Cultural Norms

Sign

Yakushima: sign
What you can expect to find on the road.



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03 Jun 2013

In: Yakushima
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Rice Cleaning Vending Machine

03 Jun 2013

In: Ojika
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In rural community on the island of Ojika, just off the tip of the Japanese mainland. Local farmers bring their rice harvest here for cleaning.
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How to See Around Corners

03 Jun 2013

In: Ojika
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Mirror position, size norms: normally mounted on poles. For every thing that supplies status information a digital equivalent. In this instance it allows humans to see …
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Urban Geometry

03 Jun 2013

In: Ebisu, back of
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Overgrown

01 Jun 2013

In: Yakushima
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Places where nature advances at a higher pace than elsewhere.
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If You Only Have One Knife

01 Jun 2013

In: Ojika
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One of the peculiarities of this particular self-catering minka was that the only knife in the entire place for was cutting fish – makes sense …
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The Day After the Comma

24 May 2013

In: Osaka
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For the past six weeks I’ve been gently nudging up my time-zone count to reach UCT+9, Tokyo Standard Time. Yesterday was a comma in six …
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Urban Geometry: The Mental Curb

24 May 2013

In: Tokyo
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Road Line

24 May 2013

In: Tokyo
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246 from Loftwork. It takes a few years to come to terms with a motorway running through the heart of the city, omnipresent lay lines …
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Holding a Mirror up to the Outsider

24 May 2013

In: Tokyo
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Kinda sweet when the Shibuya skatepark bans the dinky skateboards that are for sale by all-and-sundry shops in Harajuku these days. What elements of (now …
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