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This year

TOSEI-SHA PUBLICATIONS Megumi IWATA "Tatara"

by sbrothier
The snow covered Izumo seen from the window of the air-plane was just so refreshing that I felt myself purified as if landing on to the holy ground. Driving for one hour and half from the air port, I went through a long tunnel jus like the womb of a huge dragon. Having passed quiet country village, I headed forth into a hilly cedar mountain. I couldn't help sensing god's presence there. I pushed my way through the deep snow, there appeared Kanayago-jinja. (the guardian deity of iron). I had to climb the steep approach to the shrine. Snow was swept clean around the shrine and I saw names of worshippers praying for the success of their Kera making were recorded in a note-book. I simply felt a strong impulse to observe how iron be made. Having opened door, there I found Tatara.

2011

Sylvia Ann Hewlett: Japan's Working-Women Problem | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

by karlcow

Nearly two-thirds (63%) say that they quit because their career was not satisfying and a startling 49% left because they felt stymied and stalled.

More graffiti than guesthouses! « Constructing Cambodia

by karlcow

The lakeside backpacker alley has seen better days. Every week, another restaurant, home or guesthouse is demolished. What remains is frustration in the form of graffiti. This alley has not felt creepier and run-down in years. Better look for the next backpacker ghetto (my bet’s around Orussei)

L E N S C R A T C H: Success Stories: Ferit Kuyus

by fioliksm & 1 other

The mist and fog in Chongqing is real. It is athmospherical. The city’s nickname in China is City of Fog. It’s been like this since a long time. Of course there is also pollution from several kinds of industry in the athmospere. Surprisingly I never felt affected by the air quality.

L E N S C R A T C H: Success Stories: Ferit Kuyus

by karlcow & 1 other

The mist and fog in Chongqing is real. It is athmospherical. The city’s nickname in China is City of Fog. It’s been like this since a long time. Of course there is also pollution from several kinds of industry in the athmospere. Surprisingly I never felt affected by the air quality.

polis: Revisiting Henry Miller's Paris

by karlcow

Brassaï claims that a large reason why Miller came to Paris is that he felt he could live a more dignified life in the midst of poverty than in the American city, where being poor was viewed as a "moral failure," a commentary on the differing experiences of poverty and class between American and French global cities with which I am grappling today.

The Crow

by alamat & 1 other (via)
I can’t help but think of the irony I found when I first read this graphic novel. I was experiencing the break up of a two year relationship with somebody I felt I loved very deeply at the time.

I am a deshi | [ kenshi247.net ]

by Takwann
he following essay was awarded the kantosho prize in the Junior High School section of the “32nd kendo youth research seminar.” I am a deshi Written by: Hasuda Tomoka 1st year Junior high school student (approx. 13yrs old) Miyazaki prefecture, Miyazaki city, Shujakukan dojo Suddenly, after keiko one day my sensei said “you are my deshi.” I was surprised at the suddenness of words, but I was also happy that he called me “deshi.” However, I somehow felt strange. Its because I didn’t actually understand the word “deshi” or what being one means or involves. I thought hard about the meaning of the word and searched out information about it in books and dictionaries. I discovered that “deshi” is part of a “teacher-student” relationship (師弟の関係).

Shibumi - AJJF: Articles from the Kiai Echo

by Takwann
In our striving to learn Jujitsu there is a spoken and unspoken truth that we all desire to perform a technique with grace and fluidity, perfect motion. To also have a state of mind in harmony and awareness. Past Masters say that Martial Arts can be felt both internally and externally perfect movement. For instance, Ueshiba always referred to his Aikido as a path to perfect Harmony in motion! The desire to be able to perform a movement with ``Shibumi'' I see as a natural drive inherent in all people. It seems innate to express whatever we are doing in a way that is as the Japanese say full of ``Shibumi'' or ``Effortless Perfection.''

Resource timing demonstration from Tony Gentilcore on 2011-01-11 (public-web-perf@w3.org from January 2011)

by karlcow

With all the proposals for resource timing, everything has felt a bit

abstract. So, we've put together a custom Chrome build which

demonstrates the event-based approach for resource timing.

2010

Looking at Sketches from street level by Amanda Wood : Design Noted from Michael Surtees

by karlcow

When someone creates a pdf the thing can be as many pages as possible, infinitely colourful and any dimension. Looking at this zine it felt considered with the pace of the images, page count and of course the writing.

Merihari (メリハリ, 減り張り) « Dokodemo Diary

by Takwann
Sometimes at these public settings, but in my experience mostly in more individual consultations, he would bring up the concept of ‘merihari’. When we would ask him what he wanted or felt was lacking in people’s aikido, he would often use this word. Unfortunately he would also seem to have difficulty explaining it or elaborating

tortoise

by sbrothier (via)
When we visited one of the islands in Hawaii, we came across a "general store". It was very local and community-based, which we rarely saw in Los Angeles. Nowadays with big chain stores spread in the cities, you can get decent variety of products with decent service anywhere you go. But when we walked into the small "general store" we felt a very friendly, established presence in its local community. In the "general store", their products were what was minimum required in daily life. Less variety of what big chain stores carried. But we felt that was just enough.

Making Digital Content on the Mobile Phone Physically Graspable - information aesthetics

by karlcow

the 'living' method allows a mobile phone to display emotional states due to a continuous heartbeat and breathing-like motion that can be felt ambiently in your trouser pocket.

things you can feel

on the ceremony

by blackgoldfish
"_________, I take you to be my wife/husband from this time onward, to join with you and to share all that is to come, to give and to receive, to speak and to listen, to inspire and to respond, and in all circumstances of our life together to be loyal, to you with my whole life and with my being." It just felt perfect to me and Paul loves it too. I will save my original thoughts for the marriage. And I'll say that promise out loud in a white dress and then spend forever trying to keep it.

DIY: felt shingle tree

by blackgoldfish
styrofoam cone (the cone I used measured 2 7/8" x 5 7/8"; 73mmx149mm)

2009

Shifting focus - Edward Bilodeau

by karlcow

Shifting focus

Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 ~ 4:54 PM

This is the last new post that I'll be making on this blog. I decided a while back to shift the focus of my web activities, and thought it was time to formally close things off here.

Why stop posting here? Mostly just a feeling that I needed to shake things up a bit, to put some serious effort behind a few other ideas that I've wanted to work on for a while. Making a clean break just felt right.

There may still be some activity on this site as I back-fill some old posts from other blogging platforms. My goal is to eventually have this as a (more or less) complete archive of my personal blogging from early 1998 to this year. That's a background project of mine that I plan on allocating a bit more time to in 2010.

A huge thanks to Karl Dubost for hosting this blog for so long. In addition to providing this infrastructure, Karl has supported and inspired me in more ways then he may realize. That you are reading this today is due in no small part to him, so you can thank (or blame!) him.

Thanks to Ed for his wonderful piece of work that is his weblog.

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