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Iceland, Part 7: Reykjavik.
Reykjavik is the Major City of Iceland with 150,000 inhabitants, about half of the island’s entire population. It’s a very nice city – not too big, not too small. A great many buildings are made of...
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Warning: It’s gonna get disgusting.
But not too much. We’re going to dance around the disgusting, hint at it, and then dart away quickly. You’ll be fine. First, an inevitability has happened. I have found the only animal that grosses me...
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Nuggets of Interest.
1. McMansions. A blight on the eyes. There is now a website that explains why the architecture is so not great. http://www.mcmansionhell.com/ Some helpful diagrams of the crappityness:...
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Two artists I have been feeling lately.
The first one is Andreas Levers. He’s a German photographer who apparently controls the weather because all his pictures have this magical ethereal mist. I love the combination of the basic hard-lined...
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Kinda bummer news.
Well, due to life being all life-y (I’m a manager now! Of other people! Pray for them!) I’m going to have to take a hiatus from blogging. I just can’t keep up with the everything. I’ll return, but I...
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Guatemala, Part 4.
Antigua! A city in Guatemala with, like, 30 churches! Some are still functioning, some are only facades. Everything is protected because the whole city is a UNESCO site. Here are some of the façades....
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Guatemala, Post 5.
More Antigua! But first, other things. We drove past a funeral. It was quite sad. A police officer had been killed. I love how the whole neighborhood showed up and was walking with the family to show...
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Guatemala, Part 6.
Lake Atitlan. Get ready. But first, Antigua’s main plaza! That I forgot to add to the Antigua posts earlier! I love how there’s old ruins and new ruins and everything all sort of mooshed together. And...
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Italian-American wedding. I was not ready.
I feel like, having lived in the diverse tri-state area for the all of my life so far, I have been exposed to many different cultures and their customs. I had not, however, been to an upscale...
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I have made a mistake.
“Gosh, the news is chockful of depressing politics. Let’s look at non-political news, that’s gotta be better, right?” A note: This wasn’t photoshopped. Those were precisely the links on the side of...
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The bounty of the Internet is endless.
1. There’s a guy named Keaton Patti who loves Photoshop. He fixes screengrabs from the PBS program Antiques Roadshow and makes them truthful and real and I certainly appreciate all his hard work. He...
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Why graphic design is so, so very important.
I was watching the Rose Bowl the other day (not because I wanted to but because my employee is from Georgia and I was trying to be supportive) and I noticed something interesting. Did anyone look at...
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No sleep for you.
You know when you go to bed at night and you’re tired and and you think, “Ahhh, I will fall asleep immediately, better get my passport ready for the Land of Nod,” but your brain decides this is the...
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Nick Cave again.
I’ve spoken about the artist Nick Cave numerous times (here, a little bit here and a little bit here). I’m big fan of his sound suits so when I heard that he had a full-room exhibition in MassMoca I...
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Mantis mantis mantis. (Mantis.)
Mantis! First, my work companion. My coworker Tongue is obsessed with plants. He has a gazillion plants in his home, and seeds, and things that look like they’re dead twigs but are not, all the plants....
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New York observations.
1. On my way to work every day I come out of a tunnel that goes from Grand Central Terminal to further up midtown. There is a fancy glass office building being built across the street from the exit and...
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Vienna and Krakow, Part 5.
Okay, last entry on Vienna. Get ready for some art. First, more food. This is apple strudel. Sitting in a warm bath of vanilla sauce. With swirls of whipped cream on either end. *sniff* I miss this so...
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Vienna and Krakow, Part 10.
Okay, we covered the depressing. Back to the positive things humanity has contributed to history. But first! A doorframe. I saw a Baroque doorframe with angry… weasels? Lizards? Dog griffons? I...
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Internet musings.
1. I was on Amazon buying something unnecessary and this ad popped up because Amazon clearly knows its target audience: I was faced with a quandary. If I was going to watch this game (I wasn’t), who...
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Podcasts that are simultaneously fascinating and appalling. Enjoy!
I had to build a massive project and I wanted something nice to listen while I was enmeshed in work hell so I went to Snorth for a list of podcasts to plow through like it was my job. The project is...
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