MADRID, NEW MEXICO
Madrid rolls in rather unexpectedly on the long mountain pass between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. There is miles and miles of empty rock desert with hardly any traffic and then suddenly you are in an artist's colony. Perhaps it was because my friends and I visited in the winter or perhaps because we ate in a large saloon with large stuffed animal heads and no other tourists in site but one thing I enjoyed immensely about the little town was that--unlike a lot of other artist's colonies today this one did not feel overly catered to the tourist, overly precious. It's business was obviously selling art but the galleries were in older, interesting buildings, the coffee shop had no heat in the seating area. The community had obviously made a conscious choice not to gentrify everything to the bougie tastes of the city folk out for a day in the country.
The drive itself, Route-14 is known as the Turquoise Trail and Rough Guide notes it "may be one of the oldest throroughfares in North America." Off from it we drove winding roads to the top of the Sandia Crest to watch the sunset over the spread of Albuquerque, which seems so quiet and still from so high up. The fact that it was so cold up there meant I could not hold my camera without shaking explains why most of my photos are simply a blur. A visual memory of extreme cold.
Links:
The skivvy on the new Bush proposal to fight oil price hikes. Some of it is decent, if way late. But it also includes rolling back environmental standards. Sick.
This blog on television in Japan could be promisingly funny. (via BoingBoing)
There's been a lot lately of value on Damn Interesting: One was this piece on NDE's. I didn't know that the experiences shifted in different cultures and religious traditions. Then there was this fascinating look at potential audio evidence of a sea creature larger than anything else out there. Be sure to check out the link at the bottom of that page to their article on the "Wow" signal.
Via Plep, cool photos of Nebulae.
Cynical-C had some real winners lately: Pagan Island looks like a serious and comprehensive look at post-colonial Polynesian religion and culture. Then there was this photo essay of this theme park in Egypt that puts ours to shame. Finally, Japanese Spiderman is truly filled with more pathos than the American version. And if you think I'm being serious about all these platitudes, you really gotta check these items out.
The Beach Boys sans Brian Wilson in 1971 on David Frost. Man, check out Mike Love's whiskers...
Madrid rolls in rather unexpectedly on the long mountain pass between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. There is miles and miles of empty rock desert with hardly any traffic and then suddenly you are in an artist's colony. Perhaps it was because my friends and I visited in the winter or perhaps because we ate in a large saloon with large stuffed animal heads and no other tourists in site but one thing I enjoyed immensely about the little town was that--unlike a lot of other artist's colonies today this one did not feel overly catered to the tourist, overly precious. It's business was obviously selling art but the galleries were in older, interesting buildings, the coffee shop had no heat in the seating area. The community had obviously made a conscious choice not to gentrify everything to the bougie tastes of the city folk out for a day in the country.
The drive itself, Route-14 is known as the Turquoise Trail and Rough Guide notes it "may be one of the oldest throroughfares in North America." Off from it we drove winding roads to the top of the Sandia Crest to watch the sunset over the spread of Albuquerque, which seems so quiet and still from so high up. The fact that it was so cold up there meant I could not hold my camera without shaking explains why most of my photos are simply a blur. A visual memory of extreme cold.
Links:
The skivvy on the new Bush proposal to fight oil price hikes. Some of it is decent, if way late. But it also includes rolling back environmental standards. Sick.
This blog on television in Japan could be promisingly funny. (via BoingBoing)
There's been a lot lately of value on Damn Interesting: One was this piece on NDE's. I didn't know that the experiences shifted in different cultures and religious traditions. Then there was this fascinating look at potential audio evidence of a sea creature larger than anything else out there. Be sure to check out the link at the bottom of that page to their article on the "Wow" signal.
Via Plep, cool photos of Nebulae.
Cynical-C had some real winners lately: Pagan Island looks like a serious and comprehensive look at post-colonial Polynesian religion and culture. Then there was this photo essay of this theme park in Egypt that puts ours to shame. Finally, Japanese Spiderman is truly filled with more pathos than the American version. And if you think I'm being serious about all these platitudes, you really gotta check these items out.
The Beach Boys sans Brian Wilson in 1971 on David Frost. Man, check out Mike Love's whiskers...
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