Archive for the 'japan' Category

mission complete

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Christopher Noss: 1869-1934: Kitayama Reien, Sendai. 1447h 15 Feb. I can go home now.
Oh and the other ones kind of stand for themselves. Matt wrestled sumo. I shot a flock of seagulls (just a sniper LENS, though). We went snow tubing at a willy-wonka-esque chocolate factory at the end of the subway in […]

敦賀, here i come!

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

It’s off to Tsuruga (kanji i just learned, 敦賀). 1445 rapid on the kosei line… then 15 minutes on some bus with no romaji signs, but a woman working at the Kyoto TIC wrote out a Japanese phrase that i can show people to find it (thank you TIC woman!!)… and then 20 hours […]

i ate octopus balls

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

well, imean, takoyaki really is little balls with octopus inside. 300yen for eight of `em.

(oh, and i`m still alive and well! and having a fantastic adventure that will make it online sooner or later) (with photographic proof that i ran into colin the guy with my mtn hardware jacket again in kyoto this […]

off into the wild kansai yonder, tonight!

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

tis not quite the wild blue, rather, its the so-called cultural
capital of japan… and i suppose they probably ‘have the same shit
they got here, it’s just a little different.’ But any way it goes, it
should bring me back with some good stories and maybe a couple
pictures… there is a 20 hour ferry ride up […]

el mundo es un panuelo

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

up 0430. eat can of boiled eggs in soy sauce (improvised breakfast) 0440. jog to musashi-kosugi 0500. ride the tokyu corporation’s toyoko line to naka-meguro, arr 0534. catch tokyo metro’s hibiya line 0537. switch to toei corporation’s oedo line at roppongi station 0551. 0602h, after that snapshot of tokyo train confusion (each company’s […]

tsukiji fish market tomorrow!

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

check out these awesome tuna photos
Will attempt to confirm that each of these babies goes for 10k usd. geez, wouldn’t you like to catch one of those?!
oh, and turns out harvard has a world expert on the tsukiji: Theodore Bestor, source for LG’s Tsukiji 2-page spread. Is pretty darn good, for starting at […]

second look

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

 

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nihongo ga hanasemasen

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

nope, i don’t speak a word of it. if i could just have them at konnichiwa, it’d be ok! as it is it’s been the longest most amazing two weeks of my life:

met a guy on the street in kamakura, literally: we were walking past each other outside this surf shop– and […]

snapshot

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

little itty bitty hiking trail off to the northwest of kamakura. sounds of construction and trains but its green and brouwn like cloud for rest bootpacked and worn away with iron spikes to hold rock in, twisting pick your own path up and down and hide like aparment complex and rolling hill distance. tshirt hiking […]

toto, i dont think we’re in knsas anymore

Friday, January 19th, 2007

yep, this is definitely not kansas. they wear black wool pea coats everywhere and speak japanese and write in scribbles i cant understand (but am learning, really i am!)
arrived yesterday, slept off the jetlag, am today shoooting pictures and then went out for all-you-can-eat dinner with my buddy i’m crashing with matt and his […]