Jun 21, 2016 | Commentary, Experiences, Photography, Tokyo
TOKYO: 18 YEARS LATER 1997~2015 By no means am I “old,” though I am without question getting older. Subtle heralds of this fact make their unwelcome presence known from time to time. Things such as not being able to drink all night and be completely hangover...
Oct 29, 2015 | Commentary, Photography, Sendai
I’ve been thinking lately about what kinds of things grab my eye and prompt me to raise the camera to my eye and take a shot. So often it’s old and weathered things, what I’ve sometimes heard referred to as ‘Decay Porn.’ There’s...
Apr 16, 2015 | Commentary, Photography, Tokyo
Wow. Does it ever feel good to be back. Those who know me are probably already aware, but at the beginning of May, my wife Mary and I moved to Japan as part of her job. Three thoughts have been in my head a lot lately: How grateful I am, not just that Mary has...
Feb 22, 2005 | Commentary, Fukuma, Uncategorized
Getting back to what I was yapping about some number of weeks ago regarding the “other side” of the JET Programme, I don’t really know what to say. To recap, I had finished up my critiques on the effectiveness of JET’s educational aims and then...
Feb 17, 2005 | Commentary
Whew! After two months of rehearsal and production on the film side of things, and two weeks of performance, our multimedia production of Trainspotting is finally over and done with. The review was a bit of a mixed bag, but our audiences grew every night with the last...
Dec 16, 2004 | Commentary, Experiences, Fukuma, Rants, Raves
I would never presume to claim that this site is a valuable source of indispensable information, but I would say that we’ve got some good stuff today. While it’s a subjective interpretation of the JET Programme, I believe it to have value for those...