Bows from another journey around the earth, this time in search for business relations, production partners and spiritual masters to create alliances with the Illuminated project. Explore the 2008 photo gallery for slices from my journeys around Japan, Thailand, India, and North America. Enjoy!

If it happens to be an curious mystery what phong is and has been doing - now a live webcam of phongular journey and workflow presence for your viewing pleasure.

Whenever my laptop is online - a live webcam feeds straight to your mizzie.

Fourty thousand inspired souls made it out to the pre-historic playa this year to form a week long experimental society known as Black Rock City, temporarily one of the largest towns in Nevada.

Artists from all disciplines manifested rare social phenomenon in this space, surrendering to the flow of dance and laughter in the art of life.

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Warm greetings from a land of spanish africans chowing down italian food.

Arriving with no plans or expectations, I landed for a short stay in rice and beans heaven, drinking from coconuts and flying off a windsurfing board.

» This is what was seen in the meantime.

With a full moon suspended above the salty desert flats known as The Playa, a mysterious force brought more than thirty-five-thousand charged souls on a pilgrimage into Burning Man, to celebrate the dawn of galactic culture on earth.

» More reflections from a peak on the wave.

As you can imagine, India's palette of aromas has sharp contrast. One moment you're dodging cow paddys strewn about the sidewalk while avoiding speeding taxies and naked children playing on the street infront of their carboard shacks, and the smell of human excrament will fill your sinuses.

Then perhaps one minute later, walking through a market, the most tantilizing spices seem to reach right out and touch your nose, their flavour leaping from hot oily bubbles in firey bowls, as cooks flip and spin their cuisine with mad talent, shouting loud vocal patterns to market their taste...