Closeness and connection are not always the same thing. Sometimes, what we call closeness is simply performance. It is the art of constantly managing people's expectations, editing your personality to

Look, I've spent enough of my life hauling gear through customs lines and stumbling, jet-lagged, down narrow foreign streets to know a few things. One of them is this: most of what we own today is garbage.

After all the years I've been contributing to the minimalist vibe here on Hive, I've got cause to write about something so awfully unminimalist as to be obscene, and, as hoarding can be, sad. I caught

There is a great satisfaction in making a fine art out of a simple photo of a building. I believe every photographer wants to capture buildings in their perfect shapes with the ideal use of lights and