Josh's micro blog

Water puppet theatre in Hanoi is amazing

The more I travel the more baffled I am at how terrible fries/chips are on average in Australia (soggy/undercooked etc…. also stop calling thick cut chips “fries” ffs.), and the more convinced I am Australia has the best plug point design

Had another crack at a watercolour postcard of Hạ Long Bay

I need an “Unsubscribe from all marketing emails” option that comes into effect - with no action on my part - before companies send me any unsolicited email.

“Western landscape paintings depict the object, focusing on realism and imitating nature, whereas Eastern art recreates impressions, offers more expressiveness, and depicts the imaginative.” 🤔 www.sixthtone.com/news/1015…

List of things the book has outlasted rottenandgood.substack.com/p/list-of…

Interesting banner flying on the outside of the Ukraine embassy in Hanoi

Beating the heat with coffee

Cruising around Hạ Long Bay today

Putting aside that the headline here seems to have been wrong, this cover is such great visual storytelling/visual analogising

I was in Cambodia about to go to Vietnam in 2020 when borders started shutting. Finally made it today!

Rainy day at the botanical gardens

Kava toast is the real breakfast of champions

Finally found some shade

Bloody hot day at universal studios

Something underrated about Singapore (when you live in bloody Melbourne) is the ~4 degree temp range during the day. Don’t have to carry so many clothes

This is a great post about what we lose when we write off certain things as “soft skills” sashalaundy.com/writing/t…

Going to try and draw/paint a postcard every day. Here’s the first one. Don’t like it as much as my preliminary sketch

We made it to Singapore!

Some great visuals in here - ‘Totally immoral’ weapons found in share holdings of Australian ethical super funds #datavis www.abc.net.au/news/2024…

Boggles my mind that we’re a decade and a half into a mobile-first world and the most reliable way of copying and pasting text is to take a screenshot because so many apps are terrible and won’t let you highlight text

$1600 is an absolutely astonishing amount of money. And completely unreachable for many. The latest data I can find for mean household income in Sri Lanka is pre-financial crisis (central bank survey from 2019), and that was about $375 AUD. Per month. For an entire household.

#Datavis on where migrants in the US come from and where they live www.washingtonpost.com/immigrati…

Sorry not sorry