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Replying to @Nevin_Thompson and @dwvcd
Have to admit, that is a very nice jetfoil timelapse with the clouds!
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Replying to @LMSacasas
Alan Kurdi on the beach was pretty iconic. I think it moved a lot of people wrt the plight of Syrians.
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RT @sjs856: WHAT ABOUT THE LONGTERM EFFECTS OF THE VACCINES? #DrewComments
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RT @DrIbram: Thank you for sharing!
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Replying to @chadkoh
If you are interested in @tryglass yourself, hit me up for some invite codes and connect with me there. My username is @chadkoh, same as here. /fin
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Replying to @chadkoh
Other than maybe a fancy colour cast, I am not sure how I could make this photo better. 🤔 Could I have captured the depth of the layers in a better way? I think this is more about capturing 700 year old symmetry. 4/5
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Replying to @chadkoh
I snapped a couple of pics from the side where you can see how each layer rests on the single middle joint and spreads out. But I really like this framing from below. No crop! Just taking with my iPhone 📱 while I was on a tour. 3/5
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Replying to @chadkoh
One of the unique features of this ancient temple are the eaves, the corners of which are a pair of three-pronged joints stacked upon one another. It is called a “crow’s foot.” 🐦 🦶 2/5
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[Today’s @tryglass photo thread 🧵. I post a pic with commentary every day for 2 weeks to test out the app]
Ankokuji is a temple on #Ikijima #壱岐 and part of the nation-wide network of 68 temples constructed to “protect the country” by order of the Ashikaga shogun in 1338. 1/5
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RT @chadkoh: I am testing out @tryglass by posting a meaningful picture every day for the next 2 weeks. I usually add some commentary about…
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Replying to @chadkoh
#NowReading2021 “The Art of Emptiness” by master potter Sakaida Kakiemon XIV for a @BooksOnAsia review. Enjoying with a pourover in a mug I painted while visiting Kakiemon’s hometown of Arita. Mad respect for pottery artists after (badly) attempting it myself 😅
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Replying to @chadkoh
This was taken with a Canon Powershot G7X, my old camera, with no adjustments.
If you are interested to @tryglass I have some invite codes left. You can follow me @chadkoh 7/7
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Replying to @chadkoh
I took this shot from a few different angles, but I think the best was this somewhat high angle. It was really difficult to capture how narrow the walkway is. I think the best way to have improved it would be to have used a wide-angle lense. 6/7
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Replying to @chadkoh
If that is too fast, take a look at this walk around from last Feb. You can see the grass is all dry and yellow, but the sea is gorgeous blue 5/7 https://youtu.be/dPCFaF2dl6I?t=142
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Replying to @chadkoh
I rode my bike out there and walked around the area in this hyperlapsed GoPro video (around the 25s mark). At one point I put the camera over the cliff so you can see the drop 4/7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJfGh4Dx28
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Replying to @chadkoh
The wind 🌬️ up here is very strong, and when you walk out to the shrine it feels like you could totter over the cliff at any point. 🙀 3 /7
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Replying to @chadkoh
There is a narrow strip of land, high up on windswept cliff, that juts out into the sea. A small shrine to the dragon god of the sea is perched up there, protecting the fisherman beyond. 2/7
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I am testing out @tryglass by posting a meaningful picture every day for the next 2 weeks. I usually add some commentary about the photo, and think about how it can be improved. Today I posted my Twitter header image: Sakyobanaryujin Shrine #ikijima #壱岐 🧵 1/7
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I have codes if anyone wants to give it a go. Learn more with this interview @om did with the founder https://om.co/2021/08/10/glass/ https://twitter.com/chadkoh/status/1429142865741971461
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RT @AcademicsSay: true
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RT @nsharma101: Nationalism is killing us with its dirty tricks.
At a planetary level, only 16% of people are fully vaccinated. This is t…
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Any #japan photographers on @tryglass yet? You can find me at @chadkoh. Giving it a try.
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Replying to @stonecoldkilzer
It is from a totally different context, but I think this phrasing captures the hyper-rationalists really well:
“intellectuals had succumbed to an unthinking, uncompromising worship of reason that blinded them to more humane virtues such as tolerance and moderation.”
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Replying to @mijustin
To be honest, it was ideological. That is what was expected for dudes like me at the time. I don’t think this gets mentioned enough when discussing entrepreneurial motivation. It is in the air in our culture, and is not a universal positive. I feel I am much more mindful now.
