Photo by Hans Silvester (from Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa). Several years ago, I happened upon a wonderful book by photographer Hans Silvester titled Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa. The photos are gasp-inducing! I ran to my computer and ordered several copies as gifts that Christmas. The book features breathtaking photographs of the nomadic …
Month: July 2017
At their most basic level, jagua and henna are inks. For some reason, the subject keeps coming up in conversations with unlikely people, so these exchanges have served to remind me of a section in my book, Jagua: A Journey into Body Art from the Amazon, which speaks to ink having stemmed from a desire …
Aloha from Maui! I’m on vacation with my husband Pascal in tiny, historic Paia in Maui, land of near-daily rainbows and preternaturally green foliage so lush your eyes can’t quite believe it. Yesterday we joined lots of other nature lovers, who made their way over to the Twin Falls—a popular landmark on the road to …
It’s just over a week since we dismantled our booth at VidCon, the annual online video conference. VidCon is where like-minded people come to share and exchange information, meet influencers in the industry, learn what’s trending, get a grasp on what it takes to master the field and, most of all, have fun; and anyone …