Barcelona — Part of me wants to down this, and the other part doesn’t want to ruin it. Almost time to go though. Better start drinking…
Tokyo — Or, “How our fall trip got tripped up”: Being trekking novices we had planned our route through the mountains to-the-tittle, but in our gazing towards the mountain-obscured horizon, we boarded the wr...
Aireys inlet — Friends and family from Europe and North America have written and rung to find out if we are safe from the New South Wales fires. We are! The nearest are about 1000 k away from us burning across the...
Tokyo — There’s a monk in that tree, I swear. Can you see him? It’s a bit tough. But trust me, he’s there. Bald, in robes. No harness. No helmet. Just a monk in a tree with a sword, cutting branches in my...
Brisbane airport — On and on. It’s Singapore now on the way to Thailand. 25 hours continuously travelling so far. Feeling a little woozy. Is this he loneliness of the long distance traveller or travel broadens the mind...
New york — Etymologies aren’t meanings, but as histories of word formation, they make visible how a given word, or part of one, was used at a certain time by a group of people speaking a shared language. On Fri...
New york — Some people like to be in the thick of things: a large reading room, bright windows with views, readers all around, the sound of pages turning, typing fingers, a cough. Not me. For me the best desk i...
Saskatoon — My husband is a doer. I am a thinker. Earlier this year we realized that I was beginning to hate weekends. This seemed odd to both of us. On Friday nights I would begin to feel a sense of dread and ...
Tauranga — It is peculiar to see how people behave when things just don’t go their way. Some people react and their natural bend is negative in nature. Others respond rather than react and the world is better fo...
Istanbul — I got invited to a party at the Austrian consulate last night. For the event, the foreign minister and his wife had two French artists install a sculpture in the ballroom. It consisted of 6,000 elabor...
Flin flon — I work in a classroom of about 15 students who are each very unique. Some having development issues, social issues among others but, all great kids. We decided one day in June to go to one of the clos...
Istanbul — “What is the form is the gro- tesquerie — the accident of the moon’s light on your face. Oh love, an empty table! An empty bottle also. But no trick will go so far but not further. The end of the...
Barcelona — …or do we just trivialize the former? This is a tribute to the world around us and not necessarily one beyond – an appeal that can captivate anyone’s interest. Step inside and your gaze immediately ...
Buckingham — At first they had been grazing nonchalantly over to one side of the field. But of course, the minute we climbed over the stile into their territory, their interest was piqued. They made cautious progr...
Бориспіль — That elegance. And charm. Those names you learnt from TV. Alain Delon. Audrey Hepburn. Marcello Mastroianni. Elizabeth Taylor. Those people who shaped style and fashion of the era, spotted by camera i...
Randburg — “This place is weird.” That’s the first thing I always think when I step off a plane in Johannesburg. Jozi, as we know it, is a place that is nearly impossible to define. In an email I got from Booki...
Amsterdam — This city consists of 90 islands. Divided by water, connected with bridges. 1500 to be precise. These bridges are made to enable different ways of transportation: cars, trains, busses, trams, scooter...
Saint-julien-en-born — To get there we had to walk through the woods for a while, there were countless strawberry trees amongst the high pines, the first heavy with scarlet, red, orange, yellow berries, the second singing g...
New york — There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Victoria — I first saw this donut months ago while stopping for coffee at Discovery. My eyes grew wide. The classic donut from The Simpsons! I neglected to actually purchase and eat this perfect replica, probabl...
Calgary — I spent 6 years at the U of C, getting both a B.Sc. and a B.A. While I loved the musty, sometimes dingy, smell of an old library this new library is something special. Bright and shiny. I just realis...
New york — And a fitting exhibit for the New Museum, with its disorienting acoustic design and layout. I’m outside the museum for a second visit - staring up at his Ghost Ship that hangs over the Bowery, a stree...
Calgary — First training session and the largest ever conducted by LINKages at a high school. Over 75 students looking to be paired up with a senior to bridge the generation gap.
Saskatoon — This morning when he kissed me goodbye he whispered in my ear, “It snowed.” and I could hear a little boy in his voice. When I crawled out of bed and came downstairs I saw the thin dusting of white i...
Sydney — Granted it’s not a vacation, actually here for a conference, but still really excited to see this city. Arrived at our hotel around 10pm and I couldn’t resist ordering room service on the company’s di...
