Happy New Year 2026 from「VAoJ」
あけましておめでとうございます。 今年もよろしくお願いします。
あけましておめでとうございます。 今年もよろしくお願いします。
There have been big changes at our local shrine in the last year. The local elders, who have been in charge of preparations for most of the shrine…
My last post on community problems and this post on community collaborative problem solving have unintentionally come together as bookends and an appropriate way to ring out the…
The first three of the photos in this series were from July of this year at a park in my neighborhood. But maybe the timing might be better…
Two left-over shops from x-mas shopping in Kyobashi. New taco and hamburger shop near work… Bonus Shots (w/ sources): https://www.facebook.com/mongolialive.org/posts/because-i-cant-wai…
Bonus link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI&list=RDlCpXMy5GalI
Remembering good friends and praying for a Hanshin win tonight…
An important adornoversary coming up in two day’s time. So get your selfie selbst selfed. . I cannot tell from the desk calendar, but it looks like 10…
I moved into my neighborhood in 2003. Most of the houses were new and very ordinary. From the outside, there was really no architectural evidence of any particular…
Japan-Adjacent: In Praise of Creative Expression within Japan’s Shadow LAURA HEIN, Series Guest Editor One of the pleasures of Japan is the high quality of visual art and…
There is a narrow canal (水路, suiro) behind my house that runs parellel with the Neyagawa River for several kilometers. The canal serves as the border between Neyagawa-shi…
“Taking Pictures of Snakes at Midnight: An Anthropological Perspective” on the relation between snakes and humans, and nature and humans, in Hong Kong, by Ryan Xin Xie. Venue:…
ABSTRACT: This project began as a 35 mm film photography collection to document the presence of waste in the Northwest border of Tunisia, as the materiality of waste,…
The last adventure and post in the VAoJ Hiroshima Research Trip Arc is about my tour of the sake breweries in Saijō-chō in Higashihiroshima. I left the big…
This post is the second of the Hiroshima Research Trip Arc. In keeping with my recent and ongoing tachinomi project, I wanted to experience the social/drinking nightlife of…
My research trip this summer was to Hiroshima. The first place I went to was the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park and Museum. I have been there before, on…
A HOT early Sunday afternoon, the deafening sound of the cicadas on the cherry tress that line the small stream behind out house, and the sound of shouting…
This text is a slightly adapted keynote/film introductory note I gave at a conference when the Department of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger celebrated…
Bonus(?): This picture pretty much says it all… 7 losses in a row. And on Umeno’s birthday no less (he did get a hit, but was tagged out…
UPDATE 6/18/25: It might be hard to see, but a pigeon picks the weeds and litter in search of food… Or th help clean the mess? Meanwhile (harder…
Abstract: ‘An Archive of Archives Lost’ is an affective autoethnographic visual essay that examines the devastating impact of climate change through the lens of personal loss. The Philippines…