Osaka TV Profile

I've received the video of my profile that aired on Osaka TV News Bizz on Aug. 17, 2010 and uploaded it on my website. If you wish to laugh at my poor attempt at speaking Japanese (and my chopstick fumble!), you can check it here.

It was little surreal at times to think that they wanted to do a profile on me, and walking around with a camera crew was an interesting experience to say the least. Hopefully it will attract some attention and help with promotion. A big thanks to Sakata-san from Take One and Chris at Kansai Scene (I have a piece in this month's edition, covering a restaurant, which also appears in the video).

By the way, all my wardrobe wasn't coincidental: I wore a t-shirt from the Trailwalker, which I joined in 2007 and 2008; a MontBell shirt, who sponsored my team on both Trailwalkers; and a Car Danchi 3 t-shirt from Neil Hartmann, a snowboard filmmaker and photographer, who has the distinction of both being the first person I ever interviewed and my earliest photography mentor.

Kansai Scene Article

The article for which I took pictures of Diane Orrett got published this month. Only yesterday did I get my hands on a copy, though. They chose my favorite as the main picture, and I like the second one as well, although looking at it again, I might have overdone the half-gold, half-silver reflector. Anyways, still stoked to have my pictures for the feature article of the magazine. You can probably find some copies in Kansai's finest drinking establishments, as well as in some bookstores and galleries.