Winter park — Moving to Florida has allowed me to garden again. The warm climate, sunny days and lots of rain seem optimal for growing stuff. When we moved here we were eating a lot of avocados, so I wanted to try...
New york — I’m a collector, and I never know how much I’m going to accumulate on a trip. It’s important to know where you can go to download everything before you leave. If I have new books, maps and gifts, I ca...
Tokyo — That’s a 1/100 model of Shibuya Station, with Hachiko Square and the crossing in the center.
Brunswick — One of the reasons I first got excited about posting drawings as sketches to say hi was the correlation between an observational sketch of the landscape and its physical location on a map. So far, ho...
Sanford — My dad had this song on a record. An LP, genuine vinyl, Frankie Yankovic singing about barrels of beer and fat girls. Whoever she was, she must have been really pissed at this song.
London — They know how to push the love of retro and new. Chilling here at the 42.
Funabashi — うまいワインを飲んでます。
London — This was my first real experience of randomly meeting up with people connected solely via Instagram. I say randomly, yet it was anything but: having run a handful of photowalks over the last 5 years, ...
Toronto — Seeing my girls for the first time in many months. There’s been some conflict, some distance. Cross your fingers and send good vibes.
Seattle — However, I have very few positive experiences after living in LA for a short time. The city I suppose is exhausting like any big city can be. The traffic is tiresome, the streets are dirty, the rent i...
City of muntinlupa — We eat every single part of a poor chicken’s body (yes, even the head and the feet). Just grill it and poof! you have instant food that is great with a serving of hot cooked rice and/or beer, preferab...
Mandaluyong — After 4 days of torrential rains, Filipinos just want to see the sun amidst the dark skies. The week is ending, and we want something to celebrate.
Reykjavik — Ground beef, bread crumbs, diced olives, basil and spices. Grilled to perfection.
Nanaimo — The view from the fifth floor conference room of the Vancouver Island University library has an extraordinary view of the islands between here and the Strait of Georgia. The weather today was terrific...
Brunswick — Whew! Too busy to even sketch, well that needs to change. Here’s a quick one to sate the appetites of the lovely people who subscribed. More to come…
Saskatoon — We lived in Japan (福岡県北九州市) from 2003-2005. We moved away from Saskatoon because we felt held back in terms of our creative and cultural lives and chose Japan because we loved the aesthetics, culture...
Salt lake city — We heard there were moose at the second lake, but by the time we reached Lake Blanche, the sky was on fire. We weren’t prepared to go further. I put my feet, one after the other, in ages-old glacier ...
Hakone — There is nothing surprising about a Japanese ryokan visit in Hakone. That is, beyond your first adventure — there is nothing surprising, and the experience is seemingly engineered to this purpose. An...
City of muntinlupa — Monsoon rains brought by TS Maring left a lot of communities in Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, and Bataan submerged in water, paralyzing much of the Philippine capital,s businesses.
Reykjavik — This is a bowl of the metlty beads used to make children’s designs. They will be sorted by color for ease of use.
Austin — My combined personal and business digital archive isn’t necessarily an exercise in ‘big data’ or anything, but I have a couple of terabytes to deal with. So, I have a tiered labyrinth of repository s...
Caledon — I’m not exactly sure what this animal is called, or if it even is an animal for that matter. By the looks of it, it’s a mutant ram with 4 horns. This. Is. INCREDIBLE! I’ve not seen a greater animal in...
Malbork — A wall of the Malbork Castle, the largest castle in the world. Built at the 13th century, nearly destroyed in 1945 during WW II combats. This brick wall was restored like a puzzle, they anged some in...
Noida — “What is this say hi thing . You seems to like it” she said with characteristic curiosity of a hipster who don’t want to miss NEXT big thing and be irrelevant . After all tumblr is about to be main st...
New delhi — One reason I love coming to airport is whenever I come here I see people doing one thing which I want to dip More than anything else in life : Leaving Delhi
Beijing — I was cycling East along the Tongzi Canal, making my way towards the Wenyu River and the northern-most tip of the 2000 year-old Grand Canal. 2 hours and just 20 km later, I sat down at a leafy stretch...
