The cur­rent authors of Out­side Con­text are mar­ried couple; Cesca and Basho

First, the cre­ator and web­mas­ter is known to his friends as Basho:

Bio: Mar­tial artist, philo­sopher, writer and IT expert.

Age: The wrong side of 30, the right side of 35.

Occu­pa­tion: Trav­el­ler.

Interests: Debate, cook­ing, com­puter gam­ing, read­ing, writ­ing, video­ing, kar­ate, air­soft, movies, diving, ski­ing… (The list goes on — Basho is a philo­sopher and there­fore into everything!)

Favour­ite films: Dune, Blade Run­ner, Viol­ent Cop, Ghost in the Shell, Being There, Heat… too many to list!

State­ment:

How many ideas, moments and thoughts are lost forever?

One of my greatest regrets is that I didn’t know my two Grand­fath­ers as well as I could have. I ori­gin­ally star­ted Out­side Con­text to be a “memory bank”; some­thing my grand­chil­dren would read when I was gone. Some­thing in which there maybe a small grain of wis­dom for them to find and through that get to know me, how I thought and felt.

Spe­cial Skill: When Basho uses his spe­cial skill the oppon­ent finds them­self tele­por­ted to the centre of a large and beau­ti­ful field. Sud­denly, from all corners, will come every­one they know and love and they will be sur­roun­ded and finally real­ise that life isn’t all that bad really.

The second, and most bril­liant, author is Cesca:

New author and future designer for OCJ is known to her friends as Cesca:

Bio: Branding/Graphic Designer

Age: Cradle-snatcher

Occu­pa­tion: Ninky (no income no kids) Flashpacker

Interests: Basho (wink!)

Cre­ativ­ity: visual com­mu­nic­a­tion, pho­to­graphy, cal­li­graphy, art, archi­tec­ture
Human­ity: people, cul­ture, learn­ing, volun­teer­ing, enlight­en­ment
Activ­ity: water­s­ports, sky­diving, paraglid­ing, ski­ing, tramping

Favour­ite medium: Cre­ations that enliven the senses. Simple beauty. Any­thing that involves your hands.

State­ment:

The meet­ing of con­trast­ing ele­ments;
East meets West, Wood and Metal, Art and Sci­ence, Reli­gion versus Evol­u­tion, Rich along­side Poor.

Writ­ing is some­thing new to me and a won­der­ful cre­at­ive out­let in a dif­fer­ent way to what I’m used to.
I’ve dis­covered a great deal of enjoy­ment in verb­al­ising my visual and emo­tional understanding.

“A pic­ture can speak a thou­sand words”, but it can­not con­vey smell, sound, taste, touch, tem­per­at­ure or feel­ings or deeper under­stand­ing of the photographer.

Spe­cial Skill: Empathy. Aware­ness. Under­stand­ing. Visual com­pre­hen­sion. A great aware­ness of oth­ers. To take people as they are. Put­ting people at ease. Feel­ing that I’ve known someone forever.

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