Jim Rion

Words. Pictures. Cats. 

Translator of Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, Strange Buildings, Strange Maps etc.

Author of Discovering Yamaguchi Sake

 

Jim Rion

Is it art?

I feel like "artist" is one of those terms that people should hesitate to self-apply, because the meaning and impact of art is subjective on the part of the audience. The practice of creation, it seems to me, should be goal enough for itself. You…

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Jim Rion

48 isn't too late, right?

I am not an ambitious person, as it goes. I've always been of the opinion that above a certain baseline of "providing comfortably for my family" I'm content with whatever kind of work comes along. That's partly because that I've always been lucky enough to…

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Jim Rion

Beach Hubbub

My morning walk took me out by the beach (as usual) but this morning there was quite a commotion. I'm assuming some kind of small fish washed up en masse, because there were rival gangs of ravens and black tailed kites tussling over *something* out…

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