Archive for the ‘Osaka’ Category
square life (4)
All photos taken with an Asus ZenFone 3, using Instagram filters.
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Tags: Asus ZenFone 3, everyday life, Instagram filter, square, 日常生活, 日常生活の写真
square life (3)
All photos taken with an Asus ZenFone 3, using Instagram filters.
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Tags: Asus ZenFone 3, at war with the obvious, daily life, everyday life, Instagram filter, square, 日常生活, 日常生活の写真
I’m currently in the middle of Typhoon Noru, which has been steadily dropping large amounts of rain over Osaka all day long. It’s a slow-moving typhoon, one that a friend of mine described as “drunken,” so despite the downpour there aren’t any heavy winds to rattle the windows. In fact, in addition to producing some […]
Filed under: books, culture, Japan, Kansai, literature, nature, Osaka, philosophy, poetics, poetry, science, society | 1 Comment
Tags: A Defense of Climate Tragedy, Amitav Ghosh, climate catastrophe, climate fiction, climate science, dam construction, David Wallace-Wells, Deidre Wengen, extreme weather, Ezra Pound's Proposition, Genevieve Guenther, global climate change, global finance capital, hyperobjects, Jorie Graham, literary realism, Melville, Moby-Dick, questions for our times, Robert Hass, Sea Change, The Uninhabitable Earth, Timothy Morton, typhoon, Typhoon Noru, whale oil, whaling
textural (10)
All photographs taken with an Asus ZenFone 3.
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Tags: Asus ZenFone 3, at war with the obvious, everyday life, vernacular photography, 日常生活, 日常生活の写真
textural (9)
All photographs taken with an Asus ZenFone 3.
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Tags: Asus ZenFone 3, at war with the obvious, daily life, everyday life, 日常生活, 日常生活の写真
the boo boo muck
Walking home with colleagues after dinner the other night, we passed this cute sign advertising some porcine parking, and I was reminded once again of how fantastic Japanese is for the making of inventive puns. “Boo boo” (ブーブー) is, of course, what pigs say in Japanese and, as my colleagues informed me, it’s also the […]
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Tags: ANA advertisement, animal sounds, animal sounds in different languages, BooBooPARK, Chicago, deer, Goo Goo Muck, intercultural misunderstanding, Japanese humor, Japanese puns, language games, puns, puns in multiple languages
rainy season blues
It’s the rainy season in Japan – the time for tsuyu (梅雨), or ‘plum rain.’ After having lived in Japan for over eleven years, I’ve finally gotten around to buying a proper pair of boots for the season so that I don’t have to spend day after day walking around in soaked shoes. I had […]
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Tags: climate change, clouds, cloudscape, dramatic clouds, rain boots, rainy season, seasons, tsuyu, 梅雨
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