泥中乃蓮 emerging from my long-neglected Japanese calligraphy. The symbol on the bottom is my kao (花押) which is a kind of kanji signature derived from my first name Joichi (穰一). Thick Nhat Hahn, one of my favorite Buddhist monks, often said, "No Mud, No Lotus." This is very similar … | Continue reading
tl;dr iPhone videos shot in High Dynamic Range (HDR) would look blown out when edited in Premiere Pro. (Newer iPhones shoot in HDR mode by default now.) This was screwing up iPhone-user YouTubers, including myself. There were tons of not-too-useful videos on how to work around th … | Continue reading
Since returning to Tokyo in July last year after 14 years, I’ve been immersing myself in web3. I’ve also been frantically catching up with everything I missed in Japan - the food, my friends, Japan’s mostly failed attempts at digital transformation and the new generation of Gen Z … | Continue reading