blogA quick "hello"!
I've been away... *hello, again!*It's been, what... a year? I haven't officially "quit," & I fully intend to keep posting at some point. It's just…
Lucky 13
My best friend & I rode the Haunted Mansion THIRTEEN TIMES IN A ROW this Sunday, and it took us about 3 hours. (We took…
Rollin'
It's been a while since I last posted, and there are still a lot of other Euro-centric pics I'd like to post from my travels.…
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picTibidabo
If you've seen Vicky Cristina Barcelona, you probably remember this place as the "antique" amusement park shown to Vicky and Cristina by Juan Antonio.
I just…
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picEiffel Sunset
I pretty much wore out my camera at the Louvre today -- the battery died and occasionally returned from the dead (I can sometimes squeeze…
picParliament
A little postcardy, but I like the look of it anyway.
Paris update: I took waaay too many pics of Notre Dame. I haven't uploaded any…
picTiny Graves
This is from a cemetery in North Acton, last week.
I'm in Paris now, as of yesterday! It's an agonizingly long story, but in sum, I…
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picThis Photo Has Been Genetically Engineered
It's two photos actually, but from the same day. The bubbles were from Bubble Man and the background was from some houses in Highgate, where…
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picThe Lamp of Memory
The snow is long gone, but I thought perhaps I'd post just one more photo of it.
The title is a reference to a book of…
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picBubble Man
I went to Trafalgar Square yesterday to witness the Guiness most couples kissing record attempt (a lot of people showed up, but it wasn't quite…
pic"Their weary eyelids softly close..."
Text on the grave:
"Tis finish'd! Their life's sands
Have run, their race is ended.
Into their loving Father's hands
Their freed souls have ascended!
Their weary eyelids softly close
In…
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picFirst Night of Snow
Last Sunday, it started to snow a little bit during the Chinese New Year festivities in Chinatown, but I never would have imagined the deluge…
picBoo!
I'm in Glasgow this week visiting friends. I'll probably create a whole gallery later dedicated to pics from Scotland, but for now I just had…
picProtests Outside My Bedroom Window
There was a HUGE protest just outside my window today. About 10,000 people* and a ton of cops. Apparently there was some violence, but it…
picPaper Stars
My roommate & I have been making paper stars to add to the "Christmas feel" of the room.
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picThrough the Gate
I went to Brompton Cemetery yesterday, but it closed only 10 minutes after I arrived. I got a few photos out of it, anyway. I'll…
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picFootpaths of Wheathampstead
(Officially my first UK photo in this category...)
I've only edited about a dozen or the photos from the day in my aforementioned post, this one…
picDear Prudence
Today I went for a walk along many of the footpaths that surround Wheathampstead, and for the first time since arriving in the UK, I…
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picFrom the Ancient Archives
I've been in the UK for four days now, and can you believe it? I haven't taken a single picture! At least not a single…
picTomorrow/Yesterday
My flight leaves at noon... and 16 hours after that, I'll be in London. It all begins now.
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pollLondon or Glasgow?
Which city should I live in for the next six months?
(Please list at least three reasons below...)
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picRuthless and Hungry
Every now and then, we find the "exploded" remains of a dove in the front yard... bits of bloody feathers all over the place. But…
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picSt. Sebald
(This is putting things out of order a bit, but here's another pic I liked from Germany.)
One day in Nuremberg, I went a whole day…
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picHow many lumps?
We had the most grand order on the menu at The Orangery in Kensington Palace; champagne, sandwiches, and desserts with our tea. The flavors were…
picRoutes and Patterns
A tube stop en route to Kensington Palace. I just liked the bright colors against the greyish surrounding architecture, as well as the textures.
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picHere Come the Fuzz
Mounted police officers were everywhere before, during and after the "Trooping of the Colours" parade.
picMall Lighting
After visiting Germany for a few days, we went back to London for another couple days.
I took quite a lot of pictures of street lights…
picSt. Lorenz
Unlike the other churches in the area, photography wasn't allowed inside St. Lorenz, otherwise I would have come away with a million photos. So in…
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picNuremberg Castle
On the night we arrived in Nuremberg, it was after having driven for a couple hours from Munich, and it was getting near midnight. We'd…
picDürer's Studio
Yet another vantage from Dürer's house, this time in his studio. They even had an artist there to demonstrate Dürer's process of printing engravings!
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galleryLondon Calling! And Germany, t…
Scarlet's weeklong foray into London, Nuremberg, Munich and London again!
(May 23 to June 1, 2008)
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picDogs & Beer
A couple of interesting people having beers with their dogs at the front of the Frauenkirche.
picI touched the wishing ring!
As the story goes, the metal worker's apprentice slipped in a single perfect, seamless gold ring into the fountain, unknown to his master. If you…
galleryLondon Calling! And Germany, t…
Scarlet's weeklong foray into London, Nuremberg, Munich and London again!
(May 23 to June 1, 2008)
2 new pics
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galleryLondon Calling! And Germany, t…
Scarlet's weeklong foray into London, Nuremberg, Munich and London again!
(May 23 to June 1, 2008)
2 new pics
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galleryLondon Calling! And Germany, t…
Scarlet's weeklong foray into London, Nuremberg, Munich and London again!
(May 23 to June 1, 2008)
2 new pics
picMumsy Dearest
A quick pic of my mom after buying a new parasol at the Renaissance Faire on Sunday. Doesn't she look cute?
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vidMatcha Tea
My own little how-to video on matcha tea, put together for a blog entry in Scene Magazine.
http://csunscene.typepad.com/scene/2008/05/elephants-in-th.html
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picThe Vampire Ceremony
Too many things went wrong leading up into this photo, and the shoot in general. It's a long story. But... some great images came out…
picBlueprint of an Organic Spaceship
Or however else you want to interpret it. I drew this while at the lake house last time; I added some parchment and modified the…
pollLondon or Nuremberg?
For weeks now, my dad's been teasing me about his trip to Germany... He's going on "business", but during the whole week he's planned on…
picFinal Approach
A burned page left at the site of a plane crash. Few things were left when I got there... mainly a few shreds of fiberglass,…
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picThe Scowling Strawberry
I found a strawberry with a nose! So naturally the next step was to cure it of its blindness and transplant an eye.
Sadly, it's going…
linkModel Mayhem
I've been using Model Mayhem to network with models, wardrobe stylists, makeup artists, etc. It's a useful site and there's a lot of talent to…
linkMy magazine!
Well, not just mine. This is the blog edition of Scene, my university's magazine, which I'm writing for this semester. There's going to be a…
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I've never listed anything on eBay before, but I thought it'd be funny to post something random and see what happens. Anyone want a double-bottled…
vidHenri Cattier-Bresson, on the Charlie Rose show
It's long, but well worth watching.
I just wish I could find a certain film I was fortunate to see a few years ago at the…
Presents!!
A time-lapse video of Kim & I opening our presents today!
Watch towards the end when Angel & Major (well, mostly Angel) destroy their new toys…
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linkMy Brand Spankin' New Website!
It's been a long time in coming -- there was a long time spent in Photoshop, and I've had a few bugs to work out…
