Manchester — When I was studying in Manchester for four years, I used this station every few months to get between university and home, further south near London. I also used it as my gateway to adventures in plac...
Milan — Lorem ipsum
London — When I saw this car while I was waiting to cross the road at lunchtime today my immediate urge was to rush to the driver and express my commiserations and sympathies for the massive shame and embarras...
Mammoth lakes — The weekend goal: stay alive. I’ve tumbled, landed on my knees (on the wonderful spot where I skinned my knee earlier this week), landed on my butt, eaten snow. Around me, people speeding by effortl...
Aireys inlet — About a week ago, I posted a sunrise image which I ‘coupled’ with a somewhat funny little dialog about my partner and me interacting first thing in the morning. But, in truth, it was a good week for ...
Baguio — I’ve been living and believing that I have been with the imperfectly perfect family I ever had. But wounds kept opening and I have no way of closing them permanently. I am the least pretty in the pict...
Rio — Sometimes you need to visit other countries before starting to truly admire yours. Or at least that is how it went with me. Nowadays I usually go out with my girlfriend to what we call a “tourist day”...
San francisco — A year and half ago (give or take a month) I moved back to San Francisco. I told my friends it was for the job: a way of slipping into tech without any obvious qualifications. Something about a gold r...
Milpitas — We were classmates since elementary school back in Chile (we graduated in 1992). I last saw them (before last night) in 1999. I’ve avoided going back to Chile for a varitey of reasons, most of them h...
Somerville — Most people call me workaholic when they hear that I usually work on Saturdays. For me, it’s a different type of work, not an office work. It’s the work that I do to broaden my horizons. I work on mys...
London — Nostalgia - double-edged sword. Both the best and worst thing to happen to videogames / sports / music / CULTURE. When I moved to London from Canada I was ready for a lot of things, but one thing I wa...
Los gatos — I wish this picture was crisp and clear but it was the best that I could do with my phone camera. I had stupidly left my dSLR behind, and I didn’t remember it until we were halfway down a steep hill. ...
Mountain view — My baby nephews turned three and one. My parents, my girlfriend, and I disagree over who loves these two little godsends more, but we all seem to agree that their cuteness and our total indulgence of ...
Urubamba — By the morning I check out of my hostel in Santa Teresa I have twenty-five soles and three US dollars left. I head to the main plaza and ask the men waiting on the bench for cars how I can get back to...
Poulsbo — Why do writers write about normal people? Real life? Normal People are boring. Real is just a recipe normal people cook with. Give me tastes and feelings I’ve never had before. Make me imagine the...
Nagold — The good people of Nagold (in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany) had turned the centre of their benign town into a vast, empty expense, interspersed with attractions like a celtic gravesite, a p...
Poulsbo — Why is love so sought? Lifted above every other thing? There are other spices, other scents, and tastes. Textures rich and sharp to the skin, colors blossoming and violent that strike the mind i...
Dusseldorf — There I was. An ordinary guy like any other—who made it as far as the Mediterranean Sea with some buddies just to drive home the same day because it was too hot—on my way to: New Delhi.
Saskatoon — I don’t know when we started this routine. It was some time after our return to Saskatoon from living in Japan and England. Some time during my long recovery from colitis. Some time long enough ago th...
Rome — 4 days before flying to Lima. Really Excited!
London — Home time. Standing at Waterloo station, waiting for my train to pull into it’s regular platform, my eyes were drawn to the lights reflected on the glass ceiling. I’ve been watching quite a few archit...
London — One of my aims this year is to celebrate moments of happiness. And nothing makes me smile and joyful than beautiful blossoms. It heralds spring, new beginnings - the perfect way to start the working w...
Surbiton — I’m forever being told, ‘Look up’ and today I’m glad I did. Up in the sky, plane contrails had formed a child’s pirate story ‘X’. I was busy contemplating what the ‘X’ might be indicating, when a love...
Sevenoaks — Another beautiful Spring day today, so I decided to cut the grass in my garden for the first time this year. And while the sun was shining brightly the daffodils responded by opening and casting thei...
Portland — i dream of a land big & true 40 acres and a mule into this dreamworld i burrow knowing how far yet i have to go the only thing that may surprise you is that on this land you won’t see me for i am...
Toronto — I helped plan a conference. This is a big deal for me. Super fun planning out a dream list of speakers who all enthusiastically agreed to come to another country to talk about ebooks. An awfully auspi...
