I always found it interesting that companies (especially, though not limited to, clothing companies) would market their wares to the entire world by showcasing them on people who probably fall into the top 1% of the global beauty scale.

I’ve seen a lot of Christmas decorations in my time, but this has got to be one of the more macabre ones to date. It reminds me of those witch doctors’ shrunken heads you’d see in cartoons and comics. The only things that are missing are lifeless eyes and sewn-shut lips.

Apparently growing up in an island country means I’m expected to eat seafood. I wonder if vegetarians from Texas are met with the same incredulity.

Experienced my first New York Halloween tonight. I was, to be honest, somewhat disappointed. Overwhelming crowds made it impossible to see the parade, and the sea of people made joining the parade even more frustrating an endeavor.

Entry to come. It’s too damn late and I’m too damn tired to think.

We seem to have this obsession with anthropomorphizing the things around us. We name our cars. We talk to (okay, yell at) our computers. We feel bad for old lamps when they are left on curbsides.

I’ve always found it interesting how people (myself included) tend to have this compulsion, when waiting on a train, to lean out over the tracks and look down the tunnel to see if the train’s coming. It isn’t limited to just trains, of course, but for some reason it seems more pointless. A train isn’t [...]

My brain is too tired to make words happen. Maybe next time.

There is an old Calvin & Hobbes strip whose punchline reads “The problem with being avant garde is knowing who’s putting on who.” I came across this little gem the other day while crossing Spring in SoHo the other day. A little bit of internet research later and I discovered that this was by far [...]

I always receive hostile reactions from vendors when I photograph their displays, and I never really understood why.