June 2010: New York
How does one swallow the sizzling pavement of Manhattan and all its clichés, the hipsters of Williamsburg and the candor of Astoria, Queens, in a single day?
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Travelogue, street photography, a bit of poetry, and the simple pleasure of telling stories... A very large shoebox on the Web, filled with images and memories of places and people around the world. Europe where I grew up, Asia and Japan where I lived for many years – and left my heart in Tokyo –, and North America where life led me so often that I eventually settled there. For now…
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February 2010: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
A few days of visiting so many of the neighbourhoods of Barna and thinking to ourselves “well, I guess this could be home”
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November 2009: Melaka, Malaysia
A few days in the straits of Melaka, between food and history. Musings on tourism, and the future of this place at the same time developing, destroyed, and re-created
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Last Update: 2010-07-31
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January 2009: Tokyo as a tourist
In January of 2009, under the pretense of vague administrative needs, I dropped by Tokyo, as a tourist this time: staying in a Ryokan, not cooking a single meal, and a week of re-discovering some of my favorite neighbourhoods under a different perspective.
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A l'exception tout juste notable d'excite "world", il n'y avait jusqu'ici pas foule de ressources folichonnes pour l'aide à l'apprentissage du japonais sur le Web. Puis Julien Quint créa A亜アあ (prononcer ah-ah-ah-ah), Un dictionnaire des kanji pratique, animé, exhaustif, interactif… Et accessoirement une jolie utilisation de la technologie SVG[*]. Magnifique. Bravo.
