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A notebook takes on a friendly character, the patina of its daily use, its doodles and coffee stains. It becomes an indispensable artifact of the trip, glowing with revelation.
I Am Packed– Air New Zealand photographs travelers’ belongings, unpacked. The style of the photographs, as well as the concept, is strikingly similar to The Burning House, which captures what people would take with them if their house was on fire.
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
Literary Jukebox: E. B. White’s Manhattan + Cat Power’s Manhattan
The brilliant Lisa Congdon introduces a new project titled My Nordic Adventure, in which she’ll be illustrating visual mementos from her recent trip to Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Pictured here, Nordic doors.
And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces and prisons, she helps to inculcate the lesson that the wheel of Time is rolling for an end, and that the world is, in all great essentials, better, gentler, more forbearing, and more hopeful, as it rolls!
How long it would take you to travel across the U.S. in the 1800s and early 1900s – a striking visualization of the explosive growth of travel and technology.
