This pic rocks

Half-candid pic of my grandma and me fixing our hair before having our picture taken. (Sacramento, last month.)

Nat Geo Fix

This photo gallery of bower birds and the photo captions crack me up, especially the second half with its piles of leaves and "carpet of acorns." (Article here.) Also, talk about detachment from objects and others. For the females, the mates, the feats of architecture and the collections of pretty are admired, approved and then abandoned.

I am so sick of lifestyle magazines

I'm so glad I no longer feel it's my professional duty to read Time Out.

Who you looking at?

Noumea, New Caledonia

the voice of authority

"it was on the news. he tried to shake their hands and they turned away. what's wrong with them? what's wrong with the french? they don't care about their reputation. it's really disgusting."

--overheard comments: mom on the french football team

What's for you, won't pass you

(Taken over the stunning, glorious Rockies in May)

I'd call this strawberry and cantaloupe

Looks like I'm still on my streak of moving on average once a year (now going for 14 years). Yup, I am semi searching for an apartment right now. And I want it to look like this - but oh the grandeur of optimism before I turn it into a pile of crap upon crap. This is the first pic I've come across in a long while that actually makes me think, I can do that, and I want to do that.

Inspiration via ohjoy!.

This year's ART HK

I took pics of only five things at this year's art fair. There were quite a number of booths that had "no photography" signs; and I went with friends so I couldn't really take my sweet time. But I love the pics I took of this Damien Hirst formaldehyde piece (the first of his formaldehyde works to ever exhibit in Asia) with the awesome expressions of people checking it out. His butterfly works are in the background. (Butterflies were everywhere this year! It's so totally overdone now. As well as skulls. Does this mean everyone is just following Hirst, as a way of following the money? Don't even get me started on anything that has Mao or Red Guards.)

Boston