Toronto — Saturday morning. Get up, reluctantly. Put the coffee on. Tell the dog “after breakfast”. Pull up the blinds and have a look at the world. The sky is greige; the grey-beige of seasonal indifference. ...
Amsterdam — I did a small sketch of how this start-up adventure feels. I have awesome days when everything seems to work, and I feel everything is possible. But just like that, it can all break down, and in no-ti...
Leeds — … 0r, when did we forget how to live in weather? Listen to the news, read friends on twitter and you wouldn’t go anywhere today. Even sayhi says it - the wind is wild. And it is. A tree fell on my ...
Chatan — It looks a bit like Guatemala but the license plate gives away the real location. I love Harry’s little Nissan Bolero. I love his house and his neighborhood and the izakaya two doors down where they...
Victoria — This was the gist of last night’s dream. I’ve been awake for 40 minutes now, and the details are fading even as I type this. Suffice to say, I WAS A FLYING ZOMBIE. As I was soaring way up high I notic...
Washington — When was the last time you simply sat? This is a sketch about me, the Pope, and Louis CK. For once, Glenn was a little late and I was a little early. I sat on the bench in the Madison lobby watchin...
Reykjavik — Icelandic horses — though some would call them ponies, since their ancestors were such, and they are often quite small, like a pony — are beautiful and rugged and the envy of many equestrians worldwid...
Tokyo — I come from a family of big sleepers. My 96-year old grandfather goes to bed early, wakes up early, and always takes a nice long nap every afternoon. My father used to drive home for lunch every day, ...
Tübingen — I don’t know what they’re thinking, really. Every year around christmas it’s the same. The decorators of that specific clothes outlet in my hometown get creative. This time it’s mannequins wearing an...
Cape town — Everyone who comes here is dying. Well, yes, I know we’re all dying. But at GVI Oncology dying is not a thing that’s going to happen at some point in the future. Here, dying is now. It’s something tha...
Tokyo — You know, where the furthest extent of your jaw bone connects with your skull. This time it pulled me into a brisk and hazily sunlit room at daybreak. The electric pulsations had migrated closer to m...
Tokyo — This is the walk (or bike ride) I do every week day morning to drop off my son at nursery school. This is one of his favorite stretches with the fire station coming up on the left. It’s a little late...
San francisco — Note: Wrote this today as a sort of freewrite for Working Draft, a little club started by a friend from 826 Valencia. We invaded the tutoring center late at night and everyone got to work. Originall...
Brandon — Ironically, my mom’s name is also Susan and she is also a Swampy Cree woman, although not the one in the picture. Growing up I remember my dad always calling my mom his “Swampy Cree woman”. She is Met...
Tokyo — NHK reporting that a man was found dead early this morning, sitting in a stopped car, apparently beaten about the face. Police have blocked off a 300 meter perimeter with blue tarps.
Washington — Fans of the architect Edward Durell Stone might guess this edifice is one of his. Fans of Alfred Easton Poor (we know you’re out there!) will certainly know it’s the Library of Congress’s Madison bui...
Aireys inlet — To go, take away, take home, on the wing.
Tucson — The composition isn’t quite right. I tell myself, “You really ought to rotate counter-clockwise a couple degrees, then re-sketch.” But I’m back in DC now, my four-night Thanksgiving holiday in Tucso...
Brandon — Fort Desjarlais was built by Joseph Desjarlais in 1836. It was located north of present day Lauder and Hartney, MB. Where this fort was located is 10 minutes away from where I live in Hartney. I have...
Kula — The surprise of seeing that solid, dark expanse moving perceptibly towards my vantage point at around 3,000 feet—almost as if being pushed by the light further downslope—never gets old. It is a funct...
Washington — The last time I was in Washington DC, I ended up insulting a politically conservative talking head right before he went on TV. I’m not political. I wasn’t judging him for his viewpoints on Red or Blu...
Cairo — Tuscan legation. Coming back from the hotel of the Orient and looking for the crafstman who repairs Maxime’s camera tripod, I looked at the nice gate of the Toscan legation’s mansion: roman arcade wit...
Hermann — There’s an amazing little wine country tucked away in Missouri, just along the river, between Columbia and St. Louis. The main hub of the area is Hermann: a quaint Germanic town, founded in some vagu...
Aireys inlet — The Common Bronzewing features in a number of Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, perhaps in part because this attractive pigeon is known as a reliable guide to water sources. Certainly, at our place, you...
