Thanks to MapSkip it’s not really much of a secret anymore that I am permanently fascinated by maps. I always loved to look at maps, trace routes across them, read the foreign-sounding place names… As a young boy I spent many hours traveling across the beautiful, large maps in my parent’s world atlas, imagining myself [...]
I haven’t been talking about books for a while… Here is a great book that I’ve just finished: Shinjuku Shark by Arimasa Osawa. This book has been published in Japan seventeen years ago and launched the career of Osawa as one of Japan’s premier mystery writers. It is now for the first time available in [...]
Here is another picture from the last day of 2007 at San Francisco’s Baker Beach – this time with my Kodak Duo Six-20. This is one of the main reasons I fell in love with the old Kodak medium format folders – they are so light that I can easily bring two of them along [...]
On the last day of 2007 we took a walk on Baker Beach below San Francisco’s Presidio. The sun was out for one last appearance in the old year and the afternoon was glorious with clear skies and almost no wind – which is unusual for our area. The sun was very low in the [...]
The Guardian has a long-standing special section with portraits of writer’s rooms. I’m fascinated by this collection and I can’t get enough of the writers describing their own office space and desks. We all seem to have very different needs to get into a creative zone and to work on something that we have to [...]
Late last year we had a few very foggy days here in San Francisco and on that specific morning the fog sat like a fluffy pillow on top of Nob Hill. It was eerily quiet with almost no cars on California Street and while I stopped to take a picture of Grace Cathedral an empty [...]