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Video of My Custom Jeans Being Made in Bangkok

30 August 2011

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Video of My Custom Jeans Being Made in Bangkok

The lost art of denim engineering.

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Help, My Girlfriend is on Twitter!

23 August 2011

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Help, My Girlfriend is on Twitter!

I mean C'MON--- some of the stuff I post publicly is PRIVATE.

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Dek Waen and Signs From Thailand’s Disgruntled Youth

15 August 2011

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Dek Waen and Signs From Thailand’s Disgruntled Youth

It’s Mother’s Day, a national holiday in Thailand. I spent most of the day working from home and after making some serious headway on a proposal I was writing, planned on rewarding myself with a little late night pork infusion. After living here for four years you would think I’d learn to just expect the [...]

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How Your Non Profit or Small Business Can Make Time For Social Media in 30 Minutes A Day

12 August 2011

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How Your Non Profit or Small Business Can Make Time For Social Media in 30 Minutes A Day

After the positive response from sharing my presentation to Oxfam on the creating Digital Influence, I’ve decided I should go ahead a share this other social media 101 presentation I created. I created the presentation for a few reasons. First, one of the questions I had from the Oxfam was about how to allocate time [...]

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Sneak Peek: Ultimate Guide to Mastering Thai Food Menus

30 May 2011

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Sneak Peek: Ultimate Guide to Mastering Thai Food Menus

I’ve got my early copy of the new ebook, The Eating Thai Food Guide. Thought I’d give you a sneak peak of what’s to offer. The real thing launches this morning on our blog Eating Thai Food, which is dedicated to greasy food porn finds and getting people excited about sharing their food. The gimmick [...]

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Buy Shoes, Save Iraqi Kids

9 April 2011

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Buy Shoes, Save Iraqi Kids

I have a buddy in Iraq now working for a nonprofit called Preemptive Love. They help kids suffering from congenital heart disease to get surgeries. That’s the briefest way to tell you about what they’re doing. You can hop over to their website and get the full story. I will definitely be writing more about [...]

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When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong– On Twitter

22 March 2011

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When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong– On Twitter

HAha. This is a picture of a tweet in response to my most recent opinion piece in CNNGo. Ok, so this tweet was actually written by @ktiu and tweeted from the wrong account in some sort of hilarious twitter phenoma-fuck-up. I think I spit a few poppy seeds from the bagel I was eating at [...]

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A Self Imposed Facebook Moratorium

19 March 2011

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A Self Imposed Facebook Moratorium

“My parents should have warned me about the consequences of casual facebook friending…” Stranger! One day you wakeup in the bed with forced birthday messages from people you don’t even know. Sinking regret. That’s how I feel now that I’ve realized I’ve spent the last two years being a facebook whore. I’ve since repented. I [...]

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Spotted: Using Instagram To Capture Urban Poverty

18 March 2011

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Spotted: Using Instagram To Capture Urban Poverty

Here’s a bunch of shots I caught on the move with the iPhone while volunteering in Bangkok with In Search of Sanuk. Some of the features such as auto-tilt particularly lend themselves to capturing sensitive pictures such as those I have taken of refugees (size is also reduced in comparison to the last photos I [...]

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Spotted: 20 Pictures of Siam in the First Week of 2011

9 January 2011

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Spotted: 20 Pictures of Siam in the First Week of 2011

Went a lil’ crazy on the iphone photography application, insta.gram, to start the year. Here’s a few of the shots I took while being out and about in my neighborhood of Siam in the center of Bangkok. You’ll notice a lot of seemingly useless things here. I think I have developed an appreciation for things [...]

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