which is it gives  him a second of actors being acting and real

drew kent

whatever you want to call him.

brother sometimes  for me

that's how i think of him

we grew up together on vancouver island

and we go way back

far back as i can actually remember having had consciousness to know who i was

and when he was  young he left for japan

and you know how at that time the world is imbued with just that much more  magic

and incredibleness

so my interest in japan grew with my growing up

and i wanted to get over  there one day

so i thought i would travel

now when i traveled the best way that i ever did when i was  young was with my dad

and around the island that i lived that was to sail

and if you know anything of  sailing or i've ever done it before

you'll notice there's something very special about it

and that  is the sound or specifically more that there is a lack of it

and i've found since coming to japan  where i might have used to dread traveling in the countryside because it meant long trips and  cars

and loud horns and crazy traffic

just like i used to love zero traffic on a sail boat

i get  to enjoy that same experience when i travel here in japan

and just in the same way the singular  soundlessness of it

or that the only sound that you hear is that of the train traveling over the  tracks

like the hall rushing over the water below it

so before we arrive to kyoto i think i'll allow  drew a little interlude to perhaps elaborate more

exactly on this incredible effort that  he's gone through to establish there

yeah look i guess i should start talking and just  get warmed up and use yeah and we can just kind of  

exactly you got it you don't

human torture was  denied a bank loan

yeah one of the coolest things that we found when renovating uh garden lab and

momichino komichi was that these buildings are about 100 years old

but we really didn't know what  they were beforehand

we think that some of them were houses

some of them were probably stores

but  it almost seemed like some of them were kind of factories as well

it was one that we  think made geta japanese wooden sandals so

and but the interesting thing is that probably  wasn't always the case

whatever their final iteration was

wasn't their original iteration

they  were probably homes before or maybe converted into stores

and then back again

and so the machia is  an amazing template for that where you could be zoned for a few different things and

your house or your home or your store or your factory could evolve through a number of different stages

through its evolution like pokemon

so there you have it

grown up in japan  to want to

maintain the culture of it having appreciated it

in contrast to his own

poetic i'd say

and when drew wants me to get down for something like one of the events that he has going on

something that i look forward to absolutely every single time

is to be able to go  on the shinkansen

this thing is a speeding liquid balanced bullet

it's so much fun and where i  said before

i used to dread i now look forward to

the epitome of all of that

is to be able to go on  the shinkansen

because when you do this in japan you're not just taking the train

although you will  certainly do that

but you're going in for the full experience

and for me i've never had two hours go  by so fast

you get on there with the bento likely

as is tradition or in my case you grab a few frosty pints

and you crack your book open and you read for a little while

i'm always sad at  the end of these trips that they're over because

there's nothing that i enjoy to do more

it's kind  of like when i was young i used to say when i was so busy

i loved most i said this to my coach

the in-between time and that was whenever you were traveling

from or to something and you didn't have  to worry about what was at the end destination

you could finally let yourself go be in a moment and  just chill

now i've gotten a little bit older and i actually enjoy where i arrived to

and  so this case it was to go to kyotography

and the sort of special events that drew is putting  on now

and they are absolutely not to be missed

touchdown drew

i'm at the station  and i will see you shortly

hello hello uh matsubara kawarawachi

Essence of efficiency

but dave i hear you say

what is this kyotography

well i'm so glad you asked let me elaborate

this is one of a variety of events that  drew has made the effort to be a part of  

which is in this case there are a number  of different photographers around kyoto  

gathered into a kind of collective that are having  their art featured at many many different venues  

garden lab is one of those venues so you're not  going to see all of the art here you're going to  

see one of the particular artists that is involved  with the project and it's this whole visual media  

theme where there's the photography that's done  specifically of an event that was celebrated in  

kyoto but also there was this cool 3d vr and  that was being featured in the evening as well  

so you've got the surrounding of a  restored traditional japanese building  

featuring some of the most cutting edge fun  virtual media and the artists there mingling  

with all the people who've come to check  it out in an open-air summer environment  

i know of no other place that i would rather be

being intense in that role of of of the character

and then being released from it

and then i i think  you should check this out number three

number three yeah and number nine lilies uh

french artist  who works with uh visually impaired people

i know it's kind of going on a tangent but i've seen  music but specifically for like hearing him right right right

and it's like by that like limitation  it enhances other senses right

yeah absolutely and we all know about you know like Ray charles and  stevie wonder and all that people

you know i don't know but there's so many good stuff uh omar  who is the senegalese artist okay but you know

who's been born to the the colonized  senegal and then whose dance issues  

in his own history are famed throughout the lenses  of congregation that's why he titled his show

thanks to you for coming along on this  ride that i went on

means a lot to me

uh as i hope you can tell this was a labor of love  there's nothing i like to do more in the world

than make these kind of videos and if that  connected with you i've done my job

until next time

take care be safe out there

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but for  now clock is run out catch you in the next one