Names are temporary things. They are concepts that remain fluid and malleable and will ultimately be forgotten as language moves on. We imbue them with great meaning and pride and try to celebrate them with rituals and totems, and then we forget. The long for the history books, if lucky, and then gets left behind. … Continue reading
The horizon or future is an unknown quantity to some extent. Sure everyone knows that their future both short and long term will involve taxes, chocolate and eventually death, but until then everything can change. Priorities can shift, partners can change and the source of your next paycheck could be a mystery just two months … Continue reading
As an expat, this time of year is always a bit weird. I don’t often go home for Christmas, so celebrations are almost always muted and off-set by the impressions of the culture I am in. So there is little of hold on to when I am not at home. Except for peberkager, or pepperkaker, or pepper cakes, a … Continue reading
Magic is a fickle thing. As children, magic is everywhere. It’s in clouds above and the insects below and the life we experience in-between. We then grow up and everything becomes ordinary and we forget the magic we saw floating by on a Saturday afternoon in May. It’s a special kind of sad, but its life. … Continue reading
There are definitely worse Lego pieces to step on, but these tiny guys are often a pain to find. To make them pop a bit more in the image, I used a filtering setting to make everything B/W and just focus on the one colour. Tried a few variations, but alas my favourite colour orange … Continue reading
Chaos to me is being blissfully ignorant about something really bad about to happen because I lacked the capacity to see it coming. Its unpredictability combined fear and despair. Our friend in the image was inspired by that. He clearly has no idea that the sky is literally falling around him, about to plunge his plasticky … Continue reading
It was a sunny Saturday at the Atomium in Brussels when I shot this shiny bauble reflecting a distorted reality back at me. Just a quick snap and off we went. Turned out OK for a quick snap. This post is in response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: Shine Continue reading
