I’ve been posting a lot about Bologna recently, but as I continue to wrestle with WordPress which would pop my bubble of post travel euphoria if I wasn’t a person of such saintly, nay, ungodly patience, let me tell you about the cutest, cleverest, nuttiest, silliest little froggies in the world. They live in [...]
Archive for November, 2006
And now for a short break…
Published by November 29th, 2006 in Garden of Rambunctiousness. 1 Commentpardon our dust while we do some housecleaning…
Published by November 28th, 2006 in Slice of Life. 2 Commentsi upgraded wordpress yesterday and broke my stylesheets which i’ve subsequently upgraded. but i’m afraid everything here is still in a bit of a shambles at the moment, really.
for example, under firefox, i’ve noticed that the right nav has decided to duck under the entries on the frontpage and images are missing on some [...]
Traditionally, I’ve been afraid of heights. I’m not exactly sure when it happened because I was a bit of a monkey growing up, living in trees, leaving dirty footprints on the door jambs so I could stick to the ceiling, climbing up the school swing set, etc.
But at some point standing on a [...]
I’m back in the US. As I get some sleep and reacquaint myself with the marvelousness that is “California in late autumn when I don’t live in a cubicle”, here’s a nice quote:
The Real voyage of discovery is not in discovering new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust
So last night I was working on a large batch of photos and took a break around 9:30pm to get a pizza “porta via“, ie to go/take away, from my now favorite near by pizzeria, Niccola’s. They have a woodburning pizza oven and make an amazing crust.
Anyhow.
So I go over, order my pizza, take [...]
I love these so much I keep returning to the Museo Palazzo Poggi trying to get a better, clearer photo of these beautiful cataloging labels that go back as far as the 1700s. Note how they progressively evolve from stylistically ornate to elegantly simple as you move toward the bottom of the frame.
You don’t [...]
This one is dedicated to Erik, Jeff and a mysterious 3rd rider.
May you have the legs of Indurain and the heart of Merckx.
That would be in reference to the pumpkins, of course.
Prior to my session with Mr. Rossetti, I had some time to work with Maddalena Ricciardi, a young and incredibly promising student of magic.
Maddalena has constructed a moving, exquisite gem of a performance around her illusions and seeing her work up close and in the bright sunlight of the studio apartment she shares with Lorenzo [...]
