The Boutique Individual: Brand New World
PART THREE: BRAND™ NEW WORLD, December 2006 My mother took a conservative position on toys: Less was better, in part because you should be outside playing anyway. I might have preferred a different...
View ArticleThe Mobile Age - Part One: Modernism
The contemporary citizen is mobile in new ways, re-shaping our definitions of “home” and challenging our conventions about “community”. In three essays over the coming months, Timothy Taylor examines...
View ArticleThe Mobile Age - Part Two: Globalism
We’ve become mobile in new ways, challenging conventional ideas about home and community. In the first of three essays, Timothy Taylor introduced four mobility archetypes of the modern era: the nomad...
View ArticleThe Mobile Age - Part Three: Post-Globalism
The modern archetypes of mobility were the nomad and the settler, whose degree of mobility were established by preference, and the refugee and the prisoner, for whom mobility was determined by external...
View ArticleTokyo: Simple Pleasures
Dream CityI’m having a strange moment here in Tokyo. It’s 6:30 a.m. ona Tuesday morning, and I’m doing calisthenics in the park with about 50 old ladies I’ve never met before. Bending, twisting,...
View ArticleTokyo: Without a Plan
It seemed like a good idea when I woke up: a day spent hunting the perfect Tokyo cherry blossoms. Here was the plan, drawn up in the first seconds after waking, still in my bed at the Claska Hotel: I’d...
View ArticleTokyo: Eastern Promises
In travel, while you don’t want to rush, moments of real speed can be exhilarating. I mean those times during a trip when you can feel the globe rotating under your feet, the landscape transforming...
View ArticleThey're Everywhere
Holy stickers Batman. These things have hit Toronto, New York, Halifax... everywhere.Now they've reportedly crossed the pond. They're going up in the UK now.Move over Banksy. Or whatever. I have no...
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The Accidental Local
First published EnRoute MagazineWe’ve been motoring seaward for about an hour when Roberto finally cuts the diesel. Brazil is a bare pencil line on the horizon, Monte Pascoal a tiny bump, as it must...
View ArticlePilgrimage Redux
Gone for a few weeks to China on a gig for EnRoute Magazine. Spotty to nonexistent internet while I'm gone. Taking: 2 blank notebooks, 5 pens, a knapsack, and zero preparation.Returning with: 2 full...
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