London — Spending the afternoon at a meeting in a different part of central London today gave me the opportunity to travel home from Blackfriars station, which makes a great spot for taking a photo as it now s...
Accra — Some time back my girlfriend got me a wrist watch. Something I had been wanting for a long time. But I hadn’t gotten around to buy one because I wanted to have it as a gift. [ You are thinking funny g...
Athens — There’s something very Greek, very reminiscent of my childhood and very fascinating about these dark, unseen, usually ugly vacant lots that offer a view to the back of apartment blocks. Consequently, ...
Bang kachao — Still in Bangkok. Earlier, on Bang Kachao, an old man invited me to see the local boxing ring. It was a quaint square of raised plastic behind the ferry building, plenty worthy of attention, but he j...
Tokyo — They walked slowly but firmly, holding bells which made enchanting noises. I couldn’t help but imaging nobody else was actually seeing them, only me, as they had escaped another time, space or dimensi...
Borobudur — A few years ago, I saw photos of this place and found it hard to believe that it actually existed. Finally, in 2012, I managed to get here on one of my solo photography trips around South East Asia. ...
Minneapolis — This park in Minneapolis is a beautiful place. You can hike to the Mississippi River. I have done that as well as stood on a bridge underwater in the river because of flooding from so much snow. It is...
Philadelphia — In this case, unlike any other at all. His affect was particular. Adrift, spaced-cadet, attuned to some ethereal broadcast unheard by the rest of us all; I do not know. His eyes were a light enough sh...
Trakai — I had never been to Lithuania, so this prompted me to plan a trip to Lithuania. I hadn’t heard amazing things about Vilnius, but I discovered that nearby, was a lake and castle, so I spent two nights ...
Tokyo — “Do you want to learn how to make a perfect cup of coffee?” Mr. Mod inquired. After Fingerface set the bar high by brewing coffee in the Kamakura mountains, Mr. Mod was feeling the heat. Maybe it was...
Tokyo — This worm-like looking food is called “chorogi”, or Chinese artichoke. These are pickled and have a salty sour taste with a hint of Japanese basil. They are sometimes eaten during New Years or as a sn...
Tokyo — 東京酒店(or Sake Tokyo in English) a sake events and exports startup started by Akiko Shibata introduces the new trend of sake pairing with Western/Japanese dishes drinking them in wine glasses. She’ll so...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing 12 Years a Slave, view with eyes open to the best movie of the year. Yep, I went there. Here’s why. This movie, based on the 1853 novel by Solomon Northup—I feel it unfo...
Guilin — I had seen a lot of shots of the famous cormorant fishermen around south China and really wanted to get an image of these guys myself. I had already formed an idea in my head, which can lead to a crus...
Washington — I left work today and the sunlight was beautiful. I saw the golden rays fall across the Capitol Building so I had to follow it. I walked to the National Mall and was rewarded for my troubles through t...
Cairo — Monday the 28th. Introduction to Mr Le Moyne, General Consul in Cairo - Mr Belin’s sad silver-embroidered garment between those of Mrs Le Moyne and Delaporte. Pompous - Mr Desgoutains, in European fas...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Her, let go of your preconceived notions and see the movie for what it really is. A surface-level viewing of Her will tell you it’s a scary story about how technology is t...
Reykjavik — I don’t know what a ‘fen’ is, exactly — somewhere in the recesses of my memory there’s an image of a stork-like bird, perched on a clump of roots protruding from a bog or swamp — but if these noodles ...
Amsterdam — It is certainly surreal, after 10 months, a business-model failure, and tons of patience, today I visited my first client to give my first real recommendations. Even though my client is part of a pil...
Barcelona — Awhile ago, I decided to make myself a smoothie. I had a bad feeling about it. In fact, since the arrival of the blender three weeks ago I’ve had this bizarre and utterly inexplicable impression that...
Southern peninsula — For years, I’ve wanted to relax in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, drop my body into the warm, blue, mineral-rich waters and gaze into the mist coming off the warm water into the cold air. I imagined that...
Makawao — I have this ritual, something I’ve done since Pono was in elementary school. Whenever I drop him off at school, I always stay and watch him walk off, until he’s out of sight. Disappearing through an a...
Holywood — OK So it’s February now, and I’m still arranging my thoughts. Blogging is Dead: Of course it is! It has been dead for years and keeps on dying again and again. But no one has told Blogging that it i...
