The Seafaring Gypsy

After 12 years of Navy life and 54 countries, it has come to my attention that I still am struck with wanderlust. I need to boogie on out of the U.S. for bit, I need to cross that line on the map and make my way to someplace where I don’t speak the language. It starts here: Indeed. I know who I want with me. I know I want to be there in the Spring. One of the great tragedies of this existence is that we’ll eat more than we’ll make love. This is just fact. But, for a week, I want to make love just as much, if not more, than I eat. If I come back slimmer, I will have fulfilled a life goal. Next, considering my father’s family can trace its lineage to the Tribe of Levi, I think it would be a genuine shame if my poppa bear and I didn’t get a chance to get our Indiana Jones on here: The city of the Golden Dome has been destroyed 10 times and rebuilt upon the rubble. This means if you were to dig 10 or 15 feet down, you’d essential glimpse life in the Middle Ages. Keep digging and… you get the idea. Sooner or later, I have to find my way here: I’m not sure what it is, my gypsy nature, my love of Middle Eastern architecture, or just sheer wanderlust, but I want to see Istanbul before it’s all said and done. Also, the food is utterly amazing. Following that, one of my favorite places in the world is here: Prague, in the Czech Republic. Hey, this is where the original Bohemia is. What’s not to love? After that we have a tie: The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY and: Casablanca, Morocco because I’ve wanted to see Africa my entire life and this city just plain looks amazing.

Jan 14

Oh! The Places I Still Need to Go

Jan 30

This story on the Paris catacombs and underground is a collaboration between National Geographic and NPR News. Geographic Photographer Stephen Alvarez invited NPR’s Jacki Lyden, contributing host and correspondent, along on a three-week expedition below the City of Light; the story is also the cover feature of National Geographic’s February issue

(Source: NPR)

Aug 17

Born in Switzerland, Hans Mauli was a graphic designer who worked with Herb Lubalin and designed the typeface for the World Trade Center signage. From 1971 to 1991 he worked as an advertising photographer in Paris, after which he moved to the United States and began to focus on fine art photography. When he began his photographic career he did not have access to a darkroom, so most of his early work was not printed until much later. See more of them here.

(Source: blog.iso50.com)

Oct 4

My adrenaline is going buck wild just watching this video. This is positively intense.

Dec 13

Moxy Creative House presents Touristique, a series of five illustrated posters based on major cities. They’re available for purchase right here.

Dec 14

becomeagent:

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sugashane:

This can obstruct my views all it wants. No complaints here.

(Source: beyazgazoz)

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jason and I’m writing this with an Irish lilt in my voice. What I Like I like black and white movies set in Paris and London. I like breakfast for dinner at 24-hour diners. I like classic cocktails with names like Manhattan and Sidecar. I like wearing my grandfather’s heavy, blue wool overcoat and my father’s gray fedora in the winter. I like talking baseball with strangers. I like rooting for the bad guy in heist movies. I like jazz that sounds like a rainy night in New York. I like poems about the sea and matters of the heart. I like women who know how to say fuck because they’re comfortable in their own skin. I like minimalism though I like too much stuff to be a minimalist. I like September because it’s gorgeous everywhere. I like buying the newspaper from a news stand. I like soul music on Sunday mornings. I like Coca-Cola in glass bottles. I like red toes. I like the Beatles in mono and the Rolling Stones in stereo. I like the word ‘caper’ when it’s used to describe a crime. I like women who cook breakfast in my shirt and their underwear. I like it when they’re referred to as the funny papers. I like packages wrapped in brown paper and twine. I like stripped socks. I like the way middle-aged Italian men dress. And I like you.

Jan 28