London — Ghostly impressions on this cement canvas in the corner of Regent Square give us tantalising glimpses of long-extinct medicinal products. In the days before purpose-made billboards and long before ne...
New york — Drummers are so cool. Aren’t they? They’ve always been my favorite. (Not so) quietly sitting at the back, face almost always covered by the microphone stand or the cymbals (or their hair). Just doing...
North little rock — It all started normally enough. The husband and I spent a few hours at the fair late Saturday afternoon and into dusk. I had my annual corn dog and an ice-cold, draft Fat Tire. We wandered and people ...
San francisco — San Francisco you do not disappoint. A long walk through Golden Gate park ends with a new discovery — Inner Sunset. I’m here for new media but I spend half-an-hour in a used bookstore because someone ...
Kisarazu — $11 billion for the world’s fourth-longest underwater tunnel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Bay_Aqua-Line
Brooklyn — Watch repair stores- part of a rapidly disappearing urban landscape. Mechanical mysteries. Interface designers have used cassette players as symbolic images for music play and find the younger genera...
Agerbæk — My grandmother and I went for a walk in the forest - a great thing to do on a rainy Sunday.
New york — Three. (Ice Cream) James F. is upstairs with a gray eyed girl. He knows a lot of people. And a lot of girls. He says, “D.E. I know a lot of people,” and leaves me outside in the truck. I look up at th...
Denver — Maybe what this sort of writing allows is a certain freedom to write and post without embarrassment, rather than have to subject everything to the rigor of craft and structure. (But surely rigor is p...
Tauranga — It is easy to become philosophical about time, but really,…tonight,…I wish I had time!
Ubud — The film, Jalanan (“Streetwise”) had won best documentary at the Bussan Film Festival. I thought perhaps 1000 people watched the film but the Jakarta Globe later said the audience had 4000 people. The...
Hergiswil — It was a perfect day for a hike—the only sunny day that week, apparently. Lucerne was beautiful. We needed to see it while the sun was out. Now. Now? I wasn’t in perfect shape for a mini hike that d...
Ithaca — Three Rings to the Theory-Kings, with their heads in the sky. Seven for the Systems-Lords, in their halls of code. Nine for the mortal MEng’s, doomed to graduate. One for the SDN Lord, on his control ...
Wellington — There was no reason for it. Another day. Like all the other ones. Same wake up call in the morning. Same thing had for breakfast. Same goodbye to my daughter. Same route walked to work. And yet I didn...
Tunbridge wells — I took my son and his friend to see “Captain Phillips” this afternoon, my cousin’s latest film*. Obviously I didn’t want to risk getting thrown out for taking a picture during the film, so this was t...
New york — This time it’s a Junk Mail Machine that needs copy, so my imagined future need is: a premium roadway pass so you and your family (in your driverless car) can relax in the safety of the inner traffic l...
Toronto — I thought I was alone. But, I always do on mornings like this. When you don’t see another human soul, and the biophony envelopes without distraction, it’s an easy thought to entertain. The kids will ...
New york — Two. (Kermit & Miss Piggy) There’s a couple in the corner with cold hot dogs and they are listening to James F. scream at the cook to get on the floor and they both have this blank look and I know...
San francisco — … even if it’s boring, like, “the milk turned and I have gone to the store.” Oral communication is overrated.
Victoria — The Blue Toilet Paper Experiment didn’t last longer than an evening. M said that it was “just too weird”, and even went so far as to claim that it made her butt sad. The toilet paper also comes in a ...
Accra metropolis — Old paths. There is an advantage to living in one community for a long while. ( In Ghana if you live in an area or community long enough you could end up as the assembly man.) I have been living in ...
Tokyo — Painting of Okino Syuji was just opened yesterday at Berneys NewYork in Sinjuku. These are free and very cosy place. If you have a time, check it!
Surbiton — Life is a cacophony of push and pulls. I spend most of my days swimming through the mass of white noise. Every so often, it starts to build up and I need to stop, rid my head of all the noise and just...
London — Marilá Dardot The Landscape is Moving (2013) Frieze Sculpture Park, Regent’s Park, London A rainy day in London. The park practically empty of people. A few art lovers scurrying past, on their way t...
Surbiton — One of the first things I bought when I purchased my flat was this toast rack. I’ve been obsessed with having toast served properly on a proper rack, rather than the quick snatched snack that it has b...
London — … So revealed award-winning photojournalist, Steve McCurry, at an event in London to coincide with the publication of his new book, Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs. If the name doesn’t so...
