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It’s only the tiniest of images, but I do believe it qualifies as the first time an image of mine has been published in a publication that actually costs money to buy. The above (click on it for a larger version) is from the October issue of Artforum magazine, and shows my photo of Japanese [...]

I just got through twiddling my thumbs through Takeshi “Beat” Kitano’s film Dolls, the most excruciatingly slow and painful film I’ve seen since…uh…let me see…uh…Brother, directed by…oh wait, that was also a Kitano film. Hmmn, notice a pattern here? I don’t know, I keep giving this guy a chance, and I thought for some reason [...]

Last Saturday I braved the heat and the crowds and made my way down to Kamakura, the once former capitol of Japan, and thus home to many wonderful temples and shrines, and to the Daibutsu (Big Buddha) statue. Kamakura is also home to many varieties of seasonal flowers, and it was one of them, the [...]

The other night I watched Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 1998 film Wandafuru Raifu (US title: After Life) on DVD. The film is based around the fanciful but intriguing premise of a way-station between death and the after life, where those recently departed have a chance to select the happiest memory from their life, have that moment reenacted [...]

I was so taken with Akira Kurosawa’s Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low, 1963) when I watched it on DVD earlier this year that I created a page of dvd captures from the film, which I then forgot about. Listening to a bunch of natsukashii Japanese music from the 50′s and 60′s reminded me again [...]