The Skylines Photographic Project – Hong Kong
Skylines is a photographic work-in-progress focusing on the communities in which we reside and the lines, sometimes invisible sometimes not, that connect us. This project began in Hong Kong in 2007 documenting how we layout, build, maintain and ultimately view ourselves within the large-scale cityscapes in which we move to and fro, work and live, [...]
The Trip Overland™ from Kyoto to California
The Trip Overland, will begin with a three-day ferry from Osaka to Shanghai, after which point I will travel in a westward direction overland across China, into Mongolia, past Lake Baikal and deeper on into Ekaterinburg and other Russian territory, ending in St. Petersburg (the end of the Trans-Siberian Rail) where I will begin the [...]
Rules of Hitchhiking
With the humid summer weather slowly fading into temperatures fit for humans to move around in, it’s finally approaching the time of the year when couples young and old will be taking advantage of the cheaper highway tolls and getting out on the road. Which means plenty of ride opportunities for the adventurous hitchhiker to [...]
Road, Trip
Things are getting bad: Family problems, money, the itch, again. Should Manny Santiago end it now or revisit The Trip, and try to work it all out?
The War Against Reality
Give me the dark, warm and buttery thick Give me whiskey in a glass, big chunks of ice Give me a snare and kick drum, and two sticks to fuse the gaps Give me palm trees at dusk, and a place from which to hear them Give me bloody death by arrows and knives and [...]
In the Rare Air – L.A. by Chopper
Jack Bauer can do it with his eyes closed, TC from Magnum P.I. makes it look easy, Murdock on The A-Team was supposedly insane and he could do it, yet flying a helicopter is anything but easy. Once you get up there, over all the little two-legged ants running around their infernal mazes in gas-guzzling [...]
Without a Hitch
I never start off well. Shaky & ineffectual, I felt like a thumbless leper vacillating there by the Tenjin expressway entrance with my kindergarten-level kanji scrawled across the cardboard I’d heisted some minutes before reading, “Karatsu”. There should have been a question mark. I was unsure. Naked. Just me and my cardboard cock fishing in [...]