Kahului — My hanai kid Kulani is the girl with the jersey covered in sand. Her step-brother Puki had greeted her at the end of the victor’s tunnel with a fistful of the stuff (akin to ‘caking’ a birthday celebr...
Melbourne — The Melbourne Town Hall is a handsome old building with an elegant, if not very comfortable, auditorium. My most memorable concert memory: Odetta in her last tour of Australia. It was somewhat cont...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Inside Llewyn Davis, be prepared for total sensory enjoyment. You’ve got the Coen Brothers bringing their best to the screen since True Grit in 2010, which was one of my p...
Tokyo — Observation is essential to drawing. Concentration is essential to observation. In drawing class I see things I never notice in my normal day. The sound of a pencil dragging across paper raises my le...
Aireys inlet — New moon, twilight . . . are we talking vampires here?
Tokyo — … Pizza and laughter and stories of past and present lives — of douchebags and weird hair, pilots and ballers, cute friends and girl friends, and the crazy ways the world is so, so small. Yes, mayb...
Kamakura — Here we have the little immobile brewmobile of Idobata1, named after the Yagō2 in Zushi to which our friendly proprietor retires after a long day of slow brews for slower-moving visitors from Connecti...
Victoria — I got lost to start 2014. Not lost. That’s a bad word. Drifting, maybe. A wayfaring stranger. I’m literally looking these words up in the dictionary to double check if that is actually how I felt. We...
Strongsville — … With an ‘augmented’ self. ‘Me’ was internal, rather than thoughts of (sharing with) ‘My’ …
Kamakura — Let’s just say Fingerface Palmieri wasn’t leaving this mountain without making coffee. He had a crazed look in his eyes. Said he had “carried” fire all the way up the mountain and, good lord, he wasn...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Prisoners, watch it during the daylight hours. As psychological/crime thrillers go, this is on the longer side, but it’s so enjoyable to watch that you don’t hardly notice...
Bangkok — I’m not in love with the city of Bangkok, overrun as it is with a boorish, foreign youth. I got robbed on my way in, but found quick refuge in an artist’s squat in the faraway district of Thon Buri, ...
Mito — The Folded tower is at Art Tower Mito, composed by a lot of titanium triangles. Growing up to the sky, it’s like a futuristic plant or spaceship.
Sevenoaks — In rural England it is usual to find the village burial ground at the Parish Church (Church of England), but in Borough Green it’s the Baptist Church that has the graveyard, and we have some interesti...
Accra — You must always start conversations with people. Yes. And I mean your design must, your art must. Because people will let you know what feelings you will need to introduce . I don’t see why a piece...
Gordon — There was an art to evasion, to plying a presence within a presence (or outside of it) unseen. Multiple selves, multiple lives, fractious and hybrid, not exactly bad (looking back now), but not a way ...
Cairo — Friday January, 25th. Ceremony of the “Dauseh” = trampling. Cold - on the wall - an old man tries to pee and crawls on his knees rubbing his poor thing on the ground. Wallachian whores beside us on th...
Tokyo — In japanese, it says: “Someone dropped this. It was found on the 6th of january. If anyone knows who this belongs to, please take it back home.” The boot is still at the same spot today. Nobody touc...
Tucson — Zach and I shouldered our bags into the Tucson Tufesa station and stepped into the other sphere. We fell on chairs as Mexican voices flowed to our ears from the TV on the wall. Zach listened with atte...
Kita ward — I rode the bullet train for 2.5 hours to see Andreas Gursky’s solo exhibit in Osaka. It starts next week………….. Oops. LOL
San francisco — Mural at the corner of Polk and Eddy streets by Barcelona artist and muralist, ARYZ. I love her little top hat.
San francisco — On Polk, between O’Farrell and Ellis streets. Since I took this, the message was painted over and the building was re-tagged.
San francisco — The San Cristina apartment building, above Show Dogs, is owned and run by the Community Housing Partnership, a nonprofit organization that provides permanent, supportive housing to formerly homeless i...
Ewing township — The Macintosh is 30 today and Apple has an incredible ‘timeline’ on their site, year-by-year of the most amazing people (April Greiman- 1986- on my screen). What truly moved me was the use of older p...
San francisco — I drive down Polk Street every morning, through a portion of the Tenderloin, north of Market Street. Despite the area’s blight and poverty, and the concentration of San Franciscans with substance abus...
