Today’s Levitation
Back in 2011 I wrote about Natsumi Hayashi, the Japanese girl who takes seemingly impossible photos of herself floating in various places around Tokyo, and then posted…
User Experience Lost in Translation
Above is the gas supply control panel in the apartment I’m staying at in Tokyo. Assuming you don’t read Japanese, how would you go about turning it…
Randomwire Moves To Tokyo
Usually at the beginning of each year I write a ’new years resolutions’ post, but not in 2013 because the latter half of 2012 had been very…
So Long, My Hong Kong
Not made by me but feels apt today.
Cloud Atlas Retrospective
Death. Life. Birth. Future. Present. Past. Love. Hope. Courage. An 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his friend;…
Two Weeks in Portugal
You may have noticed that the output of Randomwire has been a bit low this year to date. I have a huge backlog of interesting things…
Kamakura Photo Walk – Afternoon
After my morning walk I decided to head to the lesser-visited eastern edge of Kamakura and then make my way back on foot to the center…
How To Move Abroad
Moving house is just about the most stressful project you can undertake, moving abroad doubly so. At the outset it can feel overwhelming, taking months of stressful…
Kamakura Temple Walk – Morning
50km south-west of Tokyo lies the small city of Kamakura (鎌倉市). Once the political capital of Japan during the Kamakura shogunate (a feudal military government), today it’s a…
Former Wan Chai Police Station
The end of last year was rather busy and chaotic so I’m a bit behind on posting but I thought I’d share a few photos from…