Day 23: 📷 dreamy (@maique) #mbApr
Love this local flower shop overflowing with leaves and twigs of all shapes and sizes. It makes me think of James C Scott. It also makes me think of my wife, since I buy stuff 💐 for her here.
Store name translates as:
夢 - dream 挿 - to put into a vase 花 - flowers
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport 📚 Cal Newport’s latest advice book tackles the question of productivity in knowledge work. Factory work can much more easily be measured and systematized. Newport points out that office workers, writers, artists, and scholars are often assigned tasks and must come up with their own individual system to be productive. These systems are opaque to managers, who end up relying on “visible activity” (which many busy office workers are familiar with) as the proxy for productivity.
Day 22: 📷 blue (@lzbth) #mbApr
A reclining Myaku-Myaku, official character of the Osaka Expo 2025.
(and yes, I know you are wondering but I can confirm he has an eye on his backside)
Just finished: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 📚🥰☕️🫖🤖
Day 21: 📷 mountain (@dejus) #mbApr
Pouring rain 🌧️ so couldn’t get you a pic of Ikoma mountains which look amazing from my apt… so I went to the Ancient Mexico exhibit and got this ziggurat. See more pics: www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
Be kind! Forgive yourself! Don’t let things go to your giant Dry Clay Head (Mark Manders, 2015-2016)!
(Currently on display at the National Museum of Art, Osaka)
#Osaka #art
So, besides showing googly-eyes 👀 at the X100vi I have also been watching vids about the new Supernote (since I want an eInk tablet for reading papers) and been looking On1 vs Capture 1 as a Lightroom replacement. Feels like a whole new generation shift for personal kit 📷 📝 👨🎨
It was a nice blue sky this morning around Umekita before the 黄砂 yellow dust came in from the Gobi desert and clouded things up.
#Osaka
Day 20: 📷 ice (@the) #mbApr
25º in Osaka today. Tea, Waffles, and アイス
I’ve been watching too many Ricoh GRIIIx vs Fujifilm X100vi YouTube videos 😬 😬 😬
It was a gorgeous day in Kyoto today. Here are some random snaps from #EverydayKyoto
Today we had lunch at おてらハウス in my old neighbourhood which serves only 精進料理 vegetarian Buddhist cuisine. As it is spring, there are lots of bamboo shoots in the meal.
#EverydaydayKyoto #food
Day 19: 📷 birthday (@crossingthethreshold) #mbApr
In Japan orchids like this are usually presented as gifts to celebrate a new shop opening. Happy birthday! 🎈🥳
Visited my friend @hermosawavephotography.com at his Kyotographie exhibition featuring his book “Empty Kyoto”
The exhibit runs until Sunday so get down there to see prints and hear some stories about the photos. hermosawavephotography.com/emptykyot…
#photography #kyoto
Started Slow Productivity by Cal Newport 📚 on recommendation of @pratik
Day 18: 📷 mood (@agilelisa) #mbApr
Every time I ride my bike past this…
Whoa I felt that quake in Oita all the way here in Osaka! Long! #earthquake #Japan #地震
Day 17: 📷 transcendence (@drewbelf) #mbApr
You are connected to those in the past, in the present, and the future. You are transcendent.
(📸 This is my family altar 仏壇 🙏📿)
The “internet is not an ecosystem. It’s a zoo.” Robin Berjon and Maria Farrell not only show how we have arrived at this online monoculture (and the dangers therein), but how we can take steps to seeding more diversity (and therefore resilience) for the good of the whole forest. This article really sums up the work I have been doing over the past couple of years as a sort of armchair internet ecologist.
Day 16: 📷 flâneur (@chrisaldrich) #mbApr
Daughter got some new kicks and immediately decorated them in her style. She travels at her own pace. 🌈✌️
