Posts Tagged ‘market’

Mazar Snapshot III

24 Aug 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Mazar e Sharif
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If you’re going to take a photo of a truck full of cattle skins, do remember to occasionally keep an eye out for open sewers. …
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A Grimace in the Mind

Canny designers have been playing on the human mind’s ability to see faces in pretty much anything usually to add a smile – one of …
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Carry, Display Norms

28 Mar 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Medan
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Famers markets tend to have highly evolved, highly efficient ways of carrying and displaying their wares. – in this case the the visual extenuation from …
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Ad-Hoc Weapons

30 Oct 2009
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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A day spent ad-hoccing in the alleys around Kabul’s Pul-e Khishti Mosque, led to this quiet cul-de-sac selling sewing machines and small arms – the …
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Packaging/Display Norms

17 Apr 2008
In: Cultural Norms
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Bean sprouts from a neighbourhood vegetable market, sprout-head facing outwards – rounding off today’s Chongqing detour.
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The Perfect Bad Hotel

13 Oct 2006
In: Cairo, Today's Office
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Given the splendor of our apartment it might surprise you that last night I checked into a suite of the delightfully named New Riche Hotel – situated in one of Cairo’s more down-market districts. Oh the glamour – the hotel does have a faded splendor but those times are well gone.
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Cultures of Repair

03 Jul 2005
In: Delhi, Street Hacks
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On the last night of my most recent trip to India spent an evening trying to understand India’s informal mobile phone repair culture by visiting …
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