Vestbygd — Many thanks to Flickrfor making me a featured photographer recently! I thought I might as well mark the occasion by publishing a photo, which I haven’t done in a good few weeks. This is blue hour / s...
Athens — 100 days ago (feels like ages ago) I took on the #100happydays challenge, in a personal effort to train myself to recognise happy moments and not pass them by without appreciating their value. After 1...
Yogyakarta — The next lovely city in Indonesia after Bandung, in my personal opinion. Why do I put Jogja after Bandung? Because Jogja has lack of public transportation to help you getting around the city. In Bandu...
Olinda — I don’t know who created this delightful piece. We found it positioned as you see it on the dining table in a Dandenong Ranges rental cottage near Melbourne. It’s spring here, all the gardens ablaze...
Port campbell — When my mother visited the Great Ocean Road a few years ago on her last visit to Australia, I tried to coax her to walk with me out across the two great spans of “our” London Bridge. ‘No’, she said, ...
London — “I don’t think I’ve ever turned the radio on my car; there’s always a CD playing.” — I remember saying this to some people, when I was back in Portugal and still driving my car around. For almost two...
Ilkley — I am riding a flower at the moment. It’s a way of choosing routes, a way of coping with the map being red. I have never really thought about how I choose which way I’ll ride my bike, sometimes I kno...
Saint-denis — Jeudi 16 octobre 2014 carottes, oignons, épices, citron vert. un deux trois nous irons au bois. Le bruit des ventilateurs des ordinateurs me fait désirer une pluie batante et ininterrompue. 0642 Rêvé...
Ahmedabad — This morning, I read DNA with great eagerness how Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has realised its potential. Kudos to standing committee chairman Pravin Patel who called spade a spade. I have been o...
Toronto — Earlier in the month, I ventured over to the Toronto Islands to find the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse. I had been meaning to for a while, and not just because there’s a Toronto Dreams Project postcard t...
Ahmedabad — Wondering where to ferry the kids for this Vacation? I am surrounded by places with no ‘Wah’ feeling. May be a trip to Naramada Dam? As the first rain of 2004 fell in the Narmada tributaries in wester...
Newport beach — Today was the most disappointing day of my professional career. I spent most of the afternoon trying to hide my embarrassment behind a forced smile. I don’t think I fooled many. When I got home I wan...
San francisco — A thirty-year-old Polaroid camera. It’s like having a baby unicorn in your pocket. You pull this thing out at a party and you are suddenly a hipster genius. Of course EVERYONE thinks it’s digital. Th...
Squamish — Most people love sunny days. Sun is wonderful, but it’s not so great when you’re trudging through the humid rain forests of Cascadia. Today we hiked up to High Falls. I’m not completely sure how it g...
Wailuku — Colours so strong and angular they reflected off the matte surface of Ka’ahumanu Avenue down there. Hues and combinations thereof more typically seen at dusk or sunset. Dear Sanna, Your private resp...
Madison — In 2008, while I traveled extensively throughout the US and Europe, I started taking pictures of all the places I slept. A simple reminder of all the different environments and places where I’d spent ...
Tokyo — This app always reminds me of my older brother who works as air-traffic controller in Haneda Airport. I don’t really know what his routine is. But I could imagine a bit about the soul of tower person...
Othis — Mardi 14 octobre 2014. Rêvé qu’il y avait un jeune homme musclé nu, un chien de type boxer et un enfant, nu. Je regardais avec la même fascination la musculature du jeune homme et celle du chien. L’en...
Paia — Now that my old weblog has been, Lazarus-like, resurrected from the ignominious dead, I need to find a reason to continue writing here. I do love the aesthetics of this room that Craig Mod and his bun...
Othis — Lundi 13 octobre 2014. Je ai écrit plein de choses brillantes intelligentes blessantes pendant mon sommeil et tout a disparu au réveil. Ou du moins faisons comme si. Ensuite il m’a dit qu’il n’était ...
Princetown — Even the mightiest of cliffs.
London — Commuting — “is regular travel between one’s place of residence and place of work or full-time study. It sometimes refers to any regular or often repeated traveling between locations, even when not wo...
Toronto — “I will turn myself into a forest herb if you will apply me to your wounds.”
Old bagan — Visiting ancient places has always given me a feeling of … I’m not sure exactly. Excitement isn’t the right word, nor is interesting. Hmm … maybe fascination is a better word? Anyhoo, I have been ...
Hong kong — Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators gathered in front of the Hong Kong Government’s Headquarters late tonight after the talks between the two sides, scheduled for today, were cancelled at the las...
