A drop-out designer in Portland, OR via Campbell, CA
Representing the hometown Campbell, CA (408) in Portland, OR (503)
Three years behind schedule, I finally moved back to Portland.
Huge thanks to Justin, Heather, Dorinda & Zack. Without their help, there’s no way Daisy and I could have organized this move from across the country in between travel and work. Glad to be back in your fine company.
Previously: Ghost (2012) and Moving markets (2015)
After the afterparty in East Village, New York
At the Rice, Noodle, Fish book launch in New York
Roads & Kingdoms team from around the world, together in New York
The books
Whiskey from Balvenie
Chef Toshio Matsuno and team from Kyoto’s Tempura Matsu
Photos by Shane Carpenter / ReadyLuck
Previously: Booked travel
Back in time for fall in northeast Portland, Oregon
“The world needs needs Roads & Kingdoms. It needs this book.”
— Anthony Bourdain
In 2012, I helped launch Roads & Kingdoms. The rest of the team did all the hard work: they published the best food/travel/culture writing, they won awards to back up that statement, they brought on Anthony Bourdain as a partner and investor, and now they’re releasing their first book with HarperCollins.
I’m still trying to figure out how the hell Douglas Hughmanick found the time to design every stunning page of this book — in between buying a house, having his first child and growing a successful design agency. Doug, whatever unholy scheme you’re taking part in to obtain unlimited energy… I want in.
Late night pool party at Xun & Toby’s wedding in Hauula, Hawaii
Sunset at Haleiwa Beach Park in Hawaii
Early morning at Laie Point in Hawaii
Night time at Yuandao Guan Yin Temple near Danshui, Taipei, Taiwan
There’s a lot that happens with collaboration in movies and TV that is phenomenal. But at the same time, there’s some perfecting that goes with it. You all get together and work on stuff and make it perfect, but sometimes perfect looks the same as other perfect. [...] When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don’t let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.
— Louis C.K. in an interview with Pitchfork
5 years ago — My visitor contribution to an art exhibit in New York.
No dreams, only goals. Next week I’m going from Taiwan to Hawaii to Portland to New York and back to Portland.
[That scene took] more than 120 takes. Those kinds of things [make people say], ‘Oh, Jackie’s good.’ It’s not good. You can do it. Except do you have the patience or not?
— Jackie Chan in an interview featured in the video essay, How to Do Action Comedy
If you need me to disrupt your local housing market with my presence, I’m available for a reasonable fee.
You know the cliché: You’re out on the town, you’re doing drugs, you’re drinking, you’re running on the walls, you’re pissing on the fireplace. It’s a cliché. Often you run into artists who live that life—and at one point, you find out that they’re not actually producing that much art. They’re living the life of the artist without the work.
— Dorthe Nors in What Great Artists Need: Solitude
