Amazing light in Brooklyn
a shot at the good life
Hakeem Olajuwon’s Birthpace - Lagos, Nigeria
New Delhi, India
Siena, Italy
Siena, Italy
Crostini with Sheep’s Milk Cheese, Pears, and Honey in Siena, Italy
Tagliata in Perugia, Italy
Putin Graffiti in Belgrade
Putin Graffiti in Belgrade
“ And looking back through my work, I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning.
http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw
“ He says: when you go to a Cuban marketplace, your first instinct is to catalog everything you see, especially the stuff that’s typical of a third-world market place. But his advice is to find the one thing that isn’t typical. The example he uses is of a cockfight, where one of the handlers is literally putting the chicken’s head in his mouth and blowing into the chicken, which—not surprisingly—enrages the chicken. And when you get that one odd detail, the whole marketplace will spring up in the reader’s mind. All of the commonplace things—you know, the stalls, the dirt path, the dead pigs and so on—will be supplied by your mind.
http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-interviews/george_saunders_interview_20070831/
Glacier Perito Moreno, Argentina
Sickest desk ever via Roseland Greene
Duck Benedict at Bongo Room in Chicago
