Journal Pages: Southwestern China

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JOURNAL PAGES:  Robin Wang's journal pages com from a 3 week trip to the southwestern part of China, including Yunnan and Guangxi, with villages that still have matriarchal societies, and people "ignoring the outside modern world."  More »

Notes on Having AK-47s Pointed at You

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NOTES FROM ROAD:  "Maybe they stumbled upon me while they were doing who-knows-what with their AK's. Either way they whistled for me to turn around and with a gesture that is unmistakable - move and die."  More »

One Talk: Meeting Up With Writer Jon Cotner

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NOTES ON WRITING:  "No one else writes like this about New York."  More »

The Future of Freelance Journalism, Part 2A: Sweaty Balls

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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO:  In which the editor of Esquire makes a case for The Magazine as the greatest medium ever invented. And lays out how much blood, balls and marrow-sapping dedication will be required to participate.  More »

Notes on Abuelo Colque

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NOTES FROM ROAD:  "Even New Years, standing with his sons drinking beer by the fire, it was like he was just waiting to fix something . . ."  More »

Bariloche Juxtaposition

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NOTES FROM ROAD:  "I think about how Nazis³ used to live here and probably still do. If I had the chance to meet one, would I say anything? Would I paint PUEBLO JUDIO across his face?"  More »

Notes on Getting Robbed in the Land of Gandhi

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NOTES FROM ROAD:  " Vinay, 26, brings solar energy to rural villages, and I bring my squares of writing paper. What did these gentlemen bring, hands fallen to their sides now, bodies pressing against glass and metal?"  More »

A Negative Narrative

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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO:  A new website that uses photographs to create innovative insights into the lives of your favourite music artists.  More »

Travel Video Ninjas, Attack!

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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO:  The MatadorTV dojo is quickly filling with deadly Travel Video Ninjas! These are multimedia travelers who stand out and who's adventures you would do well to follow.  More »

Travel Photographer Interviews: Wendy Connett


TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHERS:  New York-based travel photographer Wendy Connett's work has appeared in various travel publications such as Travel & Leisure, The Guardian, The Times, Rough Guides, Fodor's, Time Out, and Frommers in over 25 countries.  More »

Notes on Codification and Commodification in Travel Writing

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NOTES ON WRITING:  Because codification enables a "common frame of reference" for people, it can cause them to describe place / culture experience not as they perceived it, but as they believe their experience is "supposed to sound."  More »

Notes on a World Cup War Cry : Mexico vs. Argentina

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NOTES FROM ROAD:  I can contain myself. I am good at containing myself, but I want to leak out into this crowd. I want the jeers and energy and tacos and booze to penetrate the leathery membrane of my ego.   More »

HDR Photography - Stuff of Dreams or Satan's Spawn?

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UNCATEGORIZED:  There’s no real sitting on the fence with this stuff, you either love it - or, like me, would rather skewer your own eyes out with a monopod than look at a gallery of the stuff.   More »

Outsiders Looking In: An Interview with Suzanne Roberts

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NOTES ON WRITING:  "Whenever we are traveling, we are outsiders looking in, no matter how we travel. In some respects, the poet also places herself outside of things because she observes the world from a distance."  More »

Notes from an Old Leftist in Fading Red Bengal

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NOTES FROM ROAD:  Robert Hirschfield reflects on his "low grade affection" for a political party in India and how political change is yet one more filter through which to look at place.   More »

The Future of Freelance Journalism, Part 1

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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO:  Notes, quotes, tweets, links and other distractions from the confab at Stanford University.  More »

Travel Photographer Interviews: Mitchell Kanashkevich

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TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHERS:  Travel and documentary photographer, Mitchell Kanashkevich travels the world, shooting personal projects and stock photos for Getty and Corbis Images.  More »

Perspectives on Poverty (and other African stories)

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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO:  Every photo tells a story, they say. But which story is it?  More »

14 Ways of Looking at Place

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UNCATEGORIZED:  David Miller identifies and examines 14 common ways that people look at place.  More »

Journal Pages - Joshywashington in Saigon

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JOURNAL PAGES:  Irreverent doodles, scraps of narrative and sketches of the objects around me help me to process the myriad emotions of travel.  More »
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