Salsa Dancing Street Skeletons – Quito, Ecuador
Like Chiang Mai, in Thailand, Quito has become a very popular place with the nomad expat crowd, and after spending a few days here, it’s easy to see why. Low cost rent. Great, cheap restaurants…
High-Rise Apartments For Dead People – Baños, Ecuador
Some of these graves look more comfortable than hostels I’ve stayed in. The neighbours wouldn’t wake you up banging doors in the middle of the night either…
Tate Modern: Proper Modern Art in London
I know it’s important to protect rare species, but isn’t the real answer to preserve habitat so art can live sustainably in the wild?..
Something Unusual to Report: Graffiti in Stratford
Things that are usual: 1. working; 2. shopping; 3. eating; 4. drinking beer; 5. procreating; 6. watching television. These are usual things. If you see something not usual, report it. It won’t hurt you. You’ll feel so much better if you report…
The British Museum: Kings, Gods & Stabbing – London, England
It is very important to make really good tools for killing other people. Bad people, of course. Bronze is OK, but if you want to build a serious empire, make your stabbing tools out of iron…
Graffiti London: Colouring The Grey
When I see street art in London, it’s exciting, almost shocking. So much of the city is like a surreal homage to history…
Wat a Day – Chiang Mai, Thailand
The original Wat Chedi Luang was built six centuries ago, so it looks a bit battered and falling down. It has big elephants on it. It’s like a giant birthday cake after the kids grabbed fistfuls of it…
Tribe Life – Drake, Australia
Hitchhiked 900 kilometres across Eastern Australia to Drake Village. Rode my bike 15 kilometres to the banks of the Rocky River. Hiked through the bush, pitched my tent, lived on mung beans and lentils for a week… all so I could be at Rainbow Gathering. Was it worth it? Yep. Absurdly beautiful river. Lovely, lovely…
Hello, This is Who I Am!
When you are hitchhiking, getting picked up has a lot to do with getting people to like you, but when they are whizzing past at 80 kph you don’t get much time to establish trust. I’ve been hitchhiking around the planet for years, with the Australian Flag on my backpack. Standing beside the road,…
A Short Tall Story
I Am Tall. Get Over It. I get so sick of people commenting on my height. It’s like: “really? I’m tall? No shit? I never noticed that before. Fuck! You are such an observant person!” I’m not sure why I’m so annoyed by it. I guess it’s partly repetition. If you hear anything often…
DIY Krathong – Chiang Mai, Thailand
It’s Loi Krathong all over Thailand right now. Central to the festival ritual is the making and floating of Krathong: little floral rafts that you place into the river or sea. Focus Gallery Cafe , here in Chiang Mai, ran a Krathong making workshop yesterday. Anna and I went along and made us a couple…
Metal Menagerie – Chiang Mai, Thailand
…There is welding equipment all over the place, and the artists are all clad in protective overalls and home made masks that protect their faces from sparks. Noi shows us around proudly. There are steel horses, elephants, monsters and mutants… My original Thai tourist visa has expired. To get a new visa, I need…