Sebastopol — An attempt to use Hi during FOO Camp to capture a (not-so-secret) session. Looking at fundraising for things outside the usual suspects of photo apps, social networks, etc. Things that may have no ret...
Benfleet — It’s been a long weekend of time spent with the extended family (on my mum’s side). A mixture of birthday and anniversary celebrations, stretching from Friday through to this evening. I’ve left early...
Tokyo — I spent my first Japanese summer in Kyushu’s Kokura, studying the language and making friends. If you’ve ever been to Beppu, or anywhere else in Kyushu by train for that matter, you’ll certainly have ...
New york — This triangular sliver of a public space is a new addition to the city. A couple years ago it was the New York Film Academy Cafe, now shuttered and replaced, along with the rest of the block, with a b...
San francisco — Thinking about this idea of narrative mapping, I’m curious about ways to get beyond the simple “I was here and I saw this” mode. While this image is still essentially in that mode, a photograph of som...
San francisco — This applies to knitting, blackberry picking, and relationships (if you’re British).
San francisco — … instead of looking at old photos on my computer.
Berlin — That rare, precious moment when you’re walking by a wall you’ve seen dozens and dozens of times and then suddenly there’s new graffiti or even better - a new stencil. Friedrichshain is full of street ...
Longwood — Look through the maw, but not for too long. Curiosity goes in this door, but I don’t know what comes out.
Charlottesville — The Garage is a tiny venue on First Street. When you attend a show at The Garage, everything is part of the spectacle, every sound is part of the music. Very often, cars slow down for a quick glance o...
Sanford — I can’t say that three times, fast. She meandered around the tabletop grid while I ate salad and thought of ladybirds catching aphids on luscious lettuce. Was she hoping there were a few leftovers fo...
Dakar — Thomas told me this. We were saying goodbye beneath the pre war apartment building where he lives in down town Dakar. From his 10th floor studio you can see the Atlantic on both sides of the sliver t...
Hellerup — Enjoying every second of sunny weather. +25°C is pretty good very unusual for Denmark, though.
Motherwell — Your only choice is “what station?” … followed by “when?” You may choose specific DJs or shows … or you may choose just to switch your radio on. Put your trust in the DJ … let him or her choose...
Bangkok — These are paper cut-outs designed by Naoto Terada, come flat and ready to be snipped out of the frame and assembled by simple folding bits here and there. Nifty aren’t they? There were at least two do...
New york — In tricycle heaven, all the little girls have pigtails to match the tassels on the handlebars. They smell of adorable, grass in lemonade, and dollar bills of the fear of consumption laced with guilt. ...
Berlin — Neighbors whispering, a few crickets singing, glass bottles rolling over the sidewalk. 1.45 am, Friedrichshain.
Saskatoon — I started listing this timeline of foci at the beginning of each day’s journalling about a month ago. I never look back at what I wrote as foci for previous day, or week, or month, but instead sit and...
Mountain view — Having a coffee snob for a roommate means a lot of random conversations in the kitchen about coffee beans (and why we have six different kinds between the two of us; our third roommate drinks none of ...
New york — There’s not many shops in NYC that have incredible service and great food paired with amazing coffee. “Little Collins pays homage to the spirit of the bustling street in Melbourne, Australia, after w...
Aireys inlet — Usually we are lucky to get two or three flower spikes a year from the cymbidium orchids growing in pots in the back garden. This year, this baby produced ten, exactly timed for our return home. S...
Aireys inlet — Point Roadknight as seen from our verandah in Aireys Inlet. The Point extends out into the Southern Ocean just at the start of Bass Strait. The picture was taken facing due east fifteen minutes befo...
Edinburgh — Rather the rain on the window of the castle than the castle itself, rather the flight of the bird, rather burned than captured Edinburgh Fire Poem, by Robert Montgomery Set alight at 10.00pm on 1 Au...
New york — Art, as we know it, was invented by George, a disgruntled community servant in the Department of Records. He was better off than others, he supposed— a cave over his head, the constant fireplace, a ...
Berlin — A good day. Nothing particularly spectacular but it doesn’t have to be, right? A good day is a good day. Maybe we should value those low-key good days more. They’re not granted after all.
