SMOKE Journal

Vol. 12 — How It Lives With You

Vol. 12 — How It Lives With You

On the second life of a good sweatshirt. Something happens, over time, that we did not plan for. A customer buys a kitt hoodie. They wear it to work, or...

Vol. 12 — How It Lives With You

On the second life of a good sweatshirt. Something happens, over time, that we did not plan for. A customer buys a kitt hoodie. They wear it to work, or...

Vol. 11 — Four Years

Vol. 11 — Four Years

On a sweatshirt with a burn hole, and what that means. The oldest one has a small hole in the left sleeve. It happened at a campfire — a spark,...

Vol. 11 — Four Years

On a sweatshirt with a burn hole, and what that means. The oldest one has a small hole in the left sleeve. It happened at a campfire — a spark,...

Vol.10-3 — Why Kyoto: On Sending From Here

Vol.10-3 — Why Kyoto: On Sending From Here

On what a city means, and why it matters where things come from. I am an architect. Perhaps because of that, I tend to pay attention to the structure behind...

Vol.10-3 — Why Kyoto: On Sending From Here

On what a city means, and why it matters where things come from. I am an architect. Perhaps because of that, I tend to pay attention to the structure behind...

Vol.10-2 — Why Kyoto: On Keeping Time

Vol.10-2 — Why Kyoto: On Keeping Time

On how Kyoto keeps time. We have lived in Kyoto long enough to stop noticing some things. The sound of temple bells in the distance. The mountains that sit at...

Vol.10-2 — Why Kyoto: On Keeping Time

On how Kyoto keeps time. We have lived in Kyoto long enough to stop noticing some things. The sound of temple bells in the distance. The mountains that sit at...

Vol. 10-1 — Why Kyoto: On Living Here

Vol. 10-1 — Why Kyoto: On Living Here

On moving cities, and what we found when we stopped. We have lived in three cities in six years. Tokyo, where we met. Okinawa, where we went after the earthquake...

Vol. 10-1 — Why Kyoto: On Living Here

On moving cities, and what we found when we stopped. We have lived in three cities in six years. Tokyo, where we met. Okinawa, where we went after the earthquake...

Vol. 9 — Things You Don't Notice Until They're Gone

Vol. 9 — Things You Don't Notice Until They're ...

You reach for it without thinking. You wear it, use it, wash it, return to it. And then one day it is not there — and you feel the absence...

Vol. 9 — Things You Don't Notice Until They're ...

You reach for it without thinking. You wear it, use it, wash it, return to it. And then one day it is not there — and you feel the absence...