Los angeles — I remember walking this block a few years ago and feeling sorry for this stump. I’d find myself thinking about it at odd times—the distended wood bulging out of the ornamental tree cage, the wrought i...
New york — soak the nuts overnight, run it through the juicer with filtered water. Easy. Delicious iced with a bit of maple syrup and a dash of cinnamon. Perfect with your breakfast cereal. Yum. Keep the proce...
New york — THE CURE Let’s cut out the conversation and get out for a bit. Because I feel it all fading, and paling, and I’m begging. Why can’t I be you? Show me how you do it, and I promise you, I promise that ...
Boston — “You’ll start appreciating sleep when you get older”, says the St. Bernard, “but stay young while you can”. His wife —the deflated Miami miniature poodle with the kind of UV peril level that gets ca...
Toronto — Toronto is a caffeine-fuelled city. In certain neighbourhoods, you can find a coffee shop on nearly every corner. So how does one decide which ‘coffice’ to frequent? The ambience? The location? Origin...
Houston — My name is Princess Charlotte of Hermann but everyone calls me Charlie. I live in a high-rise apartment overlooking Hermann Park. I like to sit in the windows and enjoy the view. On the floor is the s...
Durham — Found this morning: Crepe myrtle clusters as big as my head (I almost don’t miss lilacs because of these beauties). A bench that says “Dedicated to the one I love” in my favorite Durham park. Overgrow...
London — The internet didn’t make any sense to me at first until I discovered aggregators and later on link blogs. I don’t want to say that’s when I saw the matrix… London, and New York, and Tokyo, and any ...
Toronto — The Toronto night sky was clean, clear and the place looked cool, even though it was mid summer. The introduction of ‘automated’ entry for Canadians had the predictable result of confounding almost ev...
Berlin — In Berlin, my interest in weather and its whims has deepened. I’m thinking about it a lot. The city landscape lays flat, with little terrain in the horizon to gaze at — no mountains, no sea. In citie...
Tokyo — Never give a man a wallet as a gift. It’s one of the most personal things a man carries around with him, and although you’d expect such a thing to carry careful consideration from its owner, you’ll li...
Los angeles — “The mandate of Los Angeles is that doing stuff takes movement, and in the distance between every two points on this city’s map there are a thousand books written in the raw space; in the process of m...
Tokyo — Looking at the photo again, I realize Chris used NZ dialect to write “camon in.” His skills as a kindergarden parent are evident in all his zany creativity.
Chuo ward — My last night in Osaka. Exhausted, hungry, poor Japanese at best. With no English menu in sight, I impressed the waitress by ordering my meal using this photo from the storefront food display (taken m...
Brockville — When people come together, even in small numbers, it can be magic. The dark is banished if just for a while. There were artists, teachers, retired folk, a farmer, a chef, a writer, a flight attenda...
Port townsend — Then. If you followed the hidden trail next to the beach you would find the derelict steel mill: young alder rose beside brick chimneys, an old maple had taken root inside the concrete walls—we would...
Tokyo — AQ is a web and design studio in Tokyo — and hey, part of the team that made this very site — and pictured here is the inaugural “Ride the Lightning” talk, a session in which they invite designers a...
Tokyo — I forget how much work goes into the trees and grounds here. In the States, trees, parks, lake edges always look shaggy in a way that I can’t put my finger on. Until I remember that perfect spheres of...
Sanford — Did they just hatch? They weren’t there after lunch… On a rainy Florida afternoon, you’re glad for any storm-haven. Even if it may smell of asphalt.
West melbourne — Though I really sketched this on the way to this morning’s event… The moment had passed (geographically speaking) before I could upload. So I’ve tried to post as accurately as I can to the specific ...
Ascot vale — Trying a new, .38 muji pen. I’ve always struggled to capture likeness with pen – so instead I just grab an idea from something and then impose my own distorted characteristics on top. Suffice to say, ...
Salt lake city — Sometimes, on the days when the desert wind has wandered off and between in-coming airplanes, the furious silence fills your ears with the underwater roar. Centuries later, the gulls still swoop and ...
Willoughby — Throwing cards down on the table always felt like love. He’d learnt the pleasure as a kid, eyes barely breaching the table top, sweat from the day’s toil swimming amongst cigarette fumes, paint-stripp...
