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I try to capture a whole emotional year of living on #ikijima #壱岐 in just 3000 words
https://chadkohalyk.com/2021/09/09/my-year-on-ikijima-a-remote-japanese-island/
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Replying to @Nevin_Thompson
Yup. It was one of the reasons we went to Japan last year, to give the kids exposure to a different system that approaches learning with a very different model. You would not beleive the change I saw after a month! And it seems like they reverted instantly once they got back 😭
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Replying to @chadkoh
There has been so much disorganization in dealing with all the school systems here, and I don’t think you can chalk it all up to the pandemic. I would love to do a “customer journey” audit, so many opportunities to improve a crucial service and cut down on student/parent stress.
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07:30 email from @SD23News “our bus routes in your area are operating at full capacity … Your application has been placed on our wait list”
08:30 in traffic after dropping my kid at school, a new email “welcome to your new Route Assignment!” WTF? 🤦♂️
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Replying to @jbrcpod
Maybe @clpearce just on the back of his amazing infographic design talent 😂 https://twitter.com/clpearce/status/1435507633738305537?s=21
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Replying to @jbrcpod
Would @SatoshiJournal be able to come on? He was just on @JapanDeepDive but things have already morphed since that episode
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RT @j_mcelroy: For the first time, the B.C. government has released the vaccination status AND ages of people currently in ICU due to #COVI…
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Replying to @JessMarinDavis
I think about this episode all the time! Lol
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Replying to @camcavers and @freyburg
SIdekick: Dogecoin
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Labour Day was a gorgeous clear day here in Kelowna, so took the fam on a little hike up Mill Creek to see a couple of the little waterfalls. Really nice day off
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RT @dfedman: The state of the Japanese diaspora as of 1922
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North: Prince George, BC
South: Krabi, Thailand
Closest to 0°: Tehran, Iran
Closest to 180°: Haleiwa, O’ahu https://twitter.com/SublightMonster/status/1429752057955688448(original)
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Replying to @davidrmunson
Recently I have gotten into André Alexis. His prose is very simply constructed, but the way he spins out a story is just captivating. Try “Fifteen Dogs.” It is short, but will make you want to write! 😊
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- Golden, BC
- Kelowna, BC
- Kyoto
- Nagoya
- Vancouver, BC
- Kingston, ON
- Ashibe, Ikijima
Hometown is still on top at 18 years. https://twitter.com/davelomax/status/1433860862918500374
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残念😔 https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1434530699701260288
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Replying to @suchibu
Great results!
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#MyTwitterAnniversary
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RT @KBSpangler: Someone else has probably done this, but when the meme muse speaks, you load Photoshop.
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RT @kinokuni_fox: 九州地方の各県の地域別の人口を計算してみました！(人口は令和2年国勢調査速報値）
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Replying to @HiromuNagahara and @B4Btv
Do I smell a curry podcast idea simmering? Mmmm spicy! 🌶
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Good breakdown of the latest royal PITA. I want a regular @HiromuNagahara podcast now please https://twitter.com/jbrcpod/status/1433596691211440129
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RT @jbrcpod:
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Replying to @JessMarinDavis
More dramatic lighting is a good shout. That place is really nice during golden hour, but I don’t have many shots from then. From up on the cliff https://flic.kr/p/2jQ1AHt
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Replying to @chadkoh
I like this pic for the dynamism, but I kind of think there is too much going on. Maybe I should have focused the dept of field around the splash… but then you couldn’t see the heavenly glory of the finger 🤔
How would you improve this shot?
/fin
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Replying to @chadkoh
But that tide coming in was key to my goal: to shoot some foamy splash as the waves crashed against Sakyōbana, the Pillar of Heaven, a famous “power spot” on #ikijima #壱岐
You can read more about Sakyōbana here: https://chadkohalyk.com/2020/07/22/sakyobana/
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Splash, Day 12 on @tryglass
I climbed down the cliff, scrabbling over the coastal rocks to get a nice low angle, my wife looking on uninterested from a safe distance above. The tide was rising and the dry, non-slippery tops of the rocks were quickly shrinking. 1/3
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Replying to @AonghasCrowe
I was watching @FukuokaNow’s walkthrough vid on YouTube. I ate dinner up in that tower just a few months ago! Surprised to hear it was getting torn down! Had a weird ping of nostalgia even tho I have only been in it like 3 times.
