Hopping back and forth between Tokyo and San Francisco, the founder of HESO Magazine is currently writing a book on Overland Travel.
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- Interview with Tokyo Photographer Ontoshiki
- July 23rd, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Photography
- Placebo with Zakuro © Ontoshiki In the old days, when a man was building his credibility as an artist, he did so rather anonymously. There might be a break here or there in this or that magazine or fashion catalogue but it would be difficult for this person to ... » Continue Reading
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- Where’s The Queen’s Unagi?
- June 11th, 2012Category: Food & Dining
- Photo © inageya The burning question on everyone's mind, in this the 60th year of the Queen of England's reign, where will her Jubilee Pie come from? According to a centuries old tradition, the shepherd's style pie made of Lampreys—an eely fish native to ... » Continue Reading
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- Anime Psychedelica the Work of Satoshi Kon
- April 26th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Play
- While studying photography on a secluded part of the south coast of California in the late nineties I dated a frisky young blonde co-ed for a little more than a year. In our breaks from study we camped in Big Sur, visited her father’s home in Palo Alto and accom ... » Continue Reading
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- Interview with Undercover Tokyo Street Photographer Lomodachi
- April 12th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Photography, Play
- Lonely Walk Home ©Lomodachi HESO: Can you tell us a little bit about the name “Lomodachi”? What does it mean? Where did it come from? Who are you? Lomodachi: Lomodachi is almost like an alter-ego that was born in Japan sometime in 2004. It’s a portmanteau combinin ... » Continue Reading
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- Sumo in the Modern Age
- February 10th, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Photography
- It was the summer of 2001 when I first came to Tokyo at the behest of a cute young Japanese girl named Nami I had met in a hostel in Rome while traveling around Europe the previous spring. I had not come to see her specifically, but she got in contact just as I had take ... » Continue Reading
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- Owariya Soba
- October 26th, 2010Category: Photography
- Visualize if you will, a spry young man in his work kimono made of an easy-to-clean light fabric, walking down the dirt-paved roads of the old capital Kyōto to the clickety-clack of hundreds of Japanese sandal-wearing passers-by as they go about their daily business, sm ... » Continue Reading
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- Matsumoto Castle
- September 27th, 2010Category: Photography
- The furthest one can get away from the seas is as remote as it gets in Japan. This is Matsumoto, one of the lone stars in the vast wilderness of what was once known as Shinano, now Nagano. The city itself, easily navigated on bike or public bus in under an hour, is sm ... » Continue Reading
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- Hitchhiking Japan
- September 21st, 2010Category: Travel
- With the humid summer weather slowly fading into temperatures fit for humans to move around in, it's finally approaching the time of the year when couples young and old will be taking advantage of the cheaper highway tolls and getting out on the road. Which means plenty ... » Continue Reading
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- Ocean Sustainability: From Taiji to the World
- September 9th, 2010Category: Culture, Photography
- The photo depicts a peaceful inlet of coastal water in Taiji, a little known whaling town on the Pacific coast of Japan's Kii Peninsula in Wakayama Prefecture. Taiji is on the tail end of a larger area known as Kumano, which boasts an impressive array of world heritage ... » Continue Reading
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- Tokyo Gloss
- September 7th, 2010Category: Culture, Photography
- You want something. But you don’t know what it is. She is there for you. Swathed in concrete and electric light, sublime and feral, frenetically interconnected in ways neural synapses are jealous of, she can provide anything you can imagine. Prowling the back-alleys and ... » Continue Reading
