Pasig — He was on his last steps for the day. He has walked approximately half a kilometre within the city’s intestine. He was the night sky’s extra layer of black upon the pavement. He was a contributor to t...
Toronto — The city is ugly at this time of year. Too late for blankets of soft snow, too early for fast thaws, we walk streets frostbitten and frozen. Polar vortex is the new norm and the city has become brittl...
Aireys inlet — First day of autumn in Australia.
London — Yesterday my lunchtime walk took me to Tavistock Square, another one of the garden squares established by the Bedford Estate at the beginning of the 19th century. In the centre stands this statue of ...
Iquitos — I took a much-needed nap after the aforementioned cat-calling and felt refreshed enough to venture down to the main square this evening, where I encountered a force of largely female security officers...
Cambridge — In 1960 I entered the Graduate program at Harvard. The next year I was recruited by Richard Alpert of the Psychology Department to become a subject in an experimental program involving the ingestion...
Kerry — This is a quiet cathedral, missing its roof. Winter has forced these giant trees into frozen form, leaving the ground and me exposed to the wind and rain. These Irish winters keep my feet wet, and I...
Hong kong — An upward spiral without an exit, just a trick, a mirage, a cul-de-sac that tempts us to the top, only to force us back down. Hong Kong: A loop that goes up, but, sooner or later, just ends and becko...
Dalkeith — I came home this mid-morning and something, I can’t remember what, made me unlock the doors that have faced me - that I’ve walked past, sat in front of, looked through - for the near 10 years I have j...
Tokyo — Yesterday a friend pulled a book out of a shelf in the bar we were at. It was a volume about Pablo Picasso and on the back cover the publisher had the brilliant idea of placing a photo of Picasso’s ri...
San diego — She could hear her parents fervently praying. She could hear her parents fervently trying to paint a facade of bold green palm trees, white sands and plumeria thickened breezes with urgent voices and...
Iquitos — The floating houses of Belen…. Beautiful and peaceful, right? Well, in one sense, definitely. Mostly… Not really. Okay, I know I’m only three hours in, but how about I cut through the tourist-glo...
Iquitos — I left my home 24 hours and four flights ago, and I’ve finally landed in Iquitos, the largest city in the world not accessible by road. This, combined with the fact that it’s warm year-round means tha...
Geelong — Coffee shop sketches are not among my favourite moments on Hi. Yet, I do enjoy the universality of the concept. Almost anywhere in the world that you walk into one, you know it immediately for what ...
Saskatoon — I was lost in the land of Chronos. The land that stretches out before you like a prairie road dotted with emails and meetings and appointments. The road is straight and narrow. If you move too quickly...
Barcelona — Vegans kind of have super powers. Somewhat predictably they have lower rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Rather incredibly they are less likely to get cancer and if they get cancer are more...
Boulder — To make a bad type joke: “Interrobang” is the new single from my imaginary band, The Space Band. We’ve kitted out a Mellotron to make Linotype sounds, the drummer is using pica poles for sticks and ou...
London — This was going to be a moment about my lunchtime walk today, to Tavistock Square, but I liked this photo so much (taken in the Square) that I thought it deserved a moment of its own, and I’ll create t...
New york — I am cleaning out my bookshelves. I really need to take a hard look at this sort of situation. Why, exactly, do I need this nine inch stack of books, an incomplete encyclopedia of technology, circa 19...
New york — As I drove my son and daughter home it was eerily quiet. That type of quiet that’s unsettling, rather than soothing. I peeked over my shoulder at a red light and saw that my daughter had fallen asleep...
Tokyo — The music was short, fast & loud.
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Nebraska, go ahead and do it. Yes, it’s heartbreaking. Sometimes the best things in life are heartbreaking, you know? Filmed in black and white, Nebraska is a bit of a sle...
Dublin — I work for a charity in Belfast called Public Achievement. We work with young people and a big users of social media to engage with young people and more widely. Many organisations in this area are wa...
London — The thing you’re supposed to do when visiting a city is to take things in. Your senses should be overloaded with impressions, your camera rolls full of images which, when developed (or processed and u...
Gatwick — Small books are often called handbooks, though the broader category of handbook has outgrown the average hand size. Handbooks aspire to be both thrifty and useful, a reference easily pocketed for a re...
Reykjavik — Reykjavík is a beautiful city. Walkable. I spend most days writing in some cozily heated interior, ambling around town for a bit, smiling at the beautiful scenery and pleasant architecture, telling t...
