{"id":4983,"date":"2011-08-01T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2011-12-24T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:38:03","slug":"elsewhere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/elsewhere-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hallstatt Cafe, Morning by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/6000060382\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5622\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6130\/6000060382_5934626d28_z.jpg\" alt=\"Hallstatt Cafe, Morning\" width=\"565\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou know I&#8217;m a somewhat irregular contributor over at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/\">Gadling<\/a><\/strong>, right? They let me stray from my usual topic (gear) this month, and I wrote two things that might have ended up here, otherwise. One is about the Austrian School of Fantastic Realism &#8212; it&#8217;s an art thing &#8212; and how I think that stuff just looks like work by pot smoking hippies, mostly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2011\/07\/31\/70s-pothead-aesthetics-meet-austrian-art\/\">70s Pothead Aesthetics, Meet Austrian Art<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other piece is about blogging. I recently got a public snarking for writing too much about craft and not enough about travel, but no one is making you click this link. Plus, sometimes, I blog about the ukulele. So, uh, noted?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2011\/07\/29\/six-reasons-i-broke-up-with-your-travelblog\/\">Six Reasons I Broke Up With Your Travel Blog<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also find me a few times a month on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/practicaltravelgear.com\/\">Practical Travel Gear<\/a><\/strong>. I get to try out stuff, I like that. Sometimes things don&#8217;t work, I say so, sometimes I find something I rather like, save for throwing away too many batteries, etc. Gearheads, check it out. I&#8217;ll be at the Outdoor Retailer show this weekend finding out what&#8217;s new and awesome (or, ridiculous, who knows) in travel clothes, gadgets, bags, gizmos&#8230; it should be really fun.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the California Bay Area next weekend (11-14 August) and you&#8217;d like to invest in being a better writer, you might join me at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bookpassage.com\/travel-food-photography-conference\">Book Passage<\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;m co-teaching a session on writing for the web with Jim Benning, co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldhum.com\/\">World Hum<\/a> &#8212; they publish the best travel narrative on the web.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve wanted to attend for some time, I&#8217;m thrilled to be there as faculty, though it means I can&#8217;t be a student. I&#8217;m going to see if I can find a way to play both roles because really, you can&#8217;t ever be done learning about writing, can you?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888\"><em>Photo: Hallstatt Cafe\/Restaurant, early morning, Austria. I kind of wish we were hanging out there right now.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know I&#8217;m a somewhat irregular contributor over at Gadling, right? They let me stray from my usual topic (gear) this month, and I wrote two things that might have ended up here, otherwise. 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