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http://waltzingalisa.tumblr.com/ i started to blog there because i can email blogs from everywhere by using my phone.
the end.

Sint Maarten

A few images from my December trip to the Caribbean.
I love post colonial, island nations and the micro economies that are dependent.

I'm baaaack!

My pal decided to enter the blog world today! In honor of that and my unending stalking and reading of the "private" lives of others, i am back.
Pictures, reviews of wedding websites, housing and much much more.
Maybe I can even learn to blog on the GO!
In other news, I have developed a love affair with Cats.

I like to talk to YOU, my large audience of myself!
xoxoxo

just wondering

if i forget my helmet, would taping a hard hat to my head cause more good than harm in a car accident? i wonder.
safety is picky.


i am just saying.
wrong wrong right hard hat harp white.

Faux Pixels

There was an article in the Times about the new services offered for photo retouching. click here. “Most pictures are about memories,” Mr. Berend said. “They’re to be looked at years later. When you show your kids your wedding picture, it’s nice that they’re nice. Harsh reality is not always what people want.” The article speaks more to the vanity that photoretouching targets, I see that vanity and I challenge it. Don't stop at just retouching, save BAD, TERRIBLE pictures of yourself and others and have a laugh parade about it for years to come.

Anyway, this only adds much needed fuel to my desire to create a bad photo archive. It is my fear (not that major...) in life that one day children will never know the site of closed eye and big smile, and so forth. So, I urge my reader to not delete "bad" photos, and not touch up the rest. A call to a purer worse personal image. I leave you with this image, that I at first wanted to erase, but preserved, phew...

Council House 2

I just read about Australia's greenest building, on Inhabit.
Check it out: http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=171&pg=1941

Bike spaces: 80
Showers for cyclists: 9
Car spaces: 20 plus one disabled space. The car park can be converted to office space or other uses.

Payback period

It is estimated that in 10 years time the sustainability features will have paid for themselves. Further benefits that could reduce this figure include:

* healthier staff – less time lost to colds, flu and other illnesses;
* increased workplace effectiveness;
* less costs for public domain and infrastructure; and
* the value of building as a guiding light in sustainable building.




fantastic!
http://www.inhabitat.com/

tiaras live on a wall

as part of the fun exploration of forbidden nyc, i got to secretly take pictures at kleinfeld's bridal palace.
only of tiaras, but that was enough, why does bride=princess? does a wedding a princess make?

wo ai zhongguo!

CHINA STOPS!!
I am going to china, tibet and cambodia for 4 weeks, this is where i will be staying:

Shanghai, China
Beijing, China
Xian, China
Chedngdu, China
Boat trip from Chongquing, China
Lhasa, China (Tibet)
Hong Kong, China
Siem Reap, Cambodia

hallway to purity

hallway to purity
Originally uploaded by robot glue.

Mikvah Living on the UWS, I went to see a Mikva that was under construction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikvah

This one made me want to cleanse after all inpure thoughts and acts...

Unafforable Housing

In a recent work assignement, I had the opportunity to observe som unaffordable housing, specifically a Penthouse unit on Central Park South, in a Trump Building.
It is a 4000 Sq. Ft. for 2 people, a banker and his lady. 5 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms, and views that make me melt.
Check it out:






Also, the basement looks like the one at Magnolia Plaza, I am not sure if I posted it, but it def looks like a Magnolia hall.

spiderhands

@ the auction of the Dime Museum in Baltimore.
Yes, I heart all of it.