New delhi — A friend acted in selfish manner today. I don’t think I will talk to him ever again . We are done .I have been in this situation before I know I will get over it in few days . But a question remains a...
Tokyo — The tell-tale orange spine of the Impulse! vinyl LP. You can spot them a mile off – especially when they’re stacked side-by-side. The big honkin’ set of speakers. Not sure what I noticed first. I gu...
Rhinebeck — What I miss the most about the country is the sound of night. The steady, wavering chorus of ground crickets, tree crickets, katydids, and other insects provides the background noise of a quiet eveni...
Charlottesville — The introspective character of this picture shows something we all relate to —never catching up with yourself. But there is something more to it for me. It marks a new personal beginning. Tomorrow i...
Tokyo — I have no idea why these two different colored cones were placed side-by-side like this, but for me, they represented some sort of cone racial parity.
Charlottesville — Affection is my religion.
Aireys inlet — The visual appearance of rain is both scientifically and culturally complex. In the image above, the sun is seen rising over Point Roadknight through heavy rain. Modern Sciences, like Indigenous Kn...
Toronto — The day started well, and ended drunk. A ten minute walk became a six kilometre trek to find the legendary and elusive pizza place. Not just any pizza place, but King Slice. We’d been given a firm rec...
Toronto — I live at the north end of a block of pawnshops—there are about a dozen between my apartment and Queen Street. Some are high end, some less so. I am usually walking on the side of the street right nex...
Hounslow — Look at that thing! That hole! A british monster deep in Heathrow, terminal 5, near Starbucks. Oh, the toilets I’ve seen. The shapes: round, square, amorphous dirt holes. The complexities: handles,...
Accra — Oh, look. Here they come. Finally, we think in unison. Everyone vie now for a front-row seat. It’s a fact: the first person to see the suitcase owns the suitcase. Six, seven, eight arrive, then noth...
Houston — I came to Houston to see the James Turrell exhibition, not realizing I’d also have the chance to see the Rothko Chapel and sit beside the Barnett Newman reflecting pool. The chapel provides books for ...
Aireys inlet — Our house faces east, towards high bluffs, above the sea. During the winter and spring, we spy rainbows, or mini-rainbows, which brighten our days, in the winter chill. Yesterday we saw these beautie...
Charlottesville — For a relatively dry area in the summer, according to long term residents of Charlottesville, it has been really coming down lately. Since I moved here in July, it has been raining almost every day. ...
Hangzhou — 第一次来杭州，西湖真的很美
New york — Traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge seems to be mostly clear still, the morning rush towards Manhattan shouldn’t happen for another hour or so. The weather ought be smooth sailing, with temperatures ra...
Charlottesville — Detail from a painting called The Stranger. Seen at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
Charlottesville — View from my window during one of the latest summer showers. We had plenty of those lately.
Matsumoto — The recently renamed Matsumoto Marunouchi Hotel is in a lovely building that, for reasons that I didn’t discover, has a giant safe in it. Presumably the building was a bank at some point and this was ...
Motherwell — Take “Contagion” for example … it’s a really good film … the casting, the acting, the locations, the cinematography, they all work together to make a good film … but what makes it really good is...
Quezon city — Philippines’ reigning rock highness collaborated for a night for the fans, by the fans. Bamboo Mañalac and Yeng Constantino gave their fans a show they will never forget. Entitled ‘BY Request,’ they p...
Eastsound — Arrive. Eat waffles on Sunday. Spoon extra berries on top. Admire the colors; think about how expensive this portion would be in New York. Consider how you simply went to the driveway and coaxed them...
Berlin — Almost hidden, sprayed over the plaster-losing wall guts of a run down, hundred-years-old house, a stencil graffiti says “liebe” (=love) to passersby.
San francisco — I tell people that I love dogs, in any shape and sizes; as long as it is a dog, I will love it. That love for dogs is so innate, that it doesn’t occur to me to ask why I love them. I just do. But toda...
Port townsend — Cloud banks roll over the peninsula, filling the sound with white walls that hide the sky. Biking, hands balanced out to the wet air - the smells of moisture, kelp and sea salt mingle with the cold m...
