Posts Tagged ‘behaviour’

A Body of Language

05 Mar 2008
In: Chitose, Cultural Norms
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A Japanese phone user (in the shadows, center) conducts a call facing the wall – the body language of making a phone call.
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Acceptable Behaviours, Traces, Interpretations

15 Jan 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Mumbai
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Red dye from Mumbai above, blood from slaughtered sheep from Urumqi, below. The traces/bi-products of activities, the social acceptability of those activities, the extent to …
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Simple Pleasures

15 Dec 2007
In: Tashkent, Today's Office
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Walking the final few meters towards the Uzbekistan side of the border I was pulled aside by a weathered Tajikistan criminal detective and questioned. His …
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Everyday Security Obsessed

23 Jul 2006
In: Cultural Norms,
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A metro-using Paulista shields his back pack by wearing a coat. Given all the security and theft stories both prior to and on arrival in Brazil …
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Pleasantly Imperfect

04 Sep 2005
In: Future Perfect, Shibuya
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Life is messy, pleasantly imperfect. Milk goes sour. Shoe laces come undone. Objects are forgotten. Luggage is lost (thanks FinnAir). Packages don’t turn up (thanks DHL, …
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