items: Observed / camera and radios (various), at a café in Okayama, Japan, Aug 2020
#daveo50 (spectacles, various, vol. 2 / modern collection)
Spectacles (modern collection) / with accessories
I’ve bought boats for optometrists
Trying to see more clear
Paid for orthodontists
for kids of ophthalmologists
Sent the work of opticians
to unknown recipients
Examined construction of lens
from a bifocals dented nose
Understood refraction more than options
conglomerates of industrial design
Still evidence glinty abounds
enough to make a mobile
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Personal Archeology – #daveo50 (spectacles, various, vol. 1 / classical collection)
Daily Ephemera, Oddities, Artifacts, Mementos, etc
2020 6.26 ~ 8.16
Artifact: in Kura various (clock, axe, name plate) #daveo50
Various artifacts in situ, as seen in “Kura Grain Barn Art Studio / Music Lounge” (which needs a proper name).
Note: Inside the kura grainbarn studio/music lounge. It’s a magnificent 150+-year-old wooden structure but dang, gets hot and humid in the Japan summer and with so many books, records, papers, artifacts, etc, im working to keep the temperature and humidity under control.
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Under 70% humidity now which is a big step as a few days ago it was over 80%! Still too high to be comfortable and ideal for sure. Have two fans and a dehumidifier going on timers, a whole bunch of those little packets of salty kind of stuff, and some other “boxes“ of dehumidifying agents.
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Most of these items were stored in climate control storage for years so want to keep them in good condition and avoid any kind of unnecessary deterioration. Not a professional archivist but I’m doing what I can.
#daveo50 (spectacles, various, vol. 1 / classical collection)
I’ve bought boats for optometrists
Trying to see more clear
Paid for orthodontists
for kids of ophthalmologists
Sent the work of opticians
to unknown recipients
Examined construction of lens
from a bifocals dented nose
Understood refraction more than options
conglomerates of industrial design
Still evidence glinty abounds
enough to make a mobile
##
Personal Archeology – #daveo50 (spectacles, various, vol. 1 / classical collection)
Daily Ephemera, Oddities, Artifacts, Mementos, etc
2020 6.26 ~ 8.16
#daveo50 “Personal Archeology Project” (pocket knives, various)
Personal Archeology – #daveo50 (pocket knives, various)
Daily Ephemera, Oddities, Artifacts, Mementos, etc
2020 6.26 ~ 8.16