by David Sasaki | Mar 3, 2010 | English
It took my favorite futurist, Scott Smith, to show me Santa Moncica’s best and most authentic cappuccino: Wait, did I just call a cappuccino ‘authentic’? What does that even mean? Scott and I spent much of our morning kaffeeklatsch at Caffé Luxxe...
by David Sasaki | Nov 10, 2009 | English
I’m back in Bucharest this week at the World Blogging Forum (not to be confused with the other wbf2009, the World Bodypainting Festival). I am here with all the usual suspects and all the usual self-promotion. Among the many interesting and over-achieving...
by David Sasaki | Nov 10, 2009 | English
The farther one goes the less one knows. Lao-Tzu, 550 BC The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. St. Augustine, c. 390 Travel teaches toleration. Benjamin Disraeli, 1832 In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion,...
by David Sasaki | Oct 27, 2009 | English, Moleskinned
Today a Ukrainian friend of mine had her first English class with an American Peace Corps volunteer. “He has very American eyes,” she told me. I let out a little chuckle, not quite sure what very American eyes are. “They are very big,” she...
by David Sasaki | Oct 20, 2009 | English
All tourists cherish an illusion, of which no amount of experience can ever completely cure them: they imagine that they will find time, in the course of their travels, to do a lot of reading. They see themselves, at the end of a day’s sightseeing or motoring,...
by David Sasaki | Sep 1, 2009 | English
The festival energy has arrived to Linz. The Bruckernerhaus is full of monitors, art installations, and computers. The Ars Electronica Center is filling up with laptop-toting digital nomads from all over Europe and beyond. And the Twitter stream for #ars09 is starting...
by David Sasaki | Aug 25, 2009 | English, Travel
“Sana’a(Yemen)” by eesti I am often asked what countries I’d like to travel to that I have yet to visit. Ethiopia and Lebanon have long been two standard answers (probably because I love the food and music from both). Victor Kaonga’s blog...
by David Sasaki | Aug 20, 2009 | English
It took me a while, but I finally got the hang of producing a QuickTime Virtual Reality 360 degree panorama. To have a look around hover your mouse over the image above, click, and drag it to the right or left. It’s far from perfect – I have to get better...
by David Sasaki | Apr 10, 2009 | English
by David Sasaki | Feb 23, 2009 | English
When I travel to a foreign country I want to meet local people, taste local food, listen to local music, and read the local newspapers. When I meet people in another country from a different culture who speak a different language then – over time – I begin...