BEATNIK INDUSTRIES, a BREAD
BOWL of IMAGES and GENERIC ASPIRIN
April 11th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York on March 11, 2010
2008 marked the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge. Hip hop in Brooklyn has not quite reached fifty years, but the culture’s fundamentals are well built, well supported, and showing no signs of weakness. The annual summer Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival is increasing in popularity [...]
April 9th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed near Micoud, St. Lucia on April 9, 2010
The Ministry of Communications and Works has been searching for a computerized system to verify that the vehicles on the roads are legally registered. The Advance transport Licensing Authority or “Atlas”, replaces an obsolete system used to document and regulate automobiles. Government Officials say the old regime [...]
April 8th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Castries, St. Lucia on April 8, 2010
Prime Minister the Right Honourable Sir John Compton has vowed to erect a home for the performing arts in St. Lucia. Sir John made the announcement after he was wowed by several cultural performances by students at the Annual National Schools Rally at the Vigie Sports Complex [...]
April 7th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Rodney Bay, St. Lucia on April 7, 2010
The Independent Grocer’s Alliance (IGA) was one such organization. The hundreds of IGA stores that dotted cities across the nation, including upstate New York, based their very name on the concept of the independent merchant. The alliance was first formed in Poughkeepsie, New York, in August [...]
March 11th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in the 51st Street Station, New York on February 13, 2010
Station Finish—Route No. 5, Sections Nos. 7 to 11.—The contract for the construction of station finish for the seven stations on Sections Nos. 7 to 11 of Route No. 5 was awarded to John B. Roberts, dated August 9, 1916, the contract price [...]
March 3rd, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed outside Lander, Wyoming on September 28, 2006
Before the automobile and the bus and truck supplanted them, steam locomotives, streetcars, and steamships held sway as our transportation of choice for over a century. They were fast and efficient; clean and modern. And while one might argue that the smoke and soot from coal-fired boilers was [...]
February 16th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Manhattan, New York, on February 14, 2010
When choosing a restraining device, there are several options to consider. Some owners like it if Fido rides in a dog carrier. Others don’t like the confinement of a carrier, choosing instead to educate Fido to sit still in a doggy seat belt (yes, they really do [...]
February 8th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed above Tierra Verde, Pinellas County, Florida on May 3, 2009
Ten years ago, when the economy and peoples of the world were beginning to stabilize themselves after the great war – a man had a dream. To build a new way of life – a better way of life for the average man. The [...]
December 31st, 2009 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Paris, France on September 19, 2009
It is almost stating the obvious to say that the 1998 World Cup has completely transformed the way football is seen in France. However, what now seems self-evident was almost unthinkable only a few months ago.
Riding contentedly on the crews of the wave, or should I say the [...]
December 10th, 2009 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed on Santa Catalina Island on June 12, 2009
How often, in looking over the blue waters of the ocean, we wonder at the mysterious life of the depths, and imaging the strange creatures which dwell there. Poets have described their fancies of it, scientists have written down in their exact language its characteristics, but what [...]
December 8th, 2009 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Shanghai, China on August 25, 2007
Imprisoned in the library by the rain while our host was busy elsewhere, the Professor and I had spent the morning rummaging through the shelves. The Professor’s find had been a black-letter treatise on etiquette, in the French of the fifteenth century. I had unearthed from behind a [...]
November 4th, 2009 | by nick | published in Out and About.
I-29 south of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. October 9, 2009.
The sense of the singular loneliness of the Plains at such a time is overpowering; and one is forced to admire the courage of the pioneers of this highway – plunging as they did into an unknown and uncharted wilderness, fixing their daily position by the [...]
October 12th, 2009 | by nick | published in Out and About.
Wichita, Kansas. October 11, 2009.
That Diodorus’s Temple of the Sun in Great Britain was Stonehenge, seems to deserve credit; and that the Druids were astronomers, is authenticated by Cæsar. It may therefore be true, that the position of stones in a ring had an astronomical allusion.
In the work before us, p. 48, an account [...]
October 9th, 2009 | by nick | published in Out and About.
Paris, France. September 21, 2009.
Once on deck in the cold air, he saw through the faint light a row of houses beyond the low wharf buildings, grey mellow houses of four storeys with tiled roofs and intricate ironwork balconies, with balconies in which the ironwork had been carefully twisted by artisans long ago dead into [...]