It’s been some time that I’ve posted one of my black and white photos – time is truly flying! Here’s a photo that I took a while ago, but I didn’t feel like posting during the summer. Back in February we were on a short road trip up to South Lake Tahoe and stopped at [...]
I’ve just finished Michael Palin’s Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years and the book was a revelation in many ways. First of all, it is quite interesting to read so much about the back story of the Monty Pythons and how the magic worked. Palin describes in quite some detail the creative sessions, the business meetings [...]
After a long hiatus thanks to all the work on MapSkip, I’ve finally revived some of my old cameras and have them now again with me on my daily walks to work and back home. During the summer we moved offices in San Francisco, and my walk to work has more than doubled. I don’t [...]
Walking The Dead is the title of a great Found Film photo blog by Emir Shabashvili. He develops film that he finds in old cameras or that he buys in bulk and he then creates great galleries of these lost photos, together with pictures of the cameras that housed them for the last few decades. [...]
This book was love on first sight: Transit Maps of the World I got my copy yesterday, and for under $20 there is absolutely nothing wrong with this book. Actually, it is perfect. No, really. It is literally a collection of all the transit maps in the world, many with very thoughtful and insightful commentary, [...]
Well, the silence on this site can only be explained with me working on MapSkip when I’ve got any free time… But it’s been worth it, with the site really doing well now. We have a couple hundred users and about 150 stories right now, and there are new ones coming in every day. Today [...]