Category Archives: viajes

baikonur, amy and child 44

amy (2015)

 baikonur

baikonur cosmodrome, kazakhstan

buran program and baikonur photos

buran’s large, abandoned hangar photos

baikonur cosmodrome photos

books

child 44 by tom rob smith. serial killer/thriller.

trash, children’s literature (book, 2010; film 2014).

kids solving a mystery in rio. not quite a cidade de deus (paulo lins novel, 1997).

languages

vietnamese language

austroasiatic languages

seongsan ilchulbong and a lap around jeju-do

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seongsan ilchulbong

DSC_5276we wake up before dawn and hike up seonsgsan ilchulbong, an old tuff cone on the northeast corner of the island. we watch the sunrise.

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DSC_5250 mural of a jeju diving matriarch and a captured facehugger.

DSC_5378turtle rock and a chinese man.

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DSC_5421sleeping colt.

seogwipo

DSC_5436squids.DSC_5457dog.

DSC_5449david bowie’s dog.

DSC_5466 ice coffee on a tree house cafe.

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hexagonal lava columns

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the sad cuttle bone of a cephalopod. DSC_5487

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hyeopjae beach

DSC_5518DSC_5533sea lettuce on ancient, crusty lava.

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DSC_5584we eat poop cookies while watching the sunset.

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volcanic island in the east china sea

we arrive in jeju, korea’s largest island.

DSC_4991lunch by the road.

DSC_4993DSC_5001we drive towards manjanggul.

DSC_5172 a phallic grandfather sculpture guards the entrance to a garden .

DSC_5163we descend to a lava tunnel.

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back on the surfaceDSC_5020 a swallow feeds her youngDSC_5027while a cat awaits.  DSC_5188 DSC_5184we stop by a beach and then

DSC_5202off to seongsan ilchulbong peak

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vladivostok Владивосто́к

vladivostok

to see:

  1. golden horn bay
  2. vladivostok fortress    
  3.  svetlandskaya street
  4.   fortress museum  | map   
    1.  fort number 7 on russky island
  5. vladivostok train station
  6. zolotoy bridge to russky island
  7. lighthouse in Tokarevsky Spit
  8. triumphal arch Petra Velikogo Str.
  9. funicular 
  10. pokrovsky church and park Okeansky Avenue 44  map
  11. mineralogical museum
  12. russky island and beaches + aquarium  (north bound bus 29 or bus 15 from Okeansky pr).
  13. Arsenev Regional Museum | ul Svetlanskaya 20
  14. railroad terminal

restaurants:

  1. zuma (asian fusion) Fontannaya ul., 2
  2. north korean restaurant ul Verkhneportovaya 68b

W1,000 = 50 Rubles

Vladavostak

Vladivostok, the crossroads of Svetlanskaya and Aleutian streets. via wikimedia commons

rugged travelers

dog_colorado-DSC2198 lost and found photography by michael joseph

reminded me of the rugged travelers passing colorado.

photographer matt black’s geography of poverty project| rural life in california’s central valley.

kingdom of dust and matt black’s website

pulitzer center

online photo magazines:

lens culture

don’t take pictures

did di di di dit…

dog_colorado-DSC2211march 2011 | a dog and his nomad master near a gas station in downtown boulder.