2025.11

• Traveled to Fukushima for a weekend trip photographing autumn foliage and visited Sazaedo Temple, known for its double-helix spiral staircase architecture.
• Published Plaintext Commons and open-sourced Arrowhead CLI for plaintext note management.
• Open-sourced Stamp, another tool for the Plaintext Commons ecosystem.
• Started development on Backlog (TBA), an Anki-style spaced reminder system for plaintext notes.
• Launched a redesign of ttvl.co with refreshed homepage.
• Good prograss on photo book.
• Made custom bone folders at bookbinding class at Marumizu-gumi.
• Visited Mike Brodie’s exhibition A Period of Juvenile Prosperity at Gallery Ether.
• Finished reading A System for Writing by Bob Doto.
• Added thee photobooks to my collection: A Woman I Once Knew by Rosalind Fox Solomon, Uncommon Places by Stephen Shore, and one from the exhibition.
• Began discussions about converting Jinny Street Gallery into a NPO.

It’s been a while since I was sick for this many days. Headaches and a sore throat lingered for over ten days, which derailed a few things, but I still managed to accomplish a lot in the first two-thirds of the month.

The book project is progressing well, though I’ve realized I’m short on images. I’ll be shooting more over the next three months and getting back into a regular photography schedule.