Good times

Sunday, July 29, 2012

I am bruised, battered, and raw – this can only be a sign of a good time.  I’m pretty sure when I left the Yacht Club marina I was in one piece

Zenag Yellow

Doesn’t matter how often I see the coastline here, it never ceases to intoxicate.

 

The stuff of legends

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

It’s a dark cloudy day, the rain has been falling for hours as Mikal and I turn off a side street and down a narrow alley to knock on an unmarked door, a door of local legends.  We pass through the first door into a room, except it’s more like a metal cage, a few dusty boxes are scattered around and a behind another metal wall sits a woman.  We give her the secret password, and she picks up the phone, eyeing us.  A few hushed conversations later she tells us to wait, a man will come meet us.  We glance at each other, is this going to work, are they really going to let us in?  It seems too good to be true.  

Teaching Modern Architecture

Friday, July 20, 2012

For the last two years I have been teaching Modern Architectural History from William Curtis’ text Modern Architecture since 1900.  The text is great, AND I’d really, really like the students to actually do the weekly readings…but each year my attempts at ‘encouraging’ them to read by letting them know ‘how much they will learn’ doesn’t really do the trick… shocking, I know 😉

Love Ed

Thursday, July 19, 2012

A couple of months ago I self-published a book with my mom for my grandfather – Love Ed.  The book is a collection of letters written by him, to his family, during his service in the U.S. army during the Korean War.  To see the full book please click on the link above which will take you to the online publishing company (whom incidentally caused endless pain in their not-so-well designed set-up and web-site).  Here’s an excerpt from the inside cover:

Mai Chau weaving

Jogjakarta graffiti

Jogjakarta

Buddha

One of the many Cambodian statues of Buddha…many are fairly new as religion was suppressed during the Khmer Rouge years and many originals were destroyed…