New Year “Nengajyo” 2024 / Reiwa 5 ~ for (calm) Dragons
Thar be Dragons Ahoy! Wishing you Calm in 2024, Reiwa 5 if you prefer. Fondly from the Olsons of Tsuchida […]
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Diary: simple tasks and sparking life with renegade Ted
Evidence I’m still alive… From Oct. 25-ish or so (lemme check that as though it matters :0) Not gonna lie,
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Improving Campsite
project: natural fragrant & dehumidifying sachets (charcoal, ginkgo, hemp, sandalwood)
Today, a “mental health” / calm my brain into a meditative flow while making some thing useful / project in
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Festive Greetz Cards Scrapbook Time (backwards)
In front of a wood stove, Dave stashes cards from the “string of honour” into archival book while recounting tales
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Tidying up: kura, recycling and firestarters (and a few notes from around the house)
Speaking of organizing, made it out to barn, studio the other day, couldn’t find project wanted to work on (a
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Accordion-style Postcard Scrapbook hangout (with jazz and sage)
Hangout in the Kura barn while i light sage, spin Ornette Coleman and fill up an accordion-style scrapbook with postcards
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Craft Sessions
Typing Liner Notes in the Kura (with Joe Strummer vinyl)
Ambient hanging out typing liner notes (on an Olivetti Lettera 34) for mixed CDs and cassettes while listening to Joe
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Typing Aerogrammes (ambient, in the kura barn studio)
Typing Aerogrammes in the kura barn studio – Really, that’s it, typing aerogrammes on an Olivetti Lettera 34 at a
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Craft Sessions
Assembling Kerouac Dossiers and Poetic Letters, in the Kura #video
Assembling Jack Kerouac ephemera dossiers and stamping postcards, scribbling letters while chatting, grouching about misplacing things and listening to REM’s
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Craft Sessions
Writing Postcards & Typing Letters in the Kura studio (with records)
Writing postcards, putting on stamps, typing letters (with a weird expression on my face as I try to hold up
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Making Mix Tapes (with Taos incident story) in kura
Really, That’s it… just me in the kura studio, fiddling around making a mix cassette tape from a USB drive
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Items: Hemp Shop for Custom Clothes in Pokhara, Nepal (2017)
While in Pokhara, Nepal in 2017 for extended Ayurveda treatment, i generally, wasn’t able to go out and explore aside
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Dossier: meet Rasika, postcard artist in Sri Lanka (also ink stamp and videos)
While in Sri Lanka for extended Ayurveda treatment, and later rambling a bit, I met an earnest young artist named
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Scrapbook Session: hand sewn binding, calendar substrates & reconciliation
A conversation about DIY constructing scrapjournals with board game backs, calendar paper fronts, mixed blocks inside, with a side sewing
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Improving Campsite
Plan: Kura, 1st floor “concept” (family hang-out arts and crafts music clubhouse)
While the second floor of my kura barn is well documented as a mixed media arts and craft studio, this
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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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