Paris — Paris is a city with horizons on the mind, for one. For two, there is a secret that roof access of almost any public building — museum, indoor garden, etc — is granted for a fraction of the cost of g...
Paris — “The window shop displaying dead rats actually exists. It is the window of Destruction des Animaux Nuisibles, an exterminator established since 1872, located 8 rue des Halles in the first arrondisseme...
Madrid — I was here with my wife and children, and we were returning home from vacation with my wife’s parents. My children were so young and beautiful. We were so worried about how they’d behave, and they did...
Moscow — I was going for my tourist insurance for the now sunny Europe on this cloudy and unexpectedly chilly day and was suddenly caught by a rain shower under a McDonalds awning in central Moscow. This is T...
New york — Up until last year, a focus of mine was to seek happiness. That was the wrong mentality. I was chatting with one of my yoga teachers one morning and he discussed the equanimity mindset. He said, “It’...
New york — As a downpour suddenly began, the bartenders hurriedly moved to close the panels of the roof. One part of it stuck, and it became a mini-spectacle as everyone started to pay attention to the bartender...
Tokyo — It’s a place on Kamiyama street called Tomigaya Terrace, and we go on weekends there for lunch — always very good, and only 1000 yen, which is typical for weekday lunches, but rare on weekends (or yo...
Tamano — 5.45 AM. The alarm sounds. We had previously decamped from Tokyo — via Kyoto — in readiness to make the trip. No coffee options this time of the morning in Osaka. Shinsaibashi subway was to be the st...
Plymouth — Through the natural gloom of the bar I saw my friend’s dimples flourish as she let slip a quick smile. We had both tumbled into that place in which the other didn’t have to reply, as if the conversati...
Amsterdam — It was a september in the 90s. I was new in Amsterdam and she studied Spanish in the university. I went to pick her up after class and we would bicycle back, her riding and me on the back. We went hom...
Hudson — He managed the walk to Main Street, three blocks, two long avenues, and didn’t worry about how he looked — a big whitehead poking along the sidewalk. Things were getting better, not that Tiny knew th...
New york — View from my office.
Brockville — Cats. They eat birds. Pampered domestic cat creatures annually kill half a billion birds in the US alone; feral cats, wanton killing machines, destroy up to 3 billion more. (http://www.nature.com/nc...
Mühltal — It’s said that Mary Shelley had the idea for her famous novel here at Castle Frankenstein. Visited in summer, it’s a quite lovely place. In reality it was home of a robber baron, until several earls ...
Tokyo — 定 tei – fixed, constant / 食 shoku – food, meal Most restaurants in Tokyo are hard-coded to satisfy a specific person or group of people, at a specific moment in their existence, with just the right...
New york — It’s a tight squeeze - climbing up the narrow stone stairs to the cathedral’s upper passageways @ St. John The Divine.
Houston — The park is starting to look a little bedraggled in the summer heat, but I’m going to take a lot of snapshots from the rose garden before they start reconstruction. Many of my favorite places have dis...
Orlando — The restaurant is like many Asian restaurants in America. The decor is terrible, the chairs and tables are functional, the lighting is fluorescent …. But the food is delicious. The Mills 50 neighbo...
Long beach — How the beach looked early in the morning, before the rest of America showed up. I don’t begrudge the thousands of people that independently decided that the beach was great activity for the day, but ...
Dublin — The intersection of two quiet residential streets is made a roundabout by the anointed one pointing to his sacred heart. Lost tourists looking for Guinness use him as a landmark. As did John Newton, i...
Mountain view — Autocorrect is one of the best and one of the worst tools ever. I know I’ve typed Things right but when I read what I’ve sent it’s nothing like what I wrote. Maybe I think I wrote something but I mad...
Messel — Everytime I come to this place, all hassles and problems fall off of me and I think to myself: “THIS is the life, nigga!” It’s pure peace and bliss. You sit there, surrounded by nothing but nature. F...
Dalanzadgad — The hub of “hang out” in this small city is the stadium, and outside is the most magnificent statue I’ve seen in this country: five bronze horses, ready to scatter in five directions. Each is differe...
