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2026

No. 205
Painting of a koala.

I choose to be a a chill koala.

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No. 204
Mountain in Patagonia, summer, green and flowers

It wasn’t a dream, such place exist. Patagonia, Argentina.

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No. 203
A smiley face container in the wall full of small balls with smiley faces

Happiness comes from within… or from a wall, I dunno.

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No. 202
A notebook page of pencil logo sketches built from the letter A, with a list of words beside them

Creativity isn’t limited by the capability of the tools, but limited indeed by the lack of practice.

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No. 201

My first thought pushed directly from my phone

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2022

No. 200
A blue sky full of small rippled clouds

The sky is blue due to the blue light is scattered more than other colors because of its smaller wavelength. But who cares, it's beautiful.

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2021

No. 199
A heap of colourful ornamental gourds in every shape

There is some kind of profound beauty when a composition aggregates such an array of diversity. You start seeing things that can only be found when the sum of all uniqueness comes together to create something new, when the differences become connectors of the similarities, and the lines of the individual blurs.

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No. 198
Granola, nuts, seeds and dragon fruit letters spelling LOVE in a coconut shell

All you need is love, granola, fruits, seeds and nuts on a coconut...

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No. 196
A breakfast bowl of dragon fruit, blueberries, banana, almonds and granola

Nutritious colorful breakfast, a bowl of goodness

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2020

No. 195
Neon signs and lanterns in Chinatown, Singapore, at night during the Mid-Autumn Festival

Chinatown in Singapore during the autumn festival ;) I’m just happy and grateful to be here now

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No. 194
A pile of roasted cashews and walnuts

Roasted nuts, one of my favorite snacks

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2019

No. 193

While waiting with no purpose, the curiosity of the mind can get lost in contemplation of the most simple patterns, repetitive and monotonous fragments of images and sounds distort the input of reality, blurring the background thoughts with the imperfect foreground performance of the every day objects that surround us.

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No. 191
An old wooden bookcase with glass doors, full of books

I love books and bookshelves, each book is a door to a different world, and a bookshelf a universe of possibilities

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No. 190
Rows of large meringues in pastel colours, topped with crumbled biscuit

Colourful merengues in the morning.

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No. 188

Fuerza Bruta at the Singapore light festival. Quilombo

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No. 185
A shelf of old toys in Kyoto: rubber monster figures, an Ultraman and a gold C-3PO

Toys are great but old toys are awesome, Kyoto

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No. 181
Gold and red paper banners hanging from a ceiling for the Lunar New Year

Year of the pig. This is my year, oink!

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2018

No. 179

Have you ever dreamt you were flying through the clouds?

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No. 176
Thousands of shared bikes in a sea of yellow, blue and pink, in China

In China bike sharing is a huge thing, bunch of bikes for a bunch of people

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No. 175
The lights of Saigon at night, seen from a landing plane

It was raining in Saigon when we landed

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No. 174
A toy model of a Manchester tramcar, in Hangzhou

Old toys are awesome, found this Manchester tramcar in Hangzhou car city

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No. 173
A riverside park in Hangzhou with blossoming trees, red bushes and a winding path

Surprised by Hangzhou this time of the year

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No. 172
Red lanterns strung across a street in Chinatown, Singapore, with towers behind

Chinatown, Singapore. Modern city, contrast

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2017

No. 169
Inside a Schimmel grand piano: the strings, dampers and hammers

Beautiful design and craftsmanship open the door to an immense world of opportunity, music inspires like the instruments we use to play it

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No. 168
A pile of spiky durians

Durian. Tasty, smelly, not for everyone

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No. 165
A crowd of pigeons gathered on the pavement

Pigeon squad. Congregation, pigeon protest

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No. 163
Trees hung with giant lollipops and swirls of candy on Sentosa island

Sentosa island, where candy grows on trees

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No. 156
Rows of small jars of homemade jam, seen from above

Bunch of homemade confiture. Paradox of choice

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No. 155
A honeycomb dripping raw honey onto a wooden board

Got raw honey for your morning tea

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No. 140
Selfie de Natan con gorro, la barba cubierta de escarcha, en un paisaje nevado de Noruega

Se me congela la barba cuando corro en Noruega

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No. 136
Icicles forming along a roof edge against a white sky

It was cold when the raindrops decided to stop dropping for a moment and admire the view. They didn't notice, but I was watching.

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2016

No. 134
Rows of beetles pinned on a white wall, sweeping across it, at a natural history museum

Bugs exodus, Musée d'histoire naturelle

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No. 132
Street art on the Passage des Moulins: a girl painting flowers, with a palette in her hand

Street art, Passage des Moulins

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No. 130
The keys of an antique cash register priced in francs

Vintage francs. Old but beautiful

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No. 129
A heap of purple-streaked garlic bulbs from a farm in Bern

Garlic from an organic farm in Bern

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No. 031

Tiempo y movimiento

“Cómo pasa el tiempo” escuché a alguien decir hoy, como cualquier otro día, solo que esta vez me nació una significancia nueva, una perspectiva que me hizo preguntarme: ¿Es el tiempo el que pasa? ¿O somos nosotros los que pasamos a través de él? Enseguida se me revolvieron las pocas ideas que tengo, que como el viento es aire en movimiento, el tiempo no es nada más que nuestra conciencia viva, expandiendo, como el universo. Hoy es un buen día.

