achikochi

to keep you warm with updates from japan: check out achikochi, blog by vincent van den storme, belgian legal alien in yokohama for seven years now. an informative playground full of links and articles, short stories, sharp pictures - rod you'll love the 'now and then's - and a gigantic list of japan blogs.

what else?
helped kobayashi setting up an SOM exhibit around the corner in maki's hillside terrace today, unloading a container of presentation models and boards, shipped all the way from wall street new york. worth a lunch with the two corporate architects that came along with the boxes - funny how SOM keeps paying for my lunches, even back in tokyo...

and then those earthquakes... yesterday the building shook at least five or six times over a span of two hours. every single time, this feeling of complete helplessness, this fear of death I'll never get used to. before and after, my japanese buddies claim they do, but whenever we're shaking (like a polaroid picture) I can see the fear in their eyes too. today we heard almost 20 people died in niigata, 250km to the north. japan's strongest earthquake since kobe, ten years ago.



> fabre op ladeuze
> singhsons (from anat)
> save bernd (van de kepsens)
> pong (van francis)
> eminem's mosh (from dida)
> bill hicks in zomergasten (van bie)
> what if the world could vote in the US presidential election?
> transnational statistics (from louis)
> moving south