Montpellier — The road again. The road, like an obsession. The same one, always. The night swallows the road which in turn swallows we. Let it Bleed by the Stones in the car, the volume pushed to the max. Surrender...
Kumai — We spent two days in Tawau, ignorantly bullying our way into same day visas on the first, but missing the ferry, anyway, because we forgot to check the schedules on the second. In a fit of good luck m...
Reykjavik — There’s something about a mountain that evokes drama in an otherwise normal moment. It’s epic in scale, and in history. It stands out in stark contrast against the geography around it. A mountain can...
Tracy — I walked into “Barista’s” this morning, a coffee shop in Tracy that I essentially lived in for about a year and a half. The seating is kind of tight along the walls, and I had to squeeze past a couple...
Portland — I have detected a new phenomenon, a ripple in the waves of Nature emanating from my beloved city of New Orleans. I believe there will be ample evidence all year round to prove that my brand new theory...
London — 街を歩く時、すれ違う他人の目から目を逸らす時があって、すれ違う他人の目を見る時もある。 別に趣味とか故意でやっているわけではない。ただの、自然に湧いてくるある種の好奇心だ。 私の視線から逸らす人の目。 ひたすらまっすぐを見て、必死に行く場所へ向かう人の目。 友人と話し合いながら歩いて行く人の温厚な目。 仲が悪そうな二人の冷たい目。 何も考えていなさそうで、ただそこにいる人の目。 考え...
Sevenoaks — I live just a few minutes walk from the station and have been commuting to London for so long now (is it really 22 years?!?) that I’ve got the timing down to a fine art. Sometimes the train is just pu...
Hong kong — The heavy air condenses as it sinks into The Glass Canyon, mingling and melding with the exhaust rising from the river of traffic below. A deadly equilibrium being settled above heads, yet the traffic...
San francisco — It took a moment before my mind registered what this stranger was doing - when it clicked, I just smiled. There was nothing graceful about how I managed this shot. Actually, for the people who saw m...
Paris — The first time I saw an Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition was in the Royal Palaces in Turin. Since then I’ve been slightly obsessed with his work. Snapshots have appeared here and there since then in g...
Austin — None of us can remember exactly how we hit upon a whole day embracing the tackiest and true-bluest of Americana. As graduate students we were rich in time, all that angst had to go somewhere, and J. w...
San jose — My father died at the end of February, a week before my mother’s birthday and 3 weeks before his 71st birthday. His health had been very poor in the last year but we all thought he was looking better,...
Iquitos — Ah, motorbikes: I love ‘em. The fresh air, the tips of hair tickling my chin, body melting into the curves of the road, wind whipping against my face as if to say, “KEEP RIDING! YOU ARE ALIVE! YOU ARE...
Singapore — Ive got a decent collection of books - nothing like the 5000 books I counted, when I was a kid, for fun one afternoon on my parents precariously propped hand-built budget brick and plank shelves. But ...
Barcelona — I love cheesy sci-fi. As long as there are a couple of cool gadgets and interesting monsters I’ll forgive almost anything - a flawed storyline, blue aliens, terrible special effects, a bad script and ...
Greenville — You have to know when to cut yourself some slack. It’s a tricky thing— knowing yourself so well that you can decipher between seasonal depression (pop some Vitamin D!), hormonal moodiness, dehydrati...
Philadelphia — Doing a gig in ‘Philly, this time the green room is a comfortably large suite. They provided us with a huge tray of pretzels and butterscotch krimpets. And diet cokes. Had to have maintenance come in ...
Bangalore — In another era, when I used to maintain something of a weblog, I’ve had a tendency to write, disappear and then write a quintessential “I’m back, folks” post, mostly mentioning an emphatic return from...
Frankfurt — It was a hung-over morning and I was walking to the station with a heavy heart, and for some reason the gusto with which this graffiti was written seemed strangely life-affirming. Look, they even und...
Coral gables — Looks interesting, this website. Instagram for writer. Well, I am not a writer actually. But anyway, let’s start Hi!
Toronto — The owner first started the Backyard Axe Throwing League in his backyard. Three years later, there’s two locations in the city, one being a 7,000+ sq. ft warehouse. (where I took the picture) It was ...
London — The Hotel Russell, built in 1898, featured in one of my moments a week or so ago. I’m revisiting it here, as I wanted to couple it with a postcard in my possession which was sent by a guest who staye...
Madrid — Still discovering this hi.com service. Definitely clean and fresh. Not sure what will my future relation with this service will consist of, but here I am, giving it a shot.
