New Year Card round-up flashback chit-chat #video
“With over 400 cards now posted for this new year – in four different styles/variations/purposes – I flip through a […]
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Indulge Me, Logistically – Postcard #86
Let’s not lose each other amidst the table cloth being pulled out from under glasses and dishes. Meaning: some technical
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Field Notes: Mayne Island (B.C.) Japanese Memorial Garden, 2008
Map: Japanese Memorial Gardens (on Mayne Island) Note: further reading and resources at bottom On a snowy day in Dec.
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Libraries / Museums / Archives
The Taisho Era: When modernity ruled Japan’s masses via The Japan Times
Note: Fascinated with era of Japan (forgotten in between the epic Meiji Restoration and industrialization and the militaristic/imperial period leading
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Exhibit: contributions to “Cannabis Japonica” at Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum, Barcelona
The Hash Marihuana and Hemp Museum in Barcelona (also in Amsterdam) is featuring an exhibit called “Cannabis Japonica – A
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Japan Cottage Musings
Musing: Painted into corner (of a blank canvas) #video
Diary musings including: brain fog; trips to Shimane and Kyoto (Minka Summit); pals Ted and Ed and a big dog;
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“HempenRoad: Activism in OlyWa” Uncle Weed Storytime
Blurb: In the historic kura barn studio in provincial Japan, digging into the archive from 1996/7 documentary film “HempenRoad”, Uncle
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Tree Measures Time (with patience & art)
A journey of 30 years starts with a single act quitting a terrible mushroom farmer job and hitchhiking to a
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Japan Life/Travel
Dossier: Okayama Air Raid, 1945
+ Okayama Air Raid Overview + A delicate topic to ask people about but I finally found an English language
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Hockey Art + Media
Memento: Canucks and related hockey artifacts
Various hockey ephemera (cards, calendars, tickets, clippings), made into a shadowbox once upon a time, broken, harvested and laid in
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Personal Musings
UW 3>s Peace / Alternatives are Unworthy (Remembering Nagasaki)
Peace. Try > Be > Do. Alternatives not worthy. UW <3s Peace Remembering “all“ (I mean *all*) victims of war.
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HempenRoad
HempenRoad / promo postcard, 1996-7
A promotional postcard for the HempenRoad film project Made while we were still in production, printed on 100% hemp cardstock
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Collections of Artifacts, Music / Rock
Artifact: “DOA and Friends Coloring and Fun Book” – ca. 1984
Note: Merch for legendary Vancouver-based punk band fronted by Joe “Shithead” Keithley who is now Burnaby Municpal Councillor. Stapled, still
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Libraries / Museums / Archives
Engelbert Kaempfer on the old roads of Japan via The Japan Times
“Japanese travel more often than other people,” wrote Engelbert Kaempfer, the 17th-century physician, scholar, naturalist and explorer whose “History of
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Libraries / Museums / Archives
The Atomic Bombs and the Soviet Invasion: What Drove Japan’s Decision to Surrender? | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Tsuyoshi HASEGAWA August 1, 2007 Volume 5 | Issue 8 Article ID 2501 Almost immediately following the end of World
HempenRoad
HempenRoad / chapter 6: Olympic Peninsula / Port Townsend (bonus)
This segment of Hempen Road documentary is a bit different so calling a “bonus” clip… rather than interviews with hemp
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