Poetry snippets: handwritten, from Japan
Post office closed (again) You’ll need another day to know you are loved by a lost poet without a watch […]
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Shoebox
Japan Life/Travel, Scrapbooks + Journals
Scrapjournal: Japan, ship life / ephemera, artifacts (2017)
This scrapjournal is an “accordion-style” book (think that’s what you’d call it… though doesn’t create the dulcet tones of the
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Japan Life/Travel, Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Trains, planes and goats in Japan
Riding and visiting various trains around Okayama, Tottori and Shimane Japan, plus saying hello to some goats, and watching a
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: envelope backs – vaguely Japanese
To remind and inspire myself, i often photograph envelopes before they embark on their journey. The fronts contain folks’ personal
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Japan Life/Travel, Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Japan, Riding various trains (ambient, excerpts)
Looking out the window while riding various trains around Japan, digging the scenery of cities, countryside and stations. Nothing fancy,
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Scrapbooks + Journals
Scrapjournal: Gabriola > Australia > Japan / ephemera + annotations, 2015
This leather-bound beauty was a gift, long waiting for the right time to come into service. Finally, after lingering for
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Elsewhere Scenes
Postbox and fields (Okayama) / acrylic
Postbox and fields (Okayama)acrylic on stretched canvas2018
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Elsewhere Scenes
Rural Caprine Farm and Market (Okayama) / acrylic
Rural Caprine Farm and Market (Okayama) acrylic on stretched canvas 2018
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Writing Life
Longform Jouralism: Hiroshima via The New Yorker (originally published 1946)
Hiroshima Note: exceptional piece of longform writing, crafted in the aftermath of the Hiroshima / Nagasaki 1945 and published a
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Mementos: Japan Hitch-hiking journey flashback
In 1993-4, I worked as a mushroom farmhand in Tottori-ken (prefecture), a rather remote area of Japan (southwestern-ish Honshu). The
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Japan Life/Travel, Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Riding Rail from KIX to Joto (ambient, excerpts)
Riding the Rails in Japan: Various trains (including shinkansen and futsu-densha) from KIX (Kansai Airport) to Shin-Osaka to Okayama to
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Collections of Artifacts, Japan Life/Travel
Collection: Hitchhiking signs (variety, Japan)
Hitch-hiking signs from travels in Japan, 1993, created by copying street signs and maps, and drawn with crayon and marker
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Japan Life/Travel, Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
A Return to Nippon – Postcard #70
Returning to Japan for the first time since working as a mushroom farmer in the Tottori-ken mountains decades previous, Dave
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Japan Flashback – Tottori World
Made a map of various places where I lived and worked in Tottori, Japan during 1993-4 including an enoki
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Japan Life/Travel, Lists + Awards + Profiles
Tips for Travelling to and around Japan
Q & A Interview for a web mag (reference lost): -Did you know anybody in Japan when you went? Nope,
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Choogle On
Toking and Traveling in Nippon – Choogle On! #67
From a new backporch high on the mountain slopes, Uncle Weed talks about his collections of t-shirts and lighters and
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