Robuta

An extensive review of the Leica Q camera — taken on a six month test in the field, in multiple shooting scenarios and multiple environments.

Brando’s Room - Traveling space, if not time, to say hello to Capote and Brando

The homepage of author and photographer Craig Mod — long walks across Japan, pizza toast, books, photography, literature, and more.

Referenced works and related reading for recent talks

How I modified my digital tools to reconnect with time on a six-week, 620-mile trip on foot across the country.

Hi: Narrative Mapping the World - Notes on tiered publishing, writing from the hip, and real-time storytelling

A pointable we [1/3] - The power of URLs and publishing

As we may read - From print to digital and back to print

May 21, 2025

Staring down colliders - Visiting CERN and the LCHb proton collider

A Life in Cameras - Seventeen years of light tight boxes

More at https://craigmod.com

I've been running the <span class="sp">SPECIAL PROJECTS</span> membership program for five years; here's what I know.

Pull back - Everything benefits from a little consideration

Some notes on running a publishing experiment over SMS while I walk a big chunk of Japan.

A pointable we [3/3] - The power of URLs and publishing

A collection of conversations from Craig Mod's 2025 book tour for 'Things Become Other Things.' Recorded at independent bookstores across America,...

Craig Mod, interviewed by Offscreen Magazine — talking about writing, publishing, startups, life, and disconnection.

Notes on how to survive airplane travel, the Dalai Lama way.

Kissa by Kissa日本語版

Jun 6, 2025 - Feeling stuck? Discover how extended walking pilgrimages and creative pursuits allowed one man to peel away his past and uncover his truest self.

In “Things Become Other Things,” the longtime resident of Japan captures that grace that lingers in slowly vanishing countryside towns.

Our software feels less refined as our hardware achieves platonic ideals

Subcompact round up and The Daily - Circling back on the tiny Japanese car

Notes on being the other - life as a non-Japanese in Japan.

Permission and Tools — How the right tools enable a certain kind of creativity

Hello, Again - Feet on the ground, satellites, and the indie web

Twitter Archives and the Sendai Quake - The value of simple systems in times of crisis

Eventbrite - Books Are Magic presents In-Store: Craig Mod and Lynne Tillman discuss Things & Death - Friday, May 30, 2025 at Books Are Magic Montague,...

Nurture the Difference - Silicon Valley verses New York City

A book of walking the Kii Peninsula

Upon this wrist - thoughts on the Apple Watch

Wind Up Kidd Chronicle - To Murakami and Kidd and Ware

To Make a Book, Walk on a Book - Designing Koya Bound and other books by placing them on the floor

Everything I've learned in the first four years of running a successful membership program

If digital covers as we know them are so 'dead,' why do we hold them so gingerly? Treat them like print covers? We can't hurt them. They're...

Six years of running <span class="sp">SPECIAL PROJECTS</span>. Here are my "rules" that guide the program.

On the resilience of books in the face of apps, attention monsters, and an ad-driven online economy

Myanmar’s Smartphone Revolution - A dispatch from an Internet revolution in progress

The First Façon - Façon blend, cloth drip

The Nourishing Wake - Returning from Tokyo after the quake

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The fullest day I know of begins with taking a portrait of a stranger in the...