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the secret life of plankton
Too bad that 16th century sailors couldn’t see the microscopic critters below. If they could, they might have left us a lot more wicked illustrations of real-life sea monsters. Meet plankton: the underworld drifters. The Secret ...
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letter from the editor
Why are there now short fiction stories on ouididi? Because ouididi is a lot like Ariel from The Little Mermaid, only more bad ass. No, we would never sell our soul to an octopus sea ...
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The Hotel Galiza
The Hotel Galiza is a short story by Patrick Newson: a writer and winemaker from Oregon. His fiction has been published by The Stonecutters Union, wine has influenced his prose, and he travels with a ...
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te araroa: olivier moly hikes new zealand’s long path
There’s so much to be said for slow journeys where your legs are your engine and your map is your best friend (even if it flies out the window). They’re about splintering time into bite-size ...
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greenland: cabinet of curiosities
It might be wise to start collecting snowflakes for a cabinet of curiosities. Given global warming, having a couple in your Wunderkammer could, one day, be like owning a giant squid or a two-headed snake. ...
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gudrun von maltzan’s outdoor studio
For the most part, long-haul truckers and rock stars come to mind when I think of professions that involve pulling over to sleep on the side of the road. So when artist Gudrun Von Maltzan ...
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ruben doornweerd hiking hardangervidda
These are from dutch graphic designer Ruben Doornweerd and his friend René Rafaël Hoekstra. They just returned from the Hardangervidda mountain range in Norway. “8 days of trekking. 137 km. 4 nights in a hut. 3 in ...
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interview: ragnar axelsson on arctic ice
Luminary Ragnar Axelsson is haunted by the Arctic. Known as Rax, he’s an Icelandic photojournalist capturing wilderness in the worn faces of farmers, lonesome hunters, intrepid fishermen; spirits wrestling the elements to survive. His documentary ...
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geoffrey knott with canadian raptors
Toronto photographer Geoffrey Knott trekked across the country mid-winter to stare a golden eagle in the eye and trace Canada’s hinterland. Continued below. Click on images to accelerate slideshow. “The whole thing about photography is ...
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studio fludd interviews ouididi
Sara Maragotto is a winsome young illustrator from Venice, and one fifth of the art collective Studio Fludd. She asked me a few questions about ouididi, ice cream flavors, and the apple orchard of my ...
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inside a 4,000 year-old magma chamber
Young and old, we all have some idea about what is way down deep beneath our feet. There was a time when I dug up the backyard furiously, certain that the other side of the ...
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a canoe in the kimberley
It was no coincidence that I came to this place where, had I gone any farther away from home, I would have started to head back. Only really good news or really bad news would ...
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nursing baby kangaroos back to the wild
If you’ve never pictured baby kangaroos sleeping soundly in fabricated pouches on a farmer’s wall, it’s because you’ve never met Margaret and Malcolm Whyte. In their late 70s, they spent decades adopting and rehabilitating a ...
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kalian lo: capturing australia’s outback
For years I envisioned Australia as a land run rampant with cowboys, crocodiles, venomous critters and brightly colored insects; a continent so far removed that ingenuity and independence meant survival. It was an ...
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postcard from iceland
Sharing a studio with dedicated animator Auke de Vries means not only great advice on ouididi, but the chance to give feedback on issues like which three-eyed frog looks more like a nuclear power plant ...
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seeds of sarawak: jessica chen in the jungles of borneo
If there is anyone I know who should have sailed the Beagle with Darwin, it’s my friend Jessica Chen: artist, explorer and horticulturist. Since graduating from art school in Toronto, she’s been traveling the world ...
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snapshot luigi
Sometimes when you’re on the road you get to know a lot about people. Other times, you just get snapshots. Luigi is a writer from Bellona, a little town near Napoli. He’s working his way ...
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trapped in antarctica – an early expedition becomes a polar nightmare
It was a rainy day in Tasmania, and having already visited the awe-inspiring MONA, I wandered the streets of Hobart searching, as strangers do, for a door into a world of treasure. In the basement ...