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BUY! HANDMADE FABRIC ACCESSORIES BY QTPI
My wife has opened her store with handmade products from rich European fabrics, such as functional iPhone and iPod wallets, elegant passport cases and notebooks, as well as sleepwear and limited photo prints. The products are made by hand, but are very qualitative and detailed. She has intended not to overprice the products but keep them considerably affordable compared to the market: most iPhone pouches are for sale at a mere US$10. Be sure to check out this limited selection.
WHERE WE’RE GOING, WE DON’T NEED ROADS
Went out with my film nikon on a real moody day in Hongkong. The clouds were so low they were obscuring most of the skyscrapers. The haze and lack of sun gave an appealing (if somewhat unheimlich neotokyoesque) accent on the sharp lines.This is a selection. (flickr)
PHOTOGRAPHY: GLOOM OF DOOM
This picture was a complete surprise when it came back from the development shop. I took this long exposure at the boating station in Hongkong, behind a glass window. I propped the cam against the glass and opened the lens for 10 seconds or so. What I didn’t know was that the wide angle also caught my shade and the gloomy lights behind me in the glass.
Shot with Nikon FM3a + 24mm.
72 HOURS IN BARCELONA
Amazing how much you can do in just three days. My wife and I went to Barcelona in September unadulterated R&R before our son is born and we’re required to act as responsible parents for the rest of our lives.
Stark blue skies. Fantastic food. Gracious weather. Tiny shops with exceedingly good products beyond your imagination. These are our pictures.
EXPLORING UNSPACE
Eric Sanderson defines unspace as the empty abandoned areas of the world. (Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall)
I found these empty, abandoned areas in Hong Kong by accident: they are the staircases of Causeway Bay station, one of the busiest metro stations in Hong Kong. They are abandoned for a simple reason: they are not in the path of the traveler. Right next to the staircase is an escalator.
I will continue to explore and document unspace.
This is the first set.
PHOTOGRAPHY: 72 HOURS IN BERLIN
In July, my brother and I went to Berlin, exploring the city’s many fantastic little secrets it’s more than willing to demonstrate. We took some pictures on film, and this week I finally got round to developing the last film roll. I made a selection of that result. All the photos can be found on my Flickr stream.
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Suddenly. History. A lot of it (part deux)
Yesterday I mentioned how I suddenly found three film rolls and have them developed. I won’t post all the photos, but they’re all available here.
What I will show here though, are the pictures I think are the most interesting.
Suddenly: history. A lot of it
My last dog was a Siberian Husky. We called him Nomy, because that was his given name by the time we bought him as a two-year old. He was a bit of a chewer as most dogs are, and never really got used to living indoors (therefore most of the time he would sleep in the garden). About ten years ago, Nomy somehow got hold of a number of film rolls that we took of our holidays. He chewed one of them, hard, before we arrested him in the act. Thinking he had destroyed the film roll, but finding it hard to throw it away without knowing it for certain, we put the film rolls away, and forgot about them.
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