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The thing about building is that you don't have much time to do anything else. I guess it's a little like raising a kid in some ways. It's intense, completely involving, and you keep swearing that you'll remember this funny, cute, weird, totally delightful detail when you get a chance to, someday, write it down.

And you lose track.

E and I were not against being interviewed, for just this reason. We wanted to document our work, but we'd lose track of photographing every process, due to full-on preoccupation with the building process, which included, but was not limited to: muddy hands, frustration that something didn't go right, exhaustion, bad hair days, and a host of other reasons.

So when Michael's office called to ask if they could send over a team of Japanese journalists from CNN-Tokoyo, we said, of course, yes.