Search Results
- 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.
- Incident on the LES
- October 4, 2008
- A shooting on the Lower East Side brings the police out in force.
- 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.
- Disoriented relaunch
- July 21, 2008
- disoriented.net relaunches with a new look.
- 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.
- 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
- Mumbai Rail
- January 10, 2008
- The suburban railway system in Mumbai may be the most complex and heavily loaded in the world.
- Indglish
- January 7, 2008
- English as she is spoke and written, Indian-style
- Tea with the sadhu
- January 2, 2008
- A tea break with the residents of a Hanuman shrine in Khajuraho.
- A tale of two trucks
- October 11, 2007
- A short truck ride in the Fan Mountains.
- The Gray Plague
- October 8, 2007
- The police in Dushanbe are everywhere ... and they have too much time on their hands.
- In the Pamirs
- October 4, 2007
- Photographs taken in the Pamirs, near the Khargush Pass
- 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.
- Photo Exhibition
- September 20, 2007
- Some photographs taken during a recent photography course.
- San Gennaro
- September 16, 2007
- The Feast of San Gennaro comes to Little Italy.
- Fireworks
- July 4, 2007
- Photographs of the 4th of July firework display seen from the Lower East Side.
- (It's a) Burning Car
- May 24, 2007
- A car spontaneously combusts in the street outside.
- 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.
- Great Saunter 2007
- May 5, 2007
- Here we go round the island again.
- MoDo Madness
- April 30, 2007
- The mourning doves have landed, and the cat is going insane.
- Fire and Police
- April 4, 2007
- High drama - and a touch of farce - on the streets of New York.
- 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.
- Babel
- July 21, 2006
- Note to self: Portuguese is not just a funny kind of Spanish.
- Bonde
- July 19, 2006
- About the bonde, the tram service connecting Rio's Centro district to Santa Teresa.
- Pantsed by God
- July 16, 2006
- The Atlantic ocean wants your swimsuit.
- To Rio
- July 15, 2006
- Photographs and musings on the way to Rio de Janeiro.
- 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.
- Snow
- February 12, 2006
- It's snowing in New York. A lot.
- Global Village Epiphany
- January 31, 2006
- Teatime in the global village.
- 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.
- Phnom Penh
- January 17, 2006
- Back to Phnom Penh, which hasn't changed much in a year and a half.
- Going downhill fast
- December 31, 2005
- Recent arrests and trials of opposition figures bode ill for Cambodia's fragile democracy.
- Election Fever
- November 5, 2005
- Mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer visits the Lower East Side.
- 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.
- Statements
- April 17, 2005
- In Broad Channel, everyone's home makes a statement of some kind.
- Murals
- April 12, 2005
- Chico has a new mural on Houston St.
- 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.
- Neither snow nor rain
- September 1, 2004
- Even though I work just a few blocks away, I can almost ignore the RNC. Others are not so lucky.
- RNC NYC
- August 29, 2004
- Some pictures and comments from Sunday's protest against the Republican National Convention in New York.
- Monkey Business
- July 20, 2004
- Lopburi, Thailand - all the monkeys you will ever need.
- 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
- Landcruiser
- July 7, 2004
- How to tell where you are in South-East Asia by looking at the vehicles.
- 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.
- Shrines
- May 30, 2004
- On Bangkok's roadside shrines, Hindu outposts in a Buddhist country
- 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.
- Chickenhead
- May 2, 2004
- Interview with three mainland women working as prostitutes in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong