Charlottesville — I was torn between this baby and a vintage TREK road bike, from the early 80’s. They were both at the same price and sold by the same reliable person. Finally, comfort prevailed over speed.
New york — Watching the sun set over SoHo as I wrap up the workday.
Phoenix — After a happy afternoon taking real estate license renewal classes online, one member of the fam is going to Hillstone. That person is not pictured here.
New york — My friend Melanie Altarescu along with her brother Dave organized a fundraiser at the new soul cycle venue in Williamsburg. Their family is involved in supporting the Rennaisance Youth Center in the ...
New york — A birthday cake surprise at work. Ice cream, no less. BEST. TEAM. EVER! But since I know you are wondering about the koala wear… what’s a cleaning day without a koala suit? #cleaningkoala Actually...
Turin — From the game website: “Johann Sebastian Joust is a no-graphics, digitally-enabled playground game for 2 to 7 players, designed for motion controllers such as the PlayStation Move. The goal is to be t...
San francisco — Just a drab glimpse of light peaking through the clouds and fog. That’s typical. Hanging onto the tail end of the day, standing at the land’s end at Lands End — iPhone sitting on a fence post, taking ...
Bangalore — I don’t remember if I stepped out of my room in the last couple of days. It’s been hectic and exciting. After almost 24 hours since the launch of Hi, I decided to go out and grab a beer with a friend...
New york — I did indeed visit LGA and successfully retrieved my mother. Continuing on that positive note, I spent the majority of the day at Spa Castle, the most wonderful Korean bath house in all of Queens. It ...
Endingen am kaiserstuhl — Welcome home! Or what should I say? This is actually my first moment at Hi and I think it’s a great new idea of a visual diary capturing moments from people all over the world and it’s easy to use wit...
Los angeles — Cliff’s Edge is the closest bar to my house. It’s always been a great place in the neighborhood to grab a beer or a glass of wine on their incredibly lush patio, one of the best outdoor dining spaces ...
Oakland — This is a hole in the wall cajun seafood restaurant a block off Lake Merritt. I noticed it a few month back in a small non descript strip center next to a laundry mat. What caught my attention is tha...
Longmont — to recall the name of a red, black, and white-banded variety, my mom first said, “Hay.” Then, “Barn.” “No, cows.” “Milk. They’re milk snakes.”
Longmont — When I was here last summer, a trio of rabbits would often race around the outside of the whole house. I watched them pass by and by and by, sometimes faster, sometimes slower. Until one of them saw t...
Toronto — My first day volunteering at an architectural “boot camp” for youth in grades 6 to 9. I wasn’t surprised by their talents and cleverness. What caught my interest was that one kid. You know that that ...
San diego — Before the sun comes up San Diego is a very different city. Before the tourists walk the bay, you can find fishermen and their nets. Before the drunks wake up only the crazies roam the streets. Before...
Montpelier — This is a view along my most common morning ride. It’s almost always lovely, but remarkably different from morning to morning because of the unpredictable ways that fog rises from and then dissipates ...
Madrid — I’m taking care of my “disabled at the moment” boyfriend (broken arm). He got me these binoculars, because he knows I’m obsessed with the moving silhouttes we can see everynight in that hotel. Everyni...
London — I’m not talking about BS here. Just to be clear.
Nijmegen — During the Four Days Marches[1] in Nijmegen those not walking 50km a day party at night (usually). Since it falls conveniently between WWDC and the next iOS release, it’s a good time to play around co...
Takatsuki — It’s a bit unusual to see people eating away from a table in Japan. Not completely unheard of, but not something you see everyday. All of which made it all the more odd to see a schoolboy chatting to...
Fairhaven — It’s always about here, 30 min or so from the Bourne Bridge, where I start to feel like I’m actually headed back to reality. The combination of old fishing culture and seasonal transients, on top of s...
Penna in teverina — Keys to great pasta: to use a few tablespoons of the pasta water and a healthy amount of grated Pecorino Romano to help bind the sauce to the pasta even before you sprinkle more on top at the table.
Hudson — This is the view across the narrow alley. The breeze is indeed light.
London — “We prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anatchy of ignorance” - D.O
Halifax — A few seagulls littered the coast, eyeing everyone with curiosity, and no doubt expecting a meal after the dunes became deserted. As the briny sea crashed against land, the evening sky beckoned weary ...
Tokyo — It’s always great seeing these maps all around town, knowing that it was produced by friends, and that it plays such an important role in guiding people when it comes to keeping up with and finding ou...
København n — The city seal sits on the wall at Blågård Skole, in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen. It’s the most ethnic part of this town, and an overall wonderful place; Griffenfeldsgade right around the corne...
London — I always look forward to the first proper coffee when I am in London, the current leader of coffee cities in the world. This time it has been a bit harder as I’m working at Ogilvy’s offices at Padding...
Frankfurt — Isn’t that odd? — Since more than six years, I work at this palace of glass. Every damned single day from mondays to fridays. And since the first day, I ask myself, where the point of making a career ...
New norfolk — Following eight operations in just two years—including eye surgery, a full knee replacement, and a successful fight against cancer—I’ve been taking it easy at a campsite at New Norfolk, on the banks o...
Canberra — Maybe you wake up — and everything is switched around. Your furniture is the exact mirror of what you remember. Breakfast is subtly different, but you can’t say how. Your glasses are a slightly differ...
Los angeles — The bar is called Lost and Found. My sisters and I used to walk past it as children, the three of us, walking to a Thai restaurant. Two decades later, the bar is still here. So am I.
Ojai — Remembering bits and pieces from the summer so far. The smell of lavender and rose geranium bring me back to the Ojai arcade and heat waves and crowns of flowers and tussie mussies.
Seattle — Moving is sort of the most consistent topic in my life right now. My daily ritual involves things revolving around the entire process. Arrival. Stay with newfound friends. Attempt to unwind after cove...
Paris — A gardeners play @Square du Temple
Tokyo — Walk down Meguro Dori from Meguro station for fifteen + minutes and Hara Donuts is on the left side of the street. Surrounded by furniture stores and far away from any train station, you’re either her...
Tokyo — One of my favorite places for lunch in Ebisu (where I work) is at the nearby Dexee Diner. The burger lunch plate is what I always get — includes a salad, a drink (with free refill), and one of the ta...
Seattle — Hanging from my Tom Phillips portrait of Samuel Beckett, with the great caption: “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Tokyo — Starbucks started wifi across Japan about ten years ago and then stopped doing so after about a year. I’ve heard that there were too many problems between customers. Now they’re offering free wifi at ...
Auckland — “Sorry, not in service.”
Los angeles — In creative work that is collaborative, there are 2 kinds of jobs: Filters and Generators. Filters are people who decide what makes the cut and what doesn’t. Their job is to edit with good taste. Ge...
Dobbs ferry — For me, sticky notes represent potential. Each is a stub of a thought waiting to be fleshed out, moved around, or discarded. This section of the wall represents my aspirations for a design conference...
Hendersonville — My pseudo-Monday morning taking place on a Wednesday, resulted in this: My motivation as a photographer is to find beauty within the mundane of everyday life. In my experience, the most powerful art ...
San francisco — Trying this out. Hi!
San francisco — It’s exciting to know that this is one of the first posts on Hi. FIRST! In SF - and especially SoMa - I don’t remember an idea that felt as meaningful as this. I wonder where it will go, and if Hi w...
Tokyo — They’ve got an excellent trainer. Those cats.
Tokyo — For many Tokyo bands, somewhere out there SoundCloud and download codes exist, but the handmade CD, as handmade as they can be, is music’s one true form of social currency. Ink-jet sticker alignment a...
