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Sugimoto is best known as a photographer.  However, his installations and the Go’o Shrine at Naoshima show him as much more then a photographer.  His works on Naoshima display a keen sense of light, space, mystery and architecture that leads the viewer to new and inspiring interpretations of his works and the architectural spaces in [...]

Why you ask must I do this now?  Well because we missed our bus this morning and we are stuck in Hekou.  Where in the hell is Hekou you ask?  China of course.  The part of China where no one speaks english (why should they) and it is hot as hell and there is a [...]

Hiroshima and Miyajima We met some wonderful and generous people in Hiroshima, learned to enjoy Japanese whisky  and of course ate amazing food along the way.  The Peace Memorial and A-bomb park where both humbling and inspiring.

Jeanne, inside a sculptural installation “Conceptual Moss” 2009 by Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Park building of the Benesse art complex. Jeanne has created some amazing self-portraits.  She was inspired by the works of Hiroshi Sugimoto installed in the Tadao Ando designed Park building, part of the Benesse Art museum complex on the island of Naoshima, Japan. [...]

Since we are returning to Sapa this week I thought I would post a gallery if images I took last summer.

1950s amusement park in Tokyo, very fun and nostalgic combination of American and Japanese traditions.

Made it to Tokyo yesterday afternoon at 3pm and ran straight to the Tokyo Dome to watch the Nippon Ham Fighters go up against some other team that I forgot the name of already.  We cheered for the Ham Fighters, how could we not? Also, I should describe our breakfast, I neglected to bring the [...]

A quick glimpse of Hanoi and Ha Long Bay.  We toured over night on a boat through the rock outcroppings, went kayaking, caving and jumped off the upper deck of the boat a few times.  We also narrowly dodged a major hurricane or in this part of the world a cyclone.