Shanghai — The rapid modernization in China is either amazing or scary. Compare it to Paris where it can take decades to extend or create a new line. My friend lives in central Shanghai and his commute two years...
Austin — There is this place in Austin. I call it Graffiti Wall. It’s known by other names too, but the name is not important. On this hill there stands the foundation of a building that either never was or ce...
Austin — A window with some sunlight is better than no window at all, but this view is a bit uninspired. The lines and colors are not altogether unappealing… the shifting shadow line that counts down the hou...
New york — One journey ends, another will begin. Where to next?
Austin — I opened the door to the office and walked in. There was the robot, begging for mercy. There was only one person who could have done such a thing… Last February I started a new job. It was a bit of...
The pas — An Examination of - How the Loon Lost Her Voice, story told and illustrated by Anne Cameron A favorite story from the North West Coast Indians, tells the story of how the animals all rally together ...
The pas — My mother was the only nurse, doctor, and mid wife in Cape Dorset for 7 years. Until she retired in 2003. This is some of the art that she got while she was there. These are considered seconds and wer...
Aireys inlet — I have nothing against apes, but what if we had evolved from birds? These are sulphur crested cockatoos. I’ll see if I can get some good pics of the other cockies we see around here: rose breasted...
Brandon — John Norquay is my great-great-great-great uncle on my mother’s side. I am honoured to say that I have direct ties to the Red River Settlement, and also to John Norquay, the first (and only-to date) M...
Kahului — Some days are clear as a bell purely struck by a smooth pebble thrown from 31 meters away; this is not one of those days. A slight haze, perhaps from sugarcane-burnt smoke earlier at dawn, softens th...
Brandon — Last year my son was in grade 6 and as part of the social studies curriculum, one of the units they were taught was the history of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, specifically on the Plains Indians....
The pas — In early May I got to attend the Pike Lake Culture Day. I went with the grade 8 Cree class from Scott Bateman middle school. The class had been asked to attend and assist with the kindergarten class f...
The pas — The Winter Count was a project that we did in a class about aboriginal history. The Oka Crisis was happened very close to me in 1990, and very close to members of my family. The land dispute was over...
Stellenbosch — After a decade of relative obscurity that lulled us into thinking everything is going to be ok, Dad’s cancer is suddenly back in full force. I mean, chemo full force. The real thing. And I’m not sure ...
The pas — The Canadian Fur trade is an important part of our history. Over the past 20 years the Fur Trade has been under fire from a number of organizations that have wanted to do a way with the trade. An ugly...
Burlingame — “Mad men” room at the office :)
The pas — The choir performs at a number of events in the fall. The Remembrance Day events is one we are most proud of.
Tokyo — We were there on their first weekend in business. A passable burrito and a tasty taco rice bowl, both of good volume. It’s not Tex-Mex or California style — it’s kind of like what my mother made for ...
Tokyo — At first I thought to myself, those arrows aren’t travelling very far. But then I realized that, right now, this was all the room they had to practice. But that they probably had plans and dreams of ...
Tokyo — This plate of pasta was one of my favorite things in the world in college. Hot, tomatoey, comforting. At $17 a plate, it didn’t come cheap, but it was my little luxury. My “petit zeitaku”. Thinking b...
Tübingen — The outcome called for analysis. I’m a big fan of analysis, especially with a righteous train wreck like we were. I even wrote a piece on our last day, just to get a grip on what had happened. Shared ...
Kudoyama — The expectation is that we don’t speak Japanese. The expectation is we’re from somewhere else — always elsewhere, never nearby. We’re from somewhere else and we’ll barely be able to communicate. We s...
Tollent — My wife is the one in our family who remembers places, not me. Place names, that is. I can remember views, even bends in roads. But place names? No, I’m hopeless! But just occasionally I do remember...
Tokyo — I’m tired. Not quite fall asleep where you’re sitting tired, but trying to understand and make yourself understood tired. I had forgotten what that was like. Tokyo makes me feel like I did when I fir...
Toronto — Twenty minutes ago, I was learning about the Qing dynasty. Now I’m slow dancing to Miley Cyrus with some guy named Ari. “This is your prom night,” he says. I’m not even sure what that means. He’s look...
Toronto — She’s got a point. I watch Robyn walk around the room, identifying Chinese artwork and artifacts by their time period - and sure enough, we’ve got five or six hundred years’ worth of history in one ro...
The pas — This unique store is located in The Pas. The Owner Robert Nabess makes many traditional items for sell, will custom make items for you and also has others who make items for his store. They will also ...