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Replying to @ericdmargolis
Went in Canada, which is WAYYY more reasonable than the US (and not as much as a grift)
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Replying to @Bec_Edo
😢 Time for a break? (Bad pun 😉)
3 days before my thesis submission that my laptop fell off the coffee table (errant earphone cable) and onto THICK CARPET floor and yet it still BROKE. Luckily we had online backups back in 2007. PHEW! Only lost a page and a day of my time.
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Replying to @paularcurtis
Very nice! Thank you for this great resource.
You might be editing right now, but at this moment there is a dupe in your descriptions
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Replying to @JessMarinDavis
The other option is shoot both, and just delete the RAW for anything that doesn’t need post-production to save space. I need to move to that workflow.
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Replying to @chadkoh
The backlighting is pretty extreme so when I bring up the Shadows the whole thing takes on sorta neon look, which is a bit weird, but retains the sky colour. I don’t shoot RAW very often since I don’t like spending a lot of time in post-production. I make it up in volume! 😉 3/3
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Replying to @chadkoh
The sky was amazing, but I could only get a portion of it in from the position I was standing (there are trees behind me). And I didn’t notice the sign at the bottom! I might have stepped right a bit to hide it behind one of the pillars. 🤦♂️ 2/3
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Day 11 on @tryglass: Watchful
The Gishiwajinden, a section of the Wei Chronicles (3rd C BCE), is the earliest known record the land of Wa, aka Japan. This reconstructed watchtower is on the site of the capital of Ikkikoku, a Yayoi polity dating back a couple thousand years. 1/3
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Replying to @NoahOskow and @UnseenJapanSite
Very good stuff! 👍
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Replying to @fatimabsyed
“Blame Trudeau” is a whole row on the Elxn bingo card, right?
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Replying to @B4Btv
NHD 😉👍
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RT @HollyGoDarkly: We use subtitles 100% of the time at home. Neither my spouse nor I are hearing impaired. #DeafAwarenessWeek https://t.co…
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Replying to @chadkoh
I took a few shots trying to capture the intersecting lines as the sun went down. The effect is much more apparent with the movement of the waves, so maybe a video would have been better? I would love to have taken this with a drone from a higher angle.
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Confluence, Day 10 of @tryglass
A tetrapod wall calms the waves coming into the bay at Kuyoshi on #ikijima #壱岐, making it safe for swimming. As the tide rises and waves come in from the left and right of the wall, waves meet in the middle, causing a pleasant pattern.
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For yesterday’s post to @tryglass I just had to share this image, taken out of my window while driving by. That was Day 9. https://twitter.com/chadkoh/status/1432430052088578050
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Replying to @chadkoh
#NowReading2021 “Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan” edited by Orion Klautau and Hans Martin Krämer and published by @UHPRESSNEWS.
Got my review copy and a nice hand drip. I have been looking forward to this one! Paperback to release in Oct.
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Just sent out my monthly newsletter. Since I have been in my new house for a month, the theme is “HOME”. Check it out 👇
https://buttondown.email/chadkoh/archive/settling-in/
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Morning meditation: Impermanence
This bronze statue was gifted to me by a CEO in Mumbai. I think he was surprised to meet a fellow traveller. Buddhists account for less than 1% of the population in India. I am very grateful for this statue. It has a prominent seat in my home.
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Read the thread to see the 20% gap in aptitude test scores. The full article, with its discussion on the effects of Corona on game time, is here https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASP803QJBP8XUTIL02J.html https://twitter.com/AonghasCrowe/status/1432698269499547650
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Replying to @chadkoh
Here is a timelapse of the planned ignition h/t @dchymko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duPP_KluWng&t=48s
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I THINK this is a planned burn, but pretty massive plume of smoke driving through Vernon on the way to Armstrong
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Replying to @daigengna, @Bec_Edo, @NewBooksEAsia and @NewBooksNetwork
I dunno… I think MAKING NBN podcasts might cut into my valuable time LISTENING to NBN podcasts 😂
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Replying to @Bec_Edo, @NewBooksEAsia and @NewBooksNetwork
Very tempting! But I dunno if I could get up to the standard of you and @daigengna
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Day 8 @tryglass: Beach sunset
Not a particularly meaningful image, just a great opportunity to capture relatively undisturbed white sand ripples. I learned from this that you can take all sorts of different kinds of “beach sunset” images.
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