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My ⭐⭐⭐ review of Brett L. Walker’s “A Concise History of Japan”
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4135845265
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Replying to @AmbroiseVelvet
Everything in Costco is BIG! 👀
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Replying to @ninja_padrino
If you get a chance, basically across the road from the east exit is the Netsuke museum. We were there last summer https://www.writersinkyoto.com/2020/07/kyotos-netsuke-museum/
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Replying to @ninja_padrino
Damn, I miss Kyoto 😢
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Replying to @Nevin_Thompson
Wow I didn’t know that.
The ceramic works around Arita also have a questionable history, if you want to go back 300 years
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Replying to @ninja_padrino
There are lots of schools and then you have Rits up the hill, so there is a lot of bike traffic going up and down those paths normally 😂 Not exactly a serene Rinzai temple. Ryōanji and Ninna-ji are a couple of my favs. Ninna-ji’s 🌸 are 💯
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Replying to @ninja_padrino
It is actually pretty fun to walk around Eigamura and try to spot areas that could have been used in your fav scenes. I don’t recommend it on a blazing hot day tho.
Surprised ANYTHING is open actually… seems like you have a lot of the temple grounds to yourself, which is nice.
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Replying to @ninja_padrino
It is definitely a major temple. My uni dorm was just up the road, so I spent a lot of time at Hanazono-eki. Have you been to Eigamura? Trying to think 🤔 of other cool places around there but all I can come up with are okonomiyaki places that probably don’t exist anymore 🤷♂️
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Replying to @ninja_padrino
Come to think of it, with Corona he is probably not doing in person sessions… probably exclusively online now
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Replying to @ninja_padrino
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Replying to @Nevin_Thompson
Oh wow, former resident?
I had lots to see in Nagasaki… still lots left on my list. Probably will go there eventually but… have you been to Alcatraz? That is an amazing tour for such a painful place.
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Replying to @Nevin_Thompson
I couldn’t bring myself to go there…
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Replying to @ninja_padrino
Did you visit Kawakami-Sensei?
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Replying to @jjwalsh
Woke up with chills after Moderna #2 and felt terrible the whole day. Not too bad the next day, and fine the day after that. My wife had a sore arm, but I only had that on Moderna #1
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Replying to @jbrcpod and @wesinjapan
Great episode! Great guest! Great sponsor!
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Very short 🧵 for those of you in a different timezone https://twitter.com/chadkoh/status/1428592274976382985
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Replying to @chadkoh
You can read the full story and see some bigger photos on my blog 2/2
https://chadkohalyk.com/2021/08/19/antiracist-baby-in-japanese/
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The Japanese translation of #AntiracistBaby by @DrIbram hit the shelves a while back. Really cute little book in both languages. Here are some side-by-sides for you to enjoy. There are some nice touches in the Japanese version. We picked up a couple copies to give away. 1/2
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Replying to @wesinjapan, @AlfieJapanorama and @JezebelKat
Ah the pre-Internet days!
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Replying to @laurie_ljg and @_etdev
Same. I never had it and was able to work in a few different companies. I even answered phones for one!
But now I want to get it just as a way to discipline my self-study. Like Eric said, it is a motivator. (Plus I am actually learning lots! 😅)
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Replying to @AlfieJapanorama, @wesinjapan and @JezebelKat
My nephew was named after Cash (not “Sue” btw).
I might be all citified and international now, with the look of a golf club accountant, but my roots are in the boots. https://twitter.com/chadkoh/status/1418057384908390402
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Replying to @AlfieJapanorama, @wesinjapan and @JezebelKat
Yup! Apologies for the error. Typing too fast in my country zealotry
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Replying to @AlfieJapanorama, @wesinjapan and @JezebelKat
Cash’s Rusty Nail cover is pretty good too 👍
I was a NIN teen, but when Walk the Line came to my podunk theatre, my whole family took up a row. Row in front of us was another local clan, as was behind. Cash is king. 👑
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Replying to @Bec_Edo
It is a compliment for his book that it passed the exceptionally high standards of such a grizzled historian as yourself! 😉
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Replying to @chadkoh
(Also, I really need to read his book. My masters thesis from 2008 was a constructivist analysis of Japan’s security policy. This sounds like really nails it and I look forward to learning more!)
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Replying to @chadkoh
Dr Le is on another podcast! Find out what he REALLY thinks about the Olympics, giving 4 year olds guns, and listen to him make IR “more interesting than I thought it would have been” for the ever-cheerful (and very well read) historian @Bec_Edo 😄 https://twitter.com/profTLe/status/1428101682030776324
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