Festival of the dead

August 22nd, 2010 | One comment

It’s been a while since my late post, and it’s even longer since I took these photos last summer. Every August there’s a small obon celebration under the bullet train tracks near our house. Obon is the festival of the dead when Japanese honour their ancestors. A local taiko drumming group comes to our festival.

This [...]

August 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: audio slideshow, my photos | One comment

Kobe Beef

July 20th, 2009 | 4 comments

The first thing I realized doing this story is that Kobe beef is a much more rarified product than I’d thought. Kobe beef isn’t just beef from Kobe, and its certainly not the same thing as “wagyu”. As I was told multiple times, real Kobe beef is a particular breed of cow (Tajima-ushi), raised in [...]

July 20th, 2009 | Category: audio slideshow, food and drink, photography | 4 comments

multimedia commuter hell

April 21st, 2009 | 6 comments

Old photos and new media! Apologies to people who have seen some of these photos on my blog before. This is a set of photos I shot a while ago. The originals are in my archive.

I’ve converted them to B&W, plugged them into Soundslides, and added a soundtrack surreptitiously recorded on the Keihin-Tohoku commuter line.

April 21st, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Tokyo, audio slideshow, my photos | 6 comments