Monthly Archive for December, 2008

2008 in Pictures from the New York Times

The Bejing Olympics

Economic Trouble

Hurricane Ike

The American Ballet Theather's opening-night gala in May

Flooding in India

Hilary Clinton

Barack Obama in San Antonio

Earthquake Damage

The war in Iraq

More pho­tos from the New York Times can be found at: 2008 — The Year in Pictures

Wakeboarding in Piazza San Marco, Venice

Wakeboarding in Piazza San Marco, Venice

Dun­can Zuur of the Nether­lands rides a wake­board across flooded Piazza San Marco in Venice, Decem­ber 2, 2008.

Also see this post about the flood­ing in Venice.

500th Post

I’ve finally hit the 500 post mil­stone. It has taken a while, but I never would have thought that I’d still be post­ing to this “tem­po­rary” blog. A big thanks to all the read­ers. Merry Box­ing Day.

Super Powers

Super Pow­ers, directed by John Mitchell and Jeremy Kipp Walker, tells of a young mar­ried cou­ple who turn to dress­ing up as super heroes (specif­i­cally Bat­man and Won­der Woman) to spice up life in the bed­room. How­ever, when a sit­u­a­tion forces them out of their apart­ment and onto the streets, these two may just wind up sav­ing a lot more than their sex life. Super Pow­ers won Best Nar­ra­tive Short Film at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival…

Con­tinue read­ing ‘Super Powers’

Lunch

Lunch
Photo
via red­dit

Random Strangers Touching

Random Strangers Touching

Pho­tog­ra­pher Richard Renaldi has this great series on his site fea­tur­ing ran­dom strangers touch­ing one another. As one might expect, plenty of them cap­ture a cring­ing awk­ward­ness, but oth­ers make it seem as though the sub­jects have known each other for decades; some are funny, oth­ers are kind of happy-sad, and a few just leave you speechless.

Renaldi — Pho­tographsv via The National Post