Dublin, as in linn, as in forest, as in honeymoon
Michael Gallagher Dublin I have wondered about you ever since I received a book of photographs of Ireland when I was young. I have wanted to walk your streets, laugh at your…
June 2007
Bellini at Harry’s Bar
While on our trip to Venice, we will be stopping at Harry’s Bar, one of the more famous bars in the world, to try a drink invented at the bar…
I love Google Maps
Not to jump on the Google bandwagon or anything, but I absolutely adore Google Maps. For your viewing pleasure, and as a testament to my neurotic love of planning, I…
Archetypes for travelling
Couldn’t you just write a story from this one photograph? Foreign currency. Passport. Alien Registration Card. Frequent Flyer Card. Imagination. Priceless. Is anything so symbolic of motion and restlessness as…
Clever little statue
Clever little man perched high. Calculated rhythms of the passers-bye Blind you to these raptures of earth for all that is worth. The fevers of the heart, passioned bickering, despair…
Music for Airports
This album by Brian Eno, Music for Aiports, was designed to be precisely to be just that. It is ethereal music that was originally designed to be piped into LaGardia…
The last of the Korean photographs
This is a sujaebi restaurant located to the east of Gyongbokkung in a pleasant neighborhood called Samcheonggak. Sujaebi is a kind of soup with something approaching a dumping in a…