Christchurch — This has become a staple of any day, doesn’t matter if it’s hot cold or muggy. It is guaranteed to make me feel healthy, and proactive about looking after myself. Nothing beats a flavoursome hot drink...
Pleasant hill — I’m a professional pixel peeper. It’s what I do. I love it, too; being able to rip into an image and deconstruct it technically is fun enough; getting paid to do it is amazing. But I’m a professional...
Granum — Soundtrack included Kings of Leon - I Want You and an impromptu sugar beet harvesting lesson. Amazing sunset.
West lafayette — Sometimes nature just tells me to slow down. A positive intention can carry me so quickly through the world that I don’t stop to take note of the little things life has to offer. On this Indian summer...
Victoria — It’s been a glorious few months of change. In July I became a casualty of the publishing industry, something I did not see coming despite the tumultuous state of magazines in general. I figured the s...
New york — Kermit & Miss Piggy. We rob a hot dog stand on 34th Street and the cashier is looking at me in my mask like she can see through it while I brandish this so-called gun and I imagine myself in her m...
Toronto — Down downtown. West of Yonge, South of Queen. Condos sprouting everywhere; gaping pits aspiring to claw the sky. At ground level, the remains of upgrades from the 70s and 80s give the illusion of ugl...
San francisco — What you have to understand is that I’ve never had a proper pet. Childhood happened in a string of rented houses where animals were impossibilities, forbidden by unseen landlords probably concerned wi...
Alameda — I miss blog entries that were small snapshots of people’s ordinary lives. This was back in the day, before even tweets became so serious, before its founders started thinking there was world-changing...
Barcelona — I’m a child here. New aromas, new hues, and soon to be new tastes, entice the senses as they awake at a counter of uncooked, nameless seafood. Just point to what you need whether you know what it is o...
Istanbul — What the fuck is the date today? Let’s talk about being alone, for a second, because I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around it. I’ve been by myself in Turkey for six days, which is how long it’s b...
London — After visiting this interesting place yesterday - The Dairy Art Centre - I was pleased to discover that they had another recital scheduled for today, so I went back. This young lady is Kristiina Roka...
Denver — And as she watched the bird pass, following the dropping until she lost sight of it, allowing the hope for a brief moment that she was wrong, she thought, “This — This is what it feels like to be the...
Aireys inlet — The Cliff Top Walk in our little town stretches for several kilometres from Urquhart Bluff to the Split Point Lighthouse. Reaching about 30 metres above sea level, it’s a great place for spotting wha...
Accra — I was sitting atop a truck when I took this shot. Painting houses, kiosks and walls is the new form of advertising in town these days. And that is Indomie on someone’s house right there. Who Needs to...
Agerbæk — I went to Jutland to visit my grandmother so I could spend some time with her before I leave. And I couldn’t imagine a more beautifully time of the year to go to the countryside than the fall!
Cape town — I recently added a Hario Coffee Kettle to my favorite way to brew coffee at home (Chemex). And I realized that every tool I add to my coffee making routine makes it take a little longer, and taste a l...
Melbourne — When the commute is just not quite long enough to get to the end of an epic track… Even the train delays didn’t help. Some days I’ll walk the looong way to my office just to hear the music all the...
Saskatoon — Our birth-daughter, C, is visiting from Banff this weekend. Whenever she and our son J are together there are many opportunities to take this photo: J and C with their laptops lounging on a couch or b...
Istanbul — It doesn’t have a name. At least, not one I remember. I’ve been stalking the door for days, waiting for it to reopen after the holiday. Today was my lucky one. If you’re ever in Istanbul, I will draw...
London — Hidden away off a back street just a couple of minutes’ walk from my office, the Dairy Art Centre is quite a place. This fellow stands outside (along side a couple of giant mushrooms and a large whit...
Tokyo — “I’m not good my English. But I wanna see all over the world.” I think that in train bounce to my home town. 「英語がうまくないけれど、外をもっと知りたい。」 そんなことを思いながらの帰路、電車にて。
Bristol — Sometimes reading (in this case CraigMod’s piece about Hi, hence my signup + sketch) with inappropriate audio works. Sometimes it doesn’t and is way too distracting, causing a fight in my brain. I thi...
Swanley — I surprised myself at how cross I felt when I changed trains on my way home and saw this guy with his feet plonked on the seat opposite him. “He’s not a kid any more!” I thought to myself. “So why’s ...
