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楽
A set of shots from a night out with friends at one of my favorite local izakaya, 楽. 楽 (raku) means ‘enjoyment’ in Japanese, and is part of two of my favorite kanji compounds: 音楽 (ongaku) and 楽ちん (rakuchin). 音楽 means ‘music,’ but since it’s made up of the kanji for ‘sound’ and ‘enjoyment’ I […]
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Tags: enjoyment, 音楽, 言葉, handmade audio equipment, izakaya, Kondo Audio Note, language, music, ongaku, Ongaku Amplifier, raku, rakuchin, words, 居酒屋, 楽, 楽ちん
the unbearable cuteness of tako
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Tags: こたこ, たこ, cute, octopus, octopus family, octopus toy, this cute octopus toy makes me very happy, vinyl toy
Winter has hit Osaka with flurries of small snow storms and frost on the neighborhood roofs in the morning. Because Japanese houses are famously cold in the winter — a phenomenon that’s been extensively commented on by people a lot more clever than myself — all kinds of strategies have been developed to keep warm, […]
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Tags: Aladdin blue flame heater, ゆきやかんこ, ダルマストーブ, ドレミノテレビ, 灯油, Daruma stove, Do-re-mi Television, kerosene, kerosene delivery truck, kerosene heater, Osaka, Thoreau, Ua, winter, 大阪
percussion cakes
Tired out from too many conferences, too much teaching, too much research and too much writing, clearly the only thing to do is come home, change out of the work clothes, and spend some time relaxing to the sound of Lullatone’s special brand of pajama pop. bedroom bossa band from Lullatone on Vimeo.
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Tags: Bedroom Bossa Nova, Lullatone, pajama pop, twee
1) The tides on Swan’s Island, like the famous tides of the Bay of Fundy, can be characterized by the great extremes between high and low tide. In addition to this, however, there are also tidal extremes where the high tide is especially high and the low tide rides out lower than low. The other […]
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Tags: dream, Swan's Island, tides, Bay of Fundy, quahogs, Moby-Dick, ugly toothbrushes, toothbrush design, Franz Brentano, phenomenology, schooner, eidetic sails, Life of Frederick Douglass
textural
(All photos taken using a Nikon D70 with 50mm 1.8 lens.)
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Tags: 50mm 1.8, daily life, NIkon D70, Swan's Island, textures
North Bay spring
It’s beautiful weather here in the North Bay, the first time for six years that I’ve been back in Sonoma County during the spring. It’s taken a bit of time to readjust to the paces and rhythms here, country suburbia being just about as opposite as possible from the deep urban space of Osaka. Here […]
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Tags: birds, North Bay, open space, Sonoma County, supermarkets, turkey vulture, wine, wine culture
