(Text by Swells, photos by ScottyGee) Dresden is known for its beautiful central theater complex, its devastation after the Allies firebombed it in WWII, and of course its central role in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. It’s such a culty novel, at least for American college boys, that I assumed its iconic status would at least [...]
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Stella and the magic carpet
Stella has followed the hallowed footsteps of Scotty G. to Berlin. She will now attempt to communicate an art installation in photographs. All good art installations are of course impossible to capture and document. Nevertheless, Stella will risk diminishing the work to share it with you. It takes place in the Neue Nationalgalerie designed by [...]
Hot and cold
This July is on track to be the hottest New York City July on record. If that happens, it will beat July 1999 for the record — that was the month I first visited New York, over a record-breakingly sweltering Fourth of July weekend. Despite the heat, all I wanted to do was walk around [...]
Flag waving
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, [...]
Zum ersten Mal
By the time I’m scheduled to write my next post, I’ll be in Europe. I’ve gotten a fellowship to do a special course of study in Germany, but I’m taking a week and a half to visit friends in England and Ireland along the way. This wouldn’t be such a huge deal except I’ve never [...]
Euro-transit pt. 1
While on my recent trip to Central Europe, I snapped about two thousand photos. Over the next several weeks I’ll do my best to share some of my favorites without boring you all to tears. This was the first time I’ve traveled since becoming interested in taking pictures, and I found myself growing increasingly drawn [...]
1966 and all that
There are two defining moments in English history. The defeat of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings by William the Conqueror in 1066 and the victory of the English soccer team in the 1966 World Cup. That second moment healed all the defeats, disappointments, and humiliations of the previous 900 years. The victory could [...]
Farrell Fawcett’s urban index
I live in Philadelphia. In the past six weeks I’ve traveled to San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Baltimore, and Los Angeles. (Considering the coastal clustering of these cities, it’s not much of a feat.) But those are 7 of America’s top 20 cities. And it got me thinking about an old conversation. Really it’s [...]
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 [...]
