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Archive for January, 2008
Cambodia: Trabant Trek
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in all_labels, travel | No Comments »
He likes to say we met on the internet. At the time he and Trabant Trek were somewhere around the Caspian Sea, I think; they were eight people, three Trabants, ... Read more..Cambodia: Repatriation to Vietnam
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, feature | No Comments »
I don't know Tiang's story except to say she's Vietnamese, her mother works in a Phnom Penh brothel, and she was recently repatriated. In this part of Asia lighter skin, ... Read more..Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, news | No Comments »
Open Society Institute Project Distribution Grant Awarded to photojournalist Tim Matsui and the FEAR ProjectThe Open Society Institute, a part of the Soros Foundation, awarded Tim Matsui and the FEAR ... Read more..Cambodia: Reintegration of "Srey Bo"
Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, feature | No Comments »
Since she was trafficked her family had moved from Phnom Penh to a coastal town. She was rescued during a brothel raid, then cycled through the 'standard' process of assessment ... Read more..Cambodia: Dateline NBC and Transitions Cambodia
Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, misc, travel | No Comments »
What I love about TV is light. They bring a lot of it and they control it incredibly well. Dateline NBC made the florescent glow of Transitions Cambodia into a ... Read more..Cambodia: Rain
Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, misc, travel | No Comments »
In an odd instance--this is the dry, cold season after all--it rained last night. Not a drizzly Seattle rain, but a raging torrent of water. The day had been overcast ... Read more..Cambodia: Voice and Choice
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in all_labels, op-ed | 1 Comment »
There is a debate, or maybe an argument, about whether one tells the stories and shows the faces of victims. Especially the children.In the States it would be inappropriate, and ... Read more..Further Notes on the G-I Tract
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in all_labels, misc, travel | No Comments »
Content Warning: Further exposition on illness.From one sickness to the next, with a little overlap in the middle. I now have James' "death-warmed-over" head cold. I'm not feeling as rotten, ... Read more..EndoGastric Solutions: Corporate Work
Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in all_labels, misc | No Comments »
When my old friend Kelly Tysseling disappeared to the eastside of the lake for a job (she even moved to Kirkland) I really had no idea what she was up ... Read more..The G-I Tract
Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, travel | 2 Comments »
Note: This entry is about the Gastro-Intestinal Tract. As my climbing friends know, I'm often quite open about this topic but if you're of more refined sensibilities you may prefer ... Read more..Cambodia: First Days
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, travel | 1 Comment »
"I've been here six hours," I told the kid, a gregarious teen who said he was walking some UN woman's dog."No way, man, you're kidding me, man. Six hours, that's ... Read more..Many Thanks: Fundraising at the Park Pub
Saturday, January 12th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, misc | No Comments »
Images from the nightI laid in bed, the cold night air brushing my nose and cheeks through the cracked window. I thought about how comfortable the flannel sheets were and ... Read more..Working in Cambodia
Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, misc, travel | No Comments »
Over the next two months I will be in Cambodia working with organizations who provide health care and participate in anti-human trafficking work. My purpose for working with them is ... Read more..In the Company of Bill Gates
Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, news | No Comments »
The Magazine wants one thing, Public Relations wants a different version of it, the Agency just wants it and in eight minutes total you have to satisfy all three. All ... Read more..Solo Exhibition
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in all_labels, news | No Comments »
Last spring I applied of the Kent City Summer Arts Program; three works were accepted, one was purchased for the city's permanent collection, and I was offered a two-month solo ... Read more..