New york — “Fill out these forms after the meeting to give feedback.” “What are these forms going to be used for?” “You know, I don’t know.” Um, ok. I’ve learned a lot about meetings over the years. It’s co...
Macleod — When I moved back to Australia from Japan in 2008 one of the reasons that I gave was that ‘I want to live somewhere where I can have a garden.’ 5 years later and two apartments later I finally got the...
Bangkok — Some care about their pizzas. Some look for the ultimate spa. Somehow, ours (me, my wife, and our five-year-old) came to be coffee shops. It’s where we hang out, grab some espresso and quiet moments. ...
Charlottesville — You can’t really see it, but the book I came across while I was taking this picture is called: As A Man Grows Older. Yes, that’s the one I am looking at. Despite this accidental reminder of my age, e...
Ottawa — The best Ottawa bar. Easily.
Tokyo — This was taken at last night’s PechaKucha Night Vol. 105 in Tokyo, not long after the doors had opened, so the crowd was slowly filling up the space — we ended up with one of the bigger crowds we’ve ...
Tokyo — Last night was our PechaKucha Night Vol. 105 in Tokyo, also our last edition of the summer (we skip August). It was a pretty fantastic night, with one of the biggest crowds we’ve had this year, and a ...
Saskatoon — I spend a lot of time writing and considering all aspects of a big project before I begin to physicalize it. It will all start with a vision that nags at my psyche for months or years at a time and th...
Caledon — There is nothing in this world like fresh Ontario peaches.
Kita ward — Around the corner from where I work is the Osaka High Court and the Osaka District Court. A few trees in front of the buildings remind office workers what the colour green looks like. Waiting there d...
Chuo ward — These signs are scattered throughout Osaka and I confess that until I took this photo I hadn’t bothered to really look at it properly. I’d always assumed that it meant that you couldn’t park a bicycle...
Otterup — Chilled whitewine, family and summersun at the countryside. Nothing beats that. Just relaxing with your family and enjoying the warm sun and and a cold glass of wine
San francisco — Awake and writing under a soft, warm light.
Bayonne — “Extend this moment” : ils en ont de bonnes. C’était un si petit moment, un café, dans une rue en pente, dans une ville où je ne resterai presque pas… Mais les moments peuvent s’étendre de mille man...
Tokyo — The new issue of Papersky is just out, and as you can see, it’s perfectly suited for the summer. They were in and around Barcelona for this issue, and there’s a nice photo essay inside that revolves a...
Charlottesville — This is on First St. Right next to where I live. I see it everytime I pass by, and everytime I slow down to contemplate. It is both familiar and strange. Familiar because it takes my back to my own co...
New york — I went out the door this morning with a solid plan. Find breakfast, coffee, edit photos from last shoot and tap out lines of code. Coffee and sunshine happened. Heaps and heaps of coffee. I’m forgett...
Vancouver — I bought a Kindle recently, and it’s shattered my expectations. As an e-reader skeptic, I became an instant convert. There’s a nice little coffee shop near my school. It’s blissfully quiet in the mor...
Tokyo — 心地良い音楽とリズミカルなキータイプの音。 手元にはスパークリングウォーター。 一日が始まる前の贅沢な時間。
Brisbane — …the koala, the kangaroo, Crocodile Dundee, backyard bbqs, golden shores, and dazzling sporting success, a few of the things we think of when we think about Australia. Then the politicians offered t...
London — When you move to London one of the first things you learn is that summer is an abstract construct, roughly equal in length to the total absence of clouds on any given cloudless day. And today it ended...
Lyon — Although it’s Tuesday lots of people in the streets at 8p.m. having “aperitifs”, Mojitos and lemon-flavored beers, half of them in those little old streets - no cars - on the phone trying to find thei...
Toronto — I have invested heavily in my DSLR. Good glass. Good bodies. I tend to do aviation photography. I am pretty bored at the moment with the photos I am taking. Do I take a break? Do I push though and re-...
Barcelona — An anonymous intervention to denounce tree logging and summer fires.
Kokubunji — There were so various perfume at the store that I couldn’t decide which to buy. But I’ve got new one at last.
Tokyo — When you work hard like a machine in the air- conditioned and dry office, it is necessory to have eye drops and perfume.
Kokubunji — Had ramen for lunch, dreaming of beer (plus gyoza).