Cincinnati — His uncle had died, that’s what was going on. The service had been that morning, an awkward affair for many reasons, not least because he hadn’t seen that part of his family for years. This didn’t rea...
Ithaca — “After completing high school in my home country of Laos in 1976 I fled to Thailand because of the Communist regime takeover in Laos. “After my immigrant status application was approved, I arrived in...
New york — Saw the Robert Montgomery solo exhibition at C24 in Chelsea. It’s tough to face “here comes the boom and end of your civilisation” and not be struck by its timeliness given everything in Washington. T...
Longmont — Running up a trail I take a couple times a week, I hopped a few rocks around a father toddling up with his daughter, she 3 or 4 years old, I guessed. As I passed she said, “That’s a goo hikeh.” “Yes...
Seattle — A park, a perfect distance away. It’s just far enough to make it a little more difficult than easy to just randomly decide to go; and when there, all of the little surprises you find feel more worthwh...
San francisco — Not necessarily compatible with King Tubby on the earphones and the metal magazine I’m reading.
Aireys inlet — Friends, peace, comfort . . . why travel at all? Well, at least partly to continue to appreciate your friends, peace and comfort at home.
Siena — Piazza del Campo, in the heart of Siena. This is what you see if you look at the ground: some shades of Sienna, and a beautiful abstract maze.
Reading — She spent her days ordering circles, squares and rectangles of color on a page. In her dreams however, in that alternate universe where she might become anything else at a moment’s notice, she believe...
Bangalore — One Ring to rule them all, One ring to find them; One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. It all started, about 3 years ago, with a swash (the typographic kind) from a Don Qui...
Portland — Being this high on the mountain spoils you. Essentially inside the crater formed by Mt. Hood’s last eruption, we are cradled by the mountain. The sound of glaciers groaning. The stench of sulfur ca...
New york — Wrapping the fresh flowers in paper, he is reluctant to let me walk away. “They will last ten days if you clip them and change the water,” he says. “If there is stem left, you can dry them. Upside-dow...
Palm springs — Pros: Perfect weather Comfy chair Ample supply of great coffee White noise. In this case, a gentle sound of falling water. A place away from home. (I find foreign environments are great for readi...
Manila — Arriving home from work, I found that I was the first to arrive. Taking advantage of this rare occurrence, I decided to make dinner for my family. The ORDEAL resulted in a few cuts, burns and a pass...
Alexandria — Finding a vintage item like this in the middle of nowhere always makes me wonder: Who was the owner of this clock? How long ago since the clock last working? Does the clock have memory?
Aireys inlet — The coolamon (tarnuk in Victoria) is a wooden container, useful in foraging for nuts, seeds, fruit, roots and small game. A pointy vessel strong enough for digging, if need be, it was also used in fo...
London — A rare sky over London, not a cloud in sight. Ben and I are old friends, I see him every night. Yet today he looks different, suddenly in a new light. The old and new together. Dear blue Ben and Eye.
London — During last year, our Olympic Year, someone had the great idea of putting several pianos around St Pancras Station for any passer by to play, and I’m pleased to say that they’re still there. They’re ...
Istanbul — The 13th Biennial in Istanbul (“Mom, Am I Barbarian?”) at the Istanbul Modern — among many other locations — is barely even an art show. Moreso, it’s just stories, whether told literally (above) or ab...
San francisco — I’m eating a stale donut and drinking breakfast tea because my bus is 20 minutes away and it feels safer to hit the store on the corner and wait it out rather than risk it standing by the curb in a st...
New york — This isn’t the real moon. This moon inside. Keeps me awake. While I lay here trying to end this day, the light reminds my brain that it is okay to wander. At night, when everyone is alseep, it is th...
København s — I’ve installed this countdown app in order for me to keep track of how many days there are left before I will take off! Today there is 70 days an 6 hours until I’m heading to my first stop in Thailand...
Makati — While having lunch, I happened to notice a flock of birds pecking at a half eaten hot dog sandwich left behind on another table. Well, at least the leftovers didn’t go to waste (so to speak). In hin...
Oakland — He had always heard that males hit their sexual peak around 18. He wasn’t sure what this meant, not really, not when he thought about it. Did it mean that his 18 year old self was better in bed than ...
Duncan — I’ve never sold a bike that I’ve purchased. Ever. Does this cause problems in a one-bedroom apartment? Absolutely. I’ve had more than one woman in my life threaten physical violence if she woke up...