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March 22, 2015
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ONE Proj blog, Practical and How-To
So you’ve just rocked up to a cheap hotel room and trying to decide if you should take it. You’re sweaty, tired, and low on patience. Your powers of perception are at their weakest. Of course, you are also ultra-frugal like me, or none of this would matter because you’d just pay for something nice. …
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March 16, 2015
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Asia, Experiences
AS WE ROUNDED THE CORNER on our scooter, we were confronted by a swarm of police officers. They were waving us off the road, unsurprisingly. Liz’s windswept, un-helmeted hair flapped like a banner which read “Fine Me”.
“Where is your helmet?”, he asked Liz.
To be fair, the locals in this town had
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March 2, 2015
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ONE Proj blog, Travel Philosophies
Based on the post title, those who don’t know me might think I’m a bit crazy. Those who do know me, however, might think I’m absolutely mad. Because they know how much I’ve enjoyed the past 4 years at Energetics, working with some of the most brilliant and hilarious colleagues, whom I still love like a
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February 21, 2015
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ONE Proj blog, Practical and How-To
Many westerners are unaccustomed to bargaining. Like most unfamiliar things, we find it uncomfortable. We frame it as a confrontation between rich foreigner and poor local; as an exploitative process to wring a sum of money trivial to us but potentially quite material to them.
But bargaining isn't the source of
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February 8, 2015
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Asia, Experiences
When I met Liz, it was in the darkness of night. I sat outside my poorly ventilated and still inhospitably hot hotel room. The hotel manager appeared first, shuffling somewhat, burdened by a heavy box. Liz quickly followed, as the manager crashed the box down in front of the door next to mine. She pulled from the box
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February 1, 2015
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Improving Your Photography, ONE Proj blog
Since my first adventures in night photography — cycling suburbia with a cutting-edge 2 megapixel brick — I have always been too cheap to buy a tripod. And even when JonP gave me his old tripod, I barely ever brought it anywhere. You see, I create most of my images when I’m either in the wilderness, or
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January 23, 2015
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Connecting with People, ONE Proj blog
We're taught from a very young age about us and them. Your family, friends, teachers, that nice neighbour who gives you ice cream (why don't I still have those neighbours?). These are us. These are good people. You can trust and feel safe around them.
But the flipside of us are all those who are not us — the yin
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October 27, 2014
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Asia, Experiences
Dear reader, My few days in Tana Toraja really embodied the Indonesian flag: Red and white — which to some, symbolise dara and tulang. Blood and bone. It was a fascinating cultural and emotional experience. So this photographic adventure is devoted solely to those few days around Tana Toraja — “The
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October 11, 2014
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Asia, Experiences
Wayan, Made, Nyoman, Ketut (banyak!) sk someone what the word ‘Kuta’ conjures and you’re more likely to hear cringe-worthy stories of sleeve-tattooed bogans (Aussie rednecks) abusing the local Balinese, than you are to hear about the surf breaks, world famous since the late 1960s. I actually lost
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August 14, 2014
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ONE Proj blog, Travel Philosophies
This is a letter I recently sent to prAna clothing company: Dear prAna, There’s no use in starting out softly: I’m going to be bold. I believe I have the single longest-lived and hardest-travelled pair of pants you’ve ever sold. And as a result, you’ve created a lifelong supporter and
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July 21, 2014
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Asia, Experiences
After sixteen hours of solid sleep, I woke up feeling slightly refreshed. It had been a week since I last had any appetite — it’s become routine that I get sick once in every country I visit — but as soon as I awoke I became convinced of how I could solve my health issues: Granola and yogurt. I required the
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May 6, 2014
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Asia, Experiences
Bad brakes and fluorescent skin hen the overloaded scooter beneath us began rolling backwards down the hill, I had a few simultaneous realisations: Firstly, rear brakes are important when trying to ride a chic urban scooter up a steep rutted gravel track. Secondly, that racking two surfboards on the side and a
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