minako is on mission street, between 17th and 18th. i've passed by it for months and not had occasion to go inside but, on friday night,...

this morning, the sky was cloudless, a slightly bleached blue, and there was bright sunlight and a cold wind running down church street. i s...

kenro izu 's bhutan photos just got featured in the NYT . his stuff is gorgeous, powerful -- "strong and calm as the summer sea...

when i was in japan a few years ago, i got a lead on the original tapes and transcripts of pre-manuscript interviews with hamada shoji and b...

the cynic in me says "hey, another semi-pointless typographical exercise", but the ex-typographer, tree-aficionado, and fan of jap...

the softlightes are supposed to be a wonder band, but i just like this because of the stop-motion photography and the brilliant use of found...

on the way home from the lake, we drove into the much-heralded blizzard that was supposed to have hit us last night. the branches on the tre...

i ducked into painted bird on the way home a few nights ago, and saw shirts made under the imprint of art in the age of mechanical reproduc...

a round-bottomed bowl of copper beech, turned from green wood and not yet finished.

i woke up this morning feeling a little hung-over. after padding blearily into the kitchen and knocking over several boxes, i successfully m...

the high line wasn't open to the public when i was in new york in june, so i spent a saturday morning walking around the galleries over...

bernie brought in two bottles of the widow today, to celebrate the continuing march of the graph up and to the right. we're out to get m...

when you give people stuff that's really valuable and they think it isn't.

norman and norah stone have built themselves an art cave in napa recalling i.m. pei's miho museum in shigaraki, but either with more a...

here's a marvellous article from the NYT about shibboleth , doris salcedo's unilever installation at the bankside tate . "...

GMM now has a location feature that tells you approximately where you are without needing a GPS signal (or receiver). i became mildly obsess...

yesterday, while examining pictures of sap, i found the magnetosphere visualizer by barbarian . magnetosphere replaces the traditional itun...

we went to the asian art museum on sunday morning to see hiroshi sugimoto's history of history . i'd missed the deyoung retrosp...

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laura and jake gave a chanukah dinner on saturday night before catherine's christmas concert with the san francisco bach choir . they ma...

the japanese aerospace exploration authority put up some of the movies taken by kaguya, their lunar orbiter, on their website . due to, shal...

as our friend DH says, "let's not kid ourselves. i go to lucca every three or four days. well, maybe every two or three days."...

after a while, even for me, html circa 1994 gets old and the Siren song of email postings and auto-archiving becomes irresistible. so the sa...

i was up late last night trying to buy things on amazon -- specifically, a heavily-discounted twin pack of sonicare replacement electric too...

so here i am, early on a wednesday evening on seah street, in the restored shophouse that houses tea bone zen mind. (or, rather, there i was...

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