Chinese New Year is approaching this February 12th and 2021 is the Year of the Ox. It looks to be a favorable sign, which is exactly what we want to hear as some of us very cautiously enter this new year. Good-bye year of the metal rat 2020. What does the year of the Ox ...
Did you know that for generations, India has been using a system of living root bridges created by weaving tree roots together? These living root bridges can be found at Cherrapunji, Laitkynsew, and Nongriat, in the present-day Meghalaya state of northeast India. Meghalaya is one of the wettest places on Earth. The flow of the rivers holds such force that in ...
Photographer Anna Huix beautifully captures these high-altitude gemstone hunters in Pakistan’s remote mountains of Karakoram. Originally from Barcelona, Anna Huix is a London-based photographer. I first came across her work at a folio show at the creative agency Mother in London. The series below is from a time she traveled with writer Simón Elias (also a mountain guide who ...
In 2010, Chinese photographer Zhang Kechun set off on his fold-up bicycle to spend two years photographing China’s legendary Yellow River. During his river odyssey, Zhang would travel for a month at a time, lugging around a large-format Linhof camera. Not wanting to rush the project, he sometimes would not take a single picture for an entire ...
Renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has just released (via Vimeo on demand) the film Cockroach — a visual record of the final moments of an independent, democratic Hong Kong. “Cockroaches” is what the protesters call themselves, and although this name had been used toward them as an insult from the pro-Beijing side, it’s a term ...
I first came across Katy Mantyk’s music through a song called Let it Flow, a folk-pop, Americana sound played on acoustic guitar with a floating melody like an echo drifting through a forest. It had heart, healthy heart — the kind of remedy of sound to share with someone who was at a loss in life or ...
A child nutritionist passed this recipe for kidney bean chocolate cake on to me one day when we were trying to come up with ways to boost the intake of iron for my toddler. At that stage, my toddler wasn’t into cakes, but a year later I tried it — omitting the instant coffee and ...
In Search of Forgotten Colors is one of Japan’s national broadcaster NHK’s four short documentaries exploring Sachio Yoshioka’s work on natural dyes. Yoshioka is the fifth-generation head of the Somenotsukasa Yoshioka dye workshop in Fushimi. Yoshioka and natural dyes In 1988, Yoshioka took over his family business and immediately stopped using synthetic colors and moved ...
Love and marriage, what a wonderful life when they co-exist together for a couple. They count their lucky stars and feel lucky in love. During the Jin Dynasty, the beautiful Zhu Yingtai was from a scholarly and well-to-do family. Her accomplishments included excellent embroidery work and a love of reading books and writing poetry. She ...
Singer/songwriter James H. White has just released his debut single Purple Heart, an epic-sounding Americana song about a fallen soldier that echoes tones of Johnny Cash with the goodness of gospel music. James co-wrote the song with Katy Mantyk. It was produced under James’ record label, ICONS UNITE, in partnership with producer David English, known ...
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