Apparently the average American home contains multiple hundreds of thousands of individual items. Each which takes a fraction of your time. So moving back toward zen simplicity is key. Thanks Japanese and Germans for now leading the way on the aforementioned in camera design.

In Seoul Korea, you apparently must sometimes be ready for an Alaskan winter.

A loving embrace makes the farmers market food taste better.

Does it send you back in time or make you a cappuccino?

An amazing healthy drink - Ice fresh vegetable juice cut with fizzy water. The sparkles both add more oxygen while also cutting down and adding zing to overpowering flavors.

Only the artist can transform the mundane into the fascinating in short periods of time.

Dogs and cats, much like humans, come in all different personalities and cuteness levels.

The bigger you get the bigger your stomach gets.

“Scopophobia” is the fear of being looked at, seen or stared at. The origin of the word Scopo is Greek (meaning see, view, sight, look at or examine) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear).

For we all do have the ability to since when someone is looking at us. Even when we are not looking at them.

Tea is a secret to a healthy life.

Most elect who’s popular over who is more correct. Because he who lies the most, oftentimes wins the most.

Vintage etched or glass gilded windows are a gorgeous form of art and a craft which will hopefully never be lost.

You scream, I scream…

Sugar is a dangerous drug and the main cause of obesity, diabetes, and cancer in the “industrialized” first world. So we ordered whip cream on top of course.

One can both have pride in their nation, appreciating and giving credit to what it does well, while at the same time being critical of its flaws and help work toward fixing them.

The stair-off with this GULL went fairly well. So much to the point that I lost in an effort to successfully snap this pic. So he won the staring contest, but I won his respect. Animal kingship status = strong.

The electric skateboard, while loathed by conventional “skaters”, does have its advantages for those who never learned to kick off the ground properly.

Not all police officers in Los Angeles are real cops. They are actors. Just like how not all politicians in Washington D.C. are real either, they are also actors.

Rangfinder porn.

The Starbucks logo contains a Siren. In Greek mythology, the sirens were hybrid women, portrayed as seductresses who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices into dangerous waters and to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. This oftentimes resulted in their demise, thus the symbol sometimes has an affiliation with death. They are half bird and half extremely attractive woman, considered to be dangerous and thus more modern references have association with obsession and addiction.

Coffee anyone?

As the wonderful NYC street photographer Bill Cunningham used to say, “The best fashion show is always on the street. Always has been, always will be.”