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A stamp in the trekking hut at the beginning/end of the Akadake mountain trail (above) and a two Tokyo high school girls annotating a print club sticker (below, photo by my then colleague Aico Shimizu).

The highly evolved practices of gathering proof of where you've been with whom and why - supported by formal stamp treasure hunt in Hokkaido's Chitose airport; walking sticks branded on the way to the summit of Mount Fuji to making and collecting print club stickers relatively common amongst teen girls in a number of east Asian countries.

And how these practices will be reinforced and amplified as life goes increasingly digital - - everything from the way we navigate our urban environments; what we search for; the things we interact with; and the services we pay for.

Writing from Akadake | May 7, 2008 | Permalink