Tomorrow morning, I’m hitting the highway with two other bloggers — the Kelly half of Travellious and Peter of The Carey Adventures. Our destination? Chicago for BlogHer and The Travelblog Exchange. I’m excited to be doing cool stuff at both events. At BlogHer I’m on a panel with three other bloggers (Roz, Nancy, and Angel); we’ll be talking about how travelblogs can inspire others to travel (among other things). I’m also reading a post from the Nerd’s Eye View archives at the Community Keynote, and no, I won’t tell you which one it is, so please don’t ask until after the conference is over– at that point, you can probably find me stuttering on the YouTube.… continued…
The sport sandal is the summer uniform of many a Seattle resident. That, a natural fiber shirt of some variety, and shorts with a lot of pockets and possibly a built in belting solution. I have lost my heart to many a sporty guy wearing said uniform, possibly the guy was riding a bike at the time. The sport sandal is also the uniform of the reusable bag at the farmer’s market crowd, probably there are some flowers in that bag, and some artisanal cheeses, and the bag is being carried by a sturdy woman who may also have a small child at hand.… continued…
You’re not supposed to touch the Richard Serra in the Olympic Sculpture Park, but it’s marked with perfect white pairs of hand prints anyways. There are a few shoe prints too, which I find somewhat disrespectful, but I can appreciated the desire to press your hands on the monumental rusty steel waves. I wonder if Richard Serra cares about the hand prints or if he’d think they add to his work.
I love this piece, I love walking through it and feeling the gravel crunch under my feet, I love walking right to the sharp edge and looking up at the sky, I love the streaky lines the rain has left on the surfaces and the way it’s placed in a low spot below a big round glass sided building.… continued…
Or: I didn’t go to Mexico and all you get is this lousy… no, wait, that’s not lousy at all. What you get for my not going to Mexico is a FLiP cam, which, apparently everyone but me has. Oh, and you get some branded swag too; I suppose you could dress yourself in that stuff and pretend that you are on the trip to Mexico that I did not go on.
A little disclosure: here’s the deal with this giveaway.… continued…
