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FireCat of the Tokyo Hotel, Chicago
The Tokyo Hotel on Ohio, in Chicago, is a shithole. It’s the kind of place I once feared I’d be found dead in. The customer reviews for this p...
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Ueno Park Red Bird
I was thinking of my friends in New Orleans as I made this piece, the beads and ornamentation, the echo of Lafcadio Hearn who left New Orleans t...
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Shinjuku Sparrow
In the Shinjuku district, there is most of the cool shopping in Japan, with bold graphics and bling everywhere. You can walk by a window of a d...
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Ueno Park Goldfish
In Tokyo, there is a lovely, lush public green named Ueno Park. It is full of beautifully sculpted trees; pines pruned to mimic bonsai motifs a...