Valencia — I live by the sea, but I’m not the type of person you’ll find hanging around at the beach or going for a swim. But I love walking by the sea in winter, or at times of the day when it’s quiet, or when ...
London — “I knew the way you know about a good melon” It was more than the afterglow of a holiday mood. It was much, much deeper than that. I don’t really deal with horoscopes. I believe there is something sp...
London — I know I’ve shared a moment like this before, but I just couldn’t resist another one, as the sun was rising behind Tower Bridge just at the very moment my train was pulling into Blackfriars Station (w...
Tokyo — I deliberately missed a couple of trains to avoid the crush and draw the other commuters instead. As I sat on a bench and drew, an elderly woman came up behind me and looked over my shoulder. Fair eno...
Tokyo — When I was a student I often drew self-portraits to practice and improve my skill. As I sat on my futon, for the first time in awhile without any immediate deadlines hanging over me, I decided that ni...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing The Wind Rises, please do. Support Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, and then go on and watch as many of his other movies as you can find. Miyazaki helped redefine the mainstrea...
San diego — Second day of writing…again… I have a slight headache and I’m not sure what to write. I began a story where Abel the cat was a man sitting on the edge of his bed, getting ready to take on the da...
Hong kong — Downtown, there are beautifully dressed china dolls. They take selfies at cafes, before sending a text message or checking in on Facebook, before jotting things in slim pocket calendars, before puttin...
Livermore — I had no idea where this poem would go when I started it. It’s been a long time since I allowed myself to just write spontaneously. Usually I need a clear conceptual road map. I only had one general i...
London — Although the today started off wet in London, by lunchtime it had cleared up enough to make a lunchtime stroll possible. In fact, the sun even came out for a while, which is always a welcome visitor! ...
Reykjavik — My practical philosophy — the collection of beliefs and ideas by which I live my life — are centered around freedom, and the pursuit of new knowledge, experiences, and perspectives. That means limita...
Accra — Recently I boarded a trotro - I was on my to meet a friend for story hunting. My friend and I, we talked a lot about the importance of searching for inspiration. You know, It’s one thing sitting and ...
Tracy — I didn’t know yet how to capture the right color of your hair—the gray swirl in front, the fading to brown in back. I hadn’t yet accepted the lines perpendicular to your mouth, to your eyebrows. But...
Asyut — Monday. Asyut. Lycopolis is a good one-quarter mile from the Nile - on the dike, birds; in a field, black ibises. We come into the city through the diwan, the konak is to the right. Great square cou...
San diego — Alright, I hate to be self critical or negative, but I have to be honest with myself. I would love to pretend I have been writing elsewhere. I would love to say that I diligently fell into my imaginat...
Galesburg — I ran after him. I ran until my chest felt like icicles were stabbing into my skin, freezing each breath I took. I ran until the leaves around me were almost like a green blur; as though someone smear...
Makati — I don’t think I’ve ever legitimately owned a pet in my life. I had Mark the Goldfish when I was in third grade, but he never stayed for long. We put him in one of those expensive glass pitchers becau...
Tokyo — Every now and then my friends Grace, Adrian and Saka would coincide in one place, almost by chance, and start drawing and chatting about anything. Today was one of those days. We had a great time, it...
Tokyo — I was on my way to run some errands in Ginza but it was far too cold to go by bike, so I ventured down into the tube (something I rarely do). I settled into my favorite seat (at the end of the carriag...
Accra — Beach Debris…. That’s what you can see right . But I can see decorative lights made for a night out on the beach . I can imagine a night filled with inexpensive , beautiful lighting that creates a sc...
Hai — Today I took a ride in a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle. Fifty one years old. Coughing and gasping for air as we rattled down the bumpy road at full speed—that is 25 miles per hour. Squealing and shouting wit...
London — A dog sneezes on the man’s shoe and he looks up with such a mixed expression of pained confusion, like he doesnt know whether to be disgusted, annoyed or amused. The man that is, not the dog.
Urubamba — I have walked more this past week than any other week of my life. On Wednesday we took a van into the mountains from Ollyantaytambo—myself, two friends from Cusco, the owner of the hostel where we wer...
London — I went for a walk this lunchtime round Russell Square. Created in the first decade of the 19th Century, Russell Square is one of a number of Squares built on the Bloomsbury Estate, land owned by the ...
Münster — A first page is turned. I did it. This is done. Research in Mathematics. A lonely work, but also communications with others. Those, are certainly moments where is touched upon the essence of the art:...
