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Italian Ex-votos of People Falling
I have loved ex-votos ever since I spotted a small cluster of them in the back of my abuelita's church. I was immediately fascinated with their strangeness and power. As soon as I had a paycheck I...
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Ferit Kuyas' Aurora
I'm a big fan of Ferit Kuyas's work. His new book on Guatemala City will be out soon. I'm excited. Filed under: photographers Tags: ferit kulas, turkish photographers Sponsored by:TWO BLUE CARS:...
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The Badlands
Filed under: snapshots Tags: badlands, South Dakota Sponsored by:TWO BLUE CARS: Robots, Garbage Trucks, Diggers. Shirts boys love.
View ArticleTitles of my 3rd Grader's Recent Essays
Origami Math The Man without Fingernails Sushi in School At School We Need a Robotics Class Deadly Kitties Diseases Every Kid Should Have A Ball Stop Wars Mutations and the Disabled Freedom for All...
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View ArticleAre you Gothic?
After the a long period of quiet on a 7 hour car trip both my kids started speaking in English accents. G: "I'm feeling gothic." R: "Very gothic?" G: "So very gothic." R: "I was mildly gothic, but now...
View ArticleTo a Daughter Leaving Home
"When I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away on two round wheels, my own mouth rounding in surprise when you pulled ahead down the curved path of the park,...
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David Jien
I love the weird and wonderful work of David Jien. His gallerist Richard Heller writes, "he takes inspiration from the infinite possibilities of science fiction, the storytelling of Henry Darger, the...
View ArticleEast Texas Place Names
Having grown up in an area known as Gobbler's Knob I've always had a fondness for East Texas place names. Often the original towns have vanished, but the names persist. East Texan historian Bob Bowman...
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Dust Devils on Mars
More NASA dust devil images. HiRise dust devil images. Filed under: space Tags: dust devils, mars, space Sponsored by:TWO BLUE CARS: Robots, Garbage Trucks, Diggers. Shirts boys love.
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Northern Cheyenne children and their playhouses
It's always hard to find vintage pictures of kids with their toys. I found this image from 1907 in the Library of Congress. This photo of Cheyenne girls playing displaying their dolls and doll-sized...
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The Secret Life of the City Banana
I like reading stories that change the way I look at the world, even if it's only a degree or two. I read Annie Correal's The Secret Life of the City Banana a year and a half ago, and now every time I...
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Jamel Shabazz
Jamel Shabazz has been photographing Brooklyn since he was 15. His Instagram feed full of images of 1980's NY is a love letter to that time, the city and its people. He's working on a new book titled,...
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Cucita
Watching Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, I couldn't help thinking about the woman who worked for my abuelito's family. We affectionately called her Cucita and loved her dearly. In northern Mexico, at least in...
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Archangel Ancient Tree Archive
The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has cloned five ancient redwood stumps to create 75 saplings. After 2 years of propagation, the saplings were planted in the Presidio in SF in the hopes of creating...
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