Phones & Cassettes + still life in the kura
Well I’ve joined the 1980s I have my own actual Japan phone number (not VoIP or other scheme) 07084173501 I’ve […]
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Craft Sessions, Kinfolk + Pals
Making Ichiro’s Birthday banner sign in the kura
using pinking shears, construction paper, paint, markers, twine and music, i make a big banner sign for my kiddo’s birthday
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Books in the Kura – w/ Emde, Lawrence, Kroll, et al & Ichiro
Hanging out in the kura with Blue Jay Valley 7″ on the turntable going through a stack of recently received
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Batches of Records – indie rock, much Canadiana + awsum musical women
In my Kura barn studio (wearing a zip up cardigan) some months after returning from a trip to former home
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Japan Life/Travel, Portraits of the Artiste
Me in my place, at peace
Amongst all the hospital visits and dental appts and other “stuff going on behind the scenes which not ready to
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Recently, in miscellanea (kitchen morning, messy studio with new gear and records +)
These things don’t necessarily connect yet I keep remembering the importance, yes important, I’ve documenting the beautiful mundane of a
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Rice Field Records: 3x video vinyl stories + 1 more to spark joy
Background: Rolling back to March 2023 when Michael (txtr @mschool) – who i noticed online doing video tours of records shops
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Sort-ganizing Ephemera by Post (with Royal Dudes & the Muffs)
Opening a big santa sack of recent items by post including aerogrammes/ aerograms, passports, international driver’s licenses, documents, hotel letterhead,
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Ichiro: breakkie & drum / coin hangout in the kura barn #io
{Because I’m completely over the moon in love with this kid} here are 3 more snapshots + 1 video, ergo:
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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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Tiger Year 2022: Flashback Musings in Present Moment
A meandering rundown from the kura barn about New Year routines, foods and rituals in Japan, plus usual gabba gabba
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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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Craft Sessions
Circumnavigation (poetry book) ~ Let’s make a start
From my barn studio in provincial Japan come spontaneous annotations about undertaking a new project. In this case: compiling a
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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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