Tokyo on Foot

Tokyo on Foot is the most amazing book I've seen in a long time. This book is by Florent Chavouet, a wonderful artist that while living in Tokyo for 6 months documented everything he saw and did in his sketchbook. The book is full of beautiful and comical color pencil renderings, of buildings, people, parks, maps, plus the notes and bits of story are really funny. Here are a few pages.


Tokyo on Foot by Florent Chavouet.

Valentine's Day Giveaway! leave a comment to enter!

Hi lovely friends, I'm having a giveaway this week for a copy of my Tokyo Guide zine. One wonderful person will receive my zine in a fun package with some extra goodies. Just leave a comment below and make sure you leave me a contact email, you have until Valentine's day, February 14th, 10am eastern time.

Japan Guide Zine's in my new shop!

meiji square, janneserojas©2011

I was so excited to find my zines all waiting in a neat little box for me last week. So I started shipping those out to the pre-order people on Friday. I have a limited quantity so order it fast before you miss out. The first ten orders will get mini photographs printed on quality matte photograph paper. Check one out in my shop Usagi Por Moi

*to those friends who already have seen me post about the zine my apologises, i'm just really excited to get them out to people*

Happy New Year! I few things...

I want to wish you all a wonderful New Year! It's been a crazy two weeks, I've been working on renovating my studio and I got a freelance job the first week out of the new year, which is amazing!

First I'd like to share that my Zine is officially in and available for purchase, right now it's up in my Etsy shop, so if you haven't bought one get one soon because I only have a limited amount of copies and if you already bought it I will make a very good attempt at getting it the mail by Saturday (just swamped with a work deadline). Thank you all who have bought the zine or who plan to buy it, please drop me a line here to let me know if you liked it.



Next I want to share a lovely gift from Ros from Polkaros. Thank you so much Ros it's all so lovely and your zine is amazing. Super sweet and wonderful of you to share such lovely gifts. Happy New Year!

Tokyo Photojournal & Travel Guide- PRE-ORDER!!!

Dear Friends...

I had a friend come over last night and she brought in a little package left at my door by the postman and do you know what it was? it was the proof for my Zine!!!! It's amazing!!! I was floored by how beautifully it was printed!!! I gave the go ahead for the rest to go to production, so I have the zine up for pre-order in my etsy store. I should have them here before the New Year *crossing fingers and toes*. I have only a limited amount of copies, so you may want to get it sooner rather than later.






40 pages, full color
Glossy Paper (80lb Text)

Zine-Tokyo Guide COMING SOON!!!

I finally found someone to print my zine, so now I'm super motivated to finish it up. Not long now folks. I'm hoping to be done designing it by the end of October and have it up for sale in November. My guide is very photo heavy since it's meant as a photo journal as much as a guide, I think you'll like it pigeons.

Kotori Kawashima-Photographer

I was lucky enough to stumble upon a book by Kotori Kawashima, Mirai-Chan(published 4/2011) that I wanted since reading about it in Jollygoo's blog before I went to Japan in March, at Kinokuniya today. The book is shots of her daughter Mirai-chan in her daily life, probably one of the cutest toddlers you'll ever see in pics. The photographs are raw and beautiful, high-contrast explosion of color, photography. A lot of the photography takes place in rural Japan on Sado Island, Nigata prefecture. Kawashima was born in Tokyo in 1980 and graduated from Waseda University in Japan. Her second book is a collection called Baby, Baby, recently published in March 2011. Kawashima will be showing from September 1, 2011-September 13, 2011 at Fukuoka PARCO









getting there:

Kuko Line Subway Station "Tenjin" direct exit 7
大牟田線 Nishitetsu Tenjin "Fukuoka (Tenjin) Station 'north entrance gates immediately
Now go towards the bus stop each Nishitetsu

11-1, Tenjin 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka
Phone 092-235-7000 (main)
Opening Hours
10:00 to 20:30
B1F · Oichika 11:00 to 23:00
7:30 to 21:00 Burezzu 神戸屋 B1F ·

Mogu Takahashi

I recently fell in love with Mogu Takahashi's blog, a wonderful Japanese artist. I love Takahashi's whimiscal work, especially when she uses materials like cookies and clothes pins to express herself. Here are few pics from her blog you should take a look. I wish I was in Japan to see one of her exhibitions, she's showing her solo show "Kawaii Ugly San" at Cafe Drole in Nakameguro. Watch her video below it's super cute!










Getting there:
Cafe Drole
1-23-4,1F, Nakameguro, Meguro-ku
03-5722-6083
Take the Tokoyu Toyoko line to the Nakameguro station.

Zine-tastic!

When I went to Japan in March my original intention was to work on my photography portfolio and then turn it into a photo journal. When I started it I felt like I should add more information and turn it into a travel guide since I have been blogging about Japan since my first trip in 2007 I always feel like I should share my experience to help others with theirs. After four and half months I'm getting close to done. I think with a few more weeks I will be able to release my first zine. The hard copies will have special surprises in it. Here's a sneak peek ;)