Airports and stations, kind of makes me feel sentimental.
Especially airports, they do.

 01,02. London underground
 03. Paris Metro
 04. Fuya - a country town in Niigata, Japan
 05,10. Beijing Airport
 06. "welcome home" sign at Narita Tokyo Airport
 07. New (and shocking) Southern Cross Station, Melbourne
 08. El Masnou, suburban Barcelona.
 09. Kagoshima Airport, Japan



Well it's a phone and is called “Hand Bag for Space Travel”!

To my surprise, YAYOI KUSAMA designed mobile phones and they will be on sale this summer! Not that I can imagine myself using one, but I am quite interested to see the actual products!

And this one is called
"Dots Obsession, Full Happiness with Dots.


"iida and the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama have teamed up to transform the mobile phone into a “work of art” that captures both the imagination of art and the wonder of life." (from iida)

This is what I'm using now,


and this is what I was using before.


Check out some more > au design project

I have framed these from around the places:
  01. D&DEPARTMENT, Tokyo
  02. My "potted garden"* from last summer, Tokyo
  03. Cafe in Barwon Heads, Australia
  04,07,08. Maison La Roche, Paris
  05. A small garden house I forgot the name of, Kyoto
  06. Somewhere in Paris
  09. La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

*"potted garden"?

minä perhonen seasonal catalogue "紋黄蝶 2009 Spring / Summer Collection" arrived yesterday in my mailbox carefully wrapped in a beautiful fine paper. This time all the photographs are done in the timeless family portrait style and I quite like it.

"Onion and Ginger" - my favourite.
Miso soup is one of the most essential things in a Japanese cuisine, we have it for breakfast, lunch, dinner... can be for anytime, with other things of course. If you're familiar with Japanese cooking you might think "a recepi book just for miso soup!?" like I did when I first saw this book a few years ago, but no this book has been one of my favourites in my kitchen! You don't really need a "recipe" to make miso soup, but this book has got 100 miso soup recipes and has so many different ideas which you would never have heard of or thought of for miso soup ingredients. I just open this book while checking what's in my fridge for inspiration. I know many of the ingredients for Japanese cooking can be difficult to get outside Japan, but there are many non-traditional miso soup ideas (such as "pumpkin and cheese" and "corn, milk and butter") and you probably don't need to be able to read Japanese for this one so I thought I might put it up here.

The secret is to mix 2 different types of miso paste.
"Dashi" (broth) is very important too, but for a start you can get the powdered dashi which was very easy to find in any supermarket in Melbourne so I think it would be in many other cities too.

Everyday Miso Soup 100 by Kazuo Hida
毎日のみそ汁100 飛田 和緒

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