Flint — I am a meeting a friend early today and sitting on the edge of a dock overlooking the water. Off to my right the sun is rising over the water and a bridge and I almost feel like I’m at the edge of Ho...
Antwerp — King Filip I is the seventh king of Belgium. His father King Albert II abdicated. It was time to retire and leave the royal duties to his son. They chose today, the 21st of July, the Belgian national ...
Berlin / germany — Berlin
Dalanzadgad — I’m still reflecting on a weekend when I became a little more complete. In the mountains outside Dalanzadgad, I observed an entire goat being taken apart, put back together, and consumed by a dozen or...
Santa clara — “No, my name is Princess Luna” Holly insisted as we arrived at the park. Over the course of the 10 minute drive we’d collectively decided that Holly’s name for the night would be Princess Luna Diamon...
Santa monica — my name is silvio. what’s yours?
Tokyo — A very delicious Doner Kebab I bought from a parked truck on Omotesando, at about the level of the Nike store. Only 300 yen, which feels like a great deal to me, and it was pretty damn good. I had the...
Tokyo — The space between Yoyogi park and the NHK studios hosts outdoor festivals every weekend, and this week it’s the Brazilian one. Lots of food and performances, with big crowds.
New york — Look up. Smile at the sunshine. Sip the coffee. Headphones on. Open iA writer and start tapping away. Working on a new personal project bringing together my travels, photography, writing and foursqua...
San francisco — I’ve always been fascinated by this mural. I’m not even sure what to think of it. Mostly, I just use it as marker to know I’m entering or exiting San Francisco. So, being curious about its origin I s...
Dublin — Foursquare tells me I’ve been to Grogan’s too much recently. Whereas, in fact, I haven’t been nearly enough. The barflies are harmless, always. Chatty, always. Interesting, sometimes even. “I edit f...
Paris — I’ve come into an empty apartment in one of my favorite neighborhoods here — a big ol’ home with many rooms, tall bookcases, and single walls painted pale blue. That kind of place. It’s waiting patien...
Paris — I lucked into a grand, empty apartment that somebody has access to in Paris. I can stay here, quietly, for a few days until the owner returns from vacation. Shhh.
New york — Back in the day when I had a flexible schedule, I used to work out at odd times of the day to burn off energy and relax, and would often take a run or go to the gym at 9, 10 PM. The other night brough...
New york — We always say that New York City (and more specifically, Manhattan), is not truly America, as it has a culture, value system, and frame of reference that just isn’t like the rest of the US. Even Manha...
Ho chi minh city — And ironic (?) that I should publish that sketch with typos. Time to avert my gaze from printed proofs and pixel approximations. Kind of wishing I still smoked.
Dublin 8 — Dublin’s sunny spell is officially a drought. My plants, whom I have kept alive on our small rooftop through years of cold wet dark, are now dying in the hot dry sun. I fill the heavy, leaky green pla...
Paris — Is there a sweeter thing to wake up with than a neatly laid out, newly steeped pot of coffee — tiny green cup poised at the ready to be filled? I feel happy, with these, my friends.
London — Maybe this is just what it means to be curious - you take one step and immediately think, where would that other step have taken me? Curious here may simply be a nicer word for neurotic. Or a more ac...
San francisco — From Cloud Atlas — And all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don’t worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now, that boundaries between noise and...
New york — When J.T.’s “My Love” bleeds into Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’,” and everyone’s wearing shorts or skirts, and the home of a losing baseball team is suddenly batting a thousand, there is no excuse not to bounc...
Nishitokyo — Yesterday morning on my way to work, I unexpectedly happened upon my cat sitting in the park located a few blocks from my house. I called out his name: “Bon-chan! Bon-chan!” He looked up at me with ...
New york — Rooftop.
Tokyo — It really does feel like the phone both is on the extinction list, and it’s quite rare to see them around town anymore. If you do spot one, it will usually be in a station, or in front of a convenienc...
