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Snowflake Bentley: Snow Up Close

Last week in New York, photographs by Wilson A. Bentley (aka the Snowflake Bentley and The Snowflake Man), the first person to capture the image of a single snowflake with a camera, went up for sale at the American Antiques Show. The vintage images are breathtaking… “Every crystal was a masterpiece of design, and no one [...]
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Andrew Bush

I love these photographs by Andrew Bush, a nice tribute to subtle things.  He has so many of them, dating back to 1992.
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Rilke

July 16, 1903 Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, Like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to [...]
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Fun at the Bláa lónið (Blue Lagoon)

This is probably the most touristy place one can go while in Iceland, aside from the Golden Circle tour to Þingvellir – likely comparable to Disneyworld or Times Square in the US, but it is a treat to go, nonetheless.  The water is an ethereal and opaque light blue color, a result of some of the minerals [...]
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Gledileg nytt ár!

Happy 2010! I haven’t had much time to think/post lately, and am also badly in need of a better scanner for some recent polaroids taken and great thrift finds I’ve come across in the last couple of months.  Anyhow, here’s a quick post for all the millions of followers of this wonderful blog; I’ll write something [...]
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A walk on the beach

Missing the warm Barcelona beach today.  I have always dreamt of having a tiny space to live near the ocean.  Someday.
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Crossed paths

“Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths [...]
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