The rest of my photos from Vietnam are up in the gallery for your enjoyment. I think you will agree that the design photos are especially fabulous. Vietnamese posters were much more prevailent in the South and used a style that the Russian Constructivists would have used if they were working in the 1970’s.
Saigon (AKA Ho Chi Minh City) contains about three million motorbikes. Between the bikes, tuk tuks, cyclos and buses it?s a pretty busy place. We knew about the fall of Saigon and the airlifts off of the American Embassy in the 1970?s which is why it?s amazing that the locals are so welcoming to American…
I’ve been hearing a lot of griping lately about my sketchbook section not being up. Just for you guys I stayed in Saigon a few extra days holed up in my room resizing images and coding the pages. I can’t tell if the hotel maids are amused by me or just annoyed. In any case,…
I’ve been heading South through Vietnam for the past three weeks. My cousin flew in from Chicago to travel with me so I’ve been a bit busy riding motorbikes, sailing around Halong Bay and getting 3 piece green suits made to update my site. New blog posts are on the way but in the meantime…
The first thing that anyone mentions when talking about Hoi An is the clothes. The town started out with a few tailor shops but as it?s reputation grew more tailors opened to cater to the increasing number of tourists. Now there are hundreds of tailors and droves of tourists coming to town just to get…
We flew into Hue to save ourselves the 12-hour train ride. I wasn?t quite sure that my cousin (who?s over six feet tall) would fit into a sleeper compartment so the 6:30am flight from Ha noi was a sacrifice he was willing to make. Hue was the seat of the Vietnamese government up until Ho…
My train from Sa Pa was faster than I like–arriving in Hanoi at 4am. I stumbled out of the train half asleep and sat on the dark corner outside the station until daybreak. The moto drivers were very confused by me but I didn?t want to speed off on a motorcycle in the dark when…
Sa Pa is a fairly small town surrounded by mountains near the Vietnamese border. Leaving China was a bit shocking, even though there were many similar minority groups it felt very different. The Vietnamese and Chinese majorities act and treat foreigners very differently. A much larger amount of people spoke English as soon as I…