New york — “The simplicity of that environment (Tibet) made it so clear that this is what most of us are doing: traveling from one place to another, searching for a lasting happiness. We want to find something t...
New york — I’d come to New York City for a party later that night. The plan was for a friend who lived in the city was to meet me at Union Square Park after work and we would head to the party from there. The bu...
Cincinnati — And I burnt it. To be fair, it was my first time, but all the lovely subtleties were lost to the garrulous presence of smoke and my own disappointment. To spare my sleeping family, I brought the blen...
Durango — The ride is from Durango to Silverton. We roll along the tracks with the river is below us. When the pressure in the engine gets too high, the engineer lets off steam with a loud hiss and a plume of w...
Houston — The Garden Center in Hermann Park is going to be torn down and replaced by a grander building which will be able to host elaborate weddings. I’ve never been inside the current structure but I love it’...
Houston — The Hermann Park Conservancy plans to renovate the current facilities from the Chinese pagoda through the rose garden and the fragrant garden. Parking and entrances will be moved. New grander building...
Zürich district — The thing that kills me on a hot day in the office is the lack of cooling of my head; this Dyson fan solves the problem, I can use my laptop through it while being close enough to get the air around m...
New york — She joins her mother once a week when they come to clean our office and is a ball of energy, smiles and curiosity. Her mother’s English isn’t great so Gisella helps translate at times. I engaged her i...
Paris — No name. A menu of soups — 4 euro each — include lentil, tripe, chilled yogurt and garbonzo. Bowls of freshly baked bread, plates of shiny dates and chilis. Garlic oil and red pepper. Mix and match, m...
Brockville — The style is apparently called ‘log cabin’. It resides on John’s bed which you will notice hangs from the ceiling on four strong chains.
London — What we call a heatwave here, the rest of the world calls summer. I’ve yet to see anyone turn their car off while they wait for someone. Texting in a running car will be my enduring image memory of Lo...
San francisco — We walked to see the city, we stopped to clear our heads. With tired bodies we think more clearly.
Washington — My grandmother is 89 years old. She’s a survivor of the Holocaust. And she is one of the greatest storytellers you’ll ever meet. She remembers details of events that took place decades ago like they w...
Caledon — When the phone rings three times, it’s the business line. My sons know this and are used to trying to keep the volume down when that happens. This is even more critical in the summer, when they are ha...
New york — There was talk of poopies and pee-pee and farts. We ate seaweed and it made me think about how I grew up not eating seaweed. Grew up with Oscar Meyer’s Bologna and Spaghetti-Os. The first time I eve...
Casselberry — Running last week had been a little rough. After finally feeling like I was adjusting to running in the humid and hot Orlando weather, I struggled on all my runs during the week. I try to run everyd...
Cairo — Atef was someone I knew from Tahrir, with a comically raspy voice but always friendly and always looking out to make sure people had food, water, or whatever else they needed. He was killed May 2, 201...
Long beach — The wasps are nesting in the laundry room (a dilapidated shack in the back yard.) This one broke lose, now ants are eating it? The organized symmetry of the wasp nest fascinates me.
New york — One open window amongst thousands disrupts the clean lines.
Brockville — One hundred eighty five years ago (about), a small farm house was built 2 k from the Kaniatarowanenneh (Mohawk) River. The St. Lawrence River, as renamed by Jacques Cartier, is, by any measure, one o...
London — There are huge iron frames on New Burlington Street, squares of construction metal spreading out onto the main road. My head’s full of two references: a woman I vaguely knew who was killed by a fallin...
Falköping — Här hade man bra koll över nejden.
Melbourne — Something for everyone. A lesson in architecture. Post-something, post-something-else. The thing itself. It’s all there to see. One of these things is not like the other.
Seattle — Growing up in Greenville, MS was an interesting ordeal. I basically lived at my father’s print-shop before I could work, then I worked there nonstop when I finally could. Coupled with the fact that my...
Ulaanbaatar — There are lots of kids in the family, and they all grow up spending time in the countryside. When they’re little, they just get to explore. As they grow older, they’re responsible for watching the lit...