London — Changing trains at Herne Hill this morning on my way to work, I saw that God had painted a most beautiful picture on the sky-blue canvas above us. I like to think that in doing so, His aim was to hel...
Tokyo — In a dim dawn sky, the last moments of moonlight faintly illuminate Mount Fuji’s summit. I ponder whether I will ever again see  the flower tipped [cherry] trees of Ueno and Yanaka. My favourite dis...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Before Midnight, be prepare to either love it, hate it, or find it moderately unintelligible and therefore feel ambivalent about it. The thing about Before Midnight is, as...
Tokyo — In the words of John McBride, the translator and steward of this Basho account, on why he chose to follow and study Basho’s work: I am asked why I enjoy walking. Initially the walks allowed me a sens...
Akita — Job hunting in Japan is a pain in the ass. I wonder if that’s the same in the U.S., England, Peru, Australia, Singapore, China, and Russia. It really make me want to stop everything and start somethin...
Aireys inlet — Last week, as part of a drive to downsize my library and de-clutter my life, I threw the above issue of Big Table into the waste bin. For many people who value ‘the life of the mind,’ as it was once ...
Tokyo — The months and days are travellers of eternity. Just like the years that come and go. For those who live their lives on boats, or lead horses towards old age, their lives are travel, their journeys ar...
Nagold — To call this place remote would be an understatement. It’s a minuscule Jewish cemetery in the forest near Unterschwandorf (town of Haiterbach, state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany). The cemetery was o...
London — Lunchtime in my favourite park, Regent’s Park. If only this sketch had smell-o-vision. A beautiful, delicate fragrance floated in the gentle breeze as I sat on a bench, reading.
Croydon — The rest of the power station was demolished in 1991 and an IKEA store was opened on the site. A beautiful sunny day, sharp blue skies, with just a whisper of a cloud. And I ended up spending a fort...
Leigh-on-sea — Over a little wine on Friday night we spoke about how we could never live in a country that has constant sunshine. We would miss the rain, the cold, the snow (read sludge). It was the most British con...
San francisco — Two nights ago, I stumbled upon this orchestra flash mob video on Facebook and ended up in tears. (WHYYYY!) Such a sucker for violins. Damn violins! I made a mental note in between sniffles to check o...
Seattle — Upon landing I was high from blue skies, puffy white clouds, and new flora. By finally getting around to post-process my photos from 2~ years ago I am transported to my photographic adventure in an i...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Before Sunset, be sure to see Before Sunrise first, and try and keep your romantic heart inside your chest since it will want to burst out at times. As the second in the n...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Before Sunrise, prepare for the onslaught of combination-adolescence-and-romantic nostalgia that will wash over you. Before Sunrise is the first in the Before trilogy, spa...
Makawao — There are stories, and then there are stories. The youngest one doesn’t have many yet, but then again I have to wonder: whenever he’s here upcountry he wakes up in the middle of the night crying inst...
Henderson — We associate these things with happiness, joy and growth. As the flowers, we respond in kind by blossoming in the bask of sunshine in our lives. I look for sunshine daily in my life, even in the mid...
Osprey — Frolic on the lawn, says the lawn. There is grass in stubby clumps of wide blades and coarse, firm edges. Somehow, they feel almost greasy. Nearby is a lychee field. There are only a few lychee tree...
Santa barbara — Chapter 1 : Golden Caps April 19th, 2000 The morning started off with 1/8th ounce of mushrooms at 9 AM followed by a a tall glass of local fresh squeezed orange juice. They are the finest Golden Cap ...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing The Grandmaster, consider whether you like foreign films before you sit down and commit. If there’s one thing I like about the Academy Award nominees this year, it’s that ...
Alpine — I almost skipped Front Street Books in Alpine, Texas. My trip through West Texas was nearly over and I was tired and eager to get another thirty miles down the highway to my hotel room in the next tow...
Assiut — Friday. Boarding in the evening at Souadeh - moon - palm trees (on the right bank, to our left). We stroll through a field of sugar canes, three sailors escort us with their sticks - dogs bark - drain...
San francisco — Another Working Draft meeting.1 I’ll have to warn you: I was on freewrite mode. Funny to see how issues just sort of pop up as you write and write and write and write. I thought I could stay on the ty...
New york — I discovered a copy of T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom on a low shelf in the bookstore across the street. It’s a wonderful read - an autobiography with all the lyricism and depth of a great n...
