Pasig — 9 years was enough. It was such a long time for me to have given up on myself and my dreams to be full time to the family I was trying so hard to keep together despite all that is lacking which I kept...
New york — Red Rocket Tattoo is on the third floor of a walkup building on West 37th, right in the armpit of New York. The stairwell walls are covered in framed tattoo templates: skulls, geishas, stereos, storm ...
London — No. A city begins to feel like home when the new people you love equalise with the people you’ve left behind. No. A city begins to feel like home when the sky stops surprising you. No. A city begins...
Rome — Rethink Energy par Roberto Bolle est la récente campagne de publicité créée pour la promotion de la culture de l’énergie dans Eni. Témoin de cette campagne originale, le célèbre étoile international R...
Duluth — True! we still have flows of ice floating off shore. True! Yesterday as I worked in the garden I experienced 46° while my friends who live further from the Lake enjoyed 86°. Tonight, however, at 2:00 ...
Tokyo — It is graduation season again, and my Facebook News Feed is flooded with photos of beaming faces in black gowns. I am overcome by a wave of nostalgia. Suddenly, I am craving raw oysters, New England c...
Tây hồ — After a loooong trip via Dubai and Bangkok, we have finally arrived in our new home city.
Tây hồ — I love taking pictures of sunsets and back when I lived in Ethiopia, we got a boat load of them. Just the evening before I went out specifically to get some nice sunset shots … like these: But n...
Shinano — For J.’s birthday, we took a two-day trip to Lake Nojiri in Nagano. The lake is surrounded by tall mountains, and we didn’t see any unsightly developments. It turned out that C.W. Nicol, a Japanese wr...
Mumbai — Mumbai is such a diverse city. No matter how long you’ve lived here there is always something new to discover everyday! Tucked away a couple of kilometers from the iconic Chowpatty beach in South Mum...
Ghent — A group show including Flurin bisig, Laure Cottin Stefanelli, Leyla Aydoslu, Raffaella Crispino, Emmanuel Van der Auwera Here’s a work by Raffaella Crispino - ECC, 2010 mixed media, variable dimensi...
Toronto — Okay, I’ll admit that it’s just an arbitrary number. No magic or meaning in its selection. Just 78 words to tell a story. A creation of a thousand cuts. A challenge for sure. But, fun. And, now for t...
Amsterdam — First let me apologize for being obvious in here, but after after reading to my friend Luis Mendo who recently wrote a piece “Never walk alone” in this very platform I got so inspired by his words tha...
Buje — Stumbling around in the dark yesterday morning, trying not to wake my room mate, I realised I had fucked up when I heard the creak of plastic and felt the smooth lid of my laptop under my foot. I for...
Puteaux — A La Défense le voyageur en partance se trouve souvent écartelé entre 2 options. Tel l’âne de Buridan, il descend sur le quai du RER, voit un train arrêté, à quai, voyageurs à bord, et s’y dirige qua...
Hong kong — Tony Wong is the reason why I like to teach. He is happy. He has a lot of energy. He never has his homework done. He is struggling in his subjects based on marks. When I taught him in P1, he couldn’t ...
Portland — In 15 years, I’ve discovered one very good reason to love this town: you can be yourself, or you can be someone else. Portland takes it all in stride—as long as there’s good coffee available. ...
Charlottesville — As I rang the doorbell, I noticed I had forgotten to file my nails. Their jagged edges looked like a mountain range with fine black lines that stuck deep down in the crevices. She opened the door. She...
Sterling — It’s a strange feeling to have your entire life strapped to your back. There is, of course, the burgeoning ache in your shoulders feeling the tug of worldly possessions, the complaints from feet and ...
Paris — DesignerDays in Paris. Some sort of yearly event where designers meet and talk, from what I heard. A friend told me to come this afternoon to listen to a panel about “Connected devices and design”. Ch...
San francisco — People file on, sitting separately, to enjoy the bit of space and peace before the bus fills up.
London — As mentioned in part 1, I was able to get quite a dose of art on Wednesday after leaving work. My second port of call was out in Stratford, in the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre of all pla...
London — I had quite a dose of art on leaving work on Wednesday afternoon, so I thought I would document it over a couple of posts. A few days ago I noticed that a building I walk past every day was suddenly ...
Campogalliano — There is something so fulfilling about train rides. Because there is no steering or pedaling involved, I can recline, rest my feet, plan my day, map out my appointments, and catch up on reading with a...
Duluth — Not much remains this year of the once huge annual smelt run at this end of Lake Superior. For years these 4 to 9 inch invaders caused a big sensation each spring. Some years residents on Minnesota Po...
