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Decameron, Day 1. The joy of being wrong.
Adunque, – disse la reina – se questo vi piace, per questa prima giornata voglio che libero sia a ciascuno di quella materia ragionare che più gli sarà a grado. It is perhaps appropriate that, for the first day, there … Continue reading
Posted in Day 1, Decameron, Odd ones out
Tagged Charlotte, Day 1, Decameron, North Carolina, Pampinea, USA
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“The Stranger in the Woods”, by Michael Finkel, Simon & Schuster
Source One fine day in 1986, sometime after the Chernobyl disaster and well into Reagan’s second term in office (and a few months before my birth, though it wasn’t mentioned), a twenty-something called Christopher Knight parked his almost-new Subaru Brat … Continue reading
Posted in Books review
Tagged Books review, Chris Knight, Finkel, Hermit, Journalism, Junger, Literary review, Maine, Michael Finkel, Stranger, USA, Woods
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The sublime art of panning, or how to fail in Chicago and succeed in London.
Panning, excitable teenagers on Youtube will tell you, is a technique used in photography where the camera rotates on its Y axis in order to keep a moving object in focus. If done well, the result will be a striking … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Europe, UK, USA
Tagged Bicycle, Bike, Bridge, Charity race, Chicago, Chiswick, Cyclist, Europe, Illinois, Lincoln Park, London, London Prudential 100, Motorbike, North Chicago, Olympus, Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III, OM-D, Panning, Prudential, Richmond, Shutter speed, Street photography, Street race, Thames, UK, USA
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“I’ve Got Ninja Style Kung-Fu Grip”.
“Keep Austin weird” is, according to a brochure I happened to read some time ago, this city’s strapline. It sounds somehow artificial, not only because it was coined, as it turned out, by a group of lobbyists named the Independent … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, USA
Tagged Ai Weiwei, America, Americas, Austin, Begging, Bible, Capitol, Cormorant, Dogs, Emancipation, Ersatz, Homeless, Homelessness, Hotels, Keep Austin Weird, Lake, Latino, Lone Star, Lone Star State, Park, Planned Parenthood, Rodriguez, Street photography, Texas, Texas capitol, United States, Urban photography, USA
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A tale of two missions. Part 2.
It was just appropriate that, in line with the general low-key-feeling of the entire place, the next stop in our tour looked a lot like grandpa’s barn meets serial accumulator’s shack, if one was willing to ignore the fact that … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, USA
Tagged 747, Anders, Apollo, Apollo 1, Apollo 11, Apollo 8, Austin, Boeing, Borman, Chief Astronaut, Cosmos, Faith 7, Gemini, Gemini 5, Gene Cernan, Gene Kranz, Houston, Johnson Space Center, Lovell, Mars, Mercury, Micheal Collins, Moon, Moon Buggy, NASA, NASA Parkway, Orion, Pete Conrad, Pin, Shuttle, Space race, Space Shuttle, Texas, TSUM Dushanbe, USA, USSR, Venera 10
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A tale of two missions. Part 1.
The TsUM Magazin on Rudaki was rumoured, according to the chit-chat in the hostel, to be unbeatable in Dušanbe for Soviet tat, but once we’d gotten there it was pretty hard to figure out why. Ground floor was packed to … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, USA
Tagged 747, Apollo, Apollo 11, Austin, Boeing, Chief Astronaut, Cosmos, Faith 7, Gemini, Gemini 5, Gene Cernan, Gene Kranz, Houston, Johnson Space Center, Mars, Mercury, Micheal Collins, Moon, Moon Buggy, NASA, NASA Parkway, Orion, Pete Conrad, Pin, Shuttle, Space race, Space Shuttle, Texas, TSUM Dushanbe, USA, USSR, Venera 10
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Chicago people watching.
I have one camera – an old Olympus PEN – and two lenses. One long, and the other one a pancake. Yes, that’s as far as my technical knowledge will go and yes, two lenses is one set too many … Continue reading
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Tagged Anish Kapoor, B&W, Black & White, Chicago, Cloud Gate, CTA, Great Lakes, Ice, Illinois, John Hancock, Lake, Loop, Michigan, Millenium Park, North Side, People, People watching, Photography, Skyscrapers, Street photography, The Bean, The L, United States, USA
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Amongst the Charlotteans, or how I smashed my own preconceptions.
The baggage of preconceptions and of prejudices that we’ve accumulated over the years is, in the vast majority of occasions, completely wrong: someone we assumed to be a twat will turn out to be a smart fellow, a dish we … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, USA
Tagged Charlotte, North Carolina, People, Preconception, Prejudice, USA
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