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visual rhymes: chambord and nyc

( places and image )

An old friend pointed me toward this image from Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 site, from the section on water network initiatives:

Hey, that cylindrical-shaft-extending-to-infinity thing looks familiar! The image from my blog’s header is from a photo I took at Chateau de Chambord in France’s Loire Valley, aiming up toward the sky in one of […]

altoona vs the invisible immigrants

( ramblings and places and culture )

I was surprised to encounter my hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, near the back of the U.S. section of the New York Times today. I wish it had been less ignominious news:
Altoona, With No Immigrant Problem, Decides to Solve It
I hadn’t heard about this ordinance passing. I can see how this might have played […]

a ride to the pacific and back

( bike and places and projects )

Today I finally made the 47-mile ride to the Pacific Ocean and back. This ride was unofficially my first mini-goal on the way to a much (!) larger goal of taking a bike trip to Portland sometime in the next year and a half.
I’ve been getting sort of addicted to cycling since […]

altoona next exit

( places and image and aberrations )

Brace yourselves and bear in mind I have no easy explanation for this

Also by the same painter. Why Altoona? Is that Pittsburgh burning on the horizon?
WHY???

via ted, over a year ago
tom kidd altoonaaltoona art

savant city

( places and image and aberrations )

This showed up on digg, and no doubt on its peers metafilter, boingboing, et al, but I still have to give a shout to a great post over at the Athanasius Kirchner Society on an
imaginary city painstakingly devised by an autistic savant named Gilles Trehin.
I am absolutely fascinated by autism and its […]