Toronto — What kind of peculiar and mundane products from the future would you make to fill up a vending machine? That was the mission given to the 25 of us at the Design Jam: Futurematic. As opposed to hi-tec...
Esna city — Wednesday. We arrive in Esna. (…) House of Kuchiuk-Hanem. Babeh [a servant] precedes us, accompanied by her pet sheep; she opens a door and we come into a house with a small courtyard, and in front ...
Makati — To utter my first name is to fully use the mouth. The lips will have to fold in between the teeth only to be separated soon. Though the tongue has a choice whether to stay afloat or to softly, repeate...
London — When I stood watching the River Thames the other lunchtime (see here and here), one thing that I was really pleased to see was the number of boats on the River that weren’t tourist-related but actuall...
Shanghai — I can’t remember when I fell in love with Shanghai. When I landed last summer, in a taxi flying over the highway to downtown. A sunday of september lost in the alleyways of the French Concession. In ...
Ewing township — My Aunt is in the hospital for a bit and as she is a prolific illustrator and fellow lover of animals, I gathered the animals in my life together for a sort of group hug to wish her a speedy recovery....
Kumai — It was our sixth day in Indonesia, our fourth week in Borneo, and we knew it was too hot and that we would be sweating in our long pants and collared blouses. The Indonesian side of the island, if pos...
Aireys inlet — In another sketch, I’ve mentioned that I’m the sort of guy that worships the sunrise. I take it to extremes. Every morning. Rain or shine. I do my meditation and then I take a quick shot or two fo...
London — It’s been a long time since I was last able to stand on one of London’s bridges and just watch the world go by. Yesterday I did this (if only for a few minutes) from Blackfriars Station, and it was g...
Neo psychiko — ‘Clean Monday’ is the Monday that marks the end of the Carnival season in Greece and the beginning of the 40-day fasting period before Easter. It is a day during which we cleanse ourselves (body and s...
San francisco — “You,” he looks at me sternly, “have to get used to not sleeping.” Oh Dave, if you knew how much sleep I actually get each night! But he’s right. And this is one much-needed kick in the ass. Thesis ...
Pasig — I guess I was successful enough in strumming the epic undertones of this dream. You have asked for more. A confession: I deceived you. But to be fair, the epic is in the comedy. I do not know much a...
Boulder — I have a dear foodie friend who obsessively follows recipes to the letter, and despite his being both half-blind and having a toddler circling around his ankles while he cooks, he’s somehow able to pe...
Omaha — Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. (Proverbs 4:23 AMP) Live righteously. In accordance to Love. Righteousness is our br...
London — No lens or filter needed. The trees at the bus stop shelter the waiting passengers. The street light reflecting off hundreds of their small white blossoms. A frame of golden light snapped into focus j...
Boulder — At some point, when it sunk in that the long-distance aspect of this whole relationship thing was going to be the exception rather than the rule, I bought a box of 100 postcards (on the front of each,...
London — The sun was shining on and off at lunchtime today so I decided to dash to the station and travel 3 stops to Blackfrairs so that I could take some pictures in full daylight from this wonderful station ...
Leigh-on-sea — You know it’s pancake day in the UK
Luxor — At 2 o’clock. We are about to pass Thebes. In front of us to our right, behind the mountain is the Valley of Kings. In front of me to my left is a small boat where men fish. It abuts a large sandy ban...
Seattle — When I first found this site, I wasn’t sure what to do with it. I am always a fan of finding new writing spaces, but I often find my own writing cup empty after a day at the office writing dozens of e...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Despicable Me, and you haven’t yet, where have you been? Yes, there are little yellow characters that are now in pop culture spanning toddles to pre-teens. Yep, there’s de...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Frozen, put aside all of the sociopolitical dialogue and just watch the movie. It did win two Oscars, in animation and music, and let’s face it, Disney is king in both. (I...
Brussels — It’s an entirely different experience here in Belgium. As the steaks of sun illuminated the busy streets of Brussels, people were queueing in small pop-ups, taking in the grilling smell of fresh seaf...
Santa fe — Even the plates are beaming with excitement!
Xi'an — In China the idea that businesses should be confined to specific zones, or even to defined lots never caught on. Chinese cities, at least the ones with some history, have businesses and homes crammed ...
Portland — — where a main character mentions her beautifully crafted computer was built for her by her father. Everyone in that future had fashionable designs for their technology (because their computers travel...
