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Danger is my middle name.

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Congratulations 🇺🇸 👨‍❤️‍👨 👩‍❤️‍👩 . May the rest of the world soon follow.

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I watched this little boy watch the sunset over the Ambucao Dam. When it got dark, he carried off his baby brother back into the house, and then he went back out into the fields, dug up a carrot, shook off the dirt, and ate it right out of the ground. What a life.

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GRID @gridmagazineph 06, in which we tackle one of the big questions: What does it mean to Be Filipino? There isn't just one answer. Here we approach and embrace the question(s) with work from @studioguerrero @kcajack @taraftsering @annequito @gericcruz and others. Cover by @studioguerrero; cover design by @nachiugs. National Bookstore, Fully Booked, Abacus, and other outlets. Also available soon online on the @buqoapp.

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Hey Jack Kerouac

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Goodies! TW Chew kicking ass and taking...orders. Calamansi curd, onion jam, dulce de leche with brandy or bourbon.

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Creamy dulce de leche, with satisfying flakes of sea salt, flavored with brandy or bourbon. This morning's project by The Wandering Chew, available tomorrow at Good Food Sundays at the Uno Morato compound.

[longform]

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.

Susan Sontag | New York Review of Books | Feb 1975

[longform]

Sam Simon made a fortune from The Simpsons. Now, diagnosed with terminal cancer, he his racing to spend it all.

Merrill Markoe | Vanity Fair | Oct 2014

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Ode to the Sea (Pablo Neruda) Here Surrounding the island There's sea. But what sea? It's always overflowing. Says yes, Then no, Then no again, And no, Says yes In blue In sea spray Raging, Says no And no again. It can't be still. It stammers My name is sea. It slaps the rocks And when they aren't convinced, Strokes them And soaks them And smothers them with kisses. With seven green tongues Of seven green dogs Or seven green tigers Or seven green seas, Beating its chest, Stammering its name, Oh Sea, This is your name. Oh comrade ocean, Don't waste time Or water Getting so upset Help us instead. We are meagre fishermen, Men from the shore Who are hungry and cold And you're our foe. Don't beat so hard, Don't shout so loud, Open your green coffers, Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish. Surrounding the island There's sea. But what sea? It's always overflowing. Says yes, Then no, Then no again, And no, Says yes In blue In sea spray Raging, Says no And no again. It can't be still. It stammers My name is sea. It slaps the rocks And when they aren't convinced, Strokes them And soaks them And smothers them with kisses. With seven green tongues Of seven green dogs Or seven green tigers Or seven green seas, Beating its chest, Stammering its name, Oh Sea, This is your name. Oh comrade ocean, Don't waste time Or water Getting so upset Help us instead. We are meagre fishermen, Men from the shore Who are hungry and cold And you're our foe. Don't beat so hard, Don't shout so loud, Open your green coffers, Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

[longform]

The rise and fall of travel writing.

Frank Bures | Nowhere | Aug 2014

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What I Find in my Pockets #2: Money (Thailand, 2012), Bus Ticket (CDO, 2011), Boarding Pass (Butuan, 2013), Luggage Claim Tag (Brunei, 2013)

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After a couple of years of relative quiet, Thailand’s political turmoil resumed again a few months ago when the Red Shirts’ mortal foes, the Yellow Shirts, mounted protests that effectively prevented the government from functioning, and this time the army took over in a coup d’état. The...

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How I Shoot: Underwater Shark Photography with @michaelmuller7

For each How I Shoot, we ask an Instagrammer to tell us about their creative process. To see more of Michael’s photos from his shark expeditions, follow @michaelmuller7 and follow @discoverychannel as Michael takes over Discovery Channel’s Instagram account during Shark Week.

Michael Muller (@michaelmuller7) is on a mission to change the way we see sharks. “They are in a lot of trouble right now,” he says. “100 million are slaughtered every year, and I say slaughter because the majority of the time the shark is killed just for its fins.”

In his day job, Michael is a Hollywood-based commercial photographer renowned for his celebrity portraits and images used in box office billboards. But when he has free time, Michael devotes himself to documenting sharks in their native habitat around the world. He has even created an underwater strobe lighting system as powerful as the one in his California studio. “Realizing that I couldn’t bring the shark into the studio, I knew I would have to bring the studio to it,” he says.

The key to successful underwater shark photography, according to Michael, is staying relaxed. “Anxiety is the biggest obstacle,” he says. “If you let negative thoughts take hold then you are in for a really rough time.”

Michael uses Instagram to share images of his encounters in the deep. Here he tells us more about his process during and after his underwater excursions:

Equipment:

Phase One medium format with Nauticam, Nikon D800 with Subal Housing, Red Epic Dragon, GoPro and a “list of scuba equipment too long to enumerate.”

Vantage Point:

Because Michael rarely shoots from insides shark cages, he works closely with a team to be in the best position possible. “I have to constantly anticipate where the animal may go or do. What we look for always is what we call a ‘player,’which is a shark that is very mellow and curious that will stay around us. It is with sharks like this that magic happens.”

Shooting:

“It’s all about waiting for that right ‘moment’ to hit the trigger, which comes from 28 years experience. If you get too excited and go too fast then you miss that moment. If you wait too long you watch it happen and have the shot in your head, but no one else ever gets to witness it, so timing is everything.“

Editing:

Depending on the length of the shoot, Michael will return with between 3,000-10,000 photos. “I keep every image I take, I get rid of blank images but keep everything else,” he says. “With Instagram I usually post between 4-8 images from a particular trip.” For processing tools, Michael uses his own custom filters app MullerPhoto, and also the newest Instagram creative tools. “There are times I just go right into Instagram and just use its tools which are really getting more and more phenomenal.”

[longform]

The secret diary of Nina Simone.

Joe Hagan | The Believer | Aug 2010

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[pulitzercenter]

I am that guy.

You know the one. When the waiter comes to the table to give the specials, I’m the one who needs to know where the snapper’s from, how the swordfish was caught, and whether the salmon is farm-raised. My brother generally starts apologizing for me as soon as I open my mouth to...

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Grid Magazine issue 03 at the printers today. On newsstands next week. @gridonline #gridwashere #gridmagzine #travel #philippines