Referenced works from recent talks: Books, articles, places, events. General topics include: Pilgrimage paths, vipassana meditation, book making, photography.

#Books

• Art Space Tokyo, Ashley Rawlings & Craig Mod
• 僕らの時代の本、Craig Mod
• Flipboard for iPhone, the book, Craig Mod
• Koya Bound, Dan Rubin & Craig Mod
• Kuhaku & Other Accounts from Japan, Various
• Goodbye Madame Butterfly, Sumie Kawakami
• 裸でベランダ、うさぎと女たち, 菅原敏
• Travels with Myself and Another, Martha Gellhorn
• The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
• As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Laurie Lee
• The Roads to Sata, Alan Booth
• The Inland Sea, Donald Richie

#Art / Photography

• Conoid Chair, George Nakashima
• Earthrise, Bill Anders, 1968
• Whole Earth Catalogue, Stewart Brand, 1968
• Powers of Ten, Ray & Charles Eames, 1977
• The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs, James Bridle, 2009
• Drone Shadows, James Bridle
• Nagasaki, Charles Levy, 1945
• Walking from Munich to Berlin, Oskar Fischinger, 1927

#Articles

• 60-Ri Road, Paper Sky Magazine, 2017
• How I Got My Attention Back, Craig Mod, Wired, 2017
• Hiroshima, John Hersey, The New Yorker, 1946
• To Make a Book, Walk on a Book, Craig Mod, 2018
• A Whole Lotta Vipasaana, Craig Mod, 2018

#Misc

• Operation Hardtack, 1958
• Fake Obama
• Fisher Protocol, Roger Fisher, 1981
• Vipassana Meditation
• George Nakashima Interview
• Aki no Mineiri festival, Haguro-san
• Brands’ Whole Earth opening: We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far, remotely done power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, church—has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG.

#Trails / Places

• Kumano Kodo (Wakayama / Nara)
• 60-Ri Goe Kaido (Yamagata)
• Kisoji (Nakasendo / Gifu)
• Hida Furukawa (Gufu)
• Takigahara (Kanazawa)
• Setonaikai (Awashima, Takamishima)
• Camino de Santiago (Spain)

This essay, published November 2018. Thoughts? Email me@craigmod.com.

Craig Mod is a writer and photographer based in Japan. He's the author of the books Things Become Other Things and Kissa by Kissa and is a MacDowell, Ragdale, and VCCA writing fellow. His essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Eater, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, Wired, Aeon, New Scientist, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, The Morning News, Codex: Journal of Typography, and elsewhere.

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