Chapel hill — There was a café we always went to on Rue Mohammed Cinq—at least for the first few weeks. The dessert cases of the café were full of French pastries and the atmosphere was steeped in Western underton...
Cold spring — Sometimes there are moments that arise that require a little method with a big impact. That’s where the Welcoming Prayer comes in. Think about it for a moment. What’s the first thing you want to do...
Grožnjan — Sitting at the highest point of the Parenzana means those coming under their own steam have to work for the pleasures of Grožnjan. This could be drifting through the small cobbled streets; taking a co...
New york — Joy is sitting down and having a hot bowl of Nabiyaki udon on a misty day, alone with my thoughts, my emotions, and finding refuge in the moment.
Bordeaux — BRUXELLES KULTUR LAB 5 E-magazine 100% culture, mai 2014 Retrouvez toutes nos autres prods sur notre PAGE FACEBOOK, sur PINTEREST et sur YOUTUBE ACTUS Balade interactive dans le quartier europ...
Brussels — 1997. Le rap belge écrit son histoire. Total Respect : la génération hip-hop en Belgique. Premier ouvrage à se pencher en profondeur sur les cultures urbaines, il est encore, dix-sept ans plus tard, l...
London — My lunchtime stroll today took me back to Kings Cross Central, which is a hive of activity in several respects, including the construction of the many buildings that are destined to form part of this ...
Brussels — Art Brussels, cinquième foire d’art contemporain du monde, s’est tenue du 25 au 27 avril 2014. Pas moins de trente mille visiteurs s’y sont pressés pour découvrir les œuvres des 190 galeristes qui y t...
Brussels — Dans l’ombre de Paris et d’Anvers - berceau de la mode belge - Bruxelles tente de se faire une place à travers la dynamique de son école de stylisme, la Cambre. Si “les six d’Anvers” - Dirk Bikkember...
Tampa — Our journey begins at the end of May, when we pile ourselves into the van above. While this particular picture is from a camping trip last year, it serves as a visual of what we’re traveling in: the c...
Brussels — Insertion d’une image Insertion d’une vidéo Bloc de citation ceci est un citation et oui ! mais il ne passe pas à la ligne automatiquement ! faire une ligne vide ! italique : un...
Brussels — Loin du coeur battant de l’activité artistique, on est à 15 minutes en tramway du centre-ville. Ici ce sont plus les commerces turcs qui ont pignon sur rue. La présence d’un lieu artistique dans le qu...
Brussels — Gérald Frydman est réalisateur et producteur. Palme d’or du court métrage au Festival de Cannes 1984, et aujourd’hui en semi-retraite, il garde un oeil aiguisé sur l’actualité cinématographique et tél...
Koyilandy — Chenda Melam 1 (Chenda Performance, ചെണ്ടമേളം) lead by Kalamandalam Sivadas (കലാമണ്ഢലം 2 ശിവദാസ്). The performance was by 1000 artists with Chenda 3 (ചെണ്ട), Elathalam 4 (ഇലത്താളം), Kuzhal 5 (കുഴൽ), a...
Bordeaux — Georges Lebouc est philologue. Il est l’auteur d’un Dictionnaire du bruxellois. Il nous éclaire sur les subtilités de cette langue. Parlez-nous du bruxellois ? D’abord, il n’y a pas un bruxellois. L...
Bordeaux —
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Amsterdam — I would love to chat on bike rides as the sun goes down at 9 pm, ride relaxed instead of rushed, and worry about the speeding bicyclist (not car) behind me.
Saint-gilles — Fils d’immigrés d’Europe de l’Est, l’écrivain belge Alain Berenboom a décidé cette fois d’écrire son histoire, ou plutôt celle de ses parents, débarqués dans ce drôle de pays dans les années 1930. Son...
Brussels — C’est à la base « une idée très simple et très géniale » : traduire une revue culturelle néerlando-flamande en français pour faire découvrir le monde de l’autre, en brisant la barrière de la langue en...
Anderlecht — A 20 minutes à pied du Manneken-Pis, un terrain vague, de la boue et des pneus usagés bordent un chantier dont les grues surplombent le quartier. Les barres d’immeubles ne sont pas loin. Ici à Cureghe...
New york — Sometimes, the greatest joy comes from the simplest moment in our everyday life. Tonight, the moment was sharing Billy’s Bakery cupcakes with Gabby. We were happy.
San francisco — It was our first Mother’s Day together. And yet our respective mothers were thousands of miles away. But it wasn’t sad. It’s hard to explain. I wasn’t glad we were alone, but tucked into this hidden ...