London — Now occupied by a large advertising agency, this Grade II listed building in Herbrand Street was built in 1931 as a Daimler car hire garage. You’ll notice from the window line on the right that there...
Cairo — Clients: doctor Ruppel, Mouriez, de La Tour, baron de Gottbert. The first floor corridor is lined with lithographs of Gavarni torn from the Charivari paper. When the Sinai Sheiks come to deal with tr...
Hanoi — Lovely dinner with my Airbnb hosts in Hanoi. These antlers are from their mother’s home in the countryside, placed over cow hide juxtaposed in the shape of a deer. On their next visit, they’ll bring b...
Honolulu — Four stories high, this mural arrests the unwary eye as it passes down Houghtailing Street, nearing Nimitz Avenue. I haven’t been to this part of Honolulu in many years, so this was definitely a new ...
Brandon — My family loves the outdoors and camping as it is where we unplug all the technology and just spend time being together. The quieter the place to camp, the better. After a day of hiking, swimming, fis...
Brandon — The Stott site is located just minutes from Brandon, Manitoba. The Stott site was discovered in the 1940’s by owner Frank Stott, who uncovered cultural remains while digging a cellar. He recognized th...
Brandon — Friendship Centers are a vital resource for Aboriginal people across Canada. They were established over 50 years ago to address the needs of Aboriginal people moving into urban areas. They play a pivo...
New york — Australians (at least middle class inner city ones) have a strong tradition of brunch. In Melbourne we’d spend a couple of hours wedged at a little table in our favourite cafe, Bluebird on Johnston St...
Colleville-montgomery — I don’t mean a safe room in your house, but rather the little spot that your mind withdraws to when you need to escape the ambient craziness, or all the things that keep you from sleeping. I have a s...
Portland — It happened again. Seven miles from a trailhead and the nearest road and the dreadful sound ccrrraaack! A ligament in my ankle. Sitting in the dirt, cradling my leg, I glare at every root and pebbl...
Port townsend — Waking up, I knew that today I could get whatever I want. Drinking two cups of Yorkshire Gold on an empty stomache further compels this belief. People and events that would once depress me in their ...
Brandon — I grew up right next to the Riding Mountain National Park. We farmed and lived alongside the park and treasured everything that nature provided us with. I grew up seeing elk and deer grazing in our pa...
Flagstaff — Tis the season for list-making, and it’s only appropriate to record what’s really important this time of the year: stress. Because if you can’t stress at Christmas, when can you? Things that have bee...
Brandon — Near Winnipeg, Manitoba there is a small area known as “White Horse Plains. In this area alongside the Trans Canada highway in the village of St.Francois Xavier, stands a beautiful white horse statue....
San francisco — The hard plastic gave way without much resistance. The softer plastic inside—the plastic which held the ink—just bent, didn’t break, so crisis averted there, no ink flicked all up and down his hands...
Brandon — The Turtles Mountains are one of my favorite places to visit in Manitoba and I spend many weeks camping there each summer with my family. The Turtle Mountains are located and shared between Manitoba, ...
Singapore — I was having a coffee with someone special at Cafe Crema which is located within Gardens by the Bay, a touristy spot which some said was inspired by the forests in the movie Avatar. It is truly an am...
Cairo — On place de Roumélié [today’s Salah el din sq.] we saw an entertainer, with a boy about 6 or 7 and two girls, bare feet, in blue blouses, their hair falling in a tail in a handkerchief on their should...
San francisco — Not the most glamorous shot of today’s commute. Then again, commuting in San Francisco = not glamorous at all. Unless you’re hanging on to the side of a cable car going up Powell… Actually, nope, s...
Waimanalo — There’s a trail that leads up one of those ridges to the sawtooth summit above. No ropes or cables to aid the ascent, just one’s judgment on which rock or root outcropping is solid enough to bear one’...
Sevenoaks — It was the Christmas Lights festival in our village today. The day when hundreds of people come out to enjoy the music, see the dancing, have fun in the fair, eat roasted chestnuts, wild hog burgers, ...
Pamplona — My dear friend Kristen publishes a thoughtful food magazine called Saucy. She confided to me that one past issue contained the undercurrent of a significant, long term relationship. I told her I would...
Riyadh — Mass deportations will do that to a migrant populace. Sitting on the steps one moment, all chai and cigarettes. It just takes the arrival of the مطوعين to scatter the crowd. And then across the stre...
Pamplona — I’m really going to miss this place. I’m going to miss the balcony overlooking the tiny Old City street. I’m going to miss the coffee shop and the potato tortillas under glass. I’m going to miss my m...
