Slow Down in the City June 2017, Upper West Side, NYC In the two avenues you have to cross to get from my apartment to my place of work, you pass three food trucks. The first one, on the corner of 66th and Broadway, in […]
All posts tagged: observations

Best of 2019: Kaori Fujimoto
Taipei Streets (with a Japanese Eye) Taiwan You wake up to the pattering of rain against the windows. It is June, the rainy season, the month of rat-colored skies when humidity alternates with a chill in the Japanese archipelago, your homeland. I need a vacation, […]

Best of 2019: Danny Burdett
Cinerama Los Angeles, USA If you find yourself in Los Angeles with no more pressing decisions than where you shall take your first meal of the day, which film you will see and where… if you are the beneficiary of this unaccountable good fortune, you […]

Best of 2019: Steve Brouillette
Fire The West, USA You have a task, requiring an immediate decision. How you engage is going to determine action and comes with its own parameters. There’s more traffic than the Tac can handle. It’s no longer organized chaos. It’s out of hand, but not […]

Best of 2019: Anthony Bain
The Clandestine Chef Barcelona, Spain Deep in the heart of central Barcelona, I step into an apartment building entranceway. The décor instantly grabs my attention, created when the city experienced a metamorphosis of modernist architecture; intricate multi-colored murals look down at me from high ceilings. […]

Best of 2019: Susanne Aspley
No Problem Thailand, 1990 After the all night train ride, I arrive in Bangkok at oh-dark-thirty. I rub my eyes, yawn, and immediately light a cigarette, along with most of the train car of travelers. A few minutes later, a train attendant comes with a […]