Dreaming with One Eye Open

Introductions: a dream camera, a day job in engineering, and a long pull toward the arts.

Welcome to Dreaming with One Eye Open (renamed to The Flâneur), my newsletter focused on photography, books, and walking (I think?). I’m Toto Tvalavadze. I roam around Tokyo and Tbilisi with a camera around my neck that holds my dorky brain.

I’ve been in engineering for years. I love my work and what I do to pay the bills. But, since my early teens, I experienced an unreasonably strong pull toward arts—music and photography in particular. After being scared of it for years, I decided to get a dream camera I could finally afford, give it all my attention and see what happens. This newsletter is about me figuring out the world of indie photography, book-making, and capturing feelings into pixels on the screen and ink on paper.

I’m still thinking about the format and schedule, but I promise this will be a periodical newsletter. Once every two- or four weeks sounds about right so far.

Follow me on this journey while I look through the lens and dream with one eye open.

The first dispatch is scheduled to go in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, tell your friends!

If you happen to subscribe to my previous, short-lived, newsletter from 2018—you need to subscribe again. In my defense, I didn’t want to put people on yet another list without their proactive action. I hope to see you soon. Thank you!