From my slow-growing collection of drinking vessels from every prefecture of Japan. ☕️☕️☕️

Fukuoka, Fukuoka prefecture

1st year's meal is soba. Store-bought, home-assembled.

Seoul, May, 2025

Hayes Valley, San Francisco, 2025

Fukuoka, Fukuoka, 2025

From an evening in Ube, Yamaguchi

Hamamatsucho, Tokyo, 2025

Blossoms and a loud fountain this week

Tired: Taking photos of a conbini in front of Mt. Fuji
Wired: Taking photos at the Sakura Ando/Tasuku Emoto Karaoke Kan.
Left photo credit: Unknown
Right photo credit: Sooyoung Kim
👩‍🦰: み

Relateable. For me, lack of control is also applies to the reason why I'm flying. I think I would be more at peace with a crash if it was a trip of my own choosing (ie. a vacation) vs a trip assigned by my employer/client.

"Now Showing" Shinjuku, Tokyo
January 2025

I haven't consistently jogged 5K since last August, so I hope my 5.9K Your Name/Kimi No Nawa landmarks run from the other day will result in something long term.

agreed. there's nothing social about brand-building

Taken while waiting in line for tickets for the Ryuichi Sakamoto "seeing sound, hearing time" exhibition / Koto City, Tokyo, 2025

Went to see that sculpture from Past Lives in Gwacheon-si near Seoul. As a habitual planner, it's a lovely change to wake up to a day with zero plans. Hoping for at least 25 Nothing Days this year. This is from Nothing Day #2.

Thanks, Alfie! My lazy side wants to limit myself to easily accessible locations, while my ambitious side thinks I can make time for a faraway locale like those rolling hills in Kumamoto where Ran was mostly filmed. 😆

Film Location Then & Now
Gene Hackman in The Conversation (1974)
Mali N (2024)
Embarcadero Center, San Francisco

Wandering Sumida City, Tokyo

A favorite wall, Sumida City, Tokyo, 2024

Often wandering
Lost sometimes

Dunno when I'll be posting regularly here (likely the new year?) but for now, here is an old creme brulee I made and photographed.

That reminds me to put latte stencils on my xmas wishlist

From South Korea

Haven't watched enough to form an opinion, but I'm up for suggestions.

Sofi and I missed our calling as Pinterest creators it seems.

L: "Camembert Wheel Eruption" from the Japan-based Esola Italian restaurant chain.
R: The homemade recreation attempt (with langostino tails)

sea plane fill-up, vancouver, canada 2023

Snaps I took from Lauren Mayberry's (best known from Chvrches) San Francisco stop on her first solo tour.

Hopefully soon I will reprint these negatives from Pizzicato Five's final San Francisco show in 1997.