Chasing The Blue Beyond

2018 Hero's Journey Redux · Hong Kong Departure Highlight Hong Kong At blue hour, the vertical city became a harbor. Beyond the lights waited Queen Mary 2 and the first westward miles of our World Cruise voyage segment. 31 March 2018 Victoria Harbour Blue Hour Queen Mary 2 See Full Image Show Story 00 Cold open · The threshold already crossed The film begins where the land journey ends. Opening film · Hong Kong sail-away Before the explanation, movement: harbor light, the ship, and the city beginning to fall astern. The start of our World Cruise Voyage Segment. Hong Kong had spent several days teaching us how to arrive. Now the harbor taught us how to leave. At blue hour, towers became reflections, ferries became moving punctuation and Queen Mary 2 became the sentence carrying us west. A departure is never only the moment a ship clears the berth. It contains every smaller...

A Red-Sailed Junk Boat Is Signature Hong Kong 

2018 Hero's Journey Redux · Hong Kong Highlight Hong Kong The city rose before we were ready: red taxis, green gardens, vertical streets, harbor light and a mountain disappearing into mist. 29 March 2018 Victoria Peak Hong Kong Island Queen Mary 2 See Full Image Show Story Prologue · The vertical threshold The city arrived before we did. Hong Kong did not unfold horizontally. It stacked itself: airport, bridge, tunnel, tower, garden, tram, hill, cloud, harbor and ship. We arrived at 07:30 after too little sleep, carrying foreign currency, airport fatigue and the mistaken belief that arrival is a single event. Hong Kong corrected us immediately. Arrival was a sequence of decisions made while tired. Airport Red Taxi MacDonnell Street Victoria Peak 01 The ordinary world We landed on reclaimed ground and entered a city built above itself. Immigration and customs were easy. The more...

Cold Open · Hong Kong in Motion Before the journey explains itself, the harbor begins moving. World Cruise · 2018 Ferries cut the water. Towers climb into haze. Hong Kong · March 2018 A Hero’s Journey · The Return Begins with Arrival ISLE BE BACK From a rainy 03:00 departure to the vertical edge of Hong Kong—and the discovery that leaving an island is not the same as finishing with it. See Full Image Show Text “I know that we will miss her, but adventure awaits.” Sarah’s Journal · 27 March 2018 Field Note 01 · The Hinge Some islands are destinations. Others become promises. Hong Kong was both: an arrival at the far side ...