Chapel hill — I like taking photos when the lighting is best. I shy away from noon, and entirely avoid the night. The variations of dark that are wrapped up in a night seem to be impossible to photograph.
Cold spring — I think the first time I can remember someone using the phrase the elephant in the room was during some group counseling sessions I participated in when I was going through my divorce. For me, at the ...
Sevenoaks — In lines of amber, red and gold The evening comes, the day grows old. Out she bows with a beauty bright Pledge of a morn of sheer delight.
Valby — Stratocumulus perlucidus at upper layer
Valby — Cumulus fractus
Valby — Cumulus fractus in foreground, altocumulus in the back.
Tokyo — マンションの8階に住んでいる。東側のベランダから国立競技場の照明塔が見えることは知っていたが、最近、西側のベランダからも見えることに気がついた。 屋上（11階相当）まで行けばもっと見えるのでは？ と思って登ってみると、座席まで見えた。そこから85ミリのレンズをつけて撮影したのがこの写真である。写真全体を表示して右端のレンガの建物が日本青年館、左端にちょこっと見える緑までが競技場のはず。つまりこの...
Brussels — Parlez-vous brusselair ? Eux oui ! Cette dizaine de Bruxellois, pure souche, nous explique à leur façon, des expressions typiques du brusselair. Ils sont aujourd’hui très peu à utiliser au quotidien ...
Tokyo — Donc, on s’est fait payer la tournée par le patron de Poppo, barman.”Poppo m’a dit que vous êtes allés à Yokohama avec lui”. Tu te lèves et tu vas rencontrer cette montagne de muscles en lui tendant t...
Brussels — Nouveau venu sur la scène hip-hop bruxelloise, Manuel Francisco Murillo Perdomo, a.k.a. 13Pulsions est rappeur, mais avant tout graffeur et dessinateur. Ses œuvres ornent de nombreux endroits de la vi...
Aireys inlet — Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar,...
Brussels — Le rap de Nina Miskina est violent. Sombre. Envoûtant. Tête haute et poings serrés, elle chante sa vie. Son parcours est celui d’une combattante marginale : parsemé d’embûches, couronné de succès. « ...
Tokyo — The Snack Bar or Dagashi Bar in Japanese is on a corner of a small street, one block away from the lively food alley of Ebisu. If you didn’t know of its existence you would most likely miss it no matt...
Tokyo — Have you ever hung out with artists before? There are many kinds of artists but the types of artists I am referencing are artists who draw. Perhaps the correct term are illustrators? Who knows. An art...
Cambridge — It was a perfect day in Boston. A little too warm for what I was wearing (the weather said thunderstorms! I looked like a silly person in a sweater and boots in the 26°C sun.) The itinerary was simpl...
Brussels — À l’Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), les étudiants ont leurs propres traditions : sociétés secrètes, rituels en latin, parodies de baptême … Et ça dure depuis la fin du XIXème siècle. Drapée dan...
Washington — Ideals, values, reality.
Chapel hill — I live for bursts of color in this summer heat. You never know what magic awaits you on the twisting paths of the Carolina arboretum.
Tokyo — I drew this in my sketchbook when I was in Tokyo last week. It’s a picture of my friend from Kobe, who has been at university in Tokyo for the last 4 years. Everytime I’m in Tokyo we try to catch up a...
Tây hồ — Not complaining, I had been warned that SE Asia is a hot and humid place. I am still surprised sometime how rapidly it changes … it was a nice 25˚C just last week .. and boom, we are at 38˚ (Forecas...
Columbia — I was swept up in a Gay Pride parade the other day. I didn’t know what was happening, at first. I had just dived back into writing a book, after over a month of being on the road, and started out una...
Curitiba — When I went to a city walk some days ago, I was in front of this historic building. I got my camera and I decided to take some pictures. And I realised that are some places that I usually pass through...
Venice — We sidestepped the crowd of tourists and spent the next couple of days exploring Venice together. He helped haggle tickets to the opera and found a deserted canal for breakfast the next day. We got lo...
Canterbury — I mentioned in another moment that I went to a wedding last Saturday. In that post I said that probably the best wedding band that I’ve ever heard was playing at the wedding. They were called The Ro...
Guatemala city — Tu gran truco, tu triunfo en estos tiempos es hacernos creer que no existes, prefieres ocultarte y que grandes poderes operen a traves de ti. Pero ahi estas, siempre activo, no te cansas de querer gan...
Rome — We wandered through the ruins of the Roman Forum, feeling the sun’s heat of antiquity among the chipped stone walls. The edge of the Farnese Gardens reached out above the city. Thousands of years of h...
