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Thirty!
Today is my thirtieth birthday, and that seems kind of important, somehow. I suppose it’s not really any different than any other birthday, but it still feels like I’m crossing a threshold of some kind. I guess by the time one is thirty, one is supposed to be indisputably an adult, and Have It All…
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Koffie in Arnhem
With so few days remaining to us during our stay in Gelderland, Lorie and I are beginning our preparations for departure, and that means that we’re making what will likely be our final visits to many areas that have become familiar during the course of these past two months. Today we made the bike ride…
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What’s My “Urban Style”?
Since we arrived in Amsterdam almost two months ago, I’ve been asking myself a persistent question about my art-making: what’s my urban style? That is, when placed in the environment of the city, what sort of photographs do I make? It was a question that I felt tugging at myself most strongly in Amsterdam, but…
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Blind Rabbits
I went for a walk this morning, and ended up finding a whole bunch of seemingly blind rabbits. They weren’t the first ones I’d seen in the area, actually. It was down by the Rhine, near the paper factory a couple weeks ago that I first saw one near the road. I rode my bike…
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November, Nanowrimo, and Movember
October transitioned to November this week, and Lorie and I spent our first Halloween abroad. It seems to be something of a non-holiday here in the Netherlands, or at least in Renkum, since we saw a few jack-o-lanterns at one restaurant, but little other evidence of the holiday. When we went to the grocery store,…
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An Afternoon at the Kröller-Müller Museum
Lorie and I made a day trip yesterday to the Hoge Veluwe national park, located just a few kilometers to the north of us. In fact, much of the area here seems to be part of the “Veluwe”, since it appears on so many trail signs, even well out of the park. I think it…
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Papo’s Shop
You may have already noticed an update to the photographs section of this website: a selection of images from my explorations of Papo’s Shop last month has been added. At this time, it’s a gallery of fourteen images, and represents a quick selection of favorites from the greater body of work that I made of…
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The New Face of the “Banned Book”?
I wrote a few weeks ago about my thoughts about the closing of the Borders bookstores around the country, and now, on a vaguely similar notes, I have some thoughts about recent news floating around about Barnes & Noble. It involves a collision of subjects– comic books, e-books, corporate weight being thrown around, and possible…