Tokyo — I walk through Aoyama Cemetery about three times a week. It’s set up on a fine-grained grid, so there is an almost infinite number of variations on my diagonal path from corner to corner. Every time I...
Saint-martin-de-seignanx — Écrire en anglais, pour que plus de monde puisse me comprendre ? Ou bien en français, pour que HI soit un lieu bruissant de langues multiples, comme les métropoles cosmopolites que j’aime ? De St Mar...
Portland — You should see the glory. Oh if I could only upload a photo after the fact. Multi-level protest: by land, by sky, by sea (ok, river). Rappellers dangling their bodies off the bridge of a major inte...
Vancouver — I asked my mother this question while at a large family dinner to celebrate the birth of my cousin’s baby boy. Red is an especially significant colour in Chinese culture. It’s often used to symbolize...
Amsterdam airport schiphol — One of the exercises we had to do in meditation class was to imagine you boarded a boat and left behind everything you had as certain: work, family, friends… to go into a trip into the unknown. That’...
Albuquerque — This brown, high desert city, in the shadow of mountains, just turned green after recent, record-breaking, wind, rain, and floods.
Ottawa — Ottawa is a lovely city, just under a million people, lots of galleries, lots of interesting people and from certain vantage points, truly magnificent to see. (For example, http://rmcguirephoto.com/w...
London — The corner of Holloway and Tollington often surprises me with its views of the sky. As someone who grew up on the plains of the Canadian prairies, it can be such a poignant experience to catch a broa...
Seattle — Bookcases, Writingcases, Headcases. Books are consuming and writing is creating. They say “write what you know.” Thomas Wolfe mentioned about us being the “sum of all the moments of our life,” and we ...
Carlsbad — I’m from Cape Town, South Africa, and am currently travelling in the U.S. for a few weeks. As a huge coffee fanatic, Bird Rock is one of the places I knew I had to check out. So we made the trek out t...
Wako — oh, this is not Japan :)
Beveren — Rein and Bram are leaving for Bangkok next week, so it’s the last days for the Porsche. We visited them in Antwerp and left the city for one last ride in the car. Doel is the most recent village on w...
Berlin — Torstraße. It used to be this barren street that separates Mitte from Prenzlauer Berg. Old institutions like Gaststätte W. Prassnik and Kaffee Burger once housed the newly arrived intellectual frontie...
Seattle — I needed to find a place to work for the afternoon, and I had heard wonderful things about Arabica, so I walked over and hung out for a while. The Scandinavian/rustic/slightly-goth-in-a-good-way inte...
New york — This is an exhibition of collage at MoMA in New York. Every time I visit New York, I feel that New York City itself is like an collage artwork woven by many different type of people, culture and ideas...
San francisco — It tastes of sand and salt and maybe a little dog drool. Because my body is not a machine, because I cannot both run and engage in complex thought yet, reflection only happens in the cool down. As my...
New york — Sharing a bit of NYC magic to wanderers in town. Chobani Soho serves up the best Greek yogurt with delicious toppings. There are spots around town filled with stories shared over brilliant food and g...
Charlottesville — Yesterday we went peach picking. Chiles Peach Orchard is outside Charlottesville. “Follow the signs to Crozet”. But don’t miss the exit to 250 west. Because this is what we did and we had to turn all ...
Harbor springs — I sailed on the NM (Northern Michigan) 12. She was one of 35 ever made and although heavy and slow, she is still sturdy and proud. Her sisters sail these waters, mostly in Harbor Springs. This Sufjan ...
New york — Flirting at the bar. Judging by the shoes, they make a fine pair - no pun intended :)
San francisco — Tis the season for pluots! Purchased them from the Oakland Friday farmer’s market. The red pluot was a little tart like a raspberry, while the yellow pluot tasted like honey. Sometimes you feel gratef...
Lake placid — The cheers are as loud now as they were at the start. The end of the swim, a long day remains, but gotta love the spirit. They had to cut off the last 2 swimmers, past the 2 hour 20 minute mark. You ...
New york — The beach was littered with the assortment of umbrellas, beach tents, and windscreens that people had brought to protect them from the elements. Her chosen protection seemed so small and so lonely in ...
Montara — The Cups song from Pitch Perfect starts playing in the dining hall, and the girls start clapping along, some grabbing nearby cups and bottles, doing the whole cups routine perfectly. Clap, clap, pat...