London — There are 17 Glistening Posts in London, part of the Air Freshener network established by Semi-Royal Charter in 1972. Glistening posts sweeten stale city air with an inert compound of glycol (hence th...
Cold spring — Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing fro...
Bristol — This is Bristol. It is the colour, vibrancy, culture and creativity of the people that make up this city. This is a building on Nelson Street, formerly a typical dull, grey, lifeless street in the ce...
Saint-gilles — Dernier épisode de la série “Réals de Bruxelles”. Cette fois, nous sommes allés à la rencontre d’Ines Rabadan. Réalisatrice depuis 1993, primée au Festival International de Clermont-Ferrand en 1999 po...
Canterbury — On Saturday we had the privilege of attending the wedding of some friends of ours, and what a joyful day it was! I don’t think I’ve ever been to a wedding where sunflowers were the key theme in all t...
San francisco — Four years ago P and I spent a week in Chiang Mai together. I had been there for a few weeks prior, suffering through my first solo international travel experience: I had gotten food poisoning twice, ...
New york — As I laid beneath the tree and looked up, I saw this boy climbing up the tree fast. He leaned forward and reached for the trunk. From where I was laying, it looked as if he was hugging the light righ...
Tokyo — Pendant le séisme du 05 mai, j’ai eu l’impression que l’on prenait mon centre de gravité et qu’on lui faisait faire des rotations et des mouvements de bas en haut. Tout en restant dans le même volume....
Aireys inlet — All was dewy in the garden this morning including this very late blooming “Oklahoma” rose. After admiring its tiny drops gradually coalescing into little pools, I decided to take a picture for my ‘To...
Cold spring — Our thoughts can have a tendency to act as a veil over what we see preventing us from seeing with fresh eyes or beginner’s mind. What comes into view is identified by thinking, and then categorized a...
London — Lunchtime walk around Regent’s Park and spotted this film crew. I wonder what they are filming. The sun was shining and there was a glimpse of summer and warm weather - I can’t wait!
London — A day view of one of my favourite views of London (see Day 57). After a grey day, the skies started to clear and the sun came out as a nod to the fantastic day I had. I met up with a good friend for ...
Guatemala city — Aquella noche, solos tú yo, sin nadie más a quien mirar. Las palabras no faltaron pues en nuestras miradas, se encarnó nuestra pasión infernal. Delirios de tristeza e impotencia recorrieron mi cuerpo...
Hengchun township — On the second night in Kenting, the southernmost town of Taiwan, Alex took us to a night market in downtown. He was formerly a physician practicing in San Francisco. We were staying at the same hotel ...
Yokohama — Puis des crétins de touristes italiens ont tout fait pour qu’il s’envole, se prenant en photo a coté, parlant très fort, gesticulant. Il les a regardé, ils se sont lassés puis il est retourné voir la ...
Leigh-on-sea — Written & performed for The Old Trunk Theatre Company’s ‘Tales & Ales’ evening under the theme of ‘Barflies & Floozies’ on Sunday 11 June After the gold dust had settled, Andy...
Calaca — Edmund Hillary, the most famous of mountaineers, with the most essential piece of perspective about climbing mountains: “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” The hike up to Mt. Batulao ...
Guatemala city — No es cuando menos te lo esperas que encuentras amigos. Eso sucede cuando te dedicas a cultivar amistades y éstos a su vez están dispuestos a ser tu amigo. Hace tres años ya que mis dos amigas me han...
Milton keynes — The UK is criss-crossed with Think Air* Relays like this. Many, but not all, are close to transportation routes. Most are close, or perpendicular, to High Speed Cycle routes. Almost all of them are ov...
Örebro — It was in the middle of the summer. The weather was warm and humid like a hot breath, but really fickle. That day old friends had come from out of town. We’d found a pub that had opened up their slidi...
Greenville — Here we go—Mother’s Day. I cringe when I log on to social media networks—Facebook is flooded with profile picture changes, status updates, old scanned-in photos of a Mom in short shorts and crazy curl...
Toronto — Unless you have kids — your own, your siblings’, or perhaps a friend’s kids you’re entertaining for the day — you may never have reason to visit the LegoLand Discovery Centre. Assuming he continues ...
Devils tower — I always wanted to go to Devils Tower. Partly it was Close Encounters - “This means something. This is important” - and partly it was my quest to see all of the interesting rocks in America. We were d...
Somewhere — At least 98% of most guidebooks, even the best ones, will guide you to buildings. Page after page of their listings of “must see” highlights are primarily lists of buildings and monuments. You know, c...
Tokyo — We have a splendid time called “Blue moment”. Beautiful moment comes to the town which is noisy such as Roppongi too.