Little neck — The sky is calm except for that small patch of clouds lit up by lightning over and over. A waning full moon is to the left, crowded by clouds passing by. The humidity slowly dissipating, the cool bree...
Singapore — Rain falls differently here than in other countries. Even the loudest storm holds a perfectly still silence, a tempo that was made for sleeping in and cuddling up with a good book. It sounds almost li...
Tokyo — LINE is a very popular instant messenger app here — although available globally, it’s especially popular in Asia — and one of the things that people love about it are the “stickers” that you can use...
San francisco — Baudelaire would have loved this place. Ratty around the edges—its charm at once immanent and ephemeral. The hole in the wall delivers more than good food cheap. A considered conversation with a casu...
Salt lake city — I think he is one mountain with many heads. He had so much fun pushing the first head through the soil that he made another. This one a rocky crest. And then another, a slope-shouldered bowl cupping a...
Brunswick — Drawing people at Ray’s, likely to become a regular location for sayhi sketches. This guy’s slicked back hair reminding me of a book we read in school - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton.
New york — This lists as Queens, but more importantly to me it is Long Island City, where my studio has been for the last twelve years. The photo is of a very nondescript streetscape; I chose a ‘non site’ delib...
Boston — People are actually using writing in notebooks and reading physical books here. Of course, I am on my iPad.
Orlando — Landslide by Fleetwood Mac is playing on the stereo. Owner and patron talking about business. And I’m feeling unbearably sad. The days continue to slip into one another. This town seems hopeless - at...
Charlottesville — In this Lutheran church’s basement, a small group of TM practitioners gather every Thursday afternoon to meditate. Last Thursday was my first time. I like the matching color of the room and the couch....
Leigh-on-sea — This isn’t the kind of game people play in the States: even its name feels like it sits comfortably alongside polo, croquet, and cricket; you wouldn’t be surprised to discover the Royal Family played ...
Sauk rapids — I visit the family farm once or twice per year. It’s always more beautiful than I remember it. The barn is prettiest when the sun is out but it sounds the best in the rain. While in high school I’d...
Washington — My parents took me to Washington DC the summer I turned 12, and the Library of Congress enchanted me. I can’t say I made a vow to work there one day, but that’s how it turned out. 17 years and count...
Berlin — It spits at first, then FWOOM! Bright yellow burning sparks, her dark hand engulfed within it, mesmerising. The others shout ‘Let it go!’ ‘Aren’t you going to let it go?!’ A bang then someone screams...
New york — I was introduced to Guru Charu when I stumbled into a new studio on the UES. While chatting with one of the advisors there, I mentioned that I focused on a spiritual practice along with my asana pract...
Melbourne — This is the landscape encountered at the end of the daily psycho-geographic journey from the edgeland to the old world. (The start is here.)
Eltham — This is the landscape encountered at the start of the daily psycho-geographic journey from the edgeland to the old world. (see)
Eltham — Edgeland. The margins between the city and the country. Some just end up here; for others it is a destination filled with serious intent and ambition. Karl Hyde embraces these margins on his debut a...
Byron — My friend Mang is moving to Berlin at the end of the month, and so he’s doing all the things that he won’t be able to do anymore once he’s no longer in the Bay Area. One of those things is to take his...
Roseville — Learning how to use this app…
Burlingame — This morning I got a message from an old, best friend from high school. She had unexpectedly received a letter she wrote the year we graduated, telling her future self what her life was like then and ...
Duluth — “I don’t like this,” she murmured, tracing idle circles into the wooden tabletop. “I don’t like any of it. My shirt keeps sticking to me and it’s been raining for thirty days at least. Damn summer wea...
Crawley — This is St George’s College, the oldest residential college at the University of Western Australia. It was founded in 1931. I never remember architectural styles. This is the Victorian Gothic Revival...
Cupertino — It was a new website I hadn’t heard about – they don’t punish you for using big words, like Twitter does, and I liked that. It was an opportunity to say something nice, something evocative, or just t...
Ottawa — Always look up.
Anaheim — Waiting on an eTech presentation.
Lihue — I mean, it’s terrible, you definitely don’t want to go there. Yeah, that’s it, stay away from Kauai…
Lihue — Ok. This is kind of interesting… And it looks nice. Lots of text though… Anyways. We’re leaving Kauai after a ridiculously great week and heading for Honolulu. Dinner at Morrimoto’s (sp?) to...
