On the List: Iceland

Sometimes I like prowling flickr photos of places that have randomly piqued my interest.  Although I haven’t talked about it much here yet, I’m planning on striking out to other corners of the world again in the reasonable future.  So, I’m starting to gather ideas of places I’d like to spend some time in, and [...]

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Himeji Castle

Japan has feudal castles, too! This was another activity that involved climbing lots and lots of stairs, and looking at really old things. But pretty old things. Here’s a couple of my favorites:

Main Tower

View from the top floor of the main tower.
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Ok, that’s all you get! [...]

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Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto

Fushimi Inari Shrine
Fushimi Inari Shrine is perhaps my favorite place I’ve been in Japan so far. It’s a gorgeous hike up a mountain via a bajillion stairs through thousands of orange gates. The place has a certain serenity to it that I’ve found very difficult to come by on such an overcrowded little [...]

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Liam Cooke

Originally uploaded by ~inky.  Copyright Liam Cooke 2008 some rights reserved, for noncommercial use only.

My friend Liam Cooke does pretty things with a camera. Especially with futuristic/minimalistic stuff. Go look. Go enjoy.

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Tokyo: A City Eye

I spent this past weekend in Tokyo with my good friend Sean Horrell, who is a great photographer, with an especially gifted eye for cities (and who is sadly nowhere on the internet, so I have no links for you). We went to see a concert, but the rest of the trip sort of [...]

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Japanese Vending Machines 101

As per request of my friend NeoBokrug, I’m putting together a collection of photos of the weird shit you can get in vending machines in Japan. While I have yet to come across the infamous used panties for sale, there’s still an array of drinks and snacks that make me do a WTF face [...]

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Robot <3

To be honest, I’m not exactly sure what I was going for with these, but I knew exactly what the shoot should look like. I’m pretty fond of that little robot, even if it is a cockroach. I often turn it on and watch it walk around the living room, bumping into things [...]

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Love Hotels

That’s me, lying on a bed in a love hotel in Osaka at around 4:30 in the morning. And yes, the mirror is on the ceiling for the first reason that came to your mind.
Personally, I think one of the best (or at least, most interesting) things about Japan is its apparent schizophrenia with [...]

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Newgrange and Knowth: Hanging Out in Ancient Irish Tombs

In the interest of wrapping up the summer trip to Ireland neatly, I have one more post regarding that trip.
We all spent one day poking around archaically old druid tombs. Knowth and Newgrange are both rather large burial mounds, and definitely on the must-see list for cool old shit in Ireland. You can [...]

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Disguised, Displaced, and Drunk

So. We all know by now that I’m terrible at getting photos up and writing about things soon after they happen. Let’s accept that and move on to the “better late than never” philosophy.
That said, welcome to the rural town of Sakuma.
Near the end of this summer, my friend Gillian, who is in her third [...]

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