I am hopelessly enamored with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests. For the last two days I have been talking about them and googling for other images or any video where I can hear the clickety-clack of these spindly creatures as they walk the beach.
Category Archives: Notes
STOL
28 September 2007 – 4:10 pm
My neighbor is a competitor in short takeoffs and landings. We are having sunshine instead of the predicted showers and he is out practicing. For a full year I have not seen him take off — from my perch you can’t hear his engine at idle and by the time I do hear him take [...]
Books are beautiful
20 June 2007 – 9:03 am
… including books that are old, discarded, moldy, or wet: Cara Barer Photographer
News in color
1 June 2007 – 10:54 pm
It is perhaps old-fashioned that I don’t enjoy reading a newspaper on-line. Newspaper websites too often seem like bad replications of the actual newspaper instead of efficient news delivery systems. Going on about the tactile feel of a newspaper over coffee, half-finished crosswords, and mustaches on lingerie models is just too much nostalgia. Some of [...]
