Bytemarks

On this second day in Japan, we hopped a train to Kyoto and ventured out on our own. This shot was taken at Daitoku-ji Temple at the Daisen-in. This building was where Sen No Rikyu’s tea room was on display. Unfortunately no photographs were allowed. I did snap of this shot of the rock garden [...]

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For the past 4 or 5 years I been putting together my New Years calendar. I usually spend the day after Christmas, rushing around looking for photos from the previous year to assemble into a one-year view calendar. Then I email it to my printer to get hard copies to hand out (in lieu of [...]

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The vibrance and excitement of SXSW was intoxicating. When I got back last week Wed (3/18). I hit the road running going into the office, sharing cool finds from SXSW, doing the Bytemarks Cafe radio show that evening. Then on Thursday it was the Andy Bumatai show and on Friday it was working on getting [...]

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This past Saturday’s zazen (sitting meditation) and kado was both ordinary and extraordinary. I saw a fellow zen person, who I will call Ted (to protect his identity), getting ready to leave the dojo. Being relatively new to the place, he thought there was a regular zazen class in the main dojo. Since we are [...]

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