Strathmore — There is always so much more to be drawn from a scene. I have often found myself stuck, however, when trying to capture all of the intricate details in a building. This leads to frustration and anxiet...
New york — His status is supposed to be that of a free man, but they have never given him back his passport.
San mateo — This is Sammy. He’s my service dog. Or maybe I am his. At any rate, here he is Ubering it to the airport for his trip to Half Moon Bay to visit his cousin Taylor, who lives there. Sammy doesn’t know ...
San francisco — Wordpress has grown from the dream of a nineteen-year-old to a tool used by about 200 million people worldwide, affecting about 19% of the internet. This has happened over a scant ten years, in a comm...
North potomac — I first learnt of Leopardi while reading the following passage out of the “Exactitude” lecture in Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, which is itself so good that I will quote it at ful...
San francisco — I’ve been here in the windy city for what feels like three weeks instead of three months. I think that’s when you know you’re doing something right.
Mexico city — Every day, on my way to work, I see the same guy on a motorcycle use it to charge his phone and power his electric razor. I think he’s a courier. A friend sometimes keeps him company while he shaves. ...
Winter garden — You take a blurry picture, feeling a bit like a voyeur. The sign flutters in the breeze. It’s number two, which implies numbers one, three, and possibly even six. Is it right to start here, at the no...
København s — The future was already here. She should know, seeing as it was her job to design it. Whenever someone needed to illustrate an apartment complex or make a new building feel real, she would be the one t...
Durham — https://soundcloud.com/melhunt/day-of-nothing-moment-sketch This day is designated for doing Nothing (although there are several somethings that I have committed to doing today and some that I simply...
New york — I’m recovering from my first semi-serious yoga injury. I was in a class with graduating students on their last class before being certified. We partnered up and played with forearm stand to scorpion t...
Flint — The other day I forced myself out of bed early to go enjoy some fishing with a friend. I am a camp director at a place called Pine Cove and my summer days are intense, but in the end, it was worth it...
Prince edward — Will this in men save the human race or doom it? While I watched them, 60 years of life fell away. I considered plunging into what were surely very calm waters. The experience left me with many ques...
Salaparuta — “When lifestyle, livelihood, social connections, belonging, knowledge, power, prestige, esteem, the roof over your head, the ground beneath your feet, your history, your traditions, your language, you...
Mikonos — It was a slow, boring trip. Sailing across the Aegean to a fabled Greek isle as the last breath of summer blew sounded more romantic than it actually was: a battle for a seats amongst hundreds of rol...
Burbank — Day One: 21 pull-ups (using your arms and legs), 21 squats, 21 push-ups - then do a round of 15, then a round of 9. And do it all as fast as you’re able. It took me 45 minutes to catch my breath. As ...
Tokyo — I was having dinner at the Kohmen ramen shop in Harajuku — ordered my favorite, the jukusei tonkotsu ramen, with all toppings — and the beer I ordered came like this, in a glass that was covered wit...
Tokyo — Seeing big installations or a new store front at the Laforet shopping center in Harajuku is not a rare thing, and this seems to be the latest, a giant “sculpture” made up of balloons. It’s certainly h...
Toronto — Elusive feel. Characters. Diverse. Hard done by. Shopping carts and electric wheel chairs. The great Book City yields poetry and Mary Pratt and even remaindered William Gibson for $6.10. Beer and cabb...
Tokyo — I was living in Paris back then, and the only thing on my mind was to get out of there. Metallica’s music, which I was also butchering with my rock band, provided a welcome escape from frustrations of...
Prince edward — From the Canadian Broadcasting System (July 10, 2013): Monarch butterflies have been tough to come by in southern Ontario so far this summer. Early July is normally the time of year when the black ...
Asheville — EarthFare is a microcosm of Asheville: the aisles are filled with people from a variety of different cultures, paying a little more for things created with a little more attention to how their made an...
Asheville — My 14 year old registered for high school today. Up till now, she’s been home-schooled. And I’ve worked from home since she was born. For 14 years we’ve learned, worked, played, designed, colored and ...
Brockville — Deep in the heart of the verb ‘beguile” is the idea of deceptive charm. Beautiful clutter in a house beguiles us through the forthright honesty of the daily lives of things we love — juxtaposed to...