Kiev — _ Maybe…. _ Maybe there is still hope… Tiny hope… In this war world, on this war planet, you want to know my dream? To be with YOU on a little piece of land, only a few, and music. (Long time ...
Wellington — Sitting outside in Wellington for the afternoon is a bit of a rare occurrence. It’s known as Windy Wellington for good reason. I met up with an old friend for a bit of lunch and then to a reasonably ...
Santiago — Giving Hi.co a try
Venice — Cut across by a swath of palm shadow, the laybrinth at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church appears this morning as a kind of existential sundial. There is no guide, no gardener, no gathering crowd. It is made...
Hong kong — I love Hong Kong. When I want to loose myself, when I want to find myself, I travel to HK… To be permanently surrounded by thousand of people, 24h/24 is a way to face the reality: humans are ants. ...
London — It only seems fair to pair the Winter sunset at St Pancras moment from a couple of days ago with a sunrise moment from this morning, so here it is, albeit from further away and with a better camera! ...
London — As I mentioned in yesterday’s moment, Queen Square is home to many health care related buildings. The one shown in the photo above is now known as The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery...
Hindhead — Autumn, a time of fading Colours fade Nature fades The world fades…. ….to the grey of winter.
Lorne — Summer officially ends in Australia on 28 February, not on the equinox. It is at once our most loved season (beaches, barbecues) and most feared (bushfires, snakes). And, since the world has deci...
Bradenton — At the Neel Performing Arts Center, there is a giant pipe organ. Crafted from steel and wood, it takes over the rear wall of the auditorium. It is a work of precision and mass. To play it, you have to...
Manhattan — The Strand dollar racks on the corner of Broadway and 12th Street is simply one of my favorite places in the world. In the sorting machinery of New York City, the dollar rack is one of the exhaust ven...
Dallas — We’d walked wharves together, played upon rooftops, facades, within intimate windows. Sailed along the coast. All that he was, he laid out before me. All that I wished to be, I listened, enamored. Laz...
Boulder — This started out as a silly selfie texted to my dad, whose PhD dissertation (chemistry) is in the stacks at Norlin. My own thesis is somewhere in the depths of the music library a few buildings away, ...
London — I went exploring another of central London’s many squares during my lunch break today - this time Queen Square, created in the early part of the 18th century. This statue caught my eye. It is of Quee...
London — Rushing to the station yesterday afternoon to catch my train home I just had to stop to snap this picture, as the angle and colour of the light on the side of the hotel building that forms part of St ...
Dublin — Winter is good. Being quite the warm-blooded individual my body’s preferred climate errs on the side of cool. Short days and long evenings also have their welcoming side. There is a cosiness to the da...
Toronto — I’m not sure there’s anything more Canadian than seeing Blue Rodeo at Massey Hall in Toronto. For a million reasons. They are masters of their craft but their creative leads — Jim Cuddy and Greg Keel...
Torquay — When Marty McFly traveled through time in the movie Back to the Future, his mentor Dr. Emmet “Doc” Brown supplied him with a DeLorian DMC-12, especially modified for the job. The DeLorian was conside...
San francisco — The wave organ crouches at the end of a rocky spindle that curls around the small craft harbor. When we arrive, it’s crawling with tourists, their chatter drowning the low moan of the ocean. Still, we...
Engelberg — Ralf Jager was the second son of a butcher and an abusive mother. He worked in his father’s shop as soon as he could reach the counter. Hans Jager was a quiet butcher, an angry husband, an absent fath...
Lausanne — Louis a toujours eu un goût certain en matière de jolies filles. Et les filles le lui rendent bien, elles qui sont “toutes amoureuses de Louis.” Mais pas jalouses, elles sont d’accord de se le partage...
Siesta key — This kite is from Shanghai, but I’ve only flown it in Florida at Siesta Key. The sand here is as white and soft as rice flour. The squid is silk, roughly cut, with pen markings where the maker trimme...
Johannesburg — Life decisions are never one-dimensional. Yet we often simplify the decisions others make to squash it into a context that’s easy to understand, because that’s human nature. The problem is that trying...
Manhattan — Foremost, please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefella/11452001426/ to see a much better quality photo. It’s been completely mangled here. So much so, I can’t actually be bothered writing a stor...
Accra — The teacher must only be a guide. The teacher must realise that every student already knows. And the teacher’s responsibility is to help the student realize this latent knowledge. To teach any conce...