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Yakushima: a view of the southern coast
2006.09.03, 11:15 | Comments (33)
A rough coast through a long lens. This was taken from the verandah of the room where we were staying.
Picturing the moon
2006.08.18, 23:36 | Comments (10)
My daughter taking a picture of the moon on Yakushima.
Yakushima forest
2006.08.15, 22:36 | Comments (33)
A good example of the type of forest you see on Yakushima just under a kilometre or so above sea level. (Now with desktop versions.)
Yakushima here we come
2006.08.05, 08:31 | Comments (3)
Where the trees have “the power of words”
Paul Fusco’s Chernobyl pictures
2006.04.26, 14:24 | Comments (6)
Do not miss Paul Fusco’s shocking photographs of Chernobyl 20 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Boxman Fotologue
2006.02.24, 15:46 | Comments (2)
BOXMAN fotologue held me captive for an hour the other day while I compulsively looked at every photograph he has ever posted. A great photoblog.
Visual Complexity
2006.02.23, 16:03 | Comments (1)
Pure eye-candy, yes, but low in sugar and good for you.
Beautiful China
2006.01.28, 16:10 | Comments (3)
Gorgeous, saturated pictures: Beautiful China, Mr. Feng Jiang.
The Perth Files
2006.01.18, 07:17 | Comments (1)
Congratulations to my old mate John Cooke for finally starting his own blog: The Perth Files
Gomma
2005.04.11, 19:27 | Comments (5)
Gomma is a new independent photographic magazine that showcases international photographers. Published in the UK and available everywhere, the magazine is funded by grants and donations and doesn’t run advertising. Issue 1 is being printed now.
Café Haiku Slam!
2005.04.09, 00:02 | Comments (1)
How much can you say in 17 syllables?
tokyo.craigslist.org
2005.01.12, 08:53 | Comments (3)
Craigslist finally makes it to Tokyo
Floating logos
2004.12.19, 08:08 | Comments (1)
“…the signs are disconnected from the ground as they ominously float above us.”
Farewell 28mm
2004.11.13, 19:46 | Comments (0)
Now I’ll have to buy a coffeetable.
Furniture porn
2004.10.31, 16:38 | Comments (0)
Funfurde is a well-written site that covers furniture, lighting, and interior design.
Tony Ray-Jones exhibition
2004.10.14, 23:39 | Comments (2)
Britain’s National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (in Bradford) is running a Tony Ray-Jones retrospective
TokyoArtBeat
2004.10.03, 21:07 | Comments (3)
What is it with Tokyo lately? Anyone would think it’s like one of the world’s most interesting cities or something.
Metroblogging Tokyo
2004.10.03, 21:00 | Comments (0)
Capturing a city in a website.
MoCo Tokyo
2004.09.26, 16:10 | Comments (0)
A guide to contemporary design in Tokyo.
Banzuke
2004.09.26, 11:11 | Comments (0)
Banzuke.com bills itself as “Your Sumo Information Archive” — a phrase which hardly does it justice.
MpP’s favicon gallery
2004.09.25, 18:14 | Comments (3)
Michael Pierce is compiling a neat-o favicon gallery.
Ghost house
2004.08.07, 15:03 | Comments (4)
Get up from your desk and look it from across the room, then come back close and see how the detail in the bricks resolves.
Like a man
2004.02.26, 10:31 | Comments (3)
Be sure to take a look at like a man, as a man, 16 eerie, poignant, and captivating Polaroid photographs by James Luckett.
DCROSS
2004.01.30, 21:28 | Comments (3)
Mitsubishi Electric opened a café on the ground floor of their building in Marunouchi right on Naka-dori opposite the Maru Building. They do a bunch of stuff there that’s worth checking out if you’re ever in the neighbourhood.
Philippines photographs at etherfarm.com
2004.01.21, 19:25 | Comments (4)
Make sure you take a look at the recent photographs from the Philippines at etherfarm.com.
Seeds for the Pen
2004.01.06, 10:07 | Comments (4)
Be sure to read the Morning News interview with Witold Riedel and then head over to his site to see some amazing drawings and photographs.
Stop the Page, I Want to Get Off
2003.11.11, 19:03 | Comments (8)
Why on earth did DesignObserver go with light-coloured type on a dark grey background? I’d love to read it, and I would … if only the page would stop moving.