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No. 125
Pasteles de nata recién horneados, con la superficie tostada

Lisboa no es solo pasteles de nata, pero de todas formas, pasteles de nata

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No. 124
Una casa antigua de tres plantas, con la fachada descascarada, en Sintra

Algunas casas en Sintra son hermosas por fuera, otras por dentro

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No. 121
Street art in Lisbon: a decorated stormtrooper helmet on a wall of green tiles

Lisbon. May the force be with you

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No. 120
Street art in Lisbon: a tribal-style mask with long dreadlocks, pasted on a white wall

Lisbon street art. I'm collecting them all

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No. 118
Wet autumn leaves on a brick street

Otoño 🍂 autumn leaves on the street

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No. 115
A wall covered with labels repeating the name Yayoi Kusama

Modern art: crazy, smart, beautiful

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No. 112
A hand holding a red wooden yo-yo printed with Kalmar

Endless fun with my new red yoyo. No need for batteries

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No. 110
A vintage copper diving helmet and canvas suit on display

1960's underwater fashion trends.

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No. 105
An old valve radio on a stand beside a carved fireplace and a lamp

The old, the vintage and the pretty

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No. 029

No busques en tu cabeza lo que encuentras en tu corazón

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No. 028

“Why did you remove your wisdom tooth?” “Oh, that’s why.”

Dental X-ray of a jaw, with a wisdom tooth lying sideways under the others

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No. 027

I’m going to fail so many times that I’ll end up succeeding

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2015

No. 100
A hand holding a bicycle key with a broken bit

Hey man good news! You are walking home today!

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No. 025

¿Amas los animales? Dejalos ser libres.

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No. 099
Raindrops hanging from a railing, with gardens and a small house below, in Amsterdam

Raindrops in the stairs, good to be back. Amsterdam is beautiful even when raining

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No. 098
Un gran reloj de estación iluminado en violeta, en Plaça de Catalunya

Plaça de Catalunya… Ya es hora

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No. 096
A steel control panel with a green 'Estado' light and a red 'Alarma' light, both drawn with smiling faces

Simple UI improvements are awesome, UX for simple people

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No. 024

Barcelona, barrio gótico. Vecina chismosa.

Una paloma asomada a una pequeña ventana con rejas en un muro de piedra

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No. 095
Paredes blancas y un volumen blanco en una sala vacía del MACBA

MACBA, museo de arte contemporáneo de Barcelona

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No. 023

When you are walking Barcelona and you see a mamut just standing there…

Natan's selfie in a cap, next to a life-size stone mammoth in a park

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No. 022

I finally understand all the sayings about duality of the human race: We are stupid animals.

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No. 085
Una mano sosteniendo una frutilla enorme

Cuando todo lo demás falla, frutilla

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No. 081
A stone statue of Ganesha, seated

Ganesha, remover of obstacles. Yoga time!

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No. 020

El esfuerzo y goce van de la mano.

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No. 019

El cisne quería amar, pero la pata solo quería volar.

Un cisne en un lago en calma, con montañas al fondo y un pie descalzo sobre las piedras de la orilla

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2014

No. 018

we are machines driven by love

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No. 017

People are talking about the outrageous scoring from German team against Brazil team, when they should be talking about the outrageous scoring from FIFA suits against Brazil’s people.

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No. 016

Vos sos como el mar, vas desgastando las costas a tu antojo para darle la forma de tu agrado.

— Mi padre

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No. 013

Mi mate se quebró, y yo con él. Muchos años duró, y por el mundo viajó, miles idiomas habló, mi mate de madera se quebró, y yo con él.

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No. 012

The only thing I don’t like about being a lone wolf… goes alone.

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2013

No. 011

I’m just a stupid fly bouncing on a shiny light

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No. 010

In my experience I’ve learned that when it comes to money, I can take the most wrong decisions

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No. 009

El polaco, vikingo, argentino

En la secundaria me decían “el polaco”, luego ya en el laburo me re bautizaron a “el vikingo” … Hoy soy simplemente “el argentino”. Que loco como cambia el mundo dependiendo desde donde lo mires…

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No. 008

I used to be really bad at maths, now I don’t use them any more…

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2012

No. 006

Behold! The future of transportation!

Old engraving of a man in a top hat riding a wooden draisine, the bicycle without pedals

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No. 005

Muchos años antes que Curiosity pise el suelo de Marte, yo ya dialogaba con mi alter-ego. Aquí, mi autoretrato marciano.

Dibujo a lápiz de una cara con un solo ojo enorme en la frente

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No. 004

Mi educación fue militar

En una ráfaga volví al pasado y reviví una de las experiencias de mi niñez durante mi estadía en la escuela primaria. Me volvió una imagen donde la maestra nos hacía formar una fila de menor a mayor, todos debíamos estar quietos y ordenados. Ahora entiendo que parte de mi educación, fue militar. Me enseñaron a respetar rangos, saludar a la bandera, a admirar a nuestros próceres! Comparables con superhéroes. Al fin y al cabo lo único distinto que no aprendí en la primaria es a manejar armas de fuego.

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No. 002

This little guy was lost at Schiphol train station, he tried to ask me for directions but I didn’t understand a peep.

A small black-and-white bird on the tiled floor of a train station, by the tactile paving

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No. 001

That moment when you realize that you are working

A desk with a keyboard, an orange, sweets, juggling balls, sticky notes and an Oracle database book

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2011

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