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2009-06-28T13:43:00.000-07:00

... and now for something completely different (go)

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Andrew Hetherington's A Room with a View

2008-11-30T19:52:00.000-08:00

Photographer Andrew Hetherington took photos of - and from - every hotel room he's stayed in for the last four years and created this extremely cool piece of travel photography. It's called A Room with a View. It's incredible how the insides of the hotels rooms reflect, in some way or another, the world outside. He says that "Each room is photographed using the same process, in as much as is allowed; keeping the lighting and framing consistent in order to let the individual personalities of the spaces present themselves equally. No special requests are made and I always take the room I am assigned."

Run Don't Walk & Stencil Buenos Aires

2008-11-25T07:40:00.001-08:00

And since we're on the topic of stencils, here's a group that does some amazing stencils. And there's a load of great stencils in this Argentina street art pool on Flickr.

Stencil Art in Buenos Aires

2008-11-22T14:21:00.001-08:00

When you're in Buenos Aires and you want to check out the art, you can either go to the museum or you can walk the streets of Palermo and San Telmo and check out the stencils. Stencil art has been huge in BA for years now. Here's a great little documentary on YouTube by Amelie Lambert. Even if you don't understand Spanish, check out the art!

Glacier Surfing in Alaska

2008-11-21T19:58:00.001-08:00

I get cold surfing in Santa Cruz sometimes, so I figured Oregon? Pass - maybe when I get an H Bomb. (Right.) Then I started reading about surfing up in BC, places like Tofino, which actually doesn't look so bad in the summer at all. The views are probably a bit like Sand Dollar in Big Sur, only it's colder and rainier. Then there are places like Yakutat, Alaska. Ouch! But this has gotta take the cake:

Argentina's Finest Soccer Fans (Go River)

2008-11-17T19:56:00.000-08:00

The Canadian Press reported today that "sixty supporters of Argentina's River Plate football team were being held by police Monday after hijacking a bus and bullying its driver to speed up in a vain effort to make the start of a match, the second football related hijacking in less than a week." (Read the rest of the story here.)

I suppose you could argue that people in the US get passionate about football (I mean, is there anything more exhilarating than a tailgate party in a parking lot?) and baseball (the jumping, stamping, cheering crowd was just out of control during the last baseball game I went to) and maybe even golf. But they'll never touch the soccer fans in Argentina. Or Mexico. Or Italy. Or Spain. Or....

Office Covered Bridge, Westfir, Oregon

2008-11-10T06:51:00.000-08:00

Oregon's longest covered bridge spans 180 ft over the North Middle Fork Willamette River, in Westfir. It was built in 1944 by the Westfir Lumber Company.

Silver Falls State Park, Oregon

2008-11-07T05:00:00.000-08:00

Best Point & Shoot Camera for Travel?

2008-11-06T12:19:00.001-08:00

I'm always on the lookout for the best point-and-shoot camera for travel. One of the fun things I get to do is review cameras for PC World, so I use a lot of point-and-shoots. Canon just released two new cameras in its Elph line, and the 10-megapixel SD880 IS is one of the best P&S I've used. It's particularly good for travel because it has a true wide angle lens (28mm on the wide end). Most P&S cameras start somewhere between 35mm and 38mm on the wide end. Like nearly all P&S cameras, however, it lacks RAW. Read the full review here. The other new Elph that Canon released is the flagship 14 megapixel SD990 IS, which I was unimpressed with.

Mystery Falls

2008-11-06T05:00:00.000-08:00

Silver Falls State Park, Oregon

2008-11-05T07:39:00.000-08:00

South Falls, Oregon

2008-11-02T05:00:00.000-08:00

Koosah Falls, Oregon

2008-11-01T05:00:00.000-07:00

Paulina Falls, Oregon

2008-10-31T05:00:00.000-07:00

Salt Creek Falls, Oregon

2008-10-30T08:38:00.000-07:00

Watson Falls, Oregon

2008-10-29T07:42:00.000-07:00

Another one from Shaniko, Oregon

2008-10-23T10:09:00.000-07:00

There's really something (what?) about this ghost town (that's not a ghost town), especially in the evening, when the sun hangs low, way off behind the shimmering endless fields and the silhouette of Mt Hood, which is out there, somewhere west. Maybe I can't even see it. The sun keeps getting in my eyes. And up here in this nothingness, off the highway, the trucks roll by and the wind blows and the cold air feels so opposite the light. Everything looks so warm, but goddamn that wind is cold on my bones.

The Painted Hills

2008-10-22T07:25:00.000-07:00

This is looking over part of the Painted Hills sector of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, in Eastern Oregon. You can guess how they got their name.

Big Skies in Eastern Oregon

2008-10-21T05:00:00.000-07:00

Best Use of a Burro So Far?

2008-10-20T10:00:00.000-07:00

Check out this story in the NY Times about a guy in Colombia who transports books to villages on his two burros, Alfa and Beto. (Story here)

One for the Road

2008-10-20T07:46:00.000-07:00

A series of small buildings #3: Whole in the Wall, Mitchell

2008-10-14T21:35:00.000-07:00