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sight seeing city it s a working city with many distinct neighborhoods a variety of foods including the only street food we found in japan tokyo and kyoto are not street food cities and bustling nightlife it reminded me of southern european cities in that way you get the sense that the nighttime is the right time in osaka it s probably a city best enjoyed without children osaka feels forward looking relevant and surprising quests for coffee take you down back alleys teeming with life art and human connection where you stay matters in both tokyo and kyoto our lodging proved a bit too distant from where things were and the added 15 20 minutes definitely took its toll and discouraged us from some evenings out in tokyo we stayed in the kyodo neighborhood a peaceful residential area if i were to do it again i d look for places in shimokitazawa closer to the center though still west of shibuya or even just a quiet part of shibuya though it can get quite expensive in kyoto we stayed south of the train station but most of what you want to do is in the north of the city i d avoid gion tourist hell but areas around nakagyo are ideally situated tokyo recognizing that 4 days in a city of 37 million people means that we barely scratched the surface but some distinct experiences worth sharing while akihabara has become the new home of otaku culture i found it sterile far more interesting was nakano broadway a warren of weird little stores with assortments including retro toys dolls anime and manga merch watches lots and lots of watches pop culture crammed into about 4 stories it feels distinctly human scale and anti corporate compared to places like animate even though the fish trading has moved elsewhere tsukiji outer market warrants a visit if only for the efficiency of all that food mostly seafood in such a small area with so much variety to try no particular vendor stood out for me i regret we didn t have more time to explore asakusa we visited it on a tour after tsukiji and were pretty tired after a couple hours that said i had a strangely blissful cortado at fuglen asakusa sitting out front watching the world pass by it began my japanese quest for coffee with vibes for which i found a number of worthwhile entrants restaurant komani on the campus of university of tokyo provided an excellent cafeteria style lunch the restaurant prides itself in local sourcing and the dishes in particular the mackerel were excellent it s a little out of the way but worthwhile if you re looking for something a little lighter cleaner and easier ueno park proved uninspiring but just to its north is yanaka and nippori neighborhoods with pre wwii architecture human scale and quality shopping definitely worth going a little out of your way near one of the nuttiest shopping streets in all tokyo takeshita street in harajuku a place i hope to never return is perhaps ironically meiji jingu a shinto shrine whose approach a long forested walk was serene peaceful and energizing stacy and dorothy treasured the treats they got from shiro hige s cream puff factory specifically the totoro shaped cream puffs there are two teamlabs in tokyo and we chose teamlab planets but the commute to get there and back was quite extensive and there s not much else to do around it and so i d recommend starting with teamlab borderless which is more central matsumoto i can t say matsumoto was a particular highlight of a city it was a perfectly fine waystation for the japanese alps if you find yourself here we did find a few delights matsumoto castle is more of a keep it s a holding pen for warriors when the area is attacked it s one of the few original constructions left and was worth seeing since we were in town kobayashi soba offered an excellent set lunch with which stacy and i had a sake flight a couple of which were truly delicious mount desert island ice cream had easily the best ice cream we enjoyed on this trip it s a curious spot a japanese outpost of an ice cream store based in maine anyway the ishii miso butterscotch was nearly worth the trip to matsumoto alps coffee lab definitely delivered vibes from the choose your own beans to the big picture window overlooking the river takayama the raison d etre for staying here was visiting shirakawa go a unesco world heritage site as a historic village best known for gassho zuruki massive farmhouses with thick steep straw roofs designed to handle heavy snow the highlight here is the open air museum a collection of houses that also tells the story of the area we took part in a sake tasting at the harada brewery which was decidedly mediocre i think they don t put out the good stuff for this experience the showa kan museum provides a sense of japanese life in the showa era but came across as cluttered and lacked any interpretation far and away the in town highlight was yu a cocktail bar staffed by a mixologist a robust and outgoing middle aged man whipping up drinks and a server a nattily dressed more severe though still friendly younger man all in the most charming setting you ve ever enjoyed a drink in kyoto perhaps the single best meal on our trip was at restaurant muni where we ordered omakase and had an array of treats including a fried salmon burger foie gras wagyu beef and more kiyomizo deru just made me mad the temple and surrounding areas are just crawling with folks avoid it our best temple experience began at higashiyama jisho ji with a delightful garden and then a peaceful wander down the philosopher s path where we were encouraged to sail flower boats and came across an older man listening to opera while doing his morning calisthenics ending in nanzen ji for a quality temple visit in arashiyama monkey park proved non essential but the garden at sogenchi teien and the bamboo garden were very pleasant especially as we were approaching dusk so it wasn t too busy the torii gates in fushimi inari are definitely worth the visit just go early or late to avoid the crowds day trip to nara nara was as close to magical as we experienced in japan for two reasons isiuen garden my favorite garden we saw and probably a top 3 experience over all feeding deer they really are everywhere and it s as cool as you d hope the ginormous buddha at todai ji is undoubtedly impressive too we day tripped from kyoto but you could just as easily do so from osaka osaka unsurprisingly the best okonomiyaki we had was in osaka at okonomiyaki tsuruya technically i had negi yaki green onion pancake style i then did a happy dance we experienced shinsekai through a delightful walking food tour trying about 15 different dishes at 5 different places ranging from izakaya to whisky bar of personal interest was the silver ball planet a ginormous pinball arcade in amerika mura nakazakicho is a must visit neighborhood a kind of scavenger hunt of cool in the north of the city dorothy drew a lot of inspiration from gallery iyn i had tasty coffee with vibes at pauhana a one man operation in a converted container box and we adored our shave ice desserts from osaka naniwaya peterme travel 1 comment june 13 2024 june 13 2024 6 minutes review of american artifact the rise of american rock poster art american artifact the rise of american rock poster art is an excellent highly diy doc in it merle becker who has a youtube channel devoted do diy video production follows her passion around the country interviewing rock poster artists active from the 60s through the early 2000s it about 90 minutes long