Simon James French

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  1. I take burned-out professionals into Kyoto's gardens to listen

    I run a small thing called Kyoto, in Sound where I take people out for a couple of hours somewhere in Kyoto and hand them a sound recorder and headphones. We walk slowly, we listen, and they go home with the recordings they made of that specific morning. I moved to Kyoto a year ago and noticed pretty quickly that most people visit a city like this to see it. But few slow down enough to hear it. The kind of people who'd get the most out of it are, I suspect, the people reading this: a phone in…

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  2. I Hid an Easter Egg on My Bear Blog. Can You Find It?

    Somewhere on this site there's a page I haven't linked to. Good luck finding it. Quick one today, I just really wanted to share this. I spent a few evenings this week building a secret page on this website. It isn't linked anywhere — not in the nav, not in the footer. You have to actually go looking for it, and I don't want to spoil the surprise. I used to love things like this as a kid. Finding a hidden room in a video game, a cheat code scrawled on the back of a magazine, a wall that wasn't…

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