Yellowlane
2003.10.14, 17:50 | Comments (3)
Yellowlane is “the oft-neglected web persona of designer Josh Williams.” You can get icons there — and not just for Macs. ;-)
Idle Words
2003.10.01, 14:26 | Comments (1)
Maciej Ceglowski writes Idle Words and has become one of my favourite writers on the web.
Earth Architecture
2003.09.28, 21:46 | Comments (3)
Earth Architecture: It is estimated that currently one third to one half of the world’s population, almost 3 billion people on six continents, lives or works in buildings constructed of earth.
A More Dangerousmeta
2003.08.15, 10:24 | Comments (1)
Wow — take a look at the new dangerousmeta, a whole new package with added Movable Type goodness. That’s a nice-looking page.
Etherfarm 3.whatever
2003.07.16, 00:16 | Comments (6)
Etherfarm launches a redesign and it’s just beautiful.
The Photographs of Nick Kilroy
2003.07.14, 22:45 | Comments (5)
Great compositional skill, a fine and sometimes quirky sense of colour, and — what? — an obvious affinity for the tenuous light of memory, let’s say.
Map Week #5 - The Trains of Edo
2003.07.11, 11:56 | Comments (7)
Sticking with the themes of old maps, novelties, and views of Ueno, this is an Edo-era map of Tokyo overlaid with the current subway system.
First International Moblogging Conference
2003.07.07, 11:27 | Comments (3)
I was quite looking forward to The First International Moblogging Conference but when Saturday arrived I simply couldn’t face the prospect of being indoors. I’d hunkered down in front of the machine for a solid week (more, really) and if I didn’t get outside and buzz around like a blue-arsed fly something bad would have happened.
Map Week #4 - Tuftian Hakone
2003.07.03, 16:12 | Comments (1)
This example’s a bit of a throwaway but now that we’ve gone and mentioned Tufte we may as well include it. Here’s Hakone as it appears on the 3-pane gatefold brochure for Tenzan.
Map Week #3 - Ueno Old and New
2003.07.01, 11:39 | Comments (1)
In Envisioning Information Edward Tufte reprints an old map of Ueno (you can see Shinobazu Pond on the left there) to illustrate the subtleties of colour in a well-shaded map. In 1990 the good people at the Kokudo Chiriin put out a 1:10,000 map of Tokyo, far more boldly but also beautifully coloured. It comes in a handsome dustjacket, and when I opened it I discovered the map folded inside presented the exact view of the map Tufte provides.
Map Week #2 - Shikinejima, 1992
2003.06.28, 12:33 | Comments (4)
A contemporary map (published 1992 — the year I first stepped foot on the island) from The National Lands Agency Geographical Survey Institute. These are the official maps, so to speak, the U.S. Geological Survey equivalents. The entire country has been mapped in all its 3-colour utilititarian glory.
Map Week #1 - Wakayama, c.1959
2003.06.27, 10:58 | Comments (0)
If you don’t get to travel as frequently as you’d like, then looking at maps is the next best thing. In fact it’s often better, travel being a foretaste of hell as Bruce Chatwin has the Bedouin saying somewhere. Thus begins Map Week, a look at some of the maps I have lying around.
Killer View of Fuji
2003.06.07, 22:56 | Comments (1)
In 1984 Miguel Arboleda (Laughing~Knees) took an astonishing photograph of Fuji. This is a once-in-a-lifetime view, and a kick-ass first…
The Iron Heats Up
2003.04.26, 12:05 | Comments (2)
Not so long ago, dear reader, I asked you to remember “that when Jesper gets around to interviewing the really smart people, you want to be able to impress your friends by saying you’ve read the whole series from the get-go.”
That the next victim is d of waferbaby makes me right so far.
Japan Bloggers’ Webring With a Bullet
2003.04.22, 11:39 | Comments (1)
The Japan Bloggers’ Webring shoots up the Daypop charts.
Enron-style Blogging
2003.04.17, 17:00 | Comments (2)
Scurrilous allegations of Enron-style trading of esthet.org over on Blogshares.
Stocking Up on Soup
2003.04.17, 16:40 | Comments (1)
Cerebral Soup’s trading over on Blogshares.
