What I’m loving now: Vivian Maier’s shots

I only found out about Vivian Maier from this book I scored from the Big Bad Wolf book sale a few months ago. A (lucky) real estate broker unknowingly stumbled upon boxes of negatives and undeveloped film rolls in a flea market. These belonged to Vivian Maier, the Rolleiflex-toting nanny who died just two years […]

An Ode to Uji (& green edible things)

My favorite place in Kyoto is an unassuming little town called Uji. I first found out about it from a former colleague, a Japanese who grew up in Wakayama. She said it I might be interested to go there if I was fond of green tea. In Uji you’ll find real matcha in pure tea form, […]

on dreary pavements

Field Trip: A Tokyo University

Last November, I visited my former JFM colleague Flori at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies where she’s now teaching. In between our catching up over cafeteria lunch and afternoon coffee and pastries, she gave me a tour around her uni.

Inokashira Idyll

Scenes from my autumn afternoon in Inokashira Park on my last day in Tokyo.

Weekly Roundup, 10/08

(1) Ballet rotoscope In a previous lifetime I might have been a ballerina. I have a deep fascination with ballet and I sometimes gripe about the lost opportunity of learning it when I was little (to be fair to my family, I had never asked to be enrolled—I just assumed they would somehow know.) So […]

Weekly Roundup, 10/01

Yay, on to my second post in this series…but I’m stumped. There’s lack of visual inspiration this week so all three items would have to be random personal bits! (1) Clean, real food. I don’t believe in excluding food groups. I love my meat and dairy (bacon! butter!) as much as I do vegetables and […]

Weekly Roundup, 9/24

Hisashiburi! Starting a weekly section to force (!) me to regularly update my blog, which, to state the v. obvious, has been in its dormant state for months now. The roundup I have in mind features a ratio of 90:10 / 95:05 visual inspiration culled mostly from daily online content consumption of the design and […]

snippets: sun streaks & shadows

in memory of in-between jobs 2.0

When I tendered my resignation from JFM late last year, I honestly didn’t know where to head next. I figured I could always do full-time freelance work for the time being. As if on cue, assignments came pouring in. Weekdays were filled with writing and sometimes going out on shoots; almost no room for stressing […]