51
HAND OF SPIDER LILLIE - Cased mixed media; created by R. Horne; aged; case: 5 1/2" x 10" x 7", EX. Est. 600-800 RIGHT HAND OF SPIDER LILLIE - LILLIAN PITTS OF KENT ENGLAND, A CONVICTED HABITUAL PROSTITUTE, WAS BANISHED TO A PENAL COLONY NEAR SYDNEY AUSTRALIA IN EARLY 1814. A STUDENT OF THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF THIS STRANGE LAND, LILLIAN SOON DISCOVERED THE SECRETIVE FUNNEL-WEB SPIDER, THE MOST POISONOUS SPIDER IN THE WORLD. LILLIAN THEN BEGAN HER CAMPAIGN OF DEADLY REVENGE AGAINST HER BRITISH WARDENS. GATHERING THE EGGS OF HER BELOVED SPIDERS SHE WOULD CONCEAL ONE IN HER FAMILY RING, AND WHEN PLYING HER FORMER TRADE UPON HER CAPTORS SHE WOULD OPEN HER RING, RELEASING THE HATCHLINGS INTO THE HAIR, CLOTHING OR BEDDING OF HER DOOMED PARAMOURS, KNOWING FULL WELL THE EVENTUAL BITE WOULD PROVE FATAL. FOUND OUT AND BETRAYED BY HER TRUSTED CELL-MATE, A MISS KAY CROSS, SHE WAS QUICKLY TRIED AND CONDEMNED TO BE HUNG. IN THE AUTUMN OF 1820 SHE WAS EXECUTED, AND HER INFAMOUS HAND AND IT'S HORROR BEARING RING WERE PLACED UPON A POLE IN THE HOT SUN OF THE PRISON COURTYARD AS A WARNING TO OTHERS CONSIDERING SUCH TREASON. THE HAND WAS TAKEN BY OFFICER HOWARD MAY, AND KEPT IN THE FAMILY UNTIL 1952 WHEN IT WAS DONATED TO OUR NOBLE INSTITUTE. REF. M. A. 1808

http://www.opferauction.com/sales/oaSale_022607_2.php

Adventures in Affordable Housing

Magnolia Plaza is one of my projects at work.
Here are some photos of the Boiler Room, efficiency is the future here.

crackers and philosphy

This weekend, I decided to bite a little more eastern philosphy.

another old one, i'm all pig ears

Pig Ear Latin
Current mood: indescribable

Recently my dog, Sarah, has been lunging for the pig ear bucket at the pet store.
I, not being one to deny anything to anyone, oblige with pleasure.
Today, i discovered that this age old dog treat pastime is in fact--- real pig's ears! You can even see the veins. THE VEINS!

like that, except cured, like this:


So there you have it folks, I am at a loss.

This here is another kind of pig ear, much more to my liking: Succulent plant from southern Africa The Right Honourable The Earl of Derby

an old blog reposting... nails! it's true!

Open Baltic Nail Art Championship
Current mood: accomplished

These are my top 3 nail art finalists.
What would you nail fantasy be?
Waterfalls and ice covered lakes? Your wish is someone's nail art reality.
Be all that your nails can be.

previously on myspace.com, currently on blog!!!

In preparation for my travels to China, Tibet and Cambodia, I have been learning, soaking and breating in everything that I find on the 'net relating to it.

I came across Ted Kane, he did a whole study on Chinese shipping cranes in photographs posted on http://www.polarinertia.com/

Here are some cranes: http://www.polarinertia.com/sep06/cranes01.htm

Amazing Camoflage

scratching and sniffing!

The Chinese, brilliant, populous nation, I cannot wait to touch down on your shores.
IN CHINA:
Stamps were created to celebrate the Year of the Pig taste of sweet and sour pork.

When you scratch the front of the stamps, it smells of the popular chinese dish and when the back of the stamp is licked it tastes of the dish too.

Alas, they will not be on sale in March, sniff sniff.

Look at the little tiny piggy pulling the tail! Imagine the taste of all them cooked! Yum!

#1: buildings, cranes, and snacks

This Blog was born yesterday, January 10, 2007, during some homemade Mozzarepas!
It will be dedicated to edibles that through no special effort are suitable for persons with certain food allergies, no substitutes here. The real deal.

It will also be dedicated to affordable housing issues in Brooklyn, NY. Buildings that are in various states of occupation and surrender, I will chronicle the process during which a building becomes a home. This will include hard hat areas AND cranes, many cranes.



Also, curiosities that may cross my path.

Also, awesomeness.

Also, terrible grammar will be spotlighted.