A Book Is Like A Garden In The Pocket

Dragon like cloud over Mount Fuji at sunrise. Via touyoui, Nov 2024.

Update about the source (Thank you, reblogger):

A professional pool player was on standby to make that shot after the live taping, but turns out, he wasn’t needed! Mary Tyler Moore sank the difficult shot herself during a live taping of The Dick Van Dyke Show. It was unexpected, but as the great actress she was, she stayed in character and carried the scene flawlessly.

Moore was ahead of her time in more ways than one: she changed the way women in the entertainment industry were perceived, she was a steadfast and outspoken champion of #genderequality, and she improved representation for women, both on screen and behind the camera.

In fact, by the mid-1970s, her production company had hired more women than the entirety of CBS (the network that broadcasted the hashtag #MaryTylerMoore Show) and employed more female writers than any other sitcom at the time.

The George Eastman House

The venerable institution is seen from East Avenue in Rochester, New York. George Eastman democratized photography in 1888 with the introduction of the Kodak, a camera that separated the processing of images from the taking. It continues to this day as a museum and educational facility of photography as well as film.

Local Symbols Around Rengeji-ike Park・足元に見つけた藤枝の物語

A weathered manhole cover and a small concrete signpost might seem easy to overlook, but both revealed little pieces of Fujieda’s local identity: wisteria, pine, Mt. Fuji, and the city’s connection to the name “Fuji-eda” itself.

I put together a short write-up on the local symbols I found while walking around Rengeji-ike Park.

Full write-up (1-minute read): https://www.pix4japan.com/blog/20260104-wisteria

Photo 1

Timestamp: 2026/01/04・09:29

Fujifilm X100V with 5% diffusion filter

23 mm ISO 160 for 1/4000 sec. at ƒ/2

Classic Chrome film simulation

Photo 2

Timestamp: 2026/01/04・09:31

Fujifilm X100V with 5% diffusion filter

23 mm ISO 160 for 1/4000 sec. at ƒ/2

Two boys practicing their swordplay, Harlem, 1939–1940.

Shock waves during Starship Flight 12 launch