Kinmokusei

Or Osmanthus- the best smell ever.

Osaka-Jo

On a lovely Sunday afternoon- we went to check out the buskers.. Eh,
but good excuss to go to the castle:)

Serious bird photogs only.

Up at the castle... The bird hopped out of the bushes and shutter
madness ensued...

Lost key

Saw this dangeling at the pond... Hope someone found their key!
Hopefully the same thing will happen with jeffs lost jacket!

Fun color from clothes drying

The beautiful light in our little apartment

Basically the whole west wide wall is two sliding glass windows...
Which could mean we're going to be in for a cold one this winter!

Dotombori bridge- Osaka

Always happenin Dotombori bridge

Jeff really wanted this!

But he settled on the scarier gold mask instead

I hope someone wears this for Halloween!

I will die laughing!!! Actually I was really surprised- well I should
have known- how many creative and hillarious costumes there were in
the stores!

Mt. Rokko pool

Yuka San

On our lovely hike down mt Rokko on a national holiday- sports day!
Jeff uploaded the pics on his facebook...:)

Leigh & the laundrymat

We shot these a couple weeks ago- just need to make time to pick my
favs and put them on flickr... I wanted to get this shot with the old
ladies looking on.. I wish I could know what they were thinking.. I'm
sure it would be funny! Leigh rocked it with crazy contorted figures,
I'll update with more later!

Update; You can view them on my Flickr page here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mofotoflickr/sets/72157621922793562/

マム

Mums!

Garlicy goodness!

Home made pesto from this summers basil! I made it a while ago with
garlic and basil and olive oil... Think I went a little crazy with the
garlic though, or else I was supposed to cook it first?? Anyways still
tastey with a side of garlic gyoza! Yum!

August-September Pics up...

You can see them here on my facebook page... http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=112227&id=521124043&l=4165e06277

pics from:

-yodagawa fireworks
-jody, maddy, and calvy visit
-utsubo park
-mt. rokko, kobe
-mt. hiei, kyoto

enjoy!!!

Doobie Brothers backstage pass!

The backstage area wasn't too exciting but we did get to see and talk
to a couple guys in the band.

Derek Trucks Band - Osaka, Japan 9-28-2009

It was great to see them in Japan!

3 new short videos to watch!

It's Silver Week now! The whole country gets mon-weds off, but since our normal weekend is thurs-friday.. we get 5 days off! We have no major plans really, so it's time to catch up!

Here's a link to "in the fishbowl." a Imageography project that Leigh and I had started in July, and just finally finished up the edit. We are really excited about it and would love to hear what you think... please check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeAOzm2yawY
and share with your peeps ;)

here's just a couple clips to entice you!






While in Bali Cori and I did an Imageography piece with her art. I called it "Bali Art Department" and you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjN3x8FILsE
It's really cool to see how her work unfolds and all in the beauty of Bali with traditional music!
You can see lots more of Cori's amazing work here: http://corijacobs.com/
Please share with friends!




On September 11th Jeff played his first gig in Osaka! You can watch him sing "When I Paint my Masterpiece" here: http://www.youtube.com/user/jbolton941
Hopefully there will be more of that to come...






Hope you enjoyed the videos! We are really happy here creating art and music and now that it's turned fall- almost, it's even more enjoyable being in Japan.
Love to you all!