Archive For The “Tokyo” Category

Free music: Shelf Life – ‘Best Before End’

By | August 28, 2011

  Best Before End by Shelf-Life 
This is the second of two free albums offered on this blog as part of the promotion of my recently launched new website. As with the Control K album, feel free to download the tracks, pass them around, remix…

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A Coca-Cola crown

By | May 23, 2011

A Coca-Cola crown, a photo by Globalism Pictures on Flickr.Sometimes, you throw a bit of content out into the wilds of the web and it comes back with surprises. There’s often no way of knowing which bits will be a hit and which’ll be a miss. This one …

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A Coca-Cola crown

By | May 23, 2011

A Coca-Cola crown, a photo by Globalism Pictures on Flickr.Sometimes, you throw a bit of content out into the wilds of the web and it comes back with surprises. There’s often no way of knowing which bits will be a hit and which’ll be a miss. This one …

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Shibuya gallery

By | May 7, 2011

Sometimes life just moves faster than you can keep up with. Perhaps it’s the times, perhaps it’s my age, perhaps it’s my ongoing refusal to stop taking on more than several things at a time that I don’t get enough of a chance to reflect on them. Wha…

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Shibuya gallery

By | May 7, 2011

Sometimes life just moves faster than you can keep up with. Perhaps it’s the times, perhaps it’s my age, perhaps it’s my ongoing refusal to stop taking on more than several things at a time that I don’t get enough of a chance to reflect on them. Wha…

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With the lights down low (WN0036)

By | May 4, 2011

Another time-lapsed and tilt-shifted video gem here, from darwinfish105. This beautifully-crafted short film shows Tokyo, a city that drinks electrical power by the tanker load just to get up in the morning, with a collective cranking down of the dema…

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With the lights down low (WN0036)

By | May 4, 2011

Another time-lapsed and tilt-shifted video gem here, from darwinfish105. This beautifully-crafted short film shows Tokyo, a city that drinks electrical power by the tanker load just to get up in the morning, with a collective cranking down of the dema…

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Message from a Nagasaki granddaughter

By | March 24, 2011

‘Nagasaki peace park’ by lazy Friday 13th (issued under licence CC-BY-NC-SA)Emotions can move in wildly different directions after tragic events such as the recent series of disasters in Japan. Some in the areas most affected can veer into deep despair…

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Message from a Nagasaki granddaughter

By | March 24, 2011

‘Nagasaki peace park’ by lazy Friday 13th (issued under licence CC-BY-NC-SA)Emotions can move in wildly different directions after tragic events such as the recent series of disasters in Japan. Some in the areas most affected can veer into deep despair…

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Some light relief – a tune about green tea

By | March 18, 2011

A tweet from Tokyo appeared in my stream a few days ago which made me think, and reminded me a little of something that Michael Franti said after a visit he paid to war-ravaged Iraq.He’d been writing a lot of angry protest songs following the US-led in…

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