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Gainesville, Florida Featured here: On University Avenue, near campus. On the way to a basketball game. Drive By Truckers is one of the best bands in America and “Daylight” is a wonderful song—download now, if you care. I like car sans the roof.

Gainesville, Florida

Featured here: On University Avenue, near campus. On the way to a basketball game. Drive By Truckers is one of the best bands in America and “Daylight” is a wonderful song—download now, if you care. I like car sans the roof.

Gainesville, Florida Featured here: Matthew Turner—my favourite humanoid—eating. The visual equivalent of Jamie Foxx’s “Blame it onnnnn thhheee aaaaaa aaaaa aaa alcahhollleeeeee….” P.S Because this started as “food and drink blog” (but devolved in to something else), I should probably divulge the ingestents (sic): Mother’s Pub’s Shepherd’s pie (reminds me of New Zealand=A+), gin and tonic (cheap, boozy, perfick), Camel Lights.

Gainesville, Florida

Featured here: Matthew Turner—my favourite humanoid—eating. The visual equivalent of Jamie Foxx’s “Blame it onnnnn thhheee aaaaaa aaaaa aaa alcahhollleeeeee….”

P.S Because this started as “food and drink blog” (but devolved in to something else), I should probably divulge the ingestents (sic): Mother’s Pub’s Shepherd’s pie (reminds me of New Zealand=A+), gin and tonic (cheap, boozy, perfick), Camel Lights.

Orlando, Florida Featured here: Here’s Dwight Howard warming up for a game against my team, the Boston Celtics. This was on Christmas Day and I was about 15 rows back from the court. I want to spend every Christmas Day watching NBA for the rest of my life. And yes, Dwight Howard is as much of a study in muscular in ‘real life’ as he appears on TV.

Orlando, Florida

Featured here: Here’s Dwight Howard warming up for a game against my team, the Boston Celtics. This was on Christmas Day and I was about 15 rows back from the court. I want to spend every Christmas Day watching NBA for the rest of my life. And yes, Dwight Howard is as much of a study in muscular in ‘real life’ as he appears on TV.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti Featured here: A trip I took to Haiti was the most fascinating and rewarding traveling I have ever done. For everyone I met on that trip, my thoughts are with all of you. I hope to come back to Port-au-Prince when it is possible to do whatever I can. For anyone who might read this, please consider making a donation to the Red Cross for relief efforts in Haiti. Just text ‘HAITI’ to ‘90999’ and a donation of $10 will be made automatically. (The donation will be charged to your cellphone bill.) Thank you!

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Featured here: A trip I took to Haiti was the most fascinating and rewarding traveling I have ever done. For everyone I met on that trip, my thoughts are with all of you. I hope to come back to Port-au-Prince when it is possible to do whatever I can. For anyone who might read this, please consider making a donation to the Red Cross for relief efforts in Haiti. Just text ‘HAITI’ to ‘90999’ and a donation of $10 will be made automatically. (The donation will be charged to your cellphone bill.) Thank you!

Featured here: Detail of Sex I 2003 by Jake and Dinos Chapman. Photo by Stephen White. This is painted bronze. Size: 246x244x125cm. I was looking at Goya’s art because I’m reading Foucault. (Foucault, who as a student once slashed his chest with a razor, covered the walls of his study with reproductions of Goya’s work.) I came across this work, Detail of Sex, by two London-based artists. Here’s what Christopher Turner wrote about the Chapmans’ work: “In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag wrote that, unlike most images of mutilation and torture, Goya’s The Disasters of War “cannot be looked at in a spirit of prurience” - it is devoid of pornography. The Chapmans, who have endlessly returned toGreat Feat! with a rubber-necking insistency, would disagree. “I don’t think that there’s an opposition between a salacious interest and a noble one,” Jake Chapman says. For them there is a “convulsive beauty” in the violent image, and they are wedded to the Surrealists’ avant-garde belief that such shocks and jolts can wake us from the dream-state of a commodity culture by, as Jake puts it, “shocking the viewer from the edifice of comfort”. (The brothers’ work might be collectively titled The Disasters of Capitalism.) “He’s defended as a humanist,” Jake once said of Goya’s prints, “but there are moments of pleasure. They have an intensity, a humour and a tendency to undermine their own dignity.””

Featured here: Detail of Sex I 2003 by Jake and Dinos Chapman. Photo by Stephen White. This is painted bronze. Size: 246x244x125cm.

I was looking at Goya’s art because I’m reading Foucault. (Foucault, who as a student once slashed his chest with a razor, covered the walls of his study with reproductions of Goya’s work.) I came across this work, Detail of Sex, by two London-based artists.

Here’s what Christopher Turner wrote about the Chapmans’ work:

“In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag wrote that, unlike most images of mutilation and torture, Goya’s The Disasters of War “cannot be looked at in a spirit of prurience” - it is devoid of pornography. The Chapmans, who have endlessly returned toGreat Feat! with a rubber-necking insistency, would disagree. “I don’t think that there’s an opposition between a salacious interest and a noble one,” Jake Chapman says. For them there is a “convulsive beauty” in the violent image, and they are wedded to the Surrealists’ avant-garde belief that such shocks and jolts can wake us from the dream-state of a commodity culture by, as Jake puts it, “shocking the viewer from the edifice of comfort”. (The brothers’ work might be collectively titled The Disasters of Capitalism.) “He’s defended as a humanist,” Jake once said of Goya’s prints, “but there are moments of pleasure. They have an intensity, a humour and a tendency to undermine their own dignity.””

Little Italy, NYC Featured here: Walked around with Miss B, watched some rugby, saw these kids.

Little Italy, NYC

Featured here: Walked around with Miss B, watched some rugby, saw these kids.

Avalon, Australia Featured here: My sister sent this to me. She took this photo on the way to a work Christmas party.

Avalon, Australia

Featured here: My sister sent this to me. She took this photo on the way to a work Christmas party.

Down by the river, Austin, Texas Featured here: This is, apparently, a dog. It looks like a dog that has been genetically spliced with a small pig.

Down by the river, Austin, Texas

Featured here: This is, apparently, a dog. It looks like a dog that has been genetically spliced with a small pig.

Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Featured here: I took a couple of photos of some of the roadside markets in Cite Soleil—here’s the best one.

Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Featured here: I took a couple of photos of some of the roadside markets in Cite Soleil—here’s the best one.

Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York Featured here: A small section of one of the greatest cities on earth, taken from the rooftop of that fine city’s loveliest inhabitant, Miss Sarah Bessette.

Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York

Featured here: A small section of one of the greatest cities on earth, taken from the rooftop of that fine city’s loveliest inhabitant, Miss Sarah Bessette.