"Their behavior, their appearance, was of broken birds." Lisa Miara, founder of Springs of Hope Foundation, tells me about a group of kids recently released from ISIS captivity who have come to her foundation’s Hope Center in northern Iraq. It took six months of coming to the Hope Center before they asked Miara and her [...]
We are the Syrian people. What we started as a revolution, Assad turned into a war. Assad persists on killing until this day, but we persist in our revolution until we realize our dream of a democratic Syria for all. (The Syrian Revolution) is changing human beings from the inside. Revolutions are ideas, and ideas [...]
https://videopress.com/v/b9JuXIeb "People are put on this earth for various purposes. I was put on earth to do this: eat noodles right here." https://videopress.com/v/SZVyGEJa Part II: The Ha Giang loop, which deserved its own video 🙂 I don't know where to start, so I'll just dive right into it. Being in Vietnam was wild and I'm [...]
It could be argued across lifetimes what the most effective response to war and violence is. What follows the expected emotional reactions of sadness and furor might be a public mobilization for a protest; running for a government position; fundraising for a charity or nonprofit; or ongoing conversation surrounding the politics that led to the [...]
"Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman—not an artist." It's okay that Anthony Bourdain himself (in his first book "Kitchen Confidential") scrutinized cooking being referred to as art—I'm going to file it there anyway. What I will take to heart, however, is his distaste for truffle oil (I will never touch that [...]
This video was something of a practice run for future videos I hope to make, and it was my first time using a GoPro. Life is a ride and it is also an endless amateur hour. I learned a handful of things on this trip: I do not have a steady hand for camera [...]
When Anthony Bourdain visits Salvador de Bahia, Brazil in his award-winning television show, Parts Unknown, everything we see of the city is worth admiring: the vibrant buildings and intricate architecture; drums echoing through the streets at night; the sexy women and men who, as Anthony describes, always look like they "just got fucked or are [...]
the artist hour 