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[4 Feb 2011 | One Comment | ]
Floating and looping in Venice

As a little boy, I remember watching one day, this this fascinating documentary about city of Venice. Beside visual aspects, I memorized idea of never being able to travel there, as it’s supposed to be sinking very soon. (I learned by now, that such estimations usually don’t hold any truth…) In late 2009, I realized my forgotten by then dream, to see it with own eyes. Unlike any other location to date,  city consisted in a labyrinth of streets, which in their own bizarre nature, I found impossible to hold …

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[21 Oct 2010 | One Comment | ]
Scribbled on the nousea bag

It’s dark despite its only 1pm. Heads of fellow passengers struggle to balance in free fall toward foldable mini tables with carefully prepacked food. I’m looking around and assuming, that those out of ordinary circumstances are so unique only because I have made them so in my head. After all this is my first transcontinental journey, and I’m simply new to all this. It doesn’t mean I cannot reflect on them freely as the newbie hoping that return flight will turn them in to a silly set of scribbles. On …

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[8 Sep 2010 | One Comment | ]
Kiribati Project – 25 days to departure

Time goes quicker than ever and day counter drops digits with concerning speed. Quite as departure would be associated with something unpleasant.
Surreal factors fade away as most of the pieces of our “to do” list are getting achieved.  Nearly entire equipment is now acquired. Most of the expenses and hassles – covered.
Tension grows and stress boils up as we realize what else is missing and how much is to learn on each field that could we possibly go wrong.
Film making part is our main objective, which took over everything else …

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[1 Aug 2010 | One Comment | ]
Kiribati Project

Either it’s man-made or caused by natural rhythms and cycles, current stage of climate change turns group of atolls on the pacific ocean in to potentially first of modern era nation under serious risk of disappearing under water levels.
Kiribati becomes the first place that doesn’t exist also for the reason that small nation as this struggles to get any attention not only world leaders but also citizens. Internet’s knowledge base is full of contradictions, gaps, resources are often outdated. Our crew of three made decision on taking a journey and …