Author: Jean Snow

What a week. This was certainly the busiest design week I’ve ever had, and I barely even saw anything. All the work was of course because of the very big — and very successful — PechaKucha Night we produced as part of Tokyo Designers Week 2012. This was then followed by a mini PK session…

I’m running again. It’s been a year or two since I’ve run regularly, and the main reason I stopped doing it was that I was finding it difficult to both go out for a run and walk my dog on the same day — and running with the dog proved difficult. I’ve always had it…

My dog gets a personalized cup when he goes to Starbucks. I’ve already written about the fact that we often go to our local Starbucks with him, and he’s become so familiar that not only does the staff usually bring out a cup of water for him, but as pictured in this post, they include…

I’m in a cyberpunk state of mind these days. What mostly kickstarted it was me finally getting my copy of the Android: Netrunner core set, something I had been excitedly waiting on for months. An update of the classic collectible card gamefrom the nineties, and designed by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield, it pits…

What do vacation photos say about you? I was able to find out what they meant to others, by way of PechaKucha. While I was in Canada for a 2-week visit to my hometown back in August, all the photos I took were with my iPhone, shared through Instagram. After the trip, I was contacted…

See it, buy it, download it, read it. While in your underwear. That’s absolutely one of the things I like the most about reading magazines on my iPad. To that I could add pricing, availability, and a few more things, but today it was just the simple fact that I was immediately able to get…

300 of anything is impressive, let alone a weekly podcast. To CheapyD and the CAGcast crew — Wombat and Shipwreck — huge congrats on reaching episode 300 this past week. I can’t remember exactly from which number I started listening (I think it was in early 100s), but I do remember the story that kicked off…

Sniff. I used to suffer from really bad hayfever every summer in Canada, and when I moved to Japan, it didn’t affect anymore. I was so happy. Then, maybe 6-7 years ago, when spring allergy season came through — because of the damn overabundance of cedar trees — with news that the pollen was at…

Less than a week after climbing Fuji, I was back in the mountains. The Fuji trip had in fact been a last-minute one, and for some weeks now we had been planning a trip back to Nagano, to the Kamikouchi park, to first make our way to the Karasawa hut, and then explore a few…

I may blog for myself, but this sure made me feel good. I was checking my @replies on Twitter, and saw this tweet: 8 years ago today, @jeansnow posted this http://jeansnow.net/2004/09/24/groovisual-diary/ …and that’s how @nathanadams found me. Thank you, Jean. I still owe you a lot! It was posted by Toe Adams (@pantone185), and this…