2010 Daimonji Fire Festival Video is here.
Video coming tomorrow. Here are some screengrabs in the meantime. Got home too late to do the whole edit tonite. Refer to previous post for details.

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 welcome any candid comments and opinions on this experiment.
If you’ve been watching this site closely, you might have noticed that I’ve been moving toward establishing myself as an independent video journalist. I have a background …

2010 Daimonji Fire Festival Video is here.
 
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 a sendoff for the ancestral spirits that visit their hometowns in the summer festival season. I walked by the myou and hou characters today and saw two others in the distance in the clear skies. The firewood is already in …

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

September 2010 Update: Exhibition has moved to Cafe Dell’ Orso for September-October 2010
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 I feel like the viewer, not really part of the parade. I think I look a little shocked and …