Hong kong — I’m always trying to see the beauty when surrounded by chaos. This week I’ve been going to the Student Boycotts in Tamar Park to cover it for my journalism course and also for my personal curiosity. ...
Hong kong — When I met Jason Ng, he was with his friends giving out cold lemon tea, boxes of food from the restaurant chain Maxims to the first aid workers and the supply tents in Admiralty. People were surprised...
Hong kong — I woke up from a sleep which felt like it lasted forever. I went out from my home and found this. Yellow ribbons were tied around most of the poles around my apartment in Tai Po. The ribbons are a sym...
Hong kong — I could hear the bangs and then the puffs of smoke in the distance. I thought I was far enough. I wasn’t. I started crying and coughing and running with everyone else as the tear gas moved across the ...
San francisco —
Wien — I haven’t forgiven her yet, not quite, but I’m working hard to hide it. I don’t think she can tell anyway. And it’s really not that big of a deal. But I just can’t let it go, as much as I want to. Dur...
London — Until the late 16th century most of what we now know as London was still covered in the famous Winchel Sea. When the land was reclaimed and that sea forced underground by Yentob The Engineer a ring of...
New orleans — On an evening in March 2011, I’m in New Orleans. I’m on my bike, lost, and I stupidly stop on an unlit residential street to get my bearings. A pick-up truck rolls by and the driver, a burly elderly m...
Bagneux — Jeudi 09 octobre 2014. Rêve : je suis chez ma grand mère Eléonore (morte) et il y a ma tante (quasi morte). On dit bonjour à tout le monde (sœur et beau frère de ma grand mère, morts) et ma tante dit ...
Mountain view — I turned 40 in September… It used to be that 40 or even 30 felt so far away and the thought of what people call a midlife crisis was the farthest away from my mind. I tend to be a person of polar o...
Clay center — One of the keys to surviving a road trip is to take stops to enjoy the view. Take a turn down a side road, follow your nose, get out of the car, and savor the places you find. In Kansas, we followed ...
Saint-denis — Mercredi 08 octobre 2014. -0941 et si la chose la plus importante etait de recopier dans le petit carnet noir ? -1631@raloufpiston me donne un lien vers des vidéos de l’emission nisangogo -1754 Hello ...
Tübingen — And what a nice year it has been! The picture for my first moment was taken right in front of my house. Not being a frequent traveler like some here on Hi, I still went places in the year since then. ...
Lucknow — In moments like this, when I am all but free to wander in the depths of my mind, I find myself longing for being someone more. There are things waiting for me to be a part of me… And I am waiting to...
London — I strolled up to the King’s Cross area again the other day during my lunch break and as I was passing the end of the new pedestrian tunnel providing a route from King’s Cross/St Pancras to the new dev...
San francisco —
New york — It was really quite embarrassing when the nice man who was selling these maps at the Brooklyn Flea Market swiped my Discover credit card through his Square and sheepishly told me that it had been decl...
Reykjavik — Waking up by the Icelandic mountains was quiet and sweet. “I’ve had dreams which felt soft as wool”, I remember thinking shortly after waking up. It may have been because of the constant sights of sh...
Reading — British Railings is the UK’s leading facilities testing facility. Their unique flying saucer-like HQ is known to locals as ‘the Quantified Shelf’. All the railings, shelves, boards, planks, frames, fe...
Saint-denis — Mardi 07 septembre 2014. Rêvé que je mangeais des profiteroles au chocolat dans le bar PMU à Andresy en face de la gare. Observé par quatre merles. En silence. Ai pris conscience que j’avais l’âge de ...
Saint-denis — Lundi 06 octobre 2014. “il fait battre mon cœur à la chamade, Machin”. Le yamasaki m’a détruit hier. Retrouvé le dieu daim et le Ninja de Myiajima. J’allais commencer à râler sur la pluie et je me sui...
Lucknow — It took a moment for the words to sink in, but it still felt nice, and my heart sighed, knowing that someone, somewhere far far away who just knows me through my words, remembers me, when it rains…
Cape town — I’m about to experience summer in Cape Town for the first time in a decade. Cape Town in summer has a special quality of light, heat, and colour – a beauty that is unbearable at times. I’ve come to un...
Idaho falls — It’s the place, Bryan tells me, where Jackson residents come when they need a shopping mall. A place to find used cars and economy-class prostitutes. A place where there are, in fact, no falls. But a...
Rome — Inappetenza, distrazioni e ritmi frenetici possono rovinare il magico momento della colazione in famiglia. E allora come affrontare il momento del risveglio dei vostri bambini nel migliore dei modi? L...
