Adam Skolnick

Nutmeg trees and coral reefs abound in the Banda Islands. On the trail of colonial invaders — and wild dolphins — Adam Skolnick discovers how these Indonesian islands helped birth the modern world. Travel and Leisure Asia, October 2012 — Photographed by Foued Kaddachi. Abba was humming again. It was his happy affliction. I heard [...]

“Until there is freedom and autonomy in the ethnic provinces and some sort of republic where there is self-determination completely without the military’s involvement, you don’t really have a democracy.” In November 2012, Alice Driver interviewed me on human rights in Myanmar. We talked about dictators and Obama, the Free Burma Rangers, and the future [...]

Outside Magazine, 2012 — The leader of the Free Burma Rangers keeps his identity secret. But he’s real, and he’s definitely hardcore. A former U.S. Special Forces operative—and an ordained minister, climber, and triathlete—he trains rebels and refugees in the fine art of outwitting one of the world’s most oppressive regimes to deliver humanitarian aid. [...]

It’s just after 2 p.m. Filtered sunlight splashes through the teak forest, illuminating a network of stilted bamboo huts that stretches into the surrounding hills. Five neighborhoods are stitched together with pumpkin patches and banana groves, and enlivened by scavenging chickens, mud-soaked pigs, and packs of children dressed in rags. This place is not joyless, [...]

LA Weekly - November 14-20, 2003 “I was a curious child,” concedes Kirpal. She could hardly help it, being the granddaughter to two wise women, one a Celtic Pagan healer from Canada, the other a Mexican Shaman from Echo Park. Peculiarity, in the form of psychic intuitions, and the ability to communicate with spirits and household pets, [...]

Wired - October 2003 Graffiti is art. Throughout the world evocative urban hieroglyphics shine fluorescent and vibrant from stucco walls, freeway overpasses, and howling commuter trains. Artists with monikers like “Exist” and “Cornbread” approach legendary status within an underground culture as their work becomes illicitly ubiquitous. But each year, graffiti causes $8 billion in damage nationwide. It [...]