Archive for July, 2009

bm308 From the Mountains of Minho

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
bm308 From the Mountains of Minho

Currently traveling in Portugal and have been unable or unwilling to do a full program during this family-focused visit.  But I did make use the audio recording function of my xacti camera today and pieced together an audio update as I hiked in the Peneda Mountains of Minho, Northern Portugal. »

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Protest or Film?

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Only a few more days of my Portugal-Family vacation remain. Today I’m quickly checking in with a video I captured in the Bica, downtown Lisbon, over the weekend. What initially looked like a demonstration coming way, very quickly turns out to be a scene from a film being shot in my neighborhood. Kind of shame,... »

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Frank McCourt Remembered

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Frank McCourt Remembered

I was in my second year of University, the year was 1998, and someone special handed me the book “Angela’s Ashes” and said – read this, PLEASE. For the next month I would take the book with me everywhere, sneaking a chapter or 2 in whenever I got the chance.  The stories of a... »

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Clash of Consumer Culture

Monday, July 20th, 2009
Clash of Consumer Culture

Caldas da Rainha with its 50,000 or so residents is not a huge city. The city itself is known for its hospital and according to wikipedia, its pottery.  In my family it is known as the city where my mother went to high school, and where every year my parents spend the summer. In the... »

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Scandinavian Arctic Path

Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Scandinavian Arctic Path

My good friend and fellow personal publisher Raymond had a post earlier this month on the topic of Norway that caught my attention.  In it he spoke about the melting of the arctic ice, a topic I’ve followed for the past few years, and the strange prospects for Scandinavia when this new northern trade... »

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