Myanmar craftsman Ko Cho has been making guitars at his home on the outskirts of Yangon for nearly two decades. Today, most of his guitars are built from mahogany, which was found strewn across the city after Cyclone Nargis hit the region in 2008. He said using this naturally-fallen wood meant he was creating for "remembrance", referring to the estimated 138,000 people who died during the storm that ravished the country.
Even in my dreams, I think about making guitars.
A group of grandmothers in the rural Philippines are being hailed for bringing light to their community. They have trained as engineers and are now able to provide homes in their village with solar powered energy.
The thinking is, Empowering women will eventually empower a community.
Joe Ollmann, a Doug Wright Award-winning cartoonist, plays himself live and in his cheekily sketched world to expose the fish-out-of-water comedic anxieties of an Anglophone struggling to make himself understood in Francophone Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood.On occasion I'll come across an article, a blog, or, in this case, an animation short that takes a decidedly humorous, albeit sardonic look at how visitors fit in, or don't fit in, in their new city. Several years ago the Regional Vice President of a consulting firm I used to work for offered me a transfer from our Chicago to our Brussels office. But after much consideration I declined it, and one reason was the challenge I anticipated in adapting to a French culture. My family and I would've had a hell of time fitting in.
A portrait of Vancouver through Fred Herzog's photographs, reflecting on the life, architecture, and history of the city's streets and neighbourhoods.Tony Wilson composes a soundtrack that, to me, lends an surreal air to this city portrait. It is as if we viewers and visitors were dispassionate and time-warped, and the hustle and bustle of Vancouver were reduced to murmuring and slow motion.
Mick Moloney, the Irish-American musician, author and professor, talks Irish music and his beloved tenor banjo during a rehearsal with musician Athena Tergis at his Greenwich Village apartment.Sometimes the journey we embark on is that of memories and music, but it inevitably brings us back to our heritage.
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| Zeng Fanzhi |
