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- Chinese New Year 2010
- February 21, 2010
- Lions and dragons and dogs in baby-carriages, oh my! It's Chinese New Year in New York again.
- Ice on the Hudson
- February 7, 2010
- Photographs of ice on the Hudson River, New York.
- First snowstorm of the winter
- December 22, 2009
- The first snowstorm of the winter hit New York on Saturday, and left behind a few inches of snow.
- Mimes
- October 29, 2009
- The mimes have moved into the neighborhood ... and they're playing kickball.
- Fish time
- August 13, 2009
- Snorkeling in the Perhentian Islands, with fish, sea turtles, squid and more.
- Obstacle course
- August 10, 2009
- In which I make my flight to Kuala Lumpur after all, despite the best efforts of Delhi airport.
- Runny
- July 20, 2009
- Photographs of New York local band 'Runny' playing at Pianos on the Lower East Side.
- Mission to MARS
- June 19, 2009
- Riding along on MBARI's research vessel 'Point Lobos', on a mission to recover an experimental module from the bottom of the undersea Monterey Canyon.
- Lagarto
- April 30, 2009
- An encounter of the reptilian kind on the road to San Felipe.
- Another swine mess
- April 25, 2009
- Vacation in the land of swine flu - what's not to like?
- "In C"
- April 24, 2009
- The forty-fifth anniversary performance of Terry Riley's "In C" at Carnegie Hall was like no other piece of orchestral music that I've ever heard.
- Pillowfight
- April 4, 2009
- The NYPD shut down the Manhattan pillowfight early ... but smaller pillowfights broke out anyway.
- Barking Beauty
- March 22, 2009
- The Barking Beauty Pageant - thirty dogs, three changes of costume, and more than a hint of insanity.
- Free Tibet Protest
- March 10, 2009
- Some photographs from the Tibetan protest march commemorating the March 1959 uprising against Chinese occupation.
- Signs of Winter
- December 20, 2008
- Video of an underground electrical short circuit in New York probably caused by salt corrosion.
- Vigil
- December 17, 2008
- Photographs from the 2008 Vigil to End Violence against Sex Workers held in Washington Square Park, New York.
- 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.
- November again
- November 2, 2008
- It's November. Do you know where your novel is? More to the point, do I?
- Halloween Parade 2008
- October 31, 2008
- A small selection of photographs taken at the Halloween Parade in New York's West Village, 2008
- 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.
- 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.
- Detained in Beijing
- August 20, 2008
- My friend Brian Conley from Alive in Baghdad has been detained in Beijing.
- Precision
- July 26, 2008
- What exactly is precision brow planing, and why would you want it?
- Disoriented relaunch
- July 21, 2008
- disoriented.net relaunches with a new look.
- Fourth of July
- July 4, 2008
- What I did on my Fourth of July holiday.
- 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.
- Roller Derby
- May 10, 2008
- Pictures from a roller derby bout between the Manhattan Mayhem and the Queens of Pain.
- 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
- Band Rampage
- March 28, 2008
- Photographs from various bands that played New York in the first part of 2008.
- Pomelo
- January 27, 2008
- The softest kitty in the world is no more.
- Carol Jenkins (1945-2008)
- January 22, 2008
- American anthropologist Carol Jenkins has died at her home, aged sixty-three.
- Mumbai Rail
- January 10, 2008
- The suburban railway system in Mumbai may be the most complex and heavily loaded in the world.
- Amber
- January 9, 2008
- A small collection of photographs taken at Amber Fort near Jaipur.
- Indglish
- January 7, 2008
- English as she is spoke and written, Indian-style. The subcontinent has some interesting variations on standard English.
- Tea with the sadhu
- January 2, 2008
- A tea break with the residents of a Hanuman shrine in Khajuraho.
- Atmosphere
- December 5, 2007
- Two pictures of unusual atmospheric phenomena - a 'sun pillar' and a 'fallstreak hole'.
- Fire on the Bowery
- November 29, 2007
- Pictures from a fire at a lighting store on the Bowery.
- Picture of an underachiever
- November 14, 2007
- It's November again, and that means it's novel-writing time.
- Halloween
- November 1, 2007
- Some pictures from New York's Halloween Parade.
- 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.
- 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 Bibi Fatima in the Wakhan Valley, Tajikistan.
- Howo Kush
- October 2, 2007
- Strange things happen on the road from Kalai Khumb to Khorog.
- Valve
- September 29, 2007
- Engine valves: can't live with them, can't cross the Atlantic without them.
- 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.
- 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.
- Birds and the Bees (and Crabs)
- May 31, 2007
- Love is in the air (for wild turkeys and mind-blowingly ancient arthropods).
- (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 of Manhattan with the Shorewalkers again.
- 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.
- Gung hei faat choi
- February 25, 2007
- Photographs from the Chinese New Year parade in Manhattan.
- Snow
- February 15, 2007
- Some photographs from recent snowstorms in Manhattan.
- Confession
- February 8, 2007
- I am an unrepentant criminal. Here is my confession.
- East London
- January 28, 2007
- A few photographs from East London.
- Power Washer
- January 6, 2007
- Photographs of the power-washing of 188 Suffolk Street, Manhattan
- Alive in Mexico
- December 5, 2006
- Another friend gets arrested, this time by Mexican police in Oaxaca.
- Rhymes with 'Flymo'
- November 29, 2006
- NaNoWriMo has my soul again
- 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.
- Patiwat?
- September 19, 2006
- The Thai military has seized power - again.
- Pantsed by God
- July 16, 2006
- The Atlantic ocean wants your swimsuit: the perils of Copacabana.
- 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
- A selection of cloudscapes and aerial photographs taken from a commercial flight.
- UNGASS
- May 31, 2006
- Photographs from the UNGASS protests outside the UN Building.
- Feast of St Joey
- May 19, 2006
- The Hungry March Band leads a procession in honor of Joey Ramone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 (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
- This is how the other half dies in Cambodia.
- Phnom Penh
- January 17, 2006
- Back to Phnom Penh, which hasn't changed much in a year and a half.
- Triskaidekaphobia
- January 13, 2006
- There's something ominous about the idea of traveling on Friday the 13th.
- 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.