Tokyo — Coffee ground long ago, pre-filled into its own filter then sealed in foil. Mocha Blend, fifty to a box. Sometimes you just have to drink what’s on hand and get back to work.
New york — Thanks, Eero Saarinen.
Parkville — This is view from my current office in the Old Quad at the University of Melbourne. The windows overlook Cussonia Court, to the west, between us and the Old Arts Building. As someone raised in subtrop...
Tokyo — Where there was just this one Starbucks, now there are three Starbucks in Meguro. The same, but pretty different. This is a good Starbucks for 待ち合わせ.
Elsternwick — Melbourne, like most Australian cities, is on the coast. But unlike Sydney, Brisbane or Perth, we have mercurial, near-English weather, so it’s hard to pick a good beach day. We were lucky. The sun sh...
Tokyo — The only consolation I get is the soft bus ride there and back, allowing me to catch up on Twitter’s latests, and the puzzled staff’s face looking over my form. Yes, I intend to travel for all purpose...
Berkeley — I recently converted a little side room into my main WFH office. It’s pretty nice, and has great sunlight in the morning. But then some new folks moved into an apartment next door, bringing their dear...
Mountain view — Writing the codes.
Mclean — I’m in the fifth week of my internship at Gannett Digital. It hit me that this job is, in fact, the first time I have ever worked one full-time job rather than a myriad of part-time jobs or attending ...
Milpitas — Not gi, go…
Newport beach — The click by itself is totally overrated.
San francisco — One of many great moments from a fantastic weekend stay in the country on Bainbridge Island with my friends and family.
San francisco — Enjoying the classic rock opera Tommy by The Who.
Vancouver — It was a great feeling to escape the buzz of traffic from the bridge overhead, only to hear the leaves rustle in the wind. Sometimes I need to travel to places like this, to get lost in my own regular...
Tucson — The strange speck outlined above sits on the surface of Mars in this false color image acquired on July 8th, 2013. It is the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, launched ten years ago, landing over ni...
San francisco — In my natural state. Testing out Hi.
Collingwood — When I started packing this morning, I was overcome with something almost like nausea. Bagging up clothes to send the the Brotherhood. Choosing which t-shirt goes into the suitcase and which into the ...
San sebastián — …after living in Madrid
Oakland — Sometimes Hollywood narratives influence my moments of self-reflection. Life has been much like Jimmy Stewart’s in Rear Window - immobilized in an apartment with a constant view of nearby buildings an...
Coral gables — A few hundred kids are doing camps on campus all summer. Today, I see them alternately walking around or jumping into these flat, shiny puddles on the walkways. Perhaps that’s a lifelong tendency. So...
Turin — Surgical surprint swayiny swains: surlyily surrender so spend survivorship.
Tucson — In Fiction Writing class on July 12, 2013 we took a tour of the University of Arizona Poetry Center, an absolutely lovely building. Then we browsed the shelves of poetry for interesting poems to photo...
New york — This photo was taken on my daily morning run. The buildings in the background are new, but the sign is very old.
Newark — When it’s not resting, this equipment is used for electrochemistry. I’ve been using it to deposit a couple of metal alloy layers which then get reacted to form the absorber layer for a solar cell. My...
Moscow — Ну в периоды когда я поднимаю глаза и вижу перед собой такое, я встаю со своего рабочего места и пытаюсь запечатлеть это на память. Вот этот момент собственно и представлен на картинке. Правда же обла...
New york — This view is the best part about working in dumbo. I eat my lunch and take my breaks staring at the skyline. It’s the little things.
Montreal — The weather has been so hot for the last few days. It’s been impossible to sleep without having the AC on. I hope the rain will cool off Montréal a bit.
Mexico city — This is a small detail from a incredible floor-to-ceiling stained glass window that runs all along the entire side of a quiet, enclosed corridor. Again, the entire wall was replaced with stained glass...
