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Missing Hong Kong tonight and looking forward to the next visit.
Beauty in the breakdown.
Winter days in Chinatown.
Pointing green at Magic Hour.
“When I was a boy, my grandmother asked me to break a chopstick, which I couldn’t do, but was able to flex enough to get the idea. Then she gave me a bundle, which I couldn’t even bend with both hands. The lesson was that people in cooperation will prevail where a single person will not. Collecting leads to power. At another time, she put a bean between two pieces of blotter paper, wet them, and put them in the window of her light well. Gradually, the bean put out roots, then a stem, and gradually an entire plant. Rising began from something small, and proceeded according to a process that was invisible in the short run, but which grew day by day. For the Way of Change, how do we use collecting? We gather people, resources, and knowledge. Action depends on collecting what we need to be successful. That collecting can be dramatic, as when a leader makes an urgent call to action to repel an invading enemy. But it can just as well be subtle and gradual. That bean, for example, was already a collection of DNA and nutrients. Once planted it continued to gather energy, water, and nutrients as it sprouted into a full plant over a long period of time. We may want to rise up—but we must know how to build little by little. My grandmother’s first lesson was a matter of collecting. Her second lesson showed that it was not just collecting, but direction and patience it if we are to rise.” - Deng Ming-Dao
The light you cast shapes the shape of me.
A setting sun rising after a heavy storm.
“Rest, if you must. Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
To a thousand cups.
Are we looking at the same moon as it shines full over the night sky?
Abundance of joy and gratitude are usually hidden in the small moments, ready to be found.
Amazing Saturday brunch over at Potluck Club ♥️
Always love a good Wong Kar Wai vibe.
Last night.
Don’t hate a drizzling, rainy Sunday in NYC. #nyc #soho
Happy Birthday to this wonderful human ❤️
Taking in the morning moment.
Au revoir, Paris. Jusqu'à ce que nous répondre à nouveau.
I came to escape nostalgia and ennui, only to find I never really had it to begin with; until I had to again leave Paris.
Nights of Being Wild: Vietnam Redeux
Took this photo of night side-street eats thinking of @frankenlincoln when I took it. Can you find my family in the background of this Street Fighter level? #vietnam #longxuyen #streetfighter #riceplatter
Fresh banh xeo (Vietnamese crepe) made by my Aunt Lang. Way better than I’ve ever had before (don’t tell Mama Le 🤫) #vietnam #anggiang #thoaison #nuisup #banhxeo #family #familyreunion
My beautiful aunt hand-prepping noodles. She doesn’t like her photo getting taken, but the afternoon sunlight was hitting her in such a magnificent way. #vietnam #anggiang #thoaison #nuisup #family
Waiting is always easier with a friend.
Visiting the Drinking Dragon with the fam.
Sometimes there is more solace in the sun setting over mountains than over the sea. (Last 'gram for tonight guys, I swear!) #gonnabeabatten #mairimmy #wedding #Nevada #California #Tahoe #familytime #sunset #magichour #Tolkien #Aman #Valinor
Phenomenal homestyle breakfast and fantastically amicable staff here at this little New England diner. #diner #bacon #brunch #coffee #newengland #rhodeisland #roadtrip cc/ @polyswag78
So grateful for my big brother and sister letting me be a part of their journey as they embark on their new adventure!
How do you not love this crew?! Thank you for the support and send off, innovators! ⛈👏🏽
“The flags are still/No wind blows/It’s the heart of man that is in tumult.” - Buddhist text. For real though, it was windy as all hell out and biking through that to the sound of the water churning was both beautiful and a challenge. Despite that, everything around was, in its own way, calm. And in that moment I wanted to take this photo, because 1) there is stillness in movement, 2) I realized I was the one assigning the definition of unrest to the environment, and 3) much of the unrest we struggle with is only surmountable within ourselves. #bw #schuylkillriver #Philadelphia
I return to the present forced to face forward looking beyond myself as it loops back towards considerations of what has past. And always, I take what I can grasp from these three threads to spin my fate and to appease the Norns. Hello again, Philadelphia. #latergram #philadelphia #philly h/t @connorhasson for the candid
It’s incredible to exist in the same moment as another, but be in a different season, a different space. Less than a week ago I was 12 hours into the future, in a tropical environment, in a different hour, in a different place. And while science can explain all of this, it still does not cease to amaze me the wonder of relative time, experience, and space. #magichour #goldenhour #autumn #gratitude #philadelphia
Been a little while since I could get this view. Beautiful day. #magichour #oldcity #philadelphia
Besides having the trail relatively all to myself today for hill sprints, I also was gifted with views like this. It’s damn cold, but it sure is beautiful.