Mirror Worlds
2003.03.29, 22:59 | Comments (10)
Differences you should expect. Mirror worlds based on similarities are more interesting.
BookNotes: Cutting Through the Crap
2003.03.22, 00:18 | Comments (0)
Craig Jensen seems to be working overtime to cut through the crap. BookNotes has become an essential clearing house of links to articles and points of view that systematically dismantle the supposed legitimacy of the Bush regime.
Darklemon Redesign
2003.02.16, 11:32 | Comments (0)
Been meaning to mention Darklemon’s new look.
Agatsuma U.S. Dates
2003.01.23, 23:55 | Comments (5)
Just in case you’re near any of the places below and you like Tsugaru jamisen (or admire virtuosity in general) and you missed Paul’s comment and would be disappointed to miss the opportunity to hear a kind of music you wouldn’t ordinarily get to hear in Middletown or Towson or even Boston or New York City for that matter, I’m posting the dates of Agatsuma Hiromitsu’s U.S. appearances below.
Signal vs. Noise
2002.12.13, 12:16 | Comments (4)
37 Signals have redesigned Signal vs. Noise.
Free Financial Advice
2002.12.03, 23:50 | Comments (1)
Free financial advice from Supafamous. I do believe I’ll take it.
Shashin
2002.11.29, 00:49 | Comments (6)
Check out Shashin from PixelKitty: a growing collection of wonderful photography.
The Okinawan Music Project
2002.11.09, 22:30 | Comments (11)
The Okinawan Music Project: Good source of artist and discographic info for Okinawan music.
Arts & Letters Daily
2002.10.27, 23:11 | Comments (3)
Arts & Letters Daily is a wonderful site, but the layout is absolutely maddening.
Workspaces
2002.10.13, 20:17 | Comments (0)
I just remembered I sent a photo to the workspace exhibit now hosted by the wonderful somebodydial911.com. Check out my…
Must-see Photography
2002.09.13, 23:34 | Comments (4)
If you’re in the mood for some absolutely stunning photography, visit Etherf@rm. Right place, right time, right pair of eyes….
I’m Biber-bound
2002.07.02, 18:07 | Comments (0)
I’d never even heard of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, let alone heard his music. After reading some of The Admiralisation’s…
Ordinary-life.net
2002.03.05, 00:11 | Comments (1)
Many of you Movable Typists out there will know about this site but for some dumb reason I didn’t. James…
FoundryDX
2002.01.29, 08:41 | Comments (0)
You might not like the style, but you’ve got to love the spirit: THE FOUNDRY - Lego Mecha by sun…
“He who travels…”
2002.01.18, 23:47 | Comments (0)
He who travels changes the sky above his head but not his soul. - Horace
tangentorange.com
2001.12.09, 00:30 | Comments (2)
tangentorange.com. Go there.
“Search Japan”
2001.11.29, 11:32 | Comments (1)
A Japan-focused web directory, Japan.co.jp is now online
Another Good Name
2001.11.24, 23:46 | Comments (3)
Another good name for a personal site: blogging a dead horse. Sports a very striking design, too….
Ben Greenman Week
2001.11.24, 00:04 | Comments (0)
“Arcimboldo has been bothering me again,” Condulmaro wrote. “I saw him in the market yesterday, and he would not leave…
milov.nl
2001.11.23, 11:24 | Comments (2)
Milo Vermeulen runs milov.nl. I like it.
Good Name!
2001.11.21, 15:49 | Comments (1)
Great name for a weblog
Glenn McGaha Miller
2001.11.21, 15:03 | Comments (2)
Glenn McGaha Miller, photographer
It was never premium, baby. Never.
2001.11.15, 10:48 | Comments (0)
I often get the feeling that Matt Wilson over at mecawilson must have been really bored by South Park because…
Brisk walk up a muddy track
2001.11.12, 01:11 | Comments (1)
Hiking up Myoujingatake for a view of The Fuj’.
Hello, gmtPlus9
2001.11.11, 08:05 | Comments (2)
Scored a link on gmtPlus9: now I’ll have to try to post something interesting…
Tokyo Tales
2001.11.11, 00:34 | Comments (0)
A chronicle of modern-day Japanese weirdness from Chris Jennings. A couple of excellent photographs of the roof of the Tokyo…
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