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- Inflation - Thanksgiving 2008
- November 26, 2008
- Eavesdropping at the balloon inflation the night before Thanksgiving confirms what most children know: parents don't listen.
- Mumbai terrorist attacks
- November 26, 2008
- The news from Mumbai is ugly, but it may get worse still if the attacks trigger inter-ethnic violence.
- Democracy 2K8
- November 4, 2008
- Democracy is coming to the USA; in bite-sized pieces, once every four years.
- What's in a name?
- October 25, 2008
- Your neighborhood bar is the place where people know your name; if we could just get them to remember the bar's name as well, we'd be onto something.
- 2008 Vendy Awards
- October 18, 2008
- Pictures from the 2008 Vendy Awards, a street food event organized by the Streetvendor Project of the Urban Justice Center.
- Lost in translation
- October 17, 2008
- It turns out that my neighbors don't do irony.
- Cross Bones
- October 15, 2008
- The Cross Bones graveyard in London was the burial ground for prostitutes working in the licensed brothels of Southwark.
- Incident on the LES
- October 4, 2008
- A shooting on the Lower East Side brings the police out in force.
- Betelnut Girls
- October 3, 2008
- Annamarie Ho's installation 'Betelnut Girls' has come to Manhattan.
- One Fish Two Fish
- September 27, 2008
- The bluefish are running.
- Notting Hill '08
- August 29, 2008
- Some photographs and observations from London's Notting Hill Carnival.
- Photowalk
- August 23, 2008
- Some pictures from the NYC Chinatown photowalk, part of Scott Kelby's worldwide photowalk.
- Useful number
- August 21, 2008
- Brian Conley and other citizen journalists are being held in Beijing: here's a number that you can call.
- Detained in Beijing
- August 20, 2008
- My friend Brian Conley from Alive in Baghdad has been detained in Beijing.
- Olafur
- June 28, 2008
- Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has installed four giant waterfalls in New York
- Mermaid Parade 2008
- June 21, 2008
- Photographs from Coney Island's annual Mermaid Parade.
- Midget
- June 17, 2008
- You see some strange things in New York
- Toy Tower
- May 12, 2008
- The Toy Tower, a ramshackle wooden structure towering over Avenue B on Manhattan's Lower East Side, is due to be taken down.
- Study war no more
- April 25, 2008
- Internet startups blip.tv and Pando face off on the paintball field, and everyone gets covered in yellow paint
- Carol Jenkins (1945-2008)
- January 22, 2008
- American anthropologist Carol Jenkins has died at her home, aged sixty-three.
- Indglish
- January 7, 2008
- English as she is spoke and written, Indian-style
- Sacred cows
- January 6, 2008
- India's roads have everything. Really everything.
- "Alive in Baghdad" reporter killed
- December 15, 2007
- Ali Shafeya, a journalist working with my friend Brian, has been killed in his home by the Iraqi National Guard.
- Picture of an underachiever
- November 14, 2007
- It's November again, and that means it's novel-writing time.
- A tale of two trucks
- October 11, 2007
- A short truck ride in the Fan Mountains.
- Strange days indeed
- October 11, 2007
- Only in Tajikistan can a ride in a shared taxi turn into an industrial spelunking expedition.
- The Gray Plague
- October 8, 2007
- The police in Dushanbe are everywhere ... and they have too much time on their hands.
- The view from Bulunkul
- October 5, 2007
- Bulunkul, in the Pamiri desert: dry earth, a handful of houses, no future.
- Checkpoint
- October 4, 2007
- Chance encounters in the desert.
- Bibi Fatima
- October 3, 2007
- A visit to the hot springs of the Wakhan Valley.
- Howo Kush
- October 2, 2007
- Strange things happen on the road to Khorog.
- Tavildara Road
- October 1, 2007
- Taking the old road from Dushanbe to Khorog.
- Valve
- September 29, 2007
- Engine valves: can't live with them, can't cross the Atlantic without them.
- San Gennaro
- September 16, 2007
- The Feast of San Gennaro comes to Little Italy.
- Relaunched
- September 10, 2007
- Another day, another website makeover.
- Fireworks
- July 4, 2007
- Photographs of the 4th of July firework display seen from the Lower East Side.
- Reverend Billy
- July 1, 2007
- Reverend Billy has reportedly been arrested.
- Dance Parade 2007
- May 19, 2007
- Dancers vote with their feet (hips, hands and other body parts) to protest New York's archaic cabaret laws.
- Fire and Police
- April 4, 2007
- High drama - and a touch of farce - on the streets of New York.
- Eclipse
- March 3, 2007
- Some photographs of the March 3rd lunar eclipse.
- Dissenting opinion
- March 1, 2007
- Vandals have taken to defacing anti-authoritarian wall art in my neighborhood.
- Confession
- February 8, 2007
- I am an unrepentant criminal. Here is my confession.
- East London
- January 28, 2007
- A few photographs from East London.
- Erin
- October 30, 2006
- Erin Siegal, Reuters and Indymedia photographer, has been arrested by the NYPD while covering a demonstration.
- Best of breed
- October 29, 2006
- Pictures from the Halloween Dog Parade in Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan
- Roller Derby
- October 14, 2006
- The Bronx Gridlock and the Queens of Pain meet in Manhattan, and I get to take pictures from the ringside.
- Blip
- September 20, 2006
- Today I start my new job at Blip.tv.
- Rio Graffiti
- July 18, 2006
- Some graffiti art from Rio de Janeiro.
- Pantsed by God
- July 16, 2006
- The Atlantic ocean wants your swimsuit.
