Travel
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Abu Dhabi Slide Show, October 2022
I’ve always been attracted, since my 1970s, to the idea of a vacation slide show, with a Kodak carousel in living room darkness and screen-light. If you can handle it, re-watch Don Draper explain the carousel and the surprising corrosiveness of nostalgia: My wife and I just took a trip to Abu Dhabi with a…
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Socio-Architectural Renderings from Abu Dhabi
Here’s drawings I made from our hotel room in Abu Dhabi:
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Day Trip NYC June 2022
My mother worked for Trans World Airlines her entire career. I’ve never lost the awe of flight. The idea that I can be somewhere in the morning and somewhere else in the afternoon is still exciting. Day trips are an active conceptual art project built inside that awe. Last Friday I took a day trip…
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Upon Confronting the 9/11 Memorial at Boston Logan
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4dmWbTRCLPtCNURA9 My right ear is stuffed with the ocean. My flight, which I share with my wife, was canceled and we have to stay here, at the Boston Logan Airport Hotel, until tomorrow morning. A full day overlooking tarmac.
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Medical Sciences Building (MSB) at the University of Toronto
I stumbled, as I often do, on a Brutalist masterpiece the other day. I was in Toronto, minding my own business, walking through the University of Toronto campus toward the Ontario Royal Museum, when I encountered the striated ornamental edifice of the Medical Sciences Building (MSB). The building is slated for a $40M modernization, as this…