London — Dear Ma — Though you’ve changed greatly in the last few years, you’re still my good ol’ stubborn mama, and I love ya, woman. I thank you for not only shooting me out into this crazy world but also f...
New york — Every year for the past eight years, I’ve written similar blog posts for Mother’s Day. 2014 is exactly the same. Eight years after my Mother’s death, I have nothing new to report, no wisdom to drop,...
Reno — This location was kind of hard to get to because we had to cross Virginia Street.
Reno — We came to Starbucks as one of our stops on the route. This was pretty accessible and easy to get to with very accessible doors. This experience overall really opened my eyes to many issues that the ...
Reno — We had a little trouble getting into this area of the campus as it is definitely an older part of the campus.
Portland — We are all searching for our tribe whenever circumstances propel this one & only life we each & every unique one of us carry, like a hobo knapsack of our dreams & achievements & all th...
Fitzroy north — How can I describe it? Good food is like music you can taste, color you can smell. There is excellence all around you. You need only to be aware to stop and savor it. Chef Auguste Gusteau, 2007 Pae...
Kennett square — the previous night, i downloaded a demo DVD by artist Michael Klein, and i learned many little tips from his demo. although Klein didn’t go into details, i latched on to every little bit of informatio...
Surbiton — A perfect day spent gardening: planting spinach, chop suey greens, Shanghai pak choi and basil and transplanting these Moneymaker tomato seedlings into pots. I’m not a very good gardener though. I ca...
Surbiton — More yarn bombing in my local neighbourhood - I don’t know how I managed to miss this the other day when I was taking photos of the roundabout and lamp post. A yummy bowl of pho and fun evening catch...
London — I spent a rainy lunchtime at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) looking at the ‘The Brits Who Built the Modern World’ exhibition. I’d enjoyed the TV series on the star-itects: Norman Foster,...
London — ‘Come, you’ll have fun! You’re not going to meet anyone staying in …’ I had been invited to join a friend and her friend (the ‘date’) on a night out to grab a bite to eat and listen to some jazz. I...
Gorkha — If you happen to be in Nepal on the day before New Year’s Eve, you might want to give Gorkha, the old kingdom’s capital, a try; Chance are there are no tourists around. The shady hotel owner tries t...
Non sang — Lorsque Songkran démarre, tout le monde se marre” cela pourrait aisément être le slogan de cette fête si particulière. Trois jours fériés consécutifs pour célébrer l’élément le plus indispensable : l’...
Midori ward — When your so called friends try to rape you while you are drunk… Laugh at it. When your girlfriends decide to kick you out from their life.. Laugh at it. When people think you have no self respec...
Ixelles — Que reste-t-il de Bruxelles 2000, lorsque la capitale belge était aussi capitale européenne de la culture ? Au moins une chose : La Zinneke Parade. En bruxellois, le zinneke c’est celui qui a des orig...
Wellington — This is a slightly-edited copy-and-paste of what I’m hoping will be one of many story e-mails I’m writing about my everyday adventures to a friend, Cheryl, as she spends a year teaching English in ...
Louisville — A drop drops on the inked drop on my arm and it’s on. This page become subject to a current, current rippling across the blacktop. All day designing mythic 12” cover art, pedicabs and taco punks. In t...
Örebro — After dinner this evening I went out for a walk. The sky was overcast and the rain hung in the air, but every once in a while the sun would break through. Either that, or it would rain. I went down Ha...
Tosari — Yes, I know it’s a bit of an arty title, but then again, it’s a bit of an arty shot! This is actually a rarely taken scene from a hugely popular location - Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park in Indon...
London — When out for my lunchtime walk the other day I was very taken by this front door! I realise that sounds strange, so let me explain. Thinking about the village where I live, or indeed the usual route...
Salt lake city — It sinks into the pockets and hidey-holes, reaching where it has no right to be. It steals the horizon, unanchoring you. You float in a suddenly unfamiliar city. The rain has stolen the light and your...
Kanagawa — As far as I can remember, I have always been passionate about Japan and its culture. I don’t really know how this passion grew up in me, and maybe one day, I will try to write something about it, I gu...
Aireys inlet — Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying “there are only facts,” I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations… As translated in The Portable Nie...
Tokyo — Liste de choses pour plus tard : Se réincarner en Japonais. Se réincarner en chat (japonais). Se réincarner en corbeau (japonais). Se réincarner en Ginko (japonais). Puis en pierre. Á Kyoto.
Tokyo — A gauche, un homme dessine un temple, il écoute de la musique sur un Disc man. Au loin l’orage gronde. Là le vent se lève. A droite l’eau se ride. Sur le pont de bois, des gens applaudissent pour atti...