Tübingen — So simple, Santa. It was either them or me who got to you first. At least my hunger made short work of you.
London — The play in this playground lives by the clock of a faceless caretaker and today he has not come. There’s a fresh chill in the morning air matched by the sharpness of the sun shining down on the appar...
Accra metropolis — One of the things I love to do is to climb this hill. It’s just amazing to see the sunrise…. To see light touch and reveal all that there is. I come here to see everything anew And also to feel ane...
Philadelphia — I remember my grandmother’s tables being surrounded with faces we saw just once a year— honorary aunts and uncles, smiling down at us. Those tables were also heavy with our food. Boreg, kufta, yalang...
The pas — In the fall it is hunting season again. All the hunters go out and set up camps for a week or two, so they can get their moose meat supply for the winter. Some hunters will hunt deer, elk and some car...
Marrakesh — There’s something poetic in the way human cities resemble anthills, tangles of cables look like tangles of vines, and mighty 747s could easily be mistaken for birds, from a distance. Just as an atom ...
London — Although I didn’t hear them speaking, the trees in Russell Square must have reached some kind of agreement that today was going to be the day. As I walked through the Square in my lunch break, the ai...
Higashiyama ward — As the last light set on Kiyomuzudera, the crows came home to roost high above the crush of people who had come to take their photograph in front of the famous temple. Both the fall colors and the cro...
Tokyo — I’m at this event where I am refined. As I am supposed to be. I keep daydreaming about stuffing, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. Being a grown up can suck. ;)
Cairo — Bekir Bey, gabbling; nice place with plants and chinoiseries in his living room. Madame Mari, in a white costume, golden tarboosh; former beautiful lady, ass square. Lubbert bey. Linant bey [pictured]...
Pamplona — My friend got a turkey from the woman at his local mercado. “Pavo?” he asked. “Tienes pavo?” She shook her head, like everybody else had, but with an addendum. She could special order one for us — wh...
Waimanalo — I confess to being mildly surprised that places like these—set aside for people of Hawaiian descent—have actually survived. Survived rampant development and the exigencies of modern capitalism in the ...
Tokyo — Taken in my charming neighborhood. Posted from work, as always (Shinagawa). This photo shows only one of the reasons I love Tokyo so much. I look at it to burn the image in my mind. This week my comm...
Aireys inlet — It ain’t Madison Square Garden, but we had a front row seat for this match. When kangaroos of this size box, it’s usually a dominance issue, not just playing around. The guy on the left has just thr...
London — Were you searching for rays of sunlight hitting the stunning archiecture of London? Yeah me too. Most days, like today, that’s not the place I see. It’s a drizzly grey sky and concrete mazes in the qu...
London — Here’s an early morning snap of the longest champagne bar in Europe - Searcys St Pancras Grand - at St Pancras station. Some transport hubs are never worth hanging around in - they just happen to be ...
Lome — I couldn’t take a picture of it…. but I can still see it in my head… even now it still remains a clean image. We walked for about 30 minutes from our motel before we got there - the beach. As we...
Accra — Every word counts. This is the perfect setting for me: the setting you can see in the shot right there. And I like the desktop. Because I have used it for a long time now. I have spent many nights and...
Boulaq — With its sycamores, from afar it resembles a plain of Normandy and its apple trees. On the right, it’s grey-red. One sees the two pyramids, then a smaller one; works for the dam, a bridge started, wit...
New york — My apartment smells of cardamom and figs and toasted almonds. I hug her mother goodbye, and so begins the crust with cream cheese. We read the recipe together, pulse the butter into the flour. The do...
Tokyo — The above photo was taken in Roppongi. Uploaded as always, at work (Shinagawa). In Roppongi there is an area called Midtown. The name suits it, as Roppongi is reminiscent of Midtown Manhattan. All th...
Saskatoon — My mutable piece “a small piece of sky” is being performed this Friday and Saturday as part of the CORE series. The series is a collaborative effort by the Saskatoon Symphony core players and Paved Ar...
The pas — As she was preparing herself to join in the crowd, she wanted to take a moment to practice her steps. Although she is only four years of age she wants to do things the right way. As she was warming up...
Tokyo — Pry is a wonderful tool that helps me pretend to be a Rails/web developer. http://pryrepl.org/
Kita ward — Kyoto when the sakura are in full bloom is obviously and absurdly beautiful. This was my first visit to Kyoto when the leaves are changing color and I’d always wanted to visit during this season. The...