and has three fairly distinct chapters late 60s largely psychedelic 1980s mostly punks and the indie period from the 90s through early 00s produced in 2009 it was new to me rock poster art while a form of applied art commercial art emerged from a kind of vernacular and outsider source distinctly different from what would have been similar ish such as magazine ads it s an art form definitely worth celebrating and studying as these artifacts were created to advertise local shows often at small clubs and their less costly ephemeral nature means they very much speak to the zeitgeist within which they were created i was quite taken with the degree of passion and commitment that went into producing these things that would get torn down from telephone poles i loved the part where folks shared how they learned the idiosyncrasies of the photocopiers around them and would run their flyers through different ones to get the effects they wanted this is a level of dedication not typically associated with punks the episodic nature of the doc also makes it conducive to watching in 30 minute chunks my only complaint is that i think this has only ever been produced for dvd so the picture quality isn t hd which means you lose some of the majesty of the art peterme documentaries rock n roll video youtube january 14 2023 january 16 2023 1 minute the best books i read in 2022 part 2 non fiction when it comes to non fiction while i bought more this past year than in prior ones most i don t read end to end instead they re references for my work organization design and leadership that said four stood out and kept me engaged from beginning to end are we human notes on an archaeology of design man s search for meaning american urbanist how william h whyte s unconventional wisdom reshaped public life two heads a graphic exploration of how our brains work with other brains are we human notes on an archaeology of design colomina and wigley as a design nerd with an anthropology background it s perhaps unsurprising that are we human was my only book this past year i want to revisit it for a deeper critical appraisal i simply haven t had the time for such an exercise but anyone interested in design humanity anthropology culture society and the folly of modernism it never ceases to surprise me how design types continue to fall for the intellectual bankruptcy of the modernist movement particular the philosophies of shysters like le corbusier should get a great deal out of reading this book particularly the reflections it encourages though written by professors and willing to traffic in theory are we human is never oblique or obfuscatory in the way of so much academic writing i would love to run a chapter by chapter book club for this text man s search for meaning frankl the oldest book i read this past year originally published in 1946 in german 1959 in english with a number of updated and augmented versions since i read the 2006 e book i was introduced to man s search for meaning by my 14yo son who after having completed a class assignment well before the period was over was recommended the book by his english teacher it blew his mind so i thought i d give it a crack it s a powerful book divided into two parts the first details frankl s experience in german concentration camps a horrific experience that somehow made him stronger the second then explores frankl s theory of logotherapy his belief that meaning and purpose are what s most important to humans and their continued survival as someone with nihilism tendencies i m intrigued by non religious and non spiritual discussions of being connected to something greater than yourself american urbanist how william h whyte s unconventional wisdom reshaped public life rein a recommendation i found through the new york times american urbanist is an intellectual biography of william h whyte probably best known for his 1957 book the organization man an early anthropology and sociology of corporate life though he spent the bulk of his career pursuing matters of urban design and public spaces with a focus on new york city on that front probably his greatest impact was as an early advocate of jane jacobs whose the death and life of great american cities established a new way of thinking about urbanism as both an org designer and urban nerd i was predisposed to appreciate this book while i would have been quite content with a straightforward biography rein s engagement with whyte s intellectual realm is impressive and illuminating making connections and pursuing threads for further study whyte proves to be a great main character an east coast wasp with an ivy league education who nevertheless developed an outsider even bohemian take on the heart of american life whyte operated within the comfort of established corporations time life inc the rockefeller foundation while maintaining an iconoclastic perspective that often ran contrary to his benefactors beliefs closer to home i appreciated how whyte developed his points of view not through formal education but simply a no nonsense approach to understand the world around him close observation he was an early advocate of sociological and ethnographic practices in studying corporations and cities an appreciation of the impact that design choices have on people the practical application of good writing and strong storytelling and an allergy to dogma two heads a graphic exploration of how our brains work with other brains frith frith and frith cognitive science has long been of lay interest to me and was a path not taken in college when i chose to study anthropology instead and more recently i ve been studying up on collaboration and team dynamics given my professional orientation around increasing the effectiveness of organizations so when two heads came to my attention likely another the new york times recommendation i was intrigued not just by the subject matter how our brains have evolved to work best with other brains but the presentation format comics visual representations of abstract concepts is something else i grapple with a lot e g org charts so i m curious as to how others conduct such things this book is very much for the layperson and much of it addresses the basics of neuroscience when it gets to the heart of their thesis about collaborating brains it definitely picks up and provides some interesting insights into when we work better together vs when we work best on our own i even cited it in a post on linkedin about the folly of individual performance evaluations for people working in teams peterme books january 1 2023 january 1 2023 3 minutes the best books i read in 2022 part 1 novels like many left brained nerdy types there d been a point in my reading life where i stopped with fiction as i felt it a waste of time when there was so much out there for me to learn also it felt like fiction was dominated by sad modernity novels a genre i have absolutely no interest in as i age i ve grown to appreciate the reflective qualities of good fiction and a willingness to engage in genre stories which don t tend to have the weary solipsism of so much contemporary writing in the order i read them the anomaly herve le tellier published in france in 2020 translated and published in english in 2021 the anomaly is a mind bendy and twisty tale of how the world reacts to an unexpected event this is one of those the less you know before you read it the better books if you dig mysteries light genre 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