Archive for the 'photos' Category

New photos up on flickr as promised, including my wheels and a couple shots of the GQ bowlstravaganza.

(Link: On the truing stand on flickr)

Well now you know </bill nye voice>
Link: Fixed Gear Gallery

The first stop on my grand-ish spring break adventure was Atlanta, GA, to visit some (most) of my study abroad program-mates. We ate, we drank, we lived like kings and queens. Notable highlights were a really sweet potluck dinner in honor of Passang-la, our incredible program coordinator of sorts who is in the [...]

You might be asking yourself, “why does this photo look like it was taken on two different pieces of film taped together?” to which I would respond, because it was. You might also be asking yourself “aero bars? srsly?” to which I would respond, “there is a place for everyone, even aero bars… just [...]

This photo essay depicts the scrappy, entrepreneurial side of the slums of Mumbai. Cobbled together homes sit side-by-side with cottage industries in Dharavi, including some very industrial ones like recycling outfits which together reclaim eighty percent of Mumbai’s plastic, people that grind down paint chips into a powder than can be re-constituted into usable [...]

Banksy

Street art by the British artist Banksy. Lots lots more at his website, drawings and graffiti both.

Yesterday was Mountain Day, and with the rest of the Williams campus I hiked up a mountain to feast on cider and doughnuts, listen to a cappella and sing The Mountains at the top of my lungs. The weather was perfect, the company was good, and to put the finishing touch on the perfect [...]

I was staring down a thirty-page freight train of a paper, writing about music and well-named tools and generally hoping it would go away. It did go away, after many heavy sighs, panic attacks, and crippling self doubt—and many, many cups of coffee. I somehow managed thirty-eight pages of reasonably coherent writing in [...]

That is the actual title of this photo. I’m pretty excited that this exists.
(Link to photo, ganked from agrodolce2012 on flickr)

Pretty crazy, judging by his post-game interview on Tuesday, in which he babbled, screamed, teared up, and celebrated utterly, delightfully incoherently. Via Slate is a touching, slightly tongue-in-cheek analysis of that particular spectacle in the context of his generally very emotional comportment. If you missed the interview, you can watch it here, or [...]