Thaipusam

Singapore, January 2014: I’ve never attended Thaipusam festivities before, only knowing of them as the Tamil festival where devotees endured multiple piercings and carried kavadis, with a period of cleansing observed before the day’s festivities. It was noisy, colorful, and confronting if you are not used to seeing people pierced with spikes of all sizes. Going this year,…More

Superhero

March 2014, Copenhagen: Even superheros have to drop by 7-11 with the kids once in a while.More

Meta and the Cornerstones

6 June 2013, Montréal: At the Montreal Jazz Festival last summer, David Rowicz and I wandered across a reggae band that was doing a soundcheck. Neither of us knew who they were, but the soundcheck sounded so good, we decided we had to see the actual show. More

Converging Lines, Copenhagen

March 2014, Copenhagen: I’ll always think of Copenhagen as the place where things came together. The crossing of impossible borders by actually getting to Europe (I still cannot believe I got there, and am going back again), artists to collaborate with, a different atmosphere, and overall, a different (better) kind of self to be.More

Fuji X day, Copenhagen

March 2014, Copenhagen: For an aspiring nomad, I’ve done no travelling at all for the last 5 months. Heading to Copenhagen for a couple of weeks in the middle of March for my first duty as an official Fuji X-Photographer among other things, kicked this gypsy back in action.  More

Nine hundred and two

Flemming turned 901 in New Mexico spectacularly last year: they opened Trinity site (location of the first A bomb test) for the occasion, and the nice people at the Very Large Array even pulled the telescope into its tightest configuration so we could get a picture to mark the day (see here).More

Retrospecting new mexico

Exactly a year ago, I walked off the plane at Albuquerque International Sunport (New Mexico, home of sunports and spaceports) after a fairly traumatic border crossing into the USA from Mexico, in LAX. The issue at hand was that I didn’t have a ticket out of the country within the 90 day visa-waiver period. There…More

f1.2

Flemming had the much anticipated  Fujinon XF 56mm F1.2 on loan from Fuji Nordic for the last few weeks, so I borrowed it for a few minutes one sunny afternoon here in Copenhagen (we know what I’m like with gear, so I minimize contact with others’ equipment). The razor thin depth of field that is f1.2: at…More

On walking

Walking is in my blood. My father was never one for it, but my mother is a walker. It wasn’t unusual for her to walk for hours for the hell of it, with unfailing regularity. Now in her mid 60s, with troublesome knee joints, she still possesses enough enthusiasm to out-walk many people half her…More

On Rocking

July 2013, Copenhagen: Two days after I got to Copenhagen, I was hanging out on Dronning Louises Bro (Queen Louise’s Bridge) with Flemming when the lady in the picture walked by. My tshirt, which bore “Born To Rock” in large print, caught her eye. “I like your shirt,” she said as I took the photo.…More