I’ve designed my route to school every day so I get to walk through two different parks.  With green space at a premium in Saigon, I consider myself pretty lucky.  There’s always stuff going on in the parks…lots of “park stuff”, liking walking and reading.  Nothing I would consider dangerous, but apparently I’m wrong.  While walking through the other day I noticed an usually large number of men in uniform…

The park can be a dangerous place…in the afternoon…

Honestly, I haven’t seen much of Istanbul yet.  However the other day we met Jen at work and took the long way back, up past the blue mosque, and through the park.

And the rest of the trip home…

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Finding fun in Tokyo without any cash is a constantly evolving creative challenge.

Finally, an episode out on time!  Ever since I made it back to the States I’ve had trouble keeping things on schedule.  Before I went to Japan I was always at a two week lag from real time, and when I was with the crew on the road I was experiencing things as they happened, but at all times I had to be thinking a few weeks ahead to do my job as producer.  About 60% of my time is spent as editor thinking about what did happen, and about 40% of my time is spent as executive producer/director thinking about what will happen, and the result is that I spend a clean 100% of my time confused.  I was too inexperienced when starting this project to know why production and planning staff are almost always separate, but I think I’ve got the gist of it after living for a few months in this scheduled haze.

This week also marks the debut of our newest musical contributor: Tettix!  I’ve been listening to Judson Cowan’s music for years, both in his current incarnation and under his previous handle of Cicada.  His work has been featured in a number of creative spots, including this Boing Boing short.  It gives me no shortage of pleasure to be editing to his music, in this episode The Graves of Good Humans from the startling Technology Crisis II.  I hope to use a few more of Tettix’s tracks before Season 2 is up, but in the meantime check out all his albums at www.tettix.net or purchase his songs on iTunes!