Tag: development
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Shanghai Moments~
Visiting the city we called home for almost 12 years is nothing short of strange at first. But within a day or two I felt the streets call me back with their charm, unique flair and warmth of the people. So little of the old city is left as the large construction projects drive forward…
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Misplaced~
In Hongkou, part of the old city of Shanghai, was a set of grey narrow alleys that were a maze of tiny streets containing 2 or 3 story homes stacked side by side in a most claustrophobic manner. Hundreds of tangled electric wires dangled between walls that were decorated with phone numbers advertising services for…
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Calling Home
We struggle all our lives to achieve higher understanding, to get closer to the truth, but most of the time we fail to make the first step. Photos taken in Shanghai, at the Power Station of Art.
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lonely together~ Shanghai
We created and developed technology to connect us, little did we know how lonely it would make us…
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Anonymity~ the great gift of urbanism
The most difficult thing about change is to not be allowed to do so. In a big city change is a way of life and conformity can be easily pushed aside to make room for a journey of personal development. But then there are some rare villages and tribes where personal development is championed above…
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Is growth a one-way street?
In a life where we rush from the days of our childhood to gather information and knowledge that we believe will help us grow, many of us end up facing an awakening later along the way. The truth that we seek so desperately appears to be much simpler than we had projected it to be.…
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Day 24~ August 24th~ Boracay
River salmon has a very strange life pattern. It hatches upstream, swims downstream towards the ocean, matures downstream and then swims back upstream against all odds and strong currents, struggling and even jumping up waterfalls to make it back to the place where its life originated and eventually die there. I wonder if that’s the…
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The future is here now
city center, originally uploaded by ~mimo~. Shanghai grows in front of our eyes at a staggering speed. When we moved here over 6 years ago, the SWFC (also known as the bottle opener), currently the tallest building in Shanghai was barely visible at its early stages of construction. Now, the new shanghai tower has risen…
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Day 22~ April 22nd~ Congo
If I were to put one common word when describing children from any country, I would say ‘resilience’… Children are developing beings, changing at a rapid speed, growing, absorbing, evolving and filled with energy that drives them through their process of becoming young adults. What I saw in a lot of the children in Congo…
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Day Three Hundred Nine, November 27, 2011
Little Lea has been working so hard on her Taekwondo, practicing with great focus and determination and today her first reward was finally attained, a new yellow/white belt from her teacher rewarding her accomplishments. She went through the ceremony shyly but ever so proudly. A great marker in the growth of a young life, where…