Dog Eaters

The sign and the signified

Posted on 02.06.14 under Blythe


Sometimes it’s hard to figure it out…

Sometimes meaning is about scale. Sometimes it just means something’s big.

Blythe, the mannequin, will be at the Bottega Veneta Shop in (2-5-14 Ginza, Chuo, Tokyo 104-0061) until Feb. 16.

Then she and her twin are moving to Omotesando Hills (between Harajuku and Aoyama) from Feb 17 to March 3.

Raising the nitrates

Posted on 02.05.14 under aquaponics

In a stroke of serendipity, Malcolm was introduced to Diana by Justin at Whole Foods Kahului. Justin was stocking produce and the talk turned to being a vendor for Whole Foods. When Malcolm mentioned that there were no aquaponics produce, Justin pointed Diana out.

“She does aquaponics,” said Justin.

Diana and Nicholas have several ponds filled with tilapia and they had fingerlings available for sale. The Anekona Aquaponics has about 45 tilapia that has given us a nitrate level of 20. We need a level of 160 – 200 to grow bok choy.

A couple of days later, Nicholas and Diana brought about 125 Israeli Blue fingerlings.



And put them in FT2 (fish tank 2). That tripled the amount of fish in the system.

Nicholas and Bryson study the germinating seeds in the nursery.


Diana (left) and Kathryn (right)
Malcolm gave Nicholas and Diana a kalo and a glass poi pounder in the hope of getting more of the Israeli Blues!

The day before the Super Bowl, there are rainbows…

Posted on 02.01.14 under blown glass, poi pounders


The road from Paia approaching Kahului.


These poi pounders have 4 1/2″ mole, which is the bottom of the pounder. They are between 7 1/2″ to 8 1/4″ in height.



Bottom view.

Top view

Back to nature

Posted on 01.31.14 under aquaponics


There were three days of steady and often heavy rain.

Sometime during the 3rd day, a tilapia jumped out of the covered tank. It was our 3rd fatality…

And yes, we have bananas.

And then the sun came out.

Bug eater…

And yet another bug eater.

LIve at UFO, Koenji, Tokyo

Posted on 01.19.14 under Blythe, Dustin Wong, Momus, Takako Minekawa


Takako Minekawa played her first solo live in 13 years at UFO.

Buddy & the Mechanics were also on the bill.

While they played, we hung out in the green room with Momus who came up from Osaka to do this show.

Hippopota Momus was the first CD Isaac got (from his brother, Dustin), so it was kind of thrilling for him to meet him.

Dustin and Junko take a seat…


A British(?) author, Justin Isis, was also in green room trying to rustle up some promotion shots for a novel he wrote with Quentin S. Crisp, and Brendan Connell, “The Cutest Girl in Class.” Set in New Jersey, the cover featured a model holding Blythe. An unauthorized usage, by the way. He spent the rest of the evening in a state of nerves probably hoping that he wouldn’t have to pay royalties…

A fun night, with the added bonus of being close to home.

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