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Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

Really leaning into the above statement, another old watercolor I painted long ago, featured below. We'll call it a two on the scale to ten of how altered by the AI that it is, meaning it mostly just tidied things up.

Once again, down here in the bottom basement regions of our Clerk Manifesto post, Clerk Manifesto is reporting from the present in Kyoto, where it’s still uncomfortably hot every day. But we seem to be sufficiently loving it, so I’ll carry on in the heat. Here are today’s pictures of adventures in Kyoto. While these images are, of course, full of fantasy and artificial intelligence confection, they’re built from original photographs and reflect the actual places we’ve been, anywhere from, oh, I don’t know, 50 to 75 percent.

I am thinking that these two go along well with the post above.

fifty

 

Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

For today I am yet again showing you an old watercolor painting, this of a young tiger. I am pretty much bypassing the static picture and going full living painting version right out of the gate.

If you don't know the drill: click to engage the picture, enlarge it, and then click once more to play it.

I still haven’t taken out my computer in our small Kyoto house, so for now I’m working on my phone. I’ll primarily be reporting with photographs from Kyoto, Japan, where I am now. This is Clerk Manifesto reporting from the present, and here are today’s pictures.

forty-nine

Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

I'm not likely to get tired of these videos of old drawings of mine brought to life, thought this may be the last one from 85 and up, my show of Jewish people who were 85 years old or older. 

If you don't know the drill: click to engage the picture, enlarge it, and then click once more to play it.

forty-eight

 

Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

Continuing along from yesterday, these are the paintings version of the recent alien invasion pictures of Saint Minneapolis. Thank goodness my wife and I are safely in Japan now!

And then here is a video version as well. I think it even has accompanying music!

If you don't know the drill: click to engage the picture, enlarge it, and then click once more to play it.

Typing on my phone is a pain, so here’s a quick intro I’ll reuse. These photos are from Kyoto, where my darling wife and I are staying. It’s sweltering, beautiful, bewildering. I take a few photos each day and edit them later while recovering at our quiet house here. No commentary then for today, I will let the pictures speak.

forty-seven

 

Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

Not to belabor the point...

Wait!

To belabor the point, as you read this my darling wife and I have long gone from Minnesota (assuming all has gone normally) and will now have almost been in Japan for two weeks. But as I write I am filling clerkmanifesto in well ahead of time. We still live in our mostly empty apartment. I am retired (no library strories today!). And we even sold our car this morning. And since I have been showing pictures taken out our apartment window (of birds lately), today I was inspired to take a few more pictures, or make them.

I got carried away.

I don't even know what to do with all these pictures. I think I have about 30 or forty of them in various versions. I have been rereading the incredibly enjoyable Andy Weir novel "Hail Mary". So it is possible that planted in my mind the desire to photograph an alien visitation. 

These are alien visitation pictures.

We'll start with this robust selection of the scene captured out my window and a couple more from our walk into town.

 

I’m now the up to date version of me, sitting in a small house in Kyoto looking at this post (that seems so long ago) wondering if I should put some aliens into my Kyoto pictures. 

Maybe later. 

Now I am sending out my photography of Kyoto by way of scroll paintings inspired by a museum from several days ago.

The change in tone is not lost on me.

forty-six

 

Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

Yesterday I showed you a highly zoomed in picture of a bald eagle that I took recently from inside my apartment. This is a pretty fancy way to do one's wildlife photography. Very... comfortable. It put me in mind of an older picture taken in an obviously different season, also from out the window of my apartment, of an owl. This is very cleaned up with AI, let's say a three on the scale to ten, which means, for those of you scoring at home, that this is definitely the owl as it was, and all the trees are in the right places, but if the owl's sister were to look at the picture she might say "I don't know, it looks like him, but it also sort of doesn't? Something about the ears or forehead?".

Although the owl's sister might say "Who?" not even recognizing her own owl brother! In which case this would be an alteration level of at least five out of ten.

Or it might possibly just reflect on an owl being an owl.