i’ve run this blog for over three years now, starting when i first went off to india. i did go through a year of thinking i was a neoluddite and didn’t really post much, but other than that i have posted regularly. when i left for india this most recent time, i decided to do [...]

zak is back from africa, and is finally updating his blog. lots of new things.

it’s interesting to see what other people like. i’ve submitted many photographs to file magazine for publication and never heard back. yesterday i was online looking through their work and noticed that they decided to publish one of mine. what strikes me is that of all the photographs that i’ve submitted, the one the published [...]

i made it to niskayuna, ny which is about 3 hours north of nyc by car. last year there was zero snow, really none at all. this year there has been snow since i arrived. snow can be nice if it doesn’t get in your way. when you can get up whenever, don’t have to [...]

if anyone happens to be in la now, get your ass to LACMA to see Dali: paintings and film and then to MOCA for the Murakami exhibit.
whenever i come back to the states, i try to get to as many museums as is possible. the arts scene in bangkok is definitely growing and i [...]

sometimes i wonder if we create spaces for ourselves to make new years resolutions. when i got back from india, i was really worried about how i would handle practicing yoga by myself every day at 4am. it’s gone really, really well up until a few weeks ago when it has become a huge struggle [...]

when i was cleaning the other day, i found a roll of film that i shot with my panoramic camera in ooty, india and never processed. click the image to view it full size, looks much better.

in thailand, two topics are rarely analyzed or reported on critically: the king and religion. in fact as a foreigner, they often seem even more off limits. it’s normal for people to say thing like “ohh you don’t understand, you’re not thai”. the king just celebrated his 80th birthday and in honor of it there [...]

i’ve been a fan of the writer christopher isherwood ever since i first saw cabaret performed … actually even before that, i helped my friend bob prepare for a dinner theater performance of the show (he was great, herr shultz was great and the rest of the cast was just ok.) when i finally saw [...]