The Smugglers ‘at Japan’ pod-idio book (+ audio cameo, train mayhem & storytime foreshadowing)
Gist: My occasional co-conspirator, CBC dude and fellow mixed-media storymaker Grant Lawrence is reading his stellar book “Dirty Windshields – […]
Post’d: inbound treats from India, Lanka, Ukraine, Ireland, City Lights, Bowen, Germany etc
I mean, I know no one is really worrying about this or hardly paying attention, but I have a strange
Records
7” treats for the BC trip
Some presents to take for the #BCInvasion trip. The Japanese artists 7 inches were purchased at a second floor “used
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Japan Renegade Travel Musings (specifically *not* Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka)
Adventure Tour Guide Ted Taylor and DaveO riff in a historic Kura barn in Tsuchida, Okayama, Japan talking about exploring…
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Postbox poem needs a repaint (for impending tourist visitors to Japan)
Looks like this poem on a postbox at Rural Caprine (goat) Farm is going to need a bit of painting
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Field Notes, Libraries / Museums / Archives, Postboxes
Postbox / 4 views: Yumeji Takehisa home & atelier (for #postboxsaturday)
For #postboxsaturday comes 4 views of Japan pillar style at (one of several) museums for famed artist (painter, print maker,
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Postboxes
Postbox: Matsue, Shimane, Japan (for #postboxsaturday)
A very unique Japan PostBox for #PostboxSaturday This black beauty is in Matsue, Shimane outside the former residence, next to
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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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Collection: (Pay)phones (vol. 11) – assorted Japan hotel/ryokan house phones
As part of on-going documentation of various collections of payphones. this gallery features examples of phones in various states of
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Collection: Payphones (vol. 10) – assorted varieties / Varley Trail, Hong Kong, Bali, Japan
Pardon any redundancies, this collection definitely includes several that just haven’t fit into previous archives but maybe one or two they already are out there, there’s too many to count anymore. In this wormhole, we range widely however from the Valley Trail in British Columbia to Indonesia to Hong Kong, to points around Japan.
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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Collection: (Pay)phones and whatnot (vol. 9) – around Nagasaki & Gunkajima
In the various collections of payphones (as well as hotel house phones and other related analogue communication tools) throughout this archive, the
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Museum / Exhibit: Rodin Wing of Shizuoka Pref MoA / Japan, 2017
Along a travel by ship from California to Hong Kong, came a few stops in Japan including Shizuoka which led
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Museum: Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, 2019 (a sampler)
Blurb: On our extended skinkonryoko/honeymoon ramble, we had a stop in the city of Toyama (capital of eponymous prefecture) which
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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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Train Station posters & signs, various and etc / Shinkonryoko Ramble, 2019
Along the way on our shinkonryoko (honeymoon) slow travel ramble, we rode all sorts of trains which are documented in
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