Author: Faine Greenwood

The Galaxy Note 8 doesn’t spring to mind as a potent art tool, but with its Wacom enabled stylus, I’ve been incredibly impressed. Excellent control and flow. I’m using Autodesk, which is a very useful art tool. Still growing accustomed to its features. Now, need to find out just how big I can push these […]

People regularly inform me that they get most of their news from my Facebook feed. I’m happy to do it. However, this also means Mark Zuckerberg is indirectly profiting off my incessant information hunting-and-gathering, and that bothers me on an existential level. Especially considering that I drive by Facebook’s large and pleasingly manicured headquarters on […]

It’s a contentious spring in the Himalayas. Sherpas have decided that the 2014 Mt Everest climbing season is too dangerous, after the avalanche deaths of 16 high-altitude workers on April 18th. I’m no expert on the affairs of the men and women that work on Everest, nor am I going to pretend to be. But […]

When I lived in Phnom Penh, Khmer New Year was that time of year when everyone took off work for a week and all the businesses shut down. The normally traffic-besotted streets of Phnom Penh became quiet and empty during the holiday, and everyone who could scramble the vacation days (and that was most people) […]

Protesters in Eastern Ukraine are digging in for the long haul, or so says a recent report by PRI News. This report on a very worrisome topic was illustrated with an image of a man riding a pony through the deserted streets of Donetsk. You can see it here. For some reason, I thought it […]

Re-vamping my website on my own webspace. Pardon the mess. More to come. Here is a doodle of an expat reporter in Cambodia, with no resemblance towards the living or the dead intended:

My mother regularly threatens me with writing a really terrible obituary if I die before my time. “It’ll be full of puppies and rainbows,” she says. “It’ll go on about how sweet and kind and inspirational you were. A little angel sent down from a sunbeam to live among us.” She knows this would wound […]

When I began writing, it was a food blogger. I was 15 and was noticing the explosion of popular food blogs online: most importantly, I just really liked eating stuff. I started a food blog when I was sixteen and then threw myself more thoroughly into it once I got to school at Tulane, where […]

What I miss most about New Orleans is definitely the music. Most cities in the world view music as a semi-interesting sidebar to the more important stuff. Venues are rare and expensive, outdoors festivals feature beer gardens and security scrutiny, and the occasional major band blows through like traders in the desert, selling $300 coliseum […]