Portland — My wife Michelle and I were at the Hamanasi Resort in Belize last week. One morning, while we were showering, we looked up and saw this iguana on our skylight. There was another iguana near by as well...
Berlin — At the Where The Bar Has No Name
Missoula — I only started drinking coffee about a month ago; like cocaine or peyote, it’s never seemed like a chemical habit that would be a positive addition to my life. Turns out it’s not so bad — word is stil...
Saskatoon — Every year for the past few years we have seen at least one small 1940s home torn down on every block in our neighbourhood. The houses that are replacing these tiny bungalows are huge and often built ...
Singapore — “Parents new to Singapore should note that both campuses are in close proximity to the jungle which means we encounter visits from wild monkeys. If you do encounter a monkey, leave it alone and give i...
Beijing — You keep walking along Xin Dong Lu, and then you take a seat-of-the-pants left to enter a dingy residential compound. The entrance is more like a dark alley, with cars and scooters and e-bikes piled u...
Aireys inlet — We have more than 30 species of birds which come and go throughout the year, plus many that stay around all year. The birds in this photo are here, year round. They are, Sulpfer Crested Cockatoos, Cri...
Xinzhou — This photo was taken at Wutai Mountain East Top, last tuesday. We were watching Perseus meteor shower. When it was dawn, a monk walked here, beside us, staring the east, and waiting for sunrise.
Aireys inlet — I waited for another shot until the sun rose fully above the horizon. As I was manoeuvring to get the full disc behind the Eucalyptus for better lighting conditions, I noticed that in the gentle bre...
Salt lake city — How do you convey 30 hours of distance to a 5 and an 8 year old? How do you draw a picture of these huge mountains - a picture they’ll understand? How do you answer the text that says, ‘I miss you so ...
Saskatoon — Mr. Bones is my voice teaching assistant. He is excellent at showing where the diaphragm attaches to the bottom thoracic vertebra and how the spine is a large mirror of the throat. Mr. Bones’ right k...
Saskatoon — We live near the University of Saskatchewan on a street with a lot of rental properties. Every spring and fall we find treasures in the alleyway. This cymbal was hit a bit too exuberantly during a re...
Carlsbad — We flew from Cape Town to San Diego, at great physical and emotional cost, to have a family vacation and attend a family reunion. When you spend that much time and money on something, you want to enjo...
Kasama — The Isokura is a sake brewery based on Ibaraki, where my father was born. Their storehouse always catches my eyes not only because it’s just next to the station platform, but also it looks older than ...
Nikko — I love the red. Found monochromes. The humanism of repetition.
Aireys inlet — This morning I had a cup of coffee (long black) sitting at this table between two aboriginal landscapes: the painting on the wall and the landscape seen through the window. These resource-rich envir...
Aireys inlet — While working at a tribal college in New Mexico, I developed a close relationship with a Tsalagi man, Lloyd Kiva New, one of the founders of the college. He was in his eighties, I in my sixties. Alt...
Gentofte — Take a turn from busy streets, there is a half hidden gem with swans, green lawns, clear sky.
Vail — It’s the opposite of those photos everyone was so excited about a few weeks ago. Where that Swiss photographer dropped Manhattan into the Grand Canyon and lined up all the perspective points just so. ...
Caledon — My husband and I were sitting up reading in bed, at 11:30 pm two nights ago. We were chatting when he suddenly started to swat the air like there was a bug. It wasn’t a bug. It was a bat. In my bedro...
Mâcot-la-plagne — Sleeper trains have taken me across Europe and Asia, from Paris to Shanghai and Thailand, and I would love to take a few across North and South America, but no sleeper train trip will ever be as speci...
Cranford — One of our favorite spots to unwind close to our home in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.
Skipton — I stopped eating beef a few years ago. So when I came across these two dozing in the afternoon sun, for the first time, I felt I could look’em in the eyes with a clear conscience. Their serene gaze s...
Aireys inlet — We live in a forest, adjoining the Great Otway National Park. We have quite a lot of wildlife, including these Sulpher Crested Cockatoos, aka “cockies”. They are not tame, but do like to hang out.