London — Another work by Yoshitomo Nara, currently on display at the Dairy Art Centre in London. This one is entitled Can’t Wait ‘til the Night Comes and was painted in 2012 and seems representative of a styl...
Le porge — Théorie : les vaisseaux sont équipés de synthétiseurs de bruit de vagues et se camouflent dans les nuages. C’est pourquoi on ne les entend pas.
San francisco —
Berlin — When he saw the way the afternoon light reflected off the Spree, Robert knew he had to take a picture for her. Never mind that she had told him this morning that enough was enough. Yes, her sentences ...
Chicago — The band had just left the stage, but the fog that had descended from the north like some grand-scale special effect—right on cue with the final chorus of that last ballad, and suddenly, in the span o...
Örebro — Last friday I was walking aimlessly around Norrcity in Örebro, taking pictures of trees and houses and things that had been bullied into their primary colours by the late afternoon sunshine, when this...
Othis — Dimanche 05 octobre 2014 Le moyen âge dans les rues. Pendant ce temps là je me rassure en faisant des pâtes (Pasta. Donc S qui devient circonflexe) à la sauce tomate en pensant à Éléonore et je me rej...
Hallandale beach — You can’t really ever hope to describe the wildness of it. Of standing in front of a sunrise that is born from the ocean, of watching waves crest just underneath the dawning of a new day. The moment w...
Kirchheim unter teck — It is understood that moving makes you susceptible to movements of the soul. Yet rarely we acknowledge that moving means experiencing the world as a multitude of interconnected, moveable fragments. Mo...
Bandung — That night was the 204th birthday of Bandung city. It was held at Dago street. I think the picture said much more than ‘it was so crowded’. Beside the stage at front, government also provided space a...
Othis — Rêve : je suis au pied de l’immeuble de mes parents, je sens qu’il se passe quelque chose dans ma bouche. Ma canine gauche commence a tomber. Puis tombe et une autre la remplace. Et une autre et une a...
Othis — Rêve Je suis a Minneapolis (jamais allé IRL) je me promène dans la ville. Tout sonne faux, implanté artificiellement. Je passe devant un hôtel, le dark vador hotel. Ou le dark hotel. La façade est une...
Othis — Rêvé que j’étais dans une salle au plancher de verre, incliné et que les sièges étaient des avants d’avions. Et que les documentations étaient énormes. Papier glacé. Dos carrés collés.
Saint-denis — Vendredi 03 octobre 2014Rêvé que j’étais a bord d’un train a grande vitesse mais sur route. Il avait des voies réservées et était bardé de gardes fous électroniques. Et des sièges étaient des chaises ...
Genola — The entire sky had broken open, and into earths atmosphere had poured the thousand colors, and more, of sun’s set. I sat on the beach, watching. Downwind, Shai was celebrating. Friends an...
London — A new exhibition opened today at the Dairy Art Centre, of work by Yoshitomo Nara. The piece in the photo above is entitled Fountain of Life and is by far my favourite piece in the entire exhibition, ...
Honolulu — I found it appropriate to be listening to Beethoven’s 9th Symphony while above the clouds headed towards Hawaii. an artist, already deaf by his Fifth Symphony. Yet, what better way to reach such heave...
Dammartin-en-goële — Mes efforts pour éviter les nuisances sonores matinales.
Singapore — Stars . Moon. planets. galaxies. that’s all in a night sky. is it? there might be something out there. something the human race might not see but other living things like animals could see. there is s...
San francisco — “Ha, I’m finally going out tonight,” I tell my roommate as I bump into him in the kitchen. “Yeah?” He asks. “Where you going?” “I have a bachelorette party to attend at Asia SF,” I tell him. He laug...
Aireys inlet — Urban Dictionary: To Fox: The art of going into places you shouldn’t, taking things you oughtn’t to, and doing things that in most countries are probably just a tiny bit illegal. Acts are usually per...
Toronto — I want to send this to all my friends. I’m not good at keeping in touch, but that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten you.
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Hector and the Search for Happiness, ride along for a lovely tale of travel, self-discovery, and cheeseballiness. If that’s not your scene, better save your admission money...
San francisco — For this episode, I actually made some paper planes, but it was harder than I remembered. When it flew well, I felt as if some kind of magic took place. Well, it was a magic.
Paia — While in the middle of the most important thing I was doing with my life, I found him. Or he found me. Either way, all of a sudden the reality of being a parent—so unexpected, so unplanned-for, so ser...
