Star Trek: The Next Generation #4 Survivors
May 28, 2010 · Book / Movie Reviews, Star Trek · Comment 

Survivors by Jean Lorran really took me by surprise. It’s a great book, a refreshing new take on both Data and Tasha Yar. Did anybody else know Data had ‘flirtation routines’ that made him more popular with the ladies than…

Weekender Interview and Cover

A few months back Elisabeth Lambert of the Tokyo Weekender (one of several free English magazines available in Tokyo) got in touch with me about haikyo. She was doing research for an article, and we went back and forth with…

Hotel Queen Haikyo

The Hotel Queen is another abandoned love hotel on the banks of Lake Tama. I first saw it the first time I went out there to shoot the Akasaka and the Red Blossom about 2 years ago. At the time…

Jethro’s Fall
May 15, 2010 · Science Fiction, Writing · Comment 

JETHRO’S FALL is a novel, the story of two polar opposite brothers in a post-apocalyptic city, striving to hang onto what humanity they have left while fighting Biotic racism, corporate lies, and the fallacy at the heart of it all….

Remnants of the US Air Force Base in Tachikawa, Japan

The abandoned US Air Force (USAF) base in Tachikawa is a bramble-choked memento from the early days of Japanese/American war and peace. It was annexed by the USA shortly after World War II, in co-operation with the still-active nearby Japan…

Keishin Hospital 4. Model Shoot
May 10, 2010 · Haikyo, Hospitals, Kanagawa, Models · 11 Comments 

After the grand luck of Dom and Liduina contacting me for a wedding haikyo shoot a few months back, I figured I couldn`t bank on the same thing happening again. If I wanted to shoot models in haikyo more, I`d…

Star Trek: The Next Generation #3 The Children of Hamlin

With The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter it feels like we’re settling into a rhythm. The first book strained the characters in ways that didn’t feel realistic. Picard was a grumpy old git, Troi was flimsy, Riker was racked…

Outdoor Japan Haikyo – Sports World
May 6, 2010 · Haikyo, Haikyo in the Media · 2 Comments 

The March-April edition of Outdoor Japan was my second time to present a feature article on haikyo, including photographs. This time I focused on Sports World, my all-time favorite haikyo. They did a wonderful layout in spooky black with the…

Kindred Spirit Interview- The Spirituality of Ruins

I’ve mentioned my sister Alice on this site before- when she got her book ‘The High-Heeled Guide to Enlightenment‘ published. She spent a year of her life experimenting with various forms of spirituality- going to shamans, doing sweat lodges, having…

Sensouji Temple, Asakusa
May 3, 2010 · Architecture, Japan · Comment 

Ages ago now I went to Sensouji Temple for some reason, I can’t really remember. SY and I were doing a bit of Tokyo tourism I guess. I prepped these photos months ago but never got round to posting them,…

Calloway Blood
May 3, 2010 · Book / Movie Reviews · Comment 

My buddy Mike Lynch has been writing fiction for as long as me, with both of us completing a novel while we were in University. Both of us went down the dystopic city route, though in very different ways. My…

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