West tisbury — To most kids a bike is a symbol of freedom. A chance to escape the limits of foot travel and roam further afield. Short of donning an imaginary cape and jumping out of a tree, it’s the closest you can...
Quezon city — Running from Taft Avenue at Pasay City and North Avenue at Quezon City through the very busy Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA), Metro Rail Transit (MRT) is one of the busiest train systems of Metro ...
New york — It’s a gated alley that’s closed to cars, except cars with NYU passes. It harbors the Maison Francais and other NYU-affiliated institutions. Until last year’s refurbishment, it was cobble-stoned, one ...
New york — Land of the fixie and manic pixie. PBRs over Bubbles. Tutu’s over Tata’s. This is Brooklyn - hip is a la mode du jour…
Seattle — I told myself no coffee today, but I hadn’t been to Arabica Lounge yet so I wandered in for an americano after signing a lease for my new spot. I’m soon to be surrounded by Stumptowns, Starbucks, and ...
Fall city — After being in the city for seven weeks, it was getting easier to forget one reason I’m here is for the seemingly unending beauty a couple dozen minutes in any direction could provide. Snoqualmie Fal...
Reykjavik — Once grown or bought, you put them into a pan of oil and cook. Serve with some nice salt and try your luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishito
West tisbury — Standing, as it does in a field near where North Road splits off towards Chilmark, this tree is a landmark. A point of navigation. It’s also been a stopping point for tour buses. I’m sure that over th...
Tokyo — How awesome is that for the title of a photography series? http://www.tomokoyoneda.com/work/work_parallel_lives.html Tomoko Yoneda used an old camera to take spontaneous images of the mundane venues...
San luis obispo — I went on a quick getaway this past weekend to attend my nephew’s graduation. I say nephew but he’s five years older than me, but that’s another story. I’ve never been to a military graduation before...
Aireys inlet — I recently painted this watercolour, at a lovely spot near our home, along The Great Ocean Road, which is in some stretches very much like Big Sur. Torquay is a surfing haven of about 10,000 folks.
Tokyo — A nightmare-ish subterranean other world beckons… serving miso pizza and beer infused with Japanese lemons… no sign of any Pabst Blue Ribbon…
Traverse city — I hope the food-truck revolution continues to wheel its way into every city and town in the country. I surrender (and so should you).
Manila — Typhoon Utor (local name: Labuyo) is the most powerful typhoon to hit Philippines this year as it finds its way out of the Philippine area of responsibility. It devastated the Luzon island leaving 1 d...
Skipton — A short walk all the way in to discover the triple waterfalls. Is it a sign of my urban upbringing that I look, and can’t help but think waterslides.
San francisco — “Yours. Definitely your place. Not mine.”
Nikko — It started well with a couple of bags of deep fried dried bean curd after the train trip up from Tokyo via Utsunomiya to Nikko. This was in readiness for the walk up the hill to the national park. We...
Charlottesville — (I was playing with google autofill today. This is what we came up with. Enjoy!) i sit i sit on you i sit on the toilet i sit in my desolate room i sit in one of the dives i sit in the bathroom ...
Tokyo — “Can you recommend something?” It can be such an intimidating question. But too tempting to resist in the circumstances. Music — the universal language. Playing. Listening. Searching it out. Digging ...
Charlottesville — This is outside my window. Everyday it is getting bigger, thicker, more complex. It is expanding towards all directions. The web is not an extension of reality, it is real. ;)
Caledon — Found under a cupboard in the old family farmhouse in Raleigh Township, Ontario. It was written in my grandmother’s memory book by her soon-to-be husband on her birthday in 1930. If you haven’t guesse...
San francisco — Beer is to the industrial revolution as tea is to the tech revolution
Holmdel — Sunday breakfast is a little different when you let yourself sleep in. The pancake griddle stays still in the pantry, wedged between paper towels with the other pans. You wake up to the smell of groun...
New york — Gin. Cilantro. Lime. Cucumber to garnish. Lots of shakin’. Lots of lovin and then sippin!
San francisco — It rolled on at Powell street and off again at Van Ness. Probably the elderly man who escorted it aboard got it underground via the elevator. Still, for some time after I imagine the big blue bin rum...