February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
4 posts
The protests in Romania, in pictures
As a photographer and Romanian, I was left pretty much speechless by this series of photos by Ioana Moldovan.
The second one of the two below will be on the Monday, January 23rd front page of Jurnalul National.
Photos by Ioana Moldovan
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Fearless Reporting on, Maybe, Occupy Romania
In the words of The Economist, something snapped in Romania during the past few days. Like many of my friends abroad, I woke up on Monday morning to find Facebook ablaze with news of protests and riots in Bucharest, my hometown. I have the intuition that what is currently happening at home is the tipping point of something larger that has been festering for a while. But while scrambling to...
yes.
“Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poets–scientists and philosopher–scientists and even a few mystics. […] and most people who are in fact...
moledro
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.
December 2011
1 post
asada's memorandum: The Day I Saw Van Gogh's... →
asada0:
Japanease version
The other day, I experienced the “Color Vision Experience Room” at the event of the Hokkaido Color Universal Design Organization (HCUDO), where I had invited to speak. The event’s main objective was to educate the public about the diversity of color vision which exists in…
October 2011
2 posts
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap...”
– 6 years ago, at Stanford.
August 2011
1 post
Photo selections: Colombia →
Recent images from a 5-week trip to Colombia.
July 2011
0 posts
Watch
Border drug bust video from TIME photojournalist Shaul Schwarz. Fortunate to work with him on his upcoming movie, Narco Cultura. Here is his statement on the recent TIME cover story.
June 2011
3 posts
cuteness to die for. →
May 2011
2 posts
From NYT Lens: Mike Appleton takes "the photo that... →
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I...”
April 2011
6 posts
incredible toothpick sculpture of San Francisco →
THE GUN by C.J. Chivers: Almost Dawn in Libya:... →
heartbreaking.
cjchivers:
We’re numb here as the clock nears 4:30 a.m., and we’re not quite sure what to do. The deaths of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington on Tripoli Street still seem unreal. Bryan just walked off from the little space we’ve been huddled in, working. He’ll sleep soon, I hope. The work kept us busy…
a little less than a month left before graduation
and I just found this quote noted down in my phone that sums up the last 4 years quite well:
“that’s why I’d chosen Columbia. I liked how the city seethed up against the school, mocking its theoretical seclusion with hustle and noise, the din of people going and getting and making. things that mattered at Princeton or Yale couldn’t possibly withstand this battering of...
March 2011
18 posts
“I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group...”
– Barack Obama
(via loveyourchaos)
some essential reading from David Brooks →
Great people. Relieved to see them back safe. →
“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we...”
– John Steinbeck (East of Eden)
Ideo →
A company I am starting to like.
August 2010
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July 2010
2 posts
