+++Res Ipsa Loquitur+++

2017-12-20T14:49:00.004-08:00

Short interlude: maritime grey skies and regular light rainfall all bloody year round

31st May Kasayama

2015-06-17T21:23:00.001-07:00

Okutama 20th May

2015-06-17T21:23:00.000-07:00

5th May kimitsu

2015-06-17T21:22:00.002-07:00

4th May Honda Hunt

2015-06-17T21:22:00.001-07:00

31st March Nihongi-Toge

2015-06-17T21:22:00.000-07:00

27th March Nagara

2015-06-17T21:21:00.001-07:00

29th March Yabitsu

2015-06-17T21:21:00.000-07:00

Okutama 24th March

2015-06-17T21:20:00.000-07:00

30th April Minami Boso

2015-06-05T20:42:00.000-07:00

Sadamine Pass Snow Monkey Ride

2015-03-23T00:27:00.000-07:00

Kagura

2015-03-22T00:36:00.000-07:00

Shiraishi first attempt 2015

2015-03-08T03:34:00.001-07:00

Naeba 苗場

2015-01-14T03:30:00.000-08:00

2015-01-08T01:52:00.001-08:00

Boso winter spin

2014-12-13T21:03:00.000-08:00

Rapha poncing

2014-12-12T04:00:00.002-08:00

FOR NO GOOD REASON

2014-04-25T16:57:00.001-07:00

Myoko

2014-02-25T05:22:00.000-08:00

Beer fuel ski trip to Myoko, Nigata Prefecture only two decent photos.

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Murakami

White Moutaineering

2014-01-20T21:56:00.000-08:00

Just because it's Japanese.

White Mountaineering 2014 Autumn Winter from White Mountaineering on Vimeo.

FOGGY Japan

2014-01-19T02:53:00.000-08:00

Cuckoos

Deep in a forest where it rains
cuckoos cry.
Beyond pale darkness
their echoes respond.

Elegant-looking tips of the trees
are hearing the silent fog that is coming down,
that fog turning into drops of water on twigs
and softly dripping down.

On the path that continues into the fog
I stop walking and listen
to voices of lonely cuckoos.

Droplets of water make a separating curtain,
and from an eternal end is heard
that monotonous repetition.

I look back at the lengthy time
of my short life,
estrangements of affection and
a period of many betrayals.

Beloved persons who have departed too,
scattered-away friends too,
all of them have gone inside this fog
and perhaps exist somewhere in the end of the fog.

Now already there is no way to search.
From end to end
the enveloping fog thickens and thickens.
All the loneliness for what cannot be regained
is swept along very quickly.

Here and there in the ocean of fog
like spirit and spirit that call to each other
cuckoos are crying,
cuckoos are crying.

- Mitsuharu Kaneko.

CASHCA ×6876 TECH PARKA

2014-01-07T15:11:00.002-08:00

NEEeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

2014-01-02T05:22:00.001-08:00

Green Mountain

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men.

Li Po

Weetin’ the heed o’ the bern

2013-10-23T06:43:00.002-07:00

“We are

Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”

― Charles Bukowski

Japanese Leather Card Holder

2013-10-19T06:05:00.000-07:00

Got this Daytona Bros magazine a while back but never got round to making the Japanese leather card holder. Until a few months back i got my thimble out and with some Biwagaku music to set the mood i set to it.

So after a few months wearing in and fading it now looks like this. As all good leather it only improves with time.