Tag: personal project
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The Golden Future of Vietnam – Fine Art Photography – New Work
Creative fine art projects are often slow, but rewarding when you make progress. After a long, hectic week with work, I did some more. However, it doesn’t feel like work when you are passionate about something. (Photography is my passion after all). I took a break from working on client accounts and spent my Saturday…
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New Year’s Resolutions
It’s the time of year when we set ourselves personal goals, our New Year Resolutions. Few of them will last more than the first month. According to Business Insider, 80% will fail by the second week of February. How can you avoid failing? Start on implementing only one new habit at the time. It takes…
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We’ve got Tee’s!
We have selected motifs from our recent exhibition “Fragments of Rediscovered Time” available. Head over to our web store and grab one too. The one featured is my personal favourite, Mountain Soul. I wore it on the opening night. It also happens to be the image that we sold on opening night too. …
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The Power of Creating New Habits
Reading Daniel Kahneman “Thinking, Fast & Slow”, you realise your mind has an autopilot. Your autopilot consists of habits that you have built up. It doesn’t distinguish between good or bad habits, only habits. It started with my wife telling me that I used to have more muscles when we first met. Back then,…
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5 unique souvenir gifts from Vietnam
Finding something different and unique is a challenge. Mass production, cheap materials and reused ideas you find everywhere. Living in Vietnam since 2000, I have seen the progress and changes to the country over the years. I still believe Vietnam can do a better job promoting its beauty and I wanted to contribute with what…
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From Happy New Year to Chuc Mung Nam Moi
New Year’s Eve passed and Tet is coming. The second New Year celebration in 2015. 2014 saw a lot of changes. Vietnam is in constant change, that’s for sure. 2014 was moving time. The studio is still up and running in District 2, however, I am enjoying a new home in District 3 with an…
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A visit to the park
Sunday morning. The mere words install expectations. A day off. All your worries evaporating as water droplets soaked up by the rising sun. Sundays are to be enjoyed. To recoup. To get out, and out we did go, to the park that is. The park is already packed before even setting a foot inside. The…
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Third time lucky – or are we?
If you have good health and food on your table every day, then indeed, count yourself lucky. However, some of the patients at the Children’s Hospital 2, Nguyen Du street, are overdue to receive a bit of luck in their lives. It is Friday afternoon, ten to four, and we have arrived. Early and soaked…
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Souvenirs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and what to buy as a memento
UPDATE 3rd January 2018 We no longer sell our lacquer products through third-party stores. Please visit our company website and contact us via the contact form. For regular poster prints, tote bags and t-shirt souvenirs, please visit our online web store. — Traveling to the Far East. The sentence has a magical sound to it.…
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Observing kindness and documenting with an iPhone
It’s Friday 4pm in Ho Chi Minh City. We are at the gates of the hospital again. This time we arrive early and it’s still daylight and the group has just assembled outside the cafeteria that is located inside the compound. Red plastic chairs are shuffled around and hands are shaken. More people are present…
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What a difference a slip of paper can make – A visit at the hospital ward, Nguyen Du Street, District 1
A chain of events. A one year anniversary notification found its way to my inbox. An Expat blog meet-up, always at a new location, and almost always having new people participating. Thus, I met Dennis and his wife, Quynh, for the first time. A random encounter with a touching outcome. They do charity. Several stories…
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Making a difference – If only for a day
Walking through narrow alleyways where even the motorbikes would have their mirrors bent inwards by the walls. Retracing the steps afterwards, we would appreciated road markers left behind on the walls as we are getting lost. A maze within a small section of the town. We are in Phu Nhuan district, 5 minutes away from…
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“Be my Valentine” – 14th February 2013
Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you who will be out celebrating today! For those who wants to brush up on their history knowledge, here’s the Wikipedia definition.
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The ice cream store and why a combo is better than a single strike
A combo is better than a single strike. I realised that when playing karate kid arcade games. The combo move was always better than the single kick or punch. Advertising agencies often have an art director/copy writer team. A killer combo of visuals and words. They realise that the team can be more creative than…
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“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” – Dianne Ackerman
“The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others…
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Walkabout in Saigon – The second tour with Ian
Ian is a brilliant guide. A photo walk together with him is always inspiring and a joy. This time we met up in District 5 and walked around several pagodas. Ended up having a small, refreshing break, both to quench our thirst as well as clear our eyes from all the incense smoke, before continuing…
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Site inspection and the accidental tourist in Tra Vinh City
It started with a phone call. Followed up with a meeting and some coffee. An invite was given and I gladly accepted. Soon I found myself on the way to Tra Vinh, to visit the production facilities of my new client. An impressive site. An equally impressive production line and working environment. I stayed for…
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Vietnam’s Liberation Day and the beach holiday to Mui Ne
End of April and beginning of May have two public holidays here in Vietnam. 30th April is the liberation day, or Victory Day as it is also referred to, and 1st of May is the International Labour Day. This year, those days fell on a Monday and Tuesday respectively. A very long weekend indeed, and…