Rural Caprine Farm and Market (Okayama) / acrylic
Rural Caprine Farm and Market (Okayama) acrylic on stretched canvas 2018
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Elsewhere Scenes
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, Personal Musings
Mementos: Japan Misasa Onsen town
“You can’t go home again” says Thomas Wolfe, and i’m cool with that as i don’t have a “home” however,
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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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Cannabis + Culture
Hempen culture in Japan | Cannabis Culture
Hempen culture in Japan By Dave Olson on July 1, 1998 As published in Cannabis Culture magazine #13 (cover story,
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Cannabis + Culture
“Hemp culture in Japan” in Journal of Industrial Hemp Association, 1997
As published in Journal of the International Hemp Association Vol. 4 No. 1 June 1997 Hemp culture in Japan Since the
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