An experiment with experiential learning
Brought me back
Seven years had passed
Since I called Tokyo my home
Like an ex-lover
Familiar but different
A flood of memories
In the streets, big and small
The love and the hate I once felt
for the city, for the culture and for a boy
Fused, buried
A different self, many life times ago
Filled with paradoxes
Racism to extremes
Celebritised or despised
Aliens swimming in a foreign sea
of manicured faces
Designer top to toe
Toy cars, Read more [...]
Why do you get up in the morning? Does an answer come into your mind straight away? It does for the people in Okinawa, and it thought to be one of the key factors in their longevity - estimated to lengthen the lives of the people by 7 years! Ikigai is kind of like the French raison d'etre - 'a reason for being'. It could be a creative passion, your relationships, your job... Everyone has a ikigai, even if you don't know it yet.
In Okinawa they do that thing they love until they die. Why do Read more [...]
Japanese TV shows, crazy photoshoots, short films and many more things to laugh at... can you guess which are wigs and which are not?!
Sakura Wonderful Jet. A short satire film about flying in different classes.
How good is my Japanese! Shame they don't have the English version up here, it's actually kinda funny.
Buchinuki - I was Yamu-Chan (lamb) - the gaijin (foreigner) TV host-girlfriend of one of the Garage Sale comedians.
My first photoshoot - for a hair magazine. The beginning Read more [...]