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In June of 2006, the last time we were in Europe for any extended period of time, we planned to go to Berlin for a long visit. My ignorance of sporting matters is such that the trip was almost completely planned before a more culturally aware friend (read: having any awareness at all) casually mentioned, [...]

Monday photo: lunchtime

Shape my summer

So as this is a worldly group out there in Whatsitland, I want to pick your brains. I’ll be spending June traveling, mostly to places I have been before, and I want to see them through new eyes. YOUR eyes. We’re starting with a few days in London, and at some point over the course [...]

Monday photo: Ants

(Click to enlarge) I took these photos in downtown Bogota, where artist Rafael Gomezbarros covered the Colombian Congress building with this art installation of giant ants. Apparently this has been an ongoing, Christoesque project in which the ants have appeared on different public buildings throughout Colombia at different times; according to Gomezbarros, the ants “represent [...]

Monday photo: what you don’t know . . .

Anacondas 0, kidnappers 0, dolphins 5, monkeys 50

Previous readers may remember my mixture of excitement and trepidation before going to Colombia last month. Although most of me was excited by the prospect of this exploration, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t also nervous about it, what with the kidnappings, the malaria, and the anacondas (well, to be honest, I was [...]

Monday photo: Seed pod

Courtesy of Stella: an interesting Rorschach test.

Do not panic.

Tomorrow morning I am leaving on a trip, the planning of which has alternately elated and terrified me. I’ll be landing in Bogota tomorrow evening. From there, a girlfriend and I will fly to the southern tip of Colombia, where it meets Peru and Brazil, to a small town called Leticia. We’ll take a boat [...]

Monday photo: Painters

At the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, where I made a pilgrimage to see an exhibit of screenprints by my beloved Rauschenberg last week, my friend leaned over the upstairs railing and caught this more organic creation in action.

Building a better Mousetrap

And you thought their treadmill video was crazy?