Hella — Today, as I found myself in the middle of nowhere, on a very lonely road in south west iceland, catching a glimpse of rare sunshine and enjoying the break from the heavy rain that has been with us for...
London — My ex’s family were of Persian origin, and it was through him that I was introduced to jewellery from that region. I fell in love with distinctive shapes of the metalwork and the colours of the lapiz...
Ahmedabad — A very interesting division is slowly nurturing in social media. It is now vertically divided into two parts. Half follow, comment, share and support only one side of any story – whether fabricated or...
London — “Tabby!” I called beginning to stress. The wind nipped at my plaid scarf as my toes turned numb. I could hear the birds and other forest life waking up. The trolls were already hibernating so I wouldn...
Singapore — I’M ON A ROLL.WRITING MORE STORIES SINCE IT IS HOLIDAYS… MEOW ON anyway… here is 30 things i do in the holidays when i’m bored 1. sleep 2.write stories 3. play with cats 4. VIDEO GAMES 5. read sto...
Bethany beach — After 778 miles today my trip from sea to shining sea is complete. I made it safely and without incident from California to Delaware. Highlights from today were the beautiful rolling hills of Ohio, ...
Chicago — This has to be the perfect hug, the deepest hug, the kind of hug where the insides of his elbows mold seamlessly with the concave curves of her torso and her chin fits like a puzzle piece into the div...
Berlin — At first glance, it looks like any urban park in any large metropolitan. But after twenty steps you begin to notice tiny details. The traffic noise drops off at one point as if a curtain had suddenly...
Berlin — First you notice the scale of things. A person is quite literally a speck of dust when set against the backdrop of this expansive ‘space’ that was the Tempelhof Airport. You feel as if you’ve walked f...
Kihei — The surf lay bare those stones as, last week, a swell of long periodicity arrived along the south shore, generated by a storm somewhere alee of the northern Antarctic, sweeping up towards Tahiti and h...
Aireys inlet — When I first saw Adrian Tribe’s take on the proper lighthouse, I thought, oh, our Adrian is showing just a tad of colonialist mentality: telling us “exactly how a light house should look”. But then I ...
Toronto — Seven AM on a Sunday felt much earlier than it actually was. I’d been up, by necessity rather than choice, for at least an hour by that point. Post-sleep test, I felt more alert than I had any right ...
Aireys inlet — Optimists see only the flowers; pessimists only the weeds. The good gardener sees both and, more importantly, knows the difference.
Valencia — We were driving back from Valencia and took a detour to see the lake. We didn’t expect the sunset, we didn’t expect the row of photographers lined up with their tripods, we didn’t expect the couple o...
South — Day 1 on our Icelandic road trip. I’m exhausted, sleep deprived, and I struggle to find the energy to write these words. I really wanted to write something up though, mostly because I feel like Icela...
New york — Puy Lentils with Sour Cherries, Bacon and Gorgonzola, Almond Carrot Salad, Lamb with Cilantro and Honey, Almost Blackberry Pie (the soul corrupting kind - wheat, butter, sugar ) Four dishes for a sim...
Tokyo — Once a month, right after the payday, tons of people stand in line at Junkudo, my trusty bookstore in Ikebukuro. They have to wait at least 15 minutes. This isn’t a weird ritual. They just want books...
Berlin — when an hour later we found ourselves being overtaken by a street full of folks of all ages marching, shouting and waving flags, my pace quickened. I rushed to try and capture an image of a brazen ski...
Wolfe island — We took a late ferry to the island and drove across the fields with the windows down and music roaring. By the time we reached the beach, the sun was nearing the horizon and the wind was starting to p...
Houston — What comes to mind is the white bean and polenta mush soaking in his mouth as he tilted his head back and laughed in between bites. “What you’ll be doing now is the greatest act of service you can do...
New york — Because the authorities read every email, many people now employ carrier pigeons. Unfortunately, they are out of practice.
Toledo — In this world there are people with dreams,and here is a story of mine. My dream is to live in my world of happiness, peace,love,fun,light,and imagination. Of course,this world has these things but al...
Neiafu — ‘A whale of a time’ suggests something frivolous, like a party or a theme park. There was none of that in the whales that we encountered. There was only grace, majesty, and power. There was sublimity....
Detroit — We were in this moment, nothing really made sense and nothing really mattered. We loved ourselves unconditionally, accepted ourselves unconditionally. We had no worries about yesterday or tomorrow. A...
Maidstone — 44,423 words in 260 moments in 37 cities since September 26th, 2013 So reads the byline on my page on Hi, and I must admit that I find it hard to believe! I know that’s not many words compared to so...