Janus sends us off while simultaneously greeting us with frigid beauty and stillness.
Divine.
Philadelphia morning. You certainly have your charm.
Other side of the window. #Philly #Philadelphia #doors #windows (My bedroom window as seen from @bnwcomicsoc)
This was supposed to be an intentionally out of focus video for some b-roll for some yet unknown Wong Kar Wai inspired video project. Instead it's an out of focus picture. #latergram #ciracenter #artmuseum #pma #philadelphia #skyline #fullmoon #wongkarwai
Took a second during sprints this morning to snap this shot of the rising sun. #sunrise #sprints #workout #running #fitness #Philadelphia #conditioning
The way this place looks during magic hour ❤
Boxing lessons under the bridge of Parc del Gulliver.
Accidental art as a result of a pre-calibrations breakfast. Ingredients: Fried eggs (x2) and soy sauce.
Under the world.
Incongruent lines.
中秋節快樂 • Mid-Autumn magic hour.
A Flame in the West. May it bring us renewed days; and not death, but rather for the courage of Men to continue its fight for the dignity of humanity and the Free Peoples of Middle Earth. “Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin, and the world’s ending! Death! Death! Death!”
Lost in pockets of time.
Let us lay down some tracks and listen for where it will take us. 🚂📀
On a work call with the boss man over my shoulder ♥️
Respite Alchemy: exercise + nature = mental health boost
Evening’s training session with these toys. Core Warmup (x6 sets) Jump rope 3 min (x5 sets) Functional Strength (x4 sets): • Kettlebell lunge (x10 each side) • Kettlebell dive bombers (x10) • Macebell overhand squat (x10) • Macebell tricep extension (x10 each side) • Kettlebell deadlifts (x10) • Kettlebell press (x10 each side) Finisher: • Bokken overhead swing (x100) #martialarts #functionalfitness #macebell #kettlebell #kettlebellworkout #bokken #speedrope #cardio #strengthandconditioning #budo #kungfu #kamagong #homegym #hiit #intervaltraining #onnit
頹波砥柱憶漁民。 Người chài trụ đá khúc gian truân, I remember you, the fearsome fisherman. . Find the people and places that restore you. And then continue forward.
Chúc mừng năm mới! Happy Lunar New Year to you and your families! #tet2019 #chinesenewyear2019 #orchids #spring
Boy does this Midori just get more beautiful with age. It’s been a weekend of creative pursuits, finding time to hunker down in solace for the majority of time to write and draft several projects along the way. Alongside all of that work is this trusty little notebook to help storyframe every step of the way. #midori #storyframe #notebook #sketch #writing
Guys, it is after 5pm and Magic Hour hasn’t even kicked in yet. We are at the turn of the Spring Equinox tide! #magichour #daylight
Inspired by today’s character, I’m traveling out to the suburbs with this classic. Time to shake off the rust. #35mm #bw #F4 #Nikon #analogphotography
Some serious Brutalism here. #architecture #brutalist
Back out on the road, just me and the Canondale and the gung fu tonight.
I stand still and yet the world turns, whether I turn with it or not. I inhale to hold my breath and yet my breath exhales, whether I hold it or not.
6am bike ride to watch the early morning sun rise.
I like windows. Previews of life beyond the panes of glass focusing our view out unto something beyond the surrounding walls. Walls of comfort, walls of solitude, walls of safety, walls of home. #latergram
First magic hour of the season. #autumn #goldenhour #magichour #sunset #latergram