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made by hand series  — Nowadays almost everything is mass-produced by machines. It happens so fast that we have almost forgotten the fine details of handmade goods. Fortunately, scattered about the city, some people are still following their hearts and insist on living a slow life, crafting handmade goods in opposition to the high speed lifestyle of the city. Moby is one of them. He established “Easy Company” to run his one-man business in a […]

On a sunny day, we followed Taipei-based floral artist Alfie Lin to his private guesthouse Shu Shu. On the way to Jiufen, a popular, photogenic mountain town outside of Taipei, we didn’t run into the flood of tourist nor the infamous capricious local weather. We followed a small and quiet path and walked up to the old house hidden in the mountain. On seeing Shu Shu, we immediately understood how it gained its poetic name—sunshine […]