The world ass seen

Always thought i was living in the buttcrack of nowhere, but it turns out it's a bit to the left of it



(source: http://www.geocities.com/mohoman/photos.html )

BrocoPi

In the movie Pi, the main character thinks everything can be expressed as numbers. When you look at Romanesco Brocoli, you start thinking he might have a point





(source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravando/466616714/sizes/o/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonay/305010281/sizes/o/ )

For Jade

Say cheese

Antilope canyon

This evidence that not only nature, but the whole planet too is wonderfully nuts, is called Antilope canyon, which lies somewhere in Arizona



(source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_hutchison/2078986472/sizes/o/ )

Slippery when cold

Monday morning it had snowed and it was freezing still, so instead of the grey drab that usually ensues after snow in Holland, we now got this very slippery surface which reflected the evening light so enticingly it called me out of the office and onto the street to photograph it. Very scary to ride the bike on, though

C'est tres Julie aussi

When the sun hits her fin
like you had too much gin
That's remora



Julie Gautier in a picture by Adam Broadbent (http://www.flickr.com/photos/adambroadbent/)

The Canyon, Dahab

Another highlight of last year was in April, When Elisabeth Kristoffersen a.k.a. Boo, Martin and i swam through the Canyon in Dahab, Egypt. Martin had a camera with him and one of these dives, i managed to put on video. It is my first time operating a camera underwater, but parts of the footage make me very very happy.

Zippeau

Every once in a while, i miss smoking, but i miss having a zippo more often. Maybe i should get one again. Maybe this one



(source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamarde/1458381691/sizes/o/ )

One of Island Life's mysteries

One of my favorite album covers is the one for Grace Jones' "Island Life". The picture for it is this iconic one:



The picture is by Jean-Paul Goude, who saw Grace as his muse, and i always thought it was one of those bizare things Grace could do, assume that position; no wonder she was his muse. But it turns out even for Grace this position is pretty impossible, and it is some clever pasting by the artist more than impossible feats by the performer:



(source: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/arts/2005/12/22/grace3.jpg )

Excuse me, but you've got some glass in your window

One of the things that came with the house is this bird in the window. I find it very ugly, but i haven't yet decided if it's funny ugly or plain hideous, so it's still there, on probation. Maybe it'd be funnier in one of the trees ouside.

MJ

This year i'm going to play some basketball again, or at least shoot some hoops. Nothing like below, because 1) i can't, and 2) if i tried my knees would cite irreconcilable differences and divorce me



(source: my knees and http://www.geocities.com/mjlove8788/love8788/8788ASSlamDunkFreethrow.jpg )