Two More Announcements!
I’ll make this brief.
- I’ve now officially launched my Tokyo walking tours, which can also be done as a photo walk. Either way, it’s all based on principles derived from psychogeography and experimental modes of urban exploration. It’s gonna be fun.
- In addition to the travel book, I’m challenging myself to put out a dozen zines in 2025 for the sake of staying fresh creatively.
And read more about the travel book (my previous announcement) below.
Announcement: I'm Writing a Book!
After a decade of making piles of notes and rough drafts, I’m putting it all together and writing a travel book aimed at helping people get the most out of their visit to Japan.
This is not going to be a typical travel book. I am not an influencer and I’m not going to feed you bad lists of must-see places. Instead, this project is driven by my own philosophy on travel, combined with practical strategies and useful information to make any trip as enriching as possible.
I need your help to see it through, though. For as little as USD $10, you can pre-order the book at a discount and get access to the final product, plus the audiobook version and supplemental materials. Check out the project page at davidwroteabook.com
My aim is to get it finished by the end of Q1 2025, but the more support I can get, the more time I can afford to put into it, leading to an earlier release date.
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Dispatch № 117: Hilltop Heebie-Jeebies
On a cool spring night, I was on a mountain road in Yamanashi well after dark. I had gone out to try to photograph star
Dispatch № 116: Waiting on the Size of It
Couldn’t sleep, too much on my mind and no way to quiet it down, so I went out. After wandering with the camera for a
I’m Writing a Travel Book To Help Make Your Japan Trip Awesome
What do you get when you combine more than a decade’s worth of notes and rough drafts, expand on them, and edit down the final result? A book!
Yes, this project is still live! An announcement.
First, this is still a live project, just one that is temporarily on hold. I believe in this concept, but at the moment, life has
Dispatch № 115: Five Shorts
Five shorts, with images, in a new format I’m playing with
Dispatch № 114: Reflections on Narrow Streets
You don’t really realize just how many there are unless you specifically pay attention to them.
Dispatch № 113: A Self-Defeating Project and its Reboot
Let’s begin with a question. What happens when you let the aspiration and vision of a project far outstrip the resources you have to give to it?
Dispatch № 112: Documenting Silence
I don’t know what they will build here, only that it will be different, and that I want to see what I can see here while I still can.
Dispatch № 111: Local Evolution
I can think of at least a dozen nearby houses and other structures that have been demolished within the last few months.
Dispatch № 110: Blossoms
While looking for plum blossoms to photograph, I began to receive news alerts on my phone.
Dispatch № 109: Birds and Boars
Spend enough time in the woods and you develop a sense of whether it’s a bird or a deer or even a snake, and it happens before you can even turn your head to see.
Dispatch № 108: Precarity
You admonish yourself for having neglected them until you needed them and wonder why you have also for so long put up with a job in which you are forever making up for the incompetence of others…