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Mexico City Could Be My Muse

Friday, March 5th, 2010 Posted in Atomische, Atomische Photos, Travel | No Comments »

Mexico City Seven days was just not enough time to explore Mexico City. A week after being home and I still find myself daydreaming about the streets and the people there.

Photo Series: Winter Reconnaissance

Sunday, January 10th, 2010 Posted in Atomische Photos, Photography, Travel | No Comments »

Winter Reconnaissance Somewhere in the title there's an anagram with Wisconsin in it, which is fitting because these photos were taken on the short flight from Appleton to Milwaukee. The window in my favorite seat (2A) was a little scuffed, so ...

Goodbye Midwest Airlines

Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Travel | 2 Comments »

Best Care in the Air I am VERY UNHAPPY that Midwest Airlines is out of business. I don't have any confidence that Republic Airlines (who grounded all the Midwest jets and fired all the pilots and attendants) will make my trips ...

Happy Anniversary Charles Darwin

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Atomische Photos, New York City, Travel | No Comments »

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The story behind his exploration has always fascinated me, since reading Voyage of the Beagle as a school kid. Two years ago the American ...

Gay Parade New York 2008

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in New York City, Travel, people | No Comments »

George Takei + Brad Altman, originally uploaded by Atomische.com. Get soaked, steam a little, dry, repeat. Despite the rain, or perhaps because of it, I had a very enjoyable time at the 2008 Gay Parade. Instead of our usual spot we ...

Tel Aviv Photo Safari

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Travel | No Comments »

Had a very successful walk-around in Tel Aviv today, and saw much graffiti including stencils, tags and a few murals too. Erez is helping me translate some of the text. Processing them is a pain on the laptop so ...

Succah in the Desert

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Travel | 2 Comments »

Just got back from the far south ... stayed in this hut near Mitzpe Ramon in the desert, with no electric or plumbing.

Ahmed & friend, our hopeful guides

Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Travel | 1 Comment »

We didn't really need guides, but ran into Ahmed and his friend every time we turned a corner. In perfect English, learned at the New Gate school, they asked "where would you like to go?" It turns out school is ...

At the Western Wall

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Travel | 1 Comment »

Today we took a drive to Jerusalem and visited many of the popular sites, visited with the locals, ate some great hummus and of course took lots of photos. More later, I promise. (it's quite late here and I'm wiped ...

Straight to the Heart

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Travel | No Comments »

Yesterday I went on a short photo safari in the old part of Tel Aviv with Erez. Called Neve tzedek (Oasis of Justice) it's actually the first neighborhood of Tel Aviv. We didn't see lots of graffiti except for a handful ...