Singapore

The Winged City

Mechanics and Protocol The Skytrain is approaching the platform. Please stand clear and make way for alighting passengers. Open twenty-four hours. Gates open three hours before scheduled departure time. Follow the signs to customs clearance and immigration. Photography of the…
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This Week in Photos

Will watches the monorails and overpasses of Sentosa Island pass by out the window of an air-conditioned bus. Thirteen sets of escalators at the awe-inspiring National Library in Singapore. Will and my mum stretch outside the Burmese embassy after a…
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This Week in Photos

A skyscraper rising in Nagoya, the Japanese-settled port city on Batam Island, Indonesia. Some spider, remarkable only because it was the largest I’d ever seen. We spotted it in between two branches in a tree from across the fairway we were cutting through.…
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This Week in Photos

Rickshaw drivers watch taxis pass by. With so many green-and-yellow cabs on the roads of Chengdu, the slower, pricier rickshaws seem to be dying a slow death. Hens going to market. Pigeons at market. An advertisement for a popular Chinese ice cream…
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