Hartford — The hardest thing wasn’t fear of the surgery, we knew the risks were minor, it was seeing him in a patient’s gown entangled in wires and tubes and hoping it was the last time I’d ever see this.
Corsham — My daughter’s first experience of climbing a castle. Utterly fearless in the face of heights.
Tucson — We are in the middle of monsoon season, but today, while humid, is not particularly interested in storming. The high temperature has dropped below 100 degrees Fahrenheit, making the summer more manage...
East hampton — Summer days in East Hampton are long and hot. New Yorkers and other East Coast varietals have made their way east on NY-27 to Long Island’s South Fork. The village is swamped. Heat + noise + density m...
Madrid — Things I’m currently hearing: A piano apprentice repeating the same melody. A distant plane. My next door neighbors making dinner and chatting. Some cars. A couple talking in the street. The wind.
Newport beach — The Ate/Prayed/Loved bit was meant to be a play on cliché. Ironically though I did start my day with some hot yoga, some time with Jesus, a good breakfast, some kisses with my wife and kids. Good stuf...
London — It is a cultural briefing on doing Paris as Parisians do. I’ve been writing it for the past two years and it is with editors for a final review. Hopefully, if successful I’ll find writers in other g...
The hague — Stories [1] is a site we setup to collect and share stories about Vlisco fabrics. Fabrics that while made in the Netherlands are sold mostly in the African market. Since these fabrics are very graphic...
Seattle — It started by wanting less clutter in our life. I like to imagine the things we own, their weight, and the work the building does to hold them aloft four stories. Silver disks are sentimental, but fa...
New york — Hot in the City …
Houston — Dueling systems- Apple on the left, Microsoft on the right - both trying to accomplish the same goal.
New york — I received this Etch A Sketch only a few weeks ago along with a number of other toys for the office. Now it sits next to my MacBook Air. It’s an interesting reminder every day of how life has changed ...
Mesa — I’m the only one in Lo-Fi Coffee. Just myself and the owner. Across the construction-ridden street is a vacated retail space. It still bears the sign, “The Royal”, above its boarded-up entrance. Over...
Amsterdam — I was hoping to extend this sketch with a photo of my garden. With the little fountain, the frogs, the green raffia umbrella. The abundance of flowers, the sprinkler that’s watering the grass. The ham...
New york — This was yesterday. I was taking the subway back to Penn Station after a days worth of interviews in the Big City. It’s not often I get to feel like the commuter or the man in the grey flannel suit. Y...
Berlin — I need 20 paint filled balloons to sort this out. Or a ladder and brush, but I’d prefer balloons. I have the keys to this courtyard till the end of the month.
San francisco — 如果我用中文，是不是这个平台就没什么人知道我在说什么？会有乱码吗？
Hudson — In Hudson, New York, there is a bus dressed up as a trolley that serves as public transportation. A sign on the back of the trolley welcomes you to Hudson : “The Friendly City.” This is the only place...
Seattle — It was warm last night, and air-conditioning isn’t commonplace. I heard and was awoken by the first thunderstorm I’ve experienced in the two weeks I’ve lived here. There was the familiar flash that I ...
New york — It’s an old photo! But it’s one that I had handy. It was actually taken at CitiField in 2010 (after Lev was born, obviously!)
Los angeles — Guessing I’ve said “changing planes in Dallas” about 3,417 times in my life. I think the phrase needs some darker meanings we could enter in Urban Dictionary.
Farmington — I’ve been getting into developing the software at my company. This is basically what my days wind up like: staring at PHPStorm and a bunch of trial and error.
Cambridge — People looked confused but lots of cars were stopping to get out and take pictures. It’s stinkin’ hot so it was a nice way to lighten the mood at the start of the day.
San francisco — I’m in San Francisco this week for work. Staying at a very conventional Marriott downtown by Moscone. It’s not my usual digs, but it was a sudden trip, and I’ve been burned by last-minute AirBNB reser...