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NY Botanical Gardens Orchid Show 2010

Nathan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:14:28 +0000

A few photos from this year’s NYBG Orchid Show.

A Little Sick of Snowe

Nathan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:45:45 +0000

Dearest Snowe-monster-

I appreciate what you and others are doing to help people regarding the closing of the seafood processing plant in Prospect Harbor. I have to ask, however, as a Republican and tied to their near ethically bankrupt views on businesses, isn’t interfering in free market rapacious capitalism against you party line? Don’t actions like [...]

Currency Collection

Nathan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:21:11 +0000

A little trinket of my travels augmented by a couple friendly additions can be found on the inside cover my my work portfolio – by Il Bisonte of course, now mass market crap here (and by that I mean Gucci, Prada, Fendi, LV, etc…). Also in there are my tickets to Petra and the Prado. [...]

Kolkata, India

Nathan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:42:21 +0000

Josh took this photo of me waiting on the platform of the New Delhi Railway Station with all of our luggage as we learned that the train would be 5 hours late. I was warned this might happen and at this point in the vacation we were both more that used to things in India [...]

Agra, India

Nathan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:11:36 +0000

Nathan not really awake on the train. We got up early again to catch a train. This one was a two person sleeper with no food. As you can see it is pretty roomy. We had a nice wake up ride.

This is one of the corner towers of the Jahangiri Mahal in the Agra Fort. [...]

Jaipur, India

Nathan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:52:36 +0000

If I recall this moment, I had been looking out the window at the people sleeping in the mud, the outdoor pit toilets, and the general state of how people live. I started to tear up at one point. It can be overwhelming how people live – the squalor and poverty.

I wanted a photo of [...]

Delhi, India

Nathan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:05:57 +0000

Josh and I started out our tour of Delhi by getting a cab to The Red Fort where we wandered around and acclimated ourselves to Delhi.

A quick walk across the street landed us in the front of Jama Masjid one of the largest Mosques in Asia. The area the mosque was pretty filthy and was [...]

More Proof: Americans Can’t Do Math

Nathan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:46:05 +0000

Reading along in the NYTimes today about these closures in Arizona – a state where no people should live anyway. It would seems people are up in arms that their rest stops are closed due to budget cuts.

Two things came to mind

Pee in the woods/side of the road/sand dunes/cactus patches If you want the spending priorities [...]

Water Change Mania

Nathan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:57:54 +0000

aquaDRAMA was suffering from a lot of algae growth as a result of overfeeding I would imagine. That always seems to be the case, how to balance the needs of the hungry fish with the closed system.

This post if an take of KISS and how much work a tank can be.

When I returned from India [...]

Nevelson

Nathan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:05:13 +0000

After a three decade artistic love affair with Louise Nevelson, I finally own one! Not exactly one of her MoMA grade sculptures but an cool silver print she made in the later years of her career. It was hand made by the artist and signed. I purchased it on vacation with my mom in Rockland [...]