Robert
@jstckr.bsky.social
Tokyo-based amateur pinguinologist & black belt in Mudita. Literary translator・Japanese, English & German.
dreamt that i played my saxophone differently, like a flute, and that it worked
October 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
dreamt that i played my saxophone differently, like a flute, and that it worked
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Couldn't recall why I'd saved this picture, Image search reminds me it's a photograph taken by Tokugawa Yoshinobu (the last Tokugawa shogun) of his cat, Han. It is perhaps Japan's oldest pet cat photo.
October 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Couldn't recall why I'd saved this picture, Image search reminds me it's a photograph taken by Tokugawa Yoshinobu (the last Tokugawa shogun) of his cat, Han. It is perhaps Japan's oldest pet cat photo.
i just remembered last night i dreamed about decimal letters in between the alphabet that could be used to describe the world in more detail
October 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
i just remembered last night i dreamed about decimal letters in between the alphabet that could be used to describe the world in more detail
Ah hey, Arte uploaded a 2020 concert by Sebastien Tellier to youtube
Link timestamped directly to L'Amour et la Violence:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=470X...
Link timestamped directly to L'Amour et la Violence:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=470X...
Sébastien Tellier - ARTE Concert Festival 2020
YouTube video by ARTE Concert
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Ah hey, Arte uploaded a 2020 concert by Sebastien Tellier to youtube
Link timestamped directly to L'Amour et la Violence:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=470X...
Link timestamped directly to L'Amour et la Violence:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=470X...
hey if you have a chance to see Weathering by Faye Driscoll, by all means go see it. apparently theyre touring to Paris next. one of the best works of art ive seen in a while.
October 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
hey if you have a chance to see Weathering by Faye Driscoll, by all means go see it. apparently theyre touring to Paris next. one of the best works of art ive seen in a while.
i translated two of five* texts included in this Thames & Hudson book featuring the photos from Daido Moriyama's first four photobooks
www.thamesandhudson.com/products/mor...
*(pretty sure it's 5 texts, but not 100% sure // i did the translations ca 2018 & 2019, originally for different editions)
www.thamesandhudson.com/products/mor...
*(pretty sure it's 5 texts, but not 100% sure // i did the translations ca 2018 & 2019, originally for different editions)
Moriyama: Quartet
Quartet explores Daido Moriyama’s early career through four foundational photobooks that highlight his place as one of Japan’s most radical photographers: Japan: A Photo Theater; A Hunter; Farewell Ph...
www.thamesandhudson.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
i translated two of five* texts included in this Thames & Hudson book featuring the photos from Daido Moriyama's first four photobooks
www.thamesandhudson.com/products/mor...
*(pretty sure it's 5 texts, but not 100% sure // i did the translations ca 2018 & 2019, originally for different editions)
www.thamesandhudson.com/products/mor...
*(pretty sure it's 5 texts, but not 100% sure // i did the translations ca 2018 & 2019, originally for different editions)
what is scrivener using 'significant energy' for. don't dream too big, little scrivener, we're only doing words today, as always.
September 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
what is scrivener using 'significant energy' for. don't dream too big, little scrivener, we're only doing words today, as always.
made this cute lil loaf of bread just now
September 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
made this cute lil loaf of bread just now
Robert Redford, one of two Roberts I was named after.
September 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Robert Redford, one of two Roberts I was named after.
Nile Koetting's new piece Blossoms – Fulfilment: v good. see it if you're in tokyo.
www.terrada.co.jp/en/news/8426/
www.terrada.co.jp/en/news/8426/
Premiere of Nile Koetting’s New Work Blossoms – fulfilment at Warehouse TERRADA from September 11th (Thu), 2025 | NEWS | Warehouse TERRADA
Premiere of Nile Koetting's New Work Blossoms – fulfilment at Warehouse TERRADA from September 11th (Thu), 2025
www.terrada.co.jp
September 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Nile Koetting's new piece Blossoms – Fulfilment: v good. see it if you're in tokyo.
www.terrada.co.jp/en/news/8426/
www.terrada.co.jp/en/news/8426/
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Oh yeah things are falling apart. You've got paranoid guys on Blind freaking out now
August 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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i need tony morris to perform in tokyo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZCg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZCg...
Bored in the Rain.
YouTube video by Tony M
www.youtube.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
i need tony morris to perform in tokyo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZCg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZCg...
been in japan for precisely 13 years right about now / a little more than a third of my life
August 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
been in japan for precisely 13 years right about now / a little more than a third of my life
not that i'd claim any kind of authority on the matter, but having performed on theatre stages for a little over two years now i feel like i've found a good way to balance acting (what goes on inside) and performing (what i show outside), as well as own ideas + taking directions. fun thing to learn.
August 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
not that i'd claim any kind of authority on the matter, but having performed on theatre stages for a little over two years now i feel like i've found a good way to balance acting (what goes on inside) and performing (what i show outside), as well as own ideas + taking directions. fun thing to learn.
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This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ah, Larkin - yes, he’s glum and moody, but also comic, sweet, and sincere; alive to life’s humiliations and redemptions, neither of which are experienced on any grand scale. there is just the fleeting view from a train; the light of dawn around the curtains; the hedgehog dead in the mower
August 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Ah, Larkin - yes, he’s glum and moody, but also comic, sweet, and sincere; alive to life’s humiliations and redemptions, neither of which are experienced on any grand scale. there is just the fleeting view from a train; the light of dawn around the curtains; the hedgehog dead in the mower
Always trust John Self's book recommendations.
July 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Always trust John Self's book recommendations.
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Reminder that Randall is a very good novel which deserves many readers.
It was fun and a privilege to talk with @samjordison.bsky.social and @lorifeathers.bsky.social on the Across the Pond podcast about my novel Randall, 11 years on from its original publication, the YBAs, and my relationship to art and nostalgia.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...
115. Jonathan Gibbs, "Randall" - Across the Pond
Author Jonathan Gibbs joins us to talk about his novel Randall, published in the UK by Sam's Galley Beggar Press eleven years ago but just now making it to the US thanks to new independent publisher, ...
www.buzzsprout.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Reminder that Randall is a very good novel which deserves many readers.