Victoria — with what I know and how I know it we move forward.
Madrid — Having spent the first eighteen years of my life in Madrid, it was surprisingly easy to switch home to Beijing, only to move one year later to London. In retrospect, I’d say it has been the new faces,...
London — I stayed too long around the funfair and pubs. By the time I made my down to the front Jake Bugg was singing his last song and I struggled to push my way though the crowd. I followed in the slipstream...
Brighton — Zu Studios, at Phoenix Industrial Estate in Lewes, is a gentle oasis, filled with weird and wonderful loveliness, occasional events (some full on parties, others cinema or performance soirees). The ma...
Ottawa — Carleton University, Canada’s Capital University, is a dynamic research and teaching institution, with a tradition of leading change and promoting innovation.
New york — (PS I wish I could edit my moment, rather than only being able to extend it. Typing on my phone is not ideal in terms of avoiding typos. There are a few in there, and even a missing word. Apologies fo...
San francisco — I am not a good runner. As long as I can remember, my body has felt mostly foreign, a collection of limbs only barely under my control, certainly not a cohesive unit and certainly not capable of anyth...
New york — The Doge lies in wait of the moment you stir, for there is the outside and the outside is great. The Doge differs from The Cate for The Cate thinks she is the master deserving of all good things; The ...
Bayonne — On the ferry to Staten Island, we felt like interlopers to everyone’s routines. To them, it’s a regular Friday commute home after work. To us, it’s an adventure to a new place for a new experience, a ...
Caledon — My nine-year-old son wants to play soccer morning, noon, and night. He gathered up as many friends as we could in the middle of busy vacation time and went to the full-size soccer fields to play. Ther...
San francisco — Finally, after a day of films exploring the form and function of the robot, after nibbling artisan food truck pizza and shivering in the grey Potrero almost-twilight for nearly an hour, the gate to th...
Vancouver — When I went to school in Toronto, I had Tim’s extra-large coffee three times a day, everyday. I had more coffee breaks than meals. My heart would race, my fingers jittery. I decided it was time to qui...
Las vegas — The flight from Burbank is so short you barely have time to drink your Bloody Mary. Only 180 minutes after locking the door of my humble Los Angeles bungalow, I’m hurled into a different civilization ...
Milpitas — Duran Duran, Lifehouse, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Armin, Tiesto and Santana… Yes, I’ve been told my taste in music is “eclectic”. I wonder if that’s the polite way of saying weird
Dakar — In Senegal thinking of Egypt. Senegal had it’s revolutions; Négritude was born here, African socialism, and so many Sufi brotherhoods. Wondering where Egypt’s will go, what it means, and how much suff...
Grimsby — Families are the strangest things, mine being no exception. The house we lived in (and my parents still live in) had been my great-grandmother’s until age got the better of her, her son and daughter-i...
Isle of man — The photo, however, is the view from my room at the Inglewood guest house on the Isle of Man, where I wish I were sitting. The island is such an idyllic place, small enough to drive across in under 3...
Chuo ward — The best kind of course. Ours gets wheeled off to a nursery every weekday, 9 to 5. It’s a good nursery. It’s also a germ farm. The Vicious Circle of Sick. No sooner has he got over one illness before ...
Yokosuka — I wish it was something that cool and rebellious. But I don’t smoke, nor do I gamble (that often at least – and definitely not in alleyways). I just wander and take pictures.
New york — From a seat on the grass on the High Line perched above 23rd St, watching people watch the sun set between the buildings. Far too few sunsets are properly enjoyed.
New york — A constricted frame of view and careful editing can turn a photograph into a record of a scene into a manipulated moment. The day was nothing like this photo.
London — This was a test post while I worked out what this app actually does. I think I get it now though. (The image is of my daughter’s wish on her school wishing tree. She wishes she had powers.)
Antwerp — Little Emma, 10 months old, has decided that the best thing to do with the current temperature is to take a siesta. She is one quarter Spanish after all.
Split — Split is full of tourists. This isn’t unusual or a particularly big deal, but after having spent weeks roaming around the Northern interior of Croatia, seeing other people was strange. Seeing anything...