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.
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.
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Memo: seen at Nozaki-te salt compound, Kojima, Okayama, Japan 野崎家旧宅
* 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), at a café in Okayama, Japan, Aug 2020
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
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.
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
Personal Archeology – #daveo50 (pocket knives, various)
Daily Ephemera, Oddities, Artifacts, Mementos, etc
2020 6.26 ~ 8.16
Personal Archeology – #daveo50 (lighters, various)
Daily Ephemera, Oddities, Artifacts, Mementos, etc
2020 6.26 ~ 8.16
Any guesses on what the string of letters mean? #spygames
Have you hit up the Riverwood Inn in Phillipsville, CA? Its haunted (i stayed the night there).
I stayed in Sri Lanka (near Galle) for a while doing some Ayurvedic treatments, drinking tea and wondering wtf i was doing etc. As such, i made an address stamp for ease in my copious correspondence, usually performed at a tea shack down the road.
Personal Archeology – #daveo50 (lighters, various)
Daily Ephemera, Oddities, Artifacts, Mementos, etc
2020 6.26 ~ 8.16