Tokyo — The shop is called Ahiru, and it’s a mostly standing bar, with a few seats in front of the counter. The space is absolutely tiny, and always has a very nice vibe, with a few people spilling out on the...
Charlottesville — Monticello, Jefferson’s residence in the hills of Charlottesville, is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the area. That day, we had to wait two hours for our tour. After the tour, and afte...
Kita ward — In theory, I want to walk to work every morning. That’s part of the reason I moved where I did. The reality is that I wake up so late that I’m lucky if I can get to the office in time even by train. O...
Charlottesville — A mysterious pious statuette left exposed and neglected in a back yard.
Charlottesville — I would like to hear the story behind this macbook found drowned under the water.
Charlottesville — I like to walk around and take pictures of boring things.
Melbourne — The grey area somewhere in the middle where no one’s knowledge quite reaches. After two weeks the call is made — and then he appears. His knowledge is all in the middle. Boxes are ticked. Eight hours ...
Noida — Two years of living next to a swimming pool and I still suck at it. While three kid from the neighbourhood get it in two weeks. I used to feel bad about it . I used to think that with Age I m becoming...
Bay shore — The full moon, my nightlight. The coastal breeze, my fan. My wife, kids & friends on the other side of the bay. The sweltering work pit of NYC almost a distant memory. Almost.
Philadelphia — Iced coffee. Usually it’s made out of ice and coffee. But ice can’t exist in this universe. There is only coffee-water and sweat to quench our thirst.
Philadelphia — It’s some amount of degrees above 90º, and it’s been that was for the last couple of days. After a day of persistently hot temperatures, Philadelphia becomes a hotbox of garbage and exhaust fumes. I’...
Cincinnati — She didn’t show up. I sat for a while, then I walked for a while, then I sat for another while. A woman asked me about parking, complimented me on my beard. I kept my windbreaker on for the distant r...
Rome — It hits you without warning the minute you step out of the station. I wasn’t even paying attention—I think we were in the middle of a conversation or I was trying to put my wallet back into my bag, b...
New york — Sorry about the “screen shot.”
New york — I’m rounding the corner from Lucali’s, the neighborhood pizzeria, with a large pepperoni, onion, mushroom, basil pizza. He is sitting cross-legged on a bench and, as I pass, lifts his nose and calls o...
New york — Beta buckets in their first store - Soho News on Prince and Sullivan. Just ate 3 donuts to celebrate. Making stuff never stops being fun. “The only thing we were scared of? Delivering it fast enough ...
Mumbai — After a long day yesterday I managed to catch a cold: Headache, sore throat and weakness. So sitting at home instead of my usual Friday movie plans.
Bangalore — Paucity of money in life. Cheap food keeps life upbeat :)
Berlin — but avoid the white choc cookies - they look slightly green for a reason yo -
San francisco — Every few months I find myself thinking, “I should get a cat.” The trouble with decisions though is that you have to make them—not just appraise them. Once I make them, I miss the man who went the o...
New york — Currently, the TWA Flight Center is not operational. However, it’ still a beautiful place to connect.
København sv — Basically my thoughts are as follows: On on hand, made-up stories could seem like a waste of ‘Copenhagen space’. When people look at a moment from a local café, then they might be confused by a story...
Charlottesville — I often catch the time at 11:11. I like that alignment of ones.
New york — View from the window Towering above Midtown. AC on the fritz…
New york — The commute was bitter sweet; my transfers came quickly which meant I had to dash, but I was in semi air-conditioned subway cars the whole way. Everyone was sweaty and angry. Including me.
Long beach — I’m months behind on delivering my Kickstarter book of poetry. Multiple problems leading into the printing which I’m planning to do in-house. I laid the book out in InDesign but can’t get the booklet ...
Long beach — I’m sad for the people who have lost their loved ones. I’m glad they get some relief through talking to the medium. Also, do we leave behind energy that is a kind of narrative mapping (I love this ter...
Flint — I am usually not a morning person. This summer I have tried to get up as early as I can. Since my summer life is pretty intense, to say the least, getting up any time of the day is hard. But when y...