Tübingen — Highly mobile for people our age, that’s what we are. Sure, we burn fuel because we like to see a good fire reflected in each other’s eyes. But we are also scientists. We have to meet. We have to expl...
London — If Wikipedia is to be believed, then technically Percy and Mary were not married at the time they lived here, so the plaque should probably say Mary Godwin, but I suppose most passers-by wouldn’t then...
Portland — It’s a strange way to pay the bills. Writing up opinions and sending them to the audiences who are most likely to respond is easy enough. But having so many opinions — a new one every day — is hard wo...
Melbourne — One of the world’s tallest residential buildings, the Eureka Tower is said to be home to more than a thousand people. No doubt other superlative statistics might be dredged up, but I am more interest...
New york — I have been absent. For the past 5 weeks, I have been teaching a UX immersive course at General Assembly, and for 40 hours a week I spend my time helping 20 people change careers, owning the knowledge...
Barranco district — There are, walking and lying around in the streets of Lima, particularly in Barranco, a good number of stray dogs (unlike the stray cats, who lounge about in Parque Kennedy in the central square in Mi...
Seoul — Standing on either side of me in the hotel elevator are my colleagues Yanqing and Younghee. Between us we are carrying enough video gear to shoot a documentary. Or porn. Which is probably why the coup...
Accra — How Are The Most Brilliant Ideas Conceived ? Brilliant ideas seem to come from nowhere. Dmitri Mendeleev created the first periodic table after a nap. Otto Loewi woke from sleep at dawn with the bas...
Tempe — Almost a full week without you now and I don’t feel completely alone anymore. I got out of bed today and I might be capable of eating again. I carry your name with me always.
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Super 8 (and you haven’t already, which you should have done), just go watch it already! Super 8 is a feel-good family movie. Super 8 is a classic summer coming-of-age tal...
London — A number of the old Georgian houses backing onto the office building where I work have this problem. Well, I say problem, but is it actually a problem? Distorted windows add character. Sagging arch...
Minneapolis — On one of the coldest days of the year, though at this point those words don’t mean much anymore-a friend of mine and I decide it’s time to get ready for spring. A feeling that is far fetched and dist...
Tokyo — After two and a half weeks in sunny and warm San Francisco, I am finally back in Tokyo. I definitely like my winters to be cold and my summers to be a bit cooler. The next part sucks though…hay fe...
Kaikoura — I’ve just come back from a few days in Kaikoura in New Zealand. It’s a small town that has become a required stop on the tourist trail, mainly because of the whale watching. I have passed through the...
Kula — I’ve lived in quite a few places, in my half a century of existence thus far, spanning southeast Asia and the western coast of North America. So I think I can say this with authority born of experienc...
Liverpool — This is where we come to create, to get our heads together and think and dream. To dirty our hands and pour out our hearts in the process. This is where we create our history, the history that will f...
London — If I find myself sitting in a long meeting that - how shall I put this? - is not exactly holding my attention, I know that I might resort to filling in all the spaces within letters on the agenda or o...
Tokyo — “Let’s go!! Why are you getting that?! It’s just masking tape,” a little English boy yells at his dad. “No, no, it’s cool. See! It comes in different patterns. You can only get this in Japan,” his da...
New plymouth — I found myself asking this question after spending 10 days road-tripping around the country and staying with family and friends. It wasn’t so much location that got me thinking, but what defines home,...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Dallas Buyers Club, be prepared to let it challenge a lot of your assumptions. Like the assumptions you make about healthcare, and the way our country approaches homosexua...
Ewing township — A collection of found objects decorates a wall of my bathroom. Some are mundane parking stubs from Manhattan garages I admired for the stark typography. Others are cards for clubs. My favorites are ca...
London — I’ve been walking past this building for over 3 years on my way to work from the station, but the fact that I had never noticed this before just shows how rarely I look up from pavement level! This i...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing American Hustle, don’t be tired when you sit down to watch it, or you might fall asleep. I’m trying not to make this personal, and to view American Hustle through its own ...
Charlottesville — With a flock of birds.
Toronto — Got invited to a friend’s small dinner party. I asked what to bring. “Dessert, Dee’s a diet freak….not sure maybe a gelato?” Ha! A diet freak, eh?! Well, gelato won’t cut it. It’d have to be somet...
Ammerbuch — When you walk the rim, you can look down on other mortals. Not like in a plane, but in a hot air balloon, perhaps. In any case, it was very early in the evolution of man-made flight. The sun had ever...
