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stockholm syndrome

jo& — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:42:36 +0000

there was a royal wedding the first time i visited stockholm. i saw kool & the gang play under a burning sunset, ate dinner on a cliff drenched in rain, walked myself into a zombie parade and said goodbye to sweden (what i thought was) for good.

two years later i am living here again, much to my own surprise. the royal couple now have a child. i am a person outside myself – bolder – but the city feels largely unchanged to me, like outgrowing clothes. you never realize it until someone points out the awkwardness of your sleeve length, and then you have to do something about it. get a new shirt, fold the old one up, tuck it underneath your bed perhaps.

who knew?

in the clouds

jo& — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:42:43 +0000

where oakland hides the stars

in my life

jo& — Sat, 28 May 2011 01:37:09 +0000

hosaka takeshi

hk honey

jo& — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:58:20 +0000

i think this is such a beautiful cause; it’s something the city really needs. etched in my memory is the hong kong of 15 years ago, and even then it was stifling. all i knew of nature at that young age was typhoons and mimosa pudica.

be thankful for what you got

jo& — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:41:23 +0000

there was so much more to the trip than these photos show.

ps. i don’t think i updated about this, but ten minutes 31 has been up for a while now.

coffee kaffe cafe

jo& — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:21:51 +0000

how awesome is this tiny little cafe in denmark called kå kaffebar?

delightful oscillation

jo& — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:59:26 +0000

guess what? ten minutes is 30 editions old! and i am heading down to new york in a month!

frames

jo& — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:06:12 +0000

kinga kielczynska‘s “the new abstract art encyclopedia” at nr4

interval ii

jo& — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:12:39 +0000

interval ii by suki chan, as a farewell to the summer. also a new ten minutes!

travel as collecting

jo& — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:57:00 +0000

sights and observations from the past month or so

collectors are people with a tactical instinct; their experience teaches them that when they capture a strange city, the smallest antique shop can be a fortress, the most remote stationary store a key position. how many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches i undertook in pursuit of books! … now i am on the last half-emptied crate, and it is way past midnight. other thoughts fill me than the ones i am talking about — not thoughts but images, memories … for a collector — and i mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be — ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to things. not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

walter benjamin