"I adore photography, taking photographs holding my camera, choosing my frame, playing with the light. I love living with people, observing communities, and now animals, trees, and rocks too. It is a need that comes from deep inside me. It is the desire to photograph that always drives me to leave again, to go and look elsewhere. Constantly to be taking more new images." -Sebastiao Salgado, From my Land to the Planet

I joined a sea urchin harvesting adventure at Salt Point out of curiosity. I wanted to taste uni from our ocean. It was there that I learned how purple sea urchins, native to this coast, have grown so numerous that they are beginning to unsettle the balance of the reef. Sea urchins are not invasive. They have always been part of our waters. For a long time, their numbers were kept in balance by sea otters moving through the kelp and by abalone sharing the slow work of grazing

"In Japanese crafts, pottery for example, there is an emphasis on the nobility of the process, with the repetitive nature of making a pot again and again leading to perfection. Hirayama is, admittedly, no craftsman, he cleans and maintains restrooms in Tokyo – which are works of art in themselves – but he nevertheless approaches the task with the same eye for detail, pride and dedication with which a master potter approaches ceramics. You know, the potter’s secret is doing it

"American" by Edward Hopper, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 2024 Found this article after reading Wim Wenders’ The Pixels of Paul Cézanne and seeing Edward Hopper’s American at MFA Houston. I’ve never thought of Hopper as an influence on my favourite filmmakers—Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch. But there is a consistency in what draws me to their work: the isolation, the imagery, the silence. I’m beginning to see Hopper’s presence there, in the way space and time are al

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1tVYL5MC36--Bss3zuW1cyIpvUA0&usp=sharing Food List of must try local dishes. Chicken Rice Laksa  (Best laksa is in Katong neighborhood, in the East) Prawn Mee (I usually have this for breakfast, dry with white noodles, best prawn mee in my opinion is " Beach Road Prawn Mee ", also in the east, near Katong, here are some other choices ) Roti Prata (also breakfast, have an egg roti prata! I love Mr & Mrs Mohgan's, and Springleaf, sometimes

輪迴塵間的人 揮之不能 徘徊來生的往生 ... 蒼天慷慨的一盞五路燈 給傷痛引渡超脫往來生 又再等 分岔的走馬路返看人生 大概超出命運 多少的往事終給抱憾淹浸 將灑脫在心內幽禁 留在這悸動月台共振 輪迴塵間的人 揮之不能 徘徊來生的往生 還未斷的根 求誰來悲憫 仍頑固埋首往後行 滄桑的聲線哼起了南音 響起牽掛種種世事餘韻 未結束 翩翩起了一支最後沒明日的舞 輪迴塵間的人 揮之不能 徘徊來生的往生 還未斷的根 求誰來悲憫 仍為抹不開的世塵傷感 (前塵未過 怎生) 輪迴塵間的人 今生可能 渡化纏繞的半生 隨落葉生根 毋用來悲忿 回望在多少遺憾中普渡的眾生 才覺已得到福蔭 **Translation** The one who drifts through cycles of dust and samsara, Unable to cast it all away, Lingers at the threshold of the next life, Searching for release. The vast heavens, ge

A Weekend with Robert Macfarlane, in Touch with Nature, Words, and Moral Imagination Step away from the noise. Let the hush of trees and wind-tossed leaves tune your senses. Let words—read, written, or spoken—open new inner doors. Let moral imagination guide you beyond what is, toward what ought to be. Walk barefoot on the earth. Write what you see, and what you feel. Speak not just to be heard, but to connect. And listen—not just to others, but to the world itself. "I came t

A teapot is about the most difficult article a potter is called upon to make. In comparison with a vase of equial size, it requires in additiona, a lid, a handle, a sprout and perforations to retain tea leaves A Potter's Book, Bernard Leach, 1940 I took a porcelain teapot workshop last month and several weeks later, I'm still thinking about the teapot. As an aspiring ceramacist who does not throw well, the teapot was not an object deemed within my capabilities to throw. The t

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