Month: October 2012
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Photoessay: Megablocks Make Up China’s Gilded Age
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Recently developed areas of Beijing surrounding its former imperial core are riddled with megablocks, where huge swaths of land are handed over to developers and fashioned into towering apartment high-rises interwoven with malls and public spaces. Once built, they form distinct urban islands, bounded by grand avenues and further hemmed in by large highways that…
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Good Evening from The Gunks, NY
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What a wonderful way to end a day of climbing… Sunset on the cliffband, now onto dinner by the campfire… See this image in my Flickr Photostream.
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Videoblog: Tatzu Nishi’s ‘Discovering Columbus’ Installation
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Hello from high above Columbus Circle in NYC at Tatzu Nishi’s “Discovering Columbus”: Videoblog on YouTube From NY Times: To see the work, “Discovering Columbus,” visitors need only procure a free timed ticket, sign a release, climb six flights of stairs and enter the white windowed box that has been built around the figure. It’s a…
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Polar Infographic: Who Owns Antarctica?
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Great Antarctic infographic for today – who owns that giant continent, anyway? Courtesy of GOOD
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One Year Ago Today: Apple Picking
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One year ago today, I was apple picking with friends at Minard Farms in Clindondale, NY. And in a few weeks, we’ll be doing it again. Look forward to a whole new set of apple picking photos!