Archive for August, 2010

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Part 2

Just a quick gallery of the art and Architecture on the Island of Naoshima.  Amazing place with a mix of the vernacular and not so vernacular forms of art and architecture.

• Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Hiroshi Sugimoto – Installations, Images and a Shrine.

Sugimoto is best known as a photographer.  However, his installations and the Go’o Shrine at Naoshima show him as much more then a photographer.  His works on Naoshima display a keen sense of light, space, mystery and architecture that leads the viewer to new and inspiring interpretations of his works and the architectural spaces in [...]

• Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

I now, reluctantly, must profess my love for Vietnam.

Why you ask must I do this now?  Well because we missed our bus this morning and we are stuck in Hekou.  Where in the hell is Hekou you ask?  China of course.  The part of China where no one speaks english (why should they) and it is hot as hell and there is a [...]

• Wednesday, August 4th, 2010