smile and eyes

It's been 3 months since I moved to Beijing from San Francisco.  I can't help but to fall in love with this city.  People here really know how to put on a great smile.  And on many occasions, I feel as though I can see right into their souls.  You call it 'simple-minded', 'slower pace', 'developing world', whatever that is (and not entirely the right descrīption for Beijing anyway), all I can say people here seem to be quite happy. 

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From Home to Home

Video: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/qlyKPb1ims4/

A little video I made from a few years back.

Synopsis: A traveler sets off with the hopes of filling some gaps where definition of space is in question, and drawing the lines that links the foreign and the familiar - from one home to another.

My journey started in South Africa, here is an intro story.

I met Gil, a Jewish vagabond from Johannesburg, in Observatory one week before we decided to travel up the coast along the Garden Route together.

Three days after we left Cape Town, I paid my first of many visits to Knysna, a tourist town known for its lagoon, and the lumber industry that founded the town in 1804.

It was in this town where I eventually bought a little wooden hut for USD$150, and for the first time spent extensive amount of time alone.  It was the first month after th...Read more

photography: what do I do.

(No one has commented on my photographs yet, how come?)

The very first place where I lived on my own for the first time, was a pseudo-commune in San Francisco.  There I met a photographer who was my neighbor at the time.  He got me into photography.

I shoot mostly transparencies and color film, B&W once in a while, some digital.  I mainly print color though I have yet to find a dark...Read more

I started hitchhiking when I travelled in South Africa, where I spent the Millennium. Since then I've hitchhiked in Thailand, Kyrgyzstan and the U.S.. People always ask me why, especially when I am on

I started hitchhiking when I travelled in South Africa, where I spent the millenium. Since then I have hitchhiked in 3 other countries: Thailand, Kyrgyzstan and the U.S.. People always ask me why, especially when I am on the road.  This is the first time I put it down in words....

I am not really sure how I got into hitchhiking.  I haven't writt...Read more

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