Aireys inlet — Daybreak is perhaps the best, but certainly not the safest, time to do this. Plans for the day: an hour to surf, 5 minutes to swim, and coffee at every single place with a view!!! Taken through th...
Tokyo — Drawing and photography are really just two not-so-different ways of going about one thing: looking at the world. Photography as a process is deceptively simple: see something of interest, point your...
Červar-porat — Having got annoyed (again) at my low levels of productivity and motivation during the past days I came up with a plan, set goals, and gave myself some routine to force myself to work. Luckily I (and ...
London — When BT took over some of the GPO’s shallower ‘Chambers Deep’ they signed an extensive and detailed undertaking not to reveal the ongoing existence of ‘The O’ (as it’s known) or to pinpoint the locati...
Cambridge — In Boulder, I thought I lived in a community where something was always going on - well, I was, but Cambridge seems to take this to an overclocked embarrassment of riches, and if I venture out of my n...
Milan — The Place. Accommodations in Milan have been the most modern by far. This studio apartment is bright and airy compared to the older, compact Bed & Breakfast rooms available in Rome, Naples, and Fl...
Sherborne — Sometimes, expertise can make an object speak about upheavals and historical moments. My glove has a more trivial value, as one of those objects that activates memory and habit to help us navigate ba...
Tokyo — …che gli aveva fatto Ushikawa era quella di una cosa sinistra che viene fuori strisciando da una tana buia nel terreno. Qualcosa di viscido e indefinibile che non dovrebbe mai uscire alla luce del g...
London — On my lunchtime stroll yesterday I ended up exploring the Queen Square area again (and here). This time I noticed this low relief panel above one of the doors on the (hideous) 1930s extension buildin...
Tokyo — I surprisingly don’t miss NY as much as I thought I would. But I do long for certain things. Like never ending brunches with bottomless mimosas — no orange juice — and affordable oysters with bubbly...
New haven — I’m waiting for the commuter train at the New Haven train station, which is almost 100 years old. My stop is New London, CT, just 50 minutes away but the board reads Harrisburg, PA. I have to check wi...
Gaston — After a lifetime of drinking, selling and cooking for the pleasures of the table, finally I met the land of fabled vines…the first of a series of explorations. This is the first wine I drank from v...
Brussels — A l’instar de l’homosexualité jusqu’en 1990, « être transsexuel » est toujours considéré par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé comme une maladie mentale. La législation belge encadre la démarche qui...
Surbiton — A mixed day for balcony gardening. The seedlings in these troughs are coming along nicely (yay!) but a pesky snail has eaten all my carrot seedlings (boo!) I trying to be philosophical about it all ....
London — Regent’s Park was like Piccadilly Circus today, but I managed to find a quiet patch of grass on my favourite ‘hill’ to enjoy the sunshine.
Brussels — Le rap bruxellois a trente ans. Trente ans d’albums, de moments forts, d’anecdotes et de morceaux mythiques. Trente ans, trois générations, une mythologie. Retour en quelques morceaux clés sur l’histo...
Brussels — Scylla, Nina Miskina, J.C.R, Baloji, La Smala… Ces rappeurs ne vous disent rien, et c’est (presque) normal. Méconnue, sous-estimée, parfois moquée, la scène rap bruxelloise tente d’exister, de brise...
Wellington — It was breakfast time on Easter Monday, and Tanya had organized a group of 11 of us to come out to a hotel restaurant armed with vouchers to eat a buffet breakfast. It looked like we had all eaten ou...
Brussels — Miguel Angel Martinez est un des 14 vice-présidents du Parlement Européen. Député Espagnol de 1977 à 1999, il a activement milité pour l’entrée de l’Espagne dans l’Union. Il se fait élire au Parlement...
Brussels — Fraîchement diplômée de Sciences Politiques, cette jeune Finlandaise fréquente déjà Bruxelles depuis un an. Elle est actuellement stagiaire à la Commission Européenne, pour la Direction Générale de la...
Brussels — Didier Georgakakis est un sociologue spécialiste des questions européennes, auteur, entre autres, de Le Champs de l’Eurocratie. Une sociologie politique du personnel de l’UE, Economica, Coll. Etudes P...
Tokyo — Uplifting and encouraging peers are generally a rarity, especially coming from genuine places — not with these guys. There is this camaraderie of mutual respect and appreciation for each others’ work...
Yangon — She can’t be more than 15 years old. I would guess for her to be even younger than that, the hair clip she wears is normally worn by younger girls. I had a pink one just like it when I was 5. In a t-s...
Chapel hill — When I first moved to North Carolina, the trees made me claustrophobic. I couldn’t find the sky. But in the heat of summer, I’m just grateful for some shade.
Morrisville — As I forced myself to put the unpacking and cleaning on hold I was able to take in the joy of my daughter having her “catch” lesson. It’s moments like this, moments I would never have witnessed in ou...
Douglas — Very rarely do I lament the alternate realities I might have lived had one moment or another gone differently than it did in my current reality, and rarely do I dwell on the few things I didn’t do whe...
Novigrad — Sat alone on the sea wall, the early spring sunshine glancing off the water forced her gaze down. At first she absently stared into the water below, but then she came to focus on her shoes. How she h...
Nyaungshwe — 30ºC nights and a fan that barely works. Why is the bed made up with a thick wooly blanket? I push most of it to the edge but not quiet off — out of some strange sense of decorum. I wonder what you ...
St. petersburg — We have a little less than 2 weeks to tie up loose ends at our respective places of work, pack what belongings will be shipped and stored for us, and plan the 4,000 mile trip that will take us to Seat...
Brussels — « Il était clair dans mon esprit que j’allais mourir, ou au mieux rester de longues années en prison » - Gyaltsen Drolkar Gyaltsen Drolkar, 43 ans ancienne prisonnière politique tibétaine est loin dé...
Somewhere — Instead of watching movies on the plane, I prefer staring at this screen. This tiny jet on the map shows where I am flying right now. I cannot help but imagine, “If this plane crashes, would this litt...
Musashino — Amid a canyon of high rise mansions there is this valley lined with sakura trees. Given the harsh winter it was surprising to see how healthy and robust the sakura blossoms were, though some trees wer...
Hong kong — Mr Leung was born on the island and went to the small primary school. With the rain coming down outside he talked about how life use to be. There were tones of fish to be caught until the larger vesse...
Hong kong — I got to the designated place and was a bit nervous. There were others around as well and I wasn’t sure if they were there for the same reasons or were there to meet others. I finally got up the guts ...
Chapel hill — I spent today’s golden hour by the creek. It rippled and sang as it swirled over rocks that got in its way. We’ve had a lot of rain lately. I wonder what stories have been swept up in the current.
Higashiyama ward — “Most Japanese girls giggle,” begins Capote’s 1957 profile on Marlon Brando for The New Yorker. I first came across this piece a few years ago during my Capote phase in which I was hunting down and d...
Guatemala city — “So, have you been usin’ the diary I gave yah?” Daryl asked, opening his eyes and being blinded by the sun and her beauty. Beth woke up, tangled in his strong arms. “Yeah… ” She said, smiling. “Can...
East molesey — A glorious sunny and hot day today. I went on a three mile walk with my sister exploring our local area along the river: first into Kingston, across the bridge, and to Hampton Court. We took a detour ...
Kingston upon thames — Ingenious street art with paint splatter. Most people walked passed it without even seeing it but t made me smile. It pays to look down sometimes.
Lijiang — I forgot what it was, but is must have been a) quite tasty and b) rather solid. Thankfully, Kevin says Lijiang is some sort of a tourist trap unless you get up at 4am which I never would, so I might ...
London — Beautiful crafted flowers in paper - window display, West Elm. And on my way back to the office, a surreal spot of office workers racing in bathtubs! (I don’t know how to add more than one photo so s...
Toronto — I think the super talented Luis Mendo has started a drawing movement on this platform. At least I found another person who got inspired like me today, “listened to Luis” and went drawing. Funny enough...
Dar es salaam — Eventually we had to wait for four hours after the conference , in order, to be able to set off. This picture was taken at about 6 pm and by the time it was less heavy for us to leave , it was 10pm. ...
Saint andrew parish — Planes, trains, and automobiles. I thought they’d be my everything. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I never knew. “Where do you want to be when you grow up?” That I knew. Everywhere. “Wh...
Tübingen — For the two of us I envision slow electricity. That speed of light nonsense can go where the sun don’t shine. I’d love some metaphysical honey to engulf us, so that our skin tingles in anticipation of...
San francisco — Palette the brush against the lip of the cup. Press down on the heel of the brush to spread the bristles to the width of a letter stroke. The paint should be the consistency of vegetable oil or heavy ...
Yangon — A single fluorescent tube illuminates this 11 feet by 8 feet room. I stretch across the bed. I want to see if I could touch one wall with my feet and the opposite with my hands. Yes, just barely. The ...
Tokyo — Thank you Luis Mendo. I had a great sunday drawing in Yoyogi. And you are so right ! A notebook makes me happy and less anxious. Merci.
Durham — I’m scared, sometimes. I worry, a lot, that I’m not living my life the way that I should be. I live 940 miles from my parents’ house. I’d have to drive 15 hours—plus a couple for traffic in Chicago-...
Ashiya — Sometimes you are drawing an ordinary building in the street and you look at what you have drawn and think “Wait a minute, that can’t be right.” Then you look back at the real building and you realise...