San francisco — There’s a strip of wild-looking parkland along the creek by my place. It’s maintained by the small community of people who live in a variety of houseboats, blue water cruising vessels, and shacks on p...
Urubamba — We leave Machu Picchu, the Italians and I, and walk along the train tracks to Hidroelectrica, about three hours away. He’s wearing a purple hat and scarf, she a white top with a purple undershirt; the...
Münster — Now living in a many-states of mind. When not isolated in my research, I am involved in the community life of Münster, while preparing a long stay with the warm peoples of Rio de Janeiro. São as á...
London — I went the Photographers’ Gallery to look at the William S. Burroughs and David Lynch exhibits, and to attend a lecture on the cut-up technique. It was crowded - or at least, there were enough people...
Dubai — We didn’t know where this train was taking us, but it was taking us to a place we ought to be heading to.
London — I stood watching this squirrel for a while in Tavistock Square the other day (see also ‘Having a gander at Ghandi’ and ‘Spring blossom’). He was scampering around, pausing, scraping at the ground for...
London — Continuing my series of moments based on one of my unusual Christmas presents, here is the photograph for March. Rather disappointing, it has to be said. This is the small burial ground outside Wesl...
Amsterdam — I posted this picture a few weeks ago but hadn’t sat down to write the “story” about it. Truly because I knew it wasn’t as simple as it sounds. As you know I am working hard on my start-up company w...
Makati — A conversation between two people transpired: 7:00PM clothed a friend and me. Right beside me, another friend had cigarette smoke for breath. Our electronic devices revealed that our faces exist. Thre...
Montpellier — From 21 February to 4 May 2014 is held in Montpellier a retrospective of Linda McCartney’s work. Over the months tidbits in the local press have consistently echoed the involvement of her husband and ...
New york — Jules Breton’s The End of the Work Day hangs on a largely unremarkable wall in the Beaux Arts gallery of the Brooklyn Museum. Surrounded by portraits of dour looking widowers and blurry landscapes of ...
Aireys inlet — The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow. ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums London’s Blooming sent me to Kerouac and Kerouac started me thin...
London — Walking up St Mary Road, an elderly couple tightly linking arms approach. I step aside to let them past. They avert their eyes, lock together tighter, hurry past. They look scared. I continue. There a...
Caledon — It seems to be a pattern: I wake up, make some coffee, and get to work. My boys, ages 9 and 13, eventually migrate to my office space to do their weekend homework. Some blogging, some French verbs, a ...
London — It’s when you’re waiting be it for a person, a bus, an event that extraordinary things happen. You engage with your surroundings. In the anticipation of a moment you can allow yourself to breathe and ...
Greenville — It’s one of those things you just can’t ever quit— save a traumatic experience. The Catholic Church is so rich in ritual that after a few decades of immersion, you can’t quite shake it. Innate Cathol...
Cebu city — I went to her hometown for work: an overnight trip that welcomed my thoughtful self with open arms, stretched as wide as the equator. It was of jeepney rides, and of van rides, and of ferries scraping...
Aireys inlet — Click on the Rock. Find the horizon, the sea, the sun, the mermaid. I suppose most sea coasts have a Mermaid Rock or Mermaid Pool. Ours is swimable and you never know what you might see. “Rocks ar...
Dandarah — In the middle of the day we see several crocodiles at the tip of an islet. When the cangia approaches, they slip down into the water like big slugs. We walk on the sandy island for an hour, finding no...
Pasig — We stared at each other, our expressions blank. My pen was moving. Yet it, too, was shooting blanks. There was a poem whispering somewhere, knocking on my mind. But Sleep and Rumination had the louder...
Accra — A thought entry in my journal: Desire June 4, 2010 at 5:20pm At birth is desire In growth is inspire In our want to fulfill the empty gleaming feeling , we perspire That in all ages this has occurre...
Sohag — Friday March, 1st. At 11:10 a.m. I saw my first crocodile. It lay on the sand at the water’s edge. Soon we see several others, among the shrubs on the bank, to the left. The Raïs is not inclined to br...
Iquitos — I gave the man a whack of U.S. dollar bills. As in most countries that accept American currency, I was expecting a quick exchange, a flip through the stack of 20, a swift writing of a receipt, and bam...
Redmond — This is cool~ so what?
Pasig — He tried the next night to see if 8:00 PM was her habit. Rows of bent iron stood steadily in a line beside him as he walks to the spot. Alas, there was no line at all. But there was the half-empty tin...