New york — My new favorite place for coffee is Taszo: around the corner from home, friendly staff, run by a coffee connoisseur who also plays great music. Right next to the 157th St stop on the #1 line. Stop by!...
Lodi — I live in a city center, packed of old buildings. My flat is embedded, trapped among a couple of different buildings. It only has three windows. Two of them face a courtyard, the other one is this sk...
Oslo — Today I’d rather be out there.
Woolwich — geotagging not very accurate, i’m on cockatoo island.
Tokyo — There’s this Starbucks and a Japanese cohi shop downstairs. Those are about the only coffee shop/hack space options in Shirokane Takanawa. With office workers and locals abound lunchtime and late afte...
Christchurch — There’s a lot in a name, but it’s the experience that makes people stick around.
Berlin — Berlin and its backyards. They are always go deeper than one would expect. While Berlin never feels like a small city, it is fairly hard to assess its size because of how some of its boroughs are buil...
Little neck — There’s this clarity you step into when you let go and surrender into the nature of flow. Ease. You dive into the synchronicity of life and from that moment on, your previous self melts away. I felt ...
San francisco — Strength isn’t about doing it once; that’s adrenaline or passion or chance. No, strength is about doing it again and again. It’s a sustained state of being. Power over time. The ability to resist firm...
Juneau — We arrived here today after sailing (yes sailing!) early this morning from Tracy Arm in steep seas (no one else out but a tug)—a long day on the water in weeks of long days on the water. A shower, f...
Los angeles — I used to be a lighting guy. I did commercials, movies, everything. But I left because I wanted something different. Now I work at a place that produces commercials. This was a special day for me bec...
Los angeles — My friend’s been plugging away at her music for years. Multiple bands, multiple venues, multiple records. They keep getting better and better.
New york — And that’s the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. It’s noisy + dirty in this part of town. If I leave my window open for a day, there’s a layer of soot covering my iMac. So my windows are usually close...
Tokyo — Thank you for requesting, Chris! 現在こんなイベントに参加しています！ 第一回 すぐに使える！ビジネス向けウェブサービス展 http://bizweb.doorkeeper.jp/events/4680 合田ジョージさんのプレゼンが面白い！
Vancouver — I usually carry some kind of book around to draw and write in. It helps me make connections between thoughts I’m having, but it also gets me truly interested in the world around me. These two pages ar...
San francisco — After a long but good day of working the workz, I escaped the office early and just in time to catch a coffee with Cat as she was wrapping up some work at Stanza Coffee. The sun was still up, so we we...
San francisco — It took a long time to find a restaurant with immediately available seats. We tried Sushi Time, Monk’s Kettle and finally got seated at Bar Tartine. But with only 30 minutes to dine, the food arrived ...
New york — Love that little bike on the right, just hanging out :) It is nicely organized, considering the (wonderful) mess.
Goleta — I used to drive down to this beach. There was one week, in winter, when my parents had gone away somewhere, and I would come down after breakfast to take the dog for a walk. I drove the big Ford picku...
Vancouver — Karen O’Rourke classifies wanderers as being “passengers” or “autonauts”. I kind of like that. I’m taking a class called “The Wanderer.” As an assignment, we each had to write instructions for a fel...
New york — For two years now, The Invisible Dog has been a gracious host to Brooklyn Beta. Brooklyn Beta is a conference where nerds of all places and professions — still predominantly web and software — come t...
Moss beach — The James V. Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is a one of the prime places to chase light in the Bay Area. This photograph was taken on an iPhone, about thirty minutes before sunset. The setting sun floods ...
Tokyo — Hatsune Miku has taken over the visual landscape in the Metro Hat building in Roppongi Hills. The artwork pictured is part of a tie up campaign using the vocaloid character Hatune Miku and Experia sma...
Charlottesville — i was checking out annie ernaux and hervé guibert’s bibliographies while 14 by jean echenoz was the one i was secretely excited for.
San francisco — Been thinking about…me. What?!? I spend a lot of time in my own head. I’m curious. It’s normal! Jesus, with the judging. Anyway. I looked up Mercurial; OK, interesting. And then I looked up ast...