Tokyo — Yesterday I left the house and forgot to pick up my sketchbook. This is not the first time since I have a shitty memory but when I found out it was not in my bag, I felt horrible. It totally felt – an...
Falmouth — How distinct is the border between the places we call home and everywhere else? For me , returning to my childhood home involves crossing a body of water. It’s not until I step on the ferry in Woods H...
Washington — This year for Mother’s Day we went into the city to see the “Beyond Bollywood” exhibit and give the youngest generation a chance to see what my generation experienced growing up, and let the grandpare...
Tübingen — At night, they say, I’m a filter feeder. I like to picture myself a whale but in all probability I’m something like a barnacle. I think of my sins and triumphs in a somewhat vainglorious way, because ...
Surbiton — This should have been a photo of a coot, doing what looked like synchronised swimming, while her babies looked on. I went for a walk with my ex-boss in the park. It was nice to catch up as we haven’t ...
Odawara — A friend who lost the keys to his house early morning calls to ask me to cycle over and check if he’s left it in the door. He was pretty sure he did. It didn’t take me long there and back. Give or tak...
Tokyo — A live lived in solitude is at best clean and safe and free from all the messy bits that tags along with the touch of family, friend or a lover. And then a stranger falls asleep with his head on your ...
London — I went to a great talk by the photographer, Phil Maxwell, on his recently published photobook, Brick Lane at Waterstones Piccadilly this evening. I loved hearing him talk about street photography and...
Stanmore — A hilarious lunch at a French cafe eating British fare of sausage and mash and I was sat in a cubby-hole for lunch; if I leaned back, I was in my own space - the owner of the cafe has great skills at ...
Valby — Two weeks in, cloudspotting still seems a promising, yet not very demanding hobby. But it does seem wrong to register a feeling of disappointment when waking up to an almost clear sky.
Zhongzheng district — In this small restaurant, the “kitchen” was in front of the shop, and all the necessary ingredients and prepared foods were laid out for customers to see and choose. Many restaurants here had a simila...
Washington — We pop open the fourth bottle of house Prosecco at house pricing but the quality doesn’t matter right now: we are happy. The presidential debate is on the big screen and every time one of the candidat...
Chapel hill — You don’t discover the weary scratches of corruption right away. They’re enveloped in this glittery air of confidence and order. You think you finally know perfection. You fall madly in love. But the...
New orleans — It was the rock-step in the beat, the jazz in the air, covers of songs, that not-so-lazy Mississippi river fast flowing, that cool wind telling us spring is coming, no, rather, spring is here.
Toronto — Sigh. Another one of my Canadian friends is taking off for the US of A in attempts to kickstart her NGO career — and this ain’t the first. I am happy for her, that she’s taking steps to improve her ca...
Saint helena — Overwhelming is the best way I can describe my first journey into Napa. There is so much to see and so much to do but everything about the place tells you to settle down.. relax..enjoy. You want t...
Cold spring — A day spent judging another is a painful day. A day spent judging yourself is a painful day. You don’t have to believe your judgements; they’re simply an old habit. Buddha’s Little Instruction Book ...
Seville — The character and colour of Seville was immediately evident as soon as we arrived. Our fourth Spanish city in the last 12 days, the capital of Andalusia has its own distinct aesthetic. The fingerprint...
Brussels — Attaché aux univers de Gutenberg et de Niépce, le photographe Bruxellois Max Pinckers accompagne toujours ses photographies d’un texte qu’il publie sous forme de livres photo. Son nouvel ouvrage « Wil...
Broad run — You’re asking for trouble, they’d say. If anything happened you’d have no one to save you. Have you forgotten that your right shoulder hasn’t worked since you reached behind your seat on that train ...
Brussels — « Je vis très mal de ma plume », constate amèrement Francis Dannemark. L’auteur est pourtant prolifique, avec plus de vingt romans publiés depuis 1981. Alors il s’est tourné vers le monde éditorial, e...
Brussels — Florian Noack n’a que 24 ans, et pourtant sa carrière de pianiste est déjà internationale. Tout en poursuivant ses études entre Cologne et Bâle, il donne déjà des concerts de Beijing à Washington. Il ...
Venice — He’s a musician from New York busking his way across Europe, carrying a notebook, a banjo and a heart full of song. We talked about our shared faith in the world around us, that indefatigable trust in...
London — The developers of King’s Cross Central have made public spaces and public art quite a feature in their plans. Murals, sculptures, fountains, plants and open spaces can all be found dotted around the ...
Dartford — I hurriedly snapped this picture this morning using my phone as we were crossing the Eynsford Viaduct. It was a beautiful sunny morning and I loved the long shadows cast by the viaduct supports, as w...