Last night I watched the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi (link to rotten tomatoes) all about the 86 year old Michelin 3 star chef behind the restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro. It’s a great little documentary exploring his life, the unfathomable passion and quest for perfection that he has with his work. Wonderfully well shot too, I …
Author archives: Moses Hoyt
Ramen Exploration
So one of the things that I missed while I was away from Japan was ramen. Last time I was here I remember going into this small little place in Harajuku, guessing what looked good from the vending machine menu and the pictures on the wall, and ordering it. What I got was a fantastic …
Tokyo Livin’
So getting more settled here – I’ll try and get a few more updates going, but it’s constantly awesome and amazing the variety of places there are to eat, to shop, to hangout. And there isn’t even a service like Yelp to cover it all. I’m so accustomed to using some geolocation food finding app …
Living it up in Asia
I’ve recently started a course on intensive Japanese based at Nihon University in Tokyo. The course was set up by the wonderful people at Pembroke College International Programmes, and as such, to take part in this course I’ve had to move out to Tokyo. It’s coming up to a week of being out here, so …
Little Similarities
Walking though Dorchester today, I came across one of the 2010 Oakley print ads in the “Rebels” campaign, all done by a team at the-dept.com (hadn’t heard of them before – but it transpires that they seem rather cool, judging by their website that is…). One of the prints in this ad lineup looks a …
Velvia 50 results
I mentioned in my previous post that I had come across some of this fantastic Velvia 50, and had sent it off for processing. Well it’s back, I’ve put it on Facebook, and I love it. The colours are just wonderful, they give that wonderful slightly faded seventies over-redded highlight images that I feel would …
Fuji Velvia 50
Ken Rockwell (of www.kenrockwell.com) once said “Velvia is the reason I am still a photographer”. Holy crap, I can see why this is true. I wasn’t sure how great it could be, so I obtained a couple rolls through my favourite place (eBay), and while they happened to be expired (2005ish) and the old type …