f11 Magazine: Urban Exploration Interview

The online photography magazine f11 contacted me recently requesting an interview about my haikyo travels and urban explorations.... Read more »
| Haikyo / Ruins |

Top 60 Japanese Buzzwords of 2011

Publisher Jiyu Kokuminsha is right on time with its annual release of the top 60 Japanese buzzwords. The words are listed in no... Read more »
| Japan, Marketing & Branding |

Post-Apocalyptic Images of Japan

The ruins and haikyo aficionado in me couldn't resist making a post about Tokyo Genso's fabulous art depicting post-apocalyptic... Read more »
| Japan |

Nikkei Trendy’s Top Trends of 2011 and ...

Nikkei Trendy is a popular trends magazine I've been roughly following since arriving here in Japan. I first discovered it while... Read more »
| Japan, Marketing & Branding |

At the Eleventh Hour…

So today is the 11th November, 2011. And this post goes live at 11:11am, at precisely 11 seconds, I guess. A curious date, if... Read more »
| Journal |

A Beautiful Kobushime-chan

Back last year, I visited Ishigakijima, an island south of mainland Okinawa. It was my first time visiting the Ryukyu Islands,... Read more »
| Bioluminescence, Photography |

The Jimonjitou Days

I awoke this morning with a head full of dreams. Reflections of the past, placed haphazardly in imagined settings. The face of a... Read more »
| Journal |

Deserted Dolphin Island Ruins in Okinawa

Far across the seas in southern Japan lie the Ryukyu Islands, a subtropical archipelago that offers an experience quite unlike... Read more »
| Haikyo / Ruins |