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posted August 16, 2010
2010 Daimonji Fire Festival video and Request for feedback

2010 Daimonji Fire Festival Video is here.

Tonight there will be a video here of the 2010 Kyoto Daimonji Fire Festival. This video will be my first Video On Demand (VOD) experiment. That is, there will be a fee of $1.50 (Paypal or credit card) to download the full video.
A previous short video is here.
I sincerely [...]

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posted August 15, 2010
Video preview: Daimonji Fire festival, Kyoto

2010 Daimonji Fire Festival Video is here.
map of the daimonji fire festival

Daimonji video 2008

Every August 16 since the 1600s, Kyoto marks the end of o-Bon season by lighting up the hillsides with giant kanji, starting at 8 p.m. It’s called Daimonji Gozan Okuribi, literally “Giant characters five mountains sendoff fires.” This marks their function as [...]

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posted August 9, 2010

the Toki Matsuri pottery fair at Gojo-zaka is on through Tuesday, Gojo street between
http://www.toukimaturi.gr.jp/

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posted August 9, 2010
Video: Micah Gampel “My Nippon” photo exhibition reception party at bar Hanagumo, Kyoto

My Nippon, a photo exhibition in Kyoto by Micah Gampel all through August, but only on weekends at Hanagumo Bar on Miyagawacho in Gion Kyoto. All my photos were taken by my ketai (mobile phone) camera as I work and play around Kyoto and Osaka mostly. It’s my Nippon world, but [...]

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posted August 1, 2010
Momentism 2 Video: Suikinkutsu (water chime)

Enkoji Temple, Kyoto
A few minutes of quietude all alone at Enko-ji Temple, Kyoto. Then, a listen at the suikinkutsu at this temple. A suikinkutsu is a very large ceramic pot buried under a water source of some kind, which allows water to slowly drip down through pebbles and into the water in [...]

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