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When Meiji government surveyors made it to the top of Mount Tsurugi, Japan's last unclimbed mountain in 1907, they found a bronze cane head and spear tip from the 8th century CE, indications that ascetics of Shugendō beat them to it by over 1,000 years. Oh well. [h/t CraigMod, who missed a Shugendō session because of XOXO and typhoons.]

“Wim Wenders, in “Written in the West” — his most excellent book of photographic research for his film, Paris, Texas — writes:

Solitude and taking photographs are connected in an important way. If you aren’t alone, you can never acquire this way of seeing, this complete immersion in what you see, no longer needing to interpret, just looking.

I’ve found this to be true. As much as I loved walking parts of the Camino last year with great friends, I can’t stop thinking about going back and re-walking it alone. Adding even just one person to a party creates a bubble — a construct of “us” and everything else in the world. Walking alone makes you vulnerable, yes, but more importantly sets the stage for boredom. And from boredom comes, I believe, a sharper eye.

And so I’ll be walking most of this Great Walk of Spring 2019 alone. Of course, I’ll be photographing the heck out of it.

Mr. Wenders continues:

There’s a distinct kind of satisfaction that you get from looking and traveling alone, and it’s connected with this relation of solitude to photography.

And then, the really important bit:

If you’re not alone you take different photos. I rarely feel the urge to take pictures if I’m not on my own.

This walk transverses so many different environments — from megalopolises, to urban sprawl, to strips of pachinko parlor wasteland, to untouched wilderness, to abandoned villages, to perfectly preserved centuries-old post towns — that I am most excited for the contrasts, and within those contrasts the unanticipated details that will surely be there, but details I may miss were I not on my own.”

(that these electric bikes were ever "legal" was always a great mystery of manhattan …) https://t.co/GodXALcikC

at least trump is making us realize how shitty the word "very" is https://t.co/25rT2b3VTX

(foto de www.digitaltrends.com)

Craig Mod escribió un excelente artículo sobre el libro impreso vs libro digital.

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Lo más interesante del articulo me parecio su distinción entre tipos de contenido: 

-Contenido Sin Forma - Contenido que se adapta al medio en el que esta. ej. Texto de un Kindle.