- Ceçi n'est pas un blog
- July 9, 2006
- A couple of blogs that I'd like you to check out.
- From the Air
- June 23, 2006
- Some cloudscapes and aerial photographs.
- Gardens on the march
- May 13, 2006
- A march for community gardens visits the Lower East Side.
- Great Saunter 2006
- May 7, 2006
- The Great Saunter 2006: another thirty-two miles round Manhattan's rim.
- Lost in America
- April 20, 2006
- One thing I like about New York is the chance to see live music.
- Enter the sorcerer
- March 25, 2006
- If rumor is to be believed, the Thai prime minister has resorted to using magic to stay in power.
- Erawan
- March 22, 2006
- The Brahma statue at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine has been smashed by a mentally-ill man.
- Snow
- February 12, 2006
- It's snowing in New York. A lot.
- Furthur (V)
- January 23, 2006
- All this, and a deep-frozen monk too.
- Furthur (IV)
- January 22, 2006
- Another day in the life of a Cambodian roadside photographer.
- Furthur (III)
- January 21, 2006
- Sight-seeing a la Khmer.
- Furthur (II)
- January 20, 2006
- Sissophon to Battambang: the odyssey continues.
- Furthur
- January 19, 2006
- A road trip from Phnom Penh to Sisophon.
- Mortality
- January 18, 2006
- How the other half dies.
- Kodak logo
- January 8, 2006
- Kodak's new logo doesn't compare well to the old one.
- Going downhill fast
- December 31, 2005
- Recent arrests and trials of opposition figures bode ill for Cambodia's fragile democracy.
- Sic transit
- December 20, 2005
- The first day of the New York transit strike wasn't so bad - for me at least.
- Sony on the street
- December 5, 2005
- More questionable publicity for Sony.
- Why I love my Zire 71
- November 12, 2005
- The Palm Zire 71's 'crappy camera' yields satisfyingly impressionistic pictures.
- Election Fever
- November 5, 2005
- Mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer visits the Lower East Side.
- Is it November already?
- November 1, 2005
- Thirty days; fifty thousand words. You have to be joking, right?
- Potemkin East
- October 30, 2005
- Drug-crazed Hollywood film-makers build Berkeley on the Lower East Side, call it Greenwich Village.
- Art around the Park
- August 28, 2005
- Photographs from Manhattan's annual Art around the Park/Howl! festival
- Down with the Mahdi Army
- June 21, 2005
- It's raining in Mae Hong Son, and I cannot decide if I should buy one of Major Hillpig-Smyth's patented walking sticks.
- Lao Kao
- June 19, 2005
- Welcome to Lamphang province - homebrew capital of Thailand.
- Back to Bangkok
- June 13, 2005
- Returning once again to Bangkok, via Tokyo.
- 24-hr party people
- May 15, 2005
- The first warm (Saturday) night in 2005, and the bands are on the march.
- The Great Saunter
- May 10, 2005
- Walking the outer rim of Manhattan on the Shorewalkers' Great Saunter.
- Good Friday
- May 1, 2005
- Eastern Orthodox Good Friday service, at the Cathedral of Holy Virgin Protection, New York.
- Leaving the scene
- April 25, 2005
- A taxi driver involved in a hit-and-run injured eleven people outside my office today.
- Murals
- April 12, 2005
- Chico has a new mural on Houston St.
- The Gates
- February 13, 2005
- Some photographs of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 'Gates' project in New York's Central Park.
- Crazy white people
- January 29, 2005
- Photographs from New York's Idiotarod 2005 shopping cart race.
- Nuweiba
- October 8, 2004
- I was always afraid that someone would notice just how easily a terrorist attack could be carried out on the Sinai coast around Nuweiba. And someone did.
- Occupied Zone
- September 3, 2004
- In which I get to show my photographs to the Secret Service.
- RNC NYC
- August 29, 2004
- Some pictures and comments from Sunday's protest against the Republican National Convention in New York.
- Arrivals and Departures
- July 26, 2004
- Photographs from Hong Kong.
- Da Lat
- July 15, 2004
- Da Lat in the Central Highlands of Vietnam has all the weather it can use, and more.
- Hue and Hoi An
- July 12, 2004
- Jottings from Central Vietnam.
- Ha Long Bay
- July 9, 2004
- When jellyfish attack: horror in Ha Long Bay
- Going by the Book
- July 6, 2004
- Seen from Hanoi, the planet doesn't look quite so Lonely after all.
- Farangs
- June 29, 2004
- You meet such fascinating people when you travel.
- Dance of the Apsaras
- June 13, 2004
- Even heavy rain at Angkor can't stop the dance of the apsaras.
- Say 'No' to drugs
- June 10, 2004
- Under the influence of powerful drugs in Cambodia - caffeine, dramamine, fatigue and Reaganism.
- Dr Strangedops
- June 5, 2004
- Three adults, one motorcycle, forty-eight klicks - no problem!
- Bangkok to Kampot
- June 3, 2004
- From Bangkok to Kampot, Cambodia, by bus, boat, motorcycle and car.
- Visa Run
- June 2, 2004
- It's time to leave Thailand - and come back in with a new visa.
- Shrines
- May 30, 2004
- On Bangkok's roadside shrines, Hindu outposts in a Buddhist country
- Rain
- May 23, 2004
- At this time of year in Bangkok, it seems to rain once a day. Hard.
- Khlong Saen Saep
- May 16, 2004
- The Khlong Saen Saep canal boat - the only form of public transport in the world that runs on toxic waste.
- Hi-So
- May 13, 2004
- In which we go to a fashionable party and have a surprising encounter on the way home.