May
17
when regular stuff happens in irregular places
Click here. With special thanks to journalist Subel Bhandari for telling me about it.
May
12
a social history of solitude
Let out your social song, you lonesome wretch, you sack of bones. Be unafraid. There are others, alone, who want to listen. Mary and Louis Leakey digging at Oduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa. The Heart’s Archaeology On some fundless expedition, you discover it beneath a pyracantha bush carved from the hip bone of a [...]
May
09
Half & Half
Bob Bartlett and local inhabitant aboard ship during Bartlett’s Arctic Expedition, 1933 by Smithsonian Institution There’s a lot that can be said about this photograph. Those who see the glass-as-half-full will see a delightful moment. Two people of very different backgrounds are sharing an experience together above and beyond their differences. Those who see [...]
May
07
Lobsters in Chinatown
I had to send some footage to a production company ASAP, so I quickly hopped on the subway to Chinatown and made this video to send off to them.
Apr
06
Twinkle Twinkle
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. – Alan Watts
Mar
13
sneak peek, très chic
A couple of weeks ago, I had a CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE when I broke the law and tip-toed into the closed hallways of the American Museum of Natural History – after hours! To my overwhelming delight, I had [...]
Mar
01
everything under the rising sun
This 1868 Japanese print spoke to the Gear Geek inside of me – that OCD hoarder who could happily spend her life’s savings buying every pen in the world in every color and size.
Feb
28
country mouse
I’ve been living in New York City for a year and a half now. I love it. I love it. But that doesn’t stop me from missing the upstate farmland of my childhood and daydreaming about a future that involves things like a “second home in the country.” You know, a small fixer-upper that [...]
Feb
22
swept away
“A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners.” – Irish proverb
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