Accra — Ripened plantain Ginger Vegetable oil to fry These are the ingredients that you make Kelewele with. You know, I have tried a number of times to tell people how good Ke-le-we-le is. But then I always f...
Montpellier — Although I prefer vinyls, most blues records I have are on CDs. It will change, with time…
Wakefield — The new station caused my second timeslip. I set the piece I am making as Writer in Residence at Wakefield Literature Festival in the vague present. Clara, a retired intelligence officer living in a ...
Wakefield — I have been walking about looking through the eyes of Xoriyo, an eight year old Somali girl who is one of the characters in an online piece I am making as Writer in Residence at Wakefield Literature F...
Ko phayam — In 2008, a monsoon devastated the Moken villages dotting Buffalo Bay on Koh Phayam in Thailand. Afterward, the Thai government partnered with an NGO to purchase a new, more removed plot of land for th...
Ljubljana — “Her” made us question everything we knew about relationships. And being so new in this and thinking about it so much lately—each notion moved something in us. Made us reconsider, reflect and in the e...
London — My friend and I walked round this lake twice on Saturday morning, hardly noticing the beauty as we talked and talked. We were caught up in our conversation and the opportunity to enjoy each other’s co...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing The Wolf of Wall Street, hold on to your hats. Surpassing Scorsese’s penchant for creating characters you love to hate, Leo DiCaprio is officially in his element: he’s cha...
Wellington — And so go some of the words from a 1997 Chicago Tribune column, Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young, written by Mary Schimch, more famously known as the “Wear Sunscreen” song by Baz ...
Cape town — I’ve been thinking a lot of about place, and where we choose to live, and how important that is despite how connected we’ve all become. As a family with roots in South Africa as well as America, this ...
Melbourne — It’s an undocumented feature of working in a major public library. The simple pleasure of walking through the library in the hours before opening. You tend to walk lightly and whisper even when the p...
Charlottesville — It was windy and cold.
Barcelona — The Cementerio de Montjuic is probably one of my favorite places in Barcelona. I’ve been struggling to articulate exactly why without sounding morbid and here’s my best attempt: It’s beautiful, immac...
Minneapolis — As I am learning to use this service and writing more from my phone I am noticing that I have received these little requests to extend these moments. I wonder if I would’ve had as much to say at the m...
Siren — To be blunt, a lot of Wisconsin has a pretty white trash reputation. I myself have referred to it as the Texas of the Midwest with the state’s stances on unions, guns, capital punishment. But that’s n...
Webster — The duo Ylvis have a video about going to spend a weekend in a cabin owned by your family. This was a new concept to me when I moved to Minnesota but apparently an old Scandinavian tradition. The vide...
Le mont-saint-michel — Several years ago I visited a cathedral in Northern France whilst on holiday. The grounds of monasteries, churches, and cathedrals hidden away in ancient monolithic citadels somehow become infectious ...
Aireys inlet — Fifty four years ago, as a budding graduate student, I walked into the Coop and bought a pencil sharpener. The Boston brand seemed appropriate, given my new favorite city. Also it was a brand I well...
Tokyo — If you’re tired and managed to grab a seat, good. Pay no attention to your neighbors and just slump left and right as the train accelerates and slows down. You may one day see yourself featured on som...
New york — I killed the canary It was falling mid-air Seemed such a shame To waste There is blood on my paws I loved him so Farewell my tasty friend.
Charlottesville — It’s We Gold o’clock.
Casablanca — We were sketching outside the Eglise Sacré-Cœur de Casablanca when a small man slowly shuffled out of the strange, Deco-Gothic structure and gestured for us to come inside. How could we resist? We ste...
San francisco — Goats have pupils evolved for Turner, or for that matter, any work of art. Rectangular, cheeky, and all encompassing— you should be loathe to be in the artistic company of anybody other than Goat! T...
New york — It is hailing outside, the kind of morning to snug into reading, pull another blanket onto the couch and look up occasionally at the window. Instead, I am trying to determine whether the hail that is ...
New york — All the things I don’t make time for. I want, at this moment, little more than to watch. I want to see that monolithic shadow grind across this suddenly-gorgeous city, transfixed, like watching the in...
Dubai — Am a budding entrepreneur and while I wait for the business license and everything to get sorted, I explore different locations and to work out of. There are sooooo soooo many options in Dubai, its ex...