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Notes from the places stones come through

Markets, workshops, laboratories, and the occasional decision worth writing down. Specific rather than atmospheric — an actual day, an actual stone, an actual person.

  • Documentary · 16:9

    Chanthaburi, Thailand — March 2026

    The morning market in Chanthaburi

    The trading tables go up on Friday and come down on Sunday, and almost none of the business happens the way an outsider expects.

  • Documentary · 3:2

    Beruwala, Sri Lanka — January 2026

    A cutter who does not weigh first

    Most people put the rough on the scale before anything else. He does not, and his reason took a while to get out of him.

  • Documentary · 3:2

    Hong Kong — September 2025

    What a certificate does not say

    A laboratory report is a set of answers to a specific set of questions. Knowing which questions were not asked is most of reading one well.

  • Documentary · 3:2

    Sri Lanka — November 2025

    The weight you give up

    Two stones from the same piece of rough, cut two ways on paper before either was cut for real.

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