August, 2011

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Planting soba with juku

We went along to help Nishimori san plant some soba (buckwheat).  It was a scorching ...
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F R O N T. . .G A R D E N S

Documenting small public street-front gardens.  In Japan.  It is an ongoing project.  For me they represent lots ...
2011-08-29 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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Horse Mackerel ( AJI )

Wow, two post about fishing in one day from a guy who used to find ...
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I k e j i m e

Last week I watched some frogmen crawling around in the river behind our house.  Nishimori ...
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the new prime minister

the new prime minister wants change and thinks we can.  because if you have a ...
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Needle Point Panic

wiretapped:  ____of a higher magnitude and requiring another young pulse___  ___named after something named after something___  ___she’s considering ...
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Kamiyama Juku Student Project: Dinner Push ...

Maki san, one of the Kamiyama Juku students project was all about building friendships through ...
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you

she has 3 pictures in her wallet.  2 are of politicians.  1 is of you. ...
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the high dive

a wild boar lung tasted of hay smoke and princess spit: roasted, frozen, thawed by ...
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The PhilFarmony Philm Premier

Finally after months and months of brain-frying editing sessions, late-night walks, a million cigarettes, gallons ...
2011-08-16 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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Awa Odori 2011

‘I am Gareth.  I am a carpenter and a designer.  I live in London.  I ...
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Musashino Art University. A Yearly Kamibun ...

Each year a group of students from Tokyo’s Musashino Art University do a project with ...
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Doughy band

 They play an air guitar, air bass, air cymbals, air drums, an air theremin and ...
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Sanpo Suru #6

My first early morning walk since moving into Kawamata, Kamibun.  Early mornings here in Japan ...
2011-08-11 | itoi+ru-san |  1 comments
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move at all

just keep your head down and chop wood. the baseball season is a long ...
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centrists can vote twice

she didn’t pay the reward to the boy for the recovery of her parakeet.  not because ...
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Festival at the Ooshima Seishoen Sanatorium, ...

I had no idea what I was doing until the moment I was standing in ...
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petrified by small fires, the doctor checked the shore for ...

the two overweight girls told me to have 6 smaller meals per day rather than ...
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white helmets

white helmet of the postlady whisked over the bushtops  
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i don't need the lights on to find the door ...

“logistically it’s about a day off.”  “logistics don’t make the planet spin, sir.”  
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lemon-flavored heels

a necessity removed from its original source has no purpose.  rather, it has no context ...
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bath time is relax time

the wood had been polished to a rainy sheen capable of reflecting clouds.  and did so ...