How I Afford to Travel… And You May Not Like What I’m Going To Say

Kate from the States

The honest truth – I never have the money I need to travel, but I buy the ticket anyway. I’ve realized that money comes and goes, but the more I make, the harder it is to part with it and weirdly, the less I have, the easier it becomes to budget.

I don’t do that saving account, checking account, travel account thing either. I am not rational. I am extreme. I want to travel and so I do. There is no in between. While I was working my first career job in public relations, I realized early on that it was going to take me forever to save all the money I would need to see the world. I come from a middle class family, I’m the middle child of five and I live in one of the most expensive places in America – Long Island, New York. I don’t…

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Portrait of a Letterpress Printer

“The smell of the ink, the smell of the solvents to wash the machine up, the paper all over the place, the dust.”

A touching documentary about the lost art of letterpress printing, directed by Amberley and Florent from the Of Two Lands production company that showcases the work of Rockley, Australia printer William Amer, who continues to work on old letterpress printing machines.