Typographic Jam Session
"Affamata di Sapere" - "Hungry to Know". That seemed like a meaty phrase around which to create a letterpress printing project. It was last year, in...
Along the Ligurian Sea
Mention a trip to the "Italian Riviera" and one envisions palm trees, beaches, hot sun and relaxation. In fact, Russia had a heat wave that forced the cold polar air south to Italy, so it was very...
Almost Baked My Ballerina Flats
It's Sunday night. I arrived on Thursday morning in the middle of a hard, driving rain. Since then, it's been wet, dry, and gray, with just enough blue to keep my spirits up. I've been piling on...
Market Day is Saturday
In this neighborhood, Saturday is market day. A string of city blocks nearby is blocked off and filled to the brim with produce, fish, cheese, flowers, housewares, clothing… and people. It seems to...
At Home in Milano
(Click on each image to enlarge it.) 17 May 2013, 3:03 p.m. - Milano The nightingale is singing in my courtyard and the sun is shining. The air is fresh after yesterday's downpour and wind. The...
Hiatus
It's been a pause, a respite from one endeavor so I could shift energies and surge headlong into others. I took a break from documentation so that participation could be intense and entire. And it...
Jan & Petula in Prague
After a time of their love wrapping halfway around the world, about 7 months ago Jan moved back to the Czech Republic to marry and be with his dear Petula. Jan had become a much-loved "Burien...
Monday’s Pace
It's Monday in Milano, soon to turn 3:00 pm, the end of the day's slow start. I've been hunkered in the house at the computer, in no rush to go anywhere because there's been no where to go....
The Last Bouquet
Saturday morning, 11:30. The church bell just tolled. Birds in the courtyard. A lovely, fresh breeze through the open windows. Sunny and warm. And someone in the neighboring building has been...
Evening Canal Walks on the Navigli
At 10:15 last night, I stepped out the front gate from the public courtyard of my apartment complex and headed north along the canal for a couple-mile walk. I crossed over the small foot bridge near...
A Stroll Around Old Nice
As a designer, artist and photographer, I can't go anywhere without seeing Design, Art and Photography. Nice, France, complies wonderfully by providing a fabulous draw to my eye. The sights are...
Nice, along the Coast of Blue
They're not kidding! When they call it The Coast of Blue - Cote d'Azur - it doesn't begin to describe the jewel-toned, intensely saturated blue of the shoreline of Nice, France. Beyond-blue...