I won’t lie. Deciding not to get on a plane during my job transition was hard for me. With Lia in Amsterdam and other friends jaunting off to the South of France for a month, it’s hard not to feel a tad jealous.
But I was trying to be prudent and wanted to take advantage of the Pacific Northwest’s gorgeous [...]
Entries Tagged as 'dreamscapes'
Doe Bay Resort & Retreat on Orcas Island. Kinda, not really, a resort.
July 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Novelty, Recommended sights
Where Won’t You Go?
June 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Blog posts by Betty, Novelty, The point of travel
I have a friend who is a hard core traveler. She’s been to South Korea and Qatar and Kenya and lived in Hong Kong and, well, you get the picture. Her travel experience, and the fact that she’s hilarious and laid back, is why I chose her to go to South Africa with me. She [...]
Tags:Africa·dreamscapes·photos
Fail ‘o’ the Day: New York Times Man-Crush Edition
March 9th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day, The point of travel, Wary of the advice of others
It’s unclear to me exactly how the first “issue” of an online “magazine”–a.k.a., a blog–gets covered by the New York Times.
But based on today’s review of Nowhere, the qualifications seem to be:
An Andy-Spade-like preoccupation with pencil-scribbled notebooks
Courier font
An aversion to using paragraph breaks, or in other ways admitting you’re publishing on the web
A feeling in [...]
Tags:dreamscapes·hackery·obsession with fonts·pomposity·travel writing
What Is the Point of Travel?
February 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Novelty, The point of travel
As a former writer for a Guidebook Company That Shall Not Be Named, I’m partial to thoughtful essays about why we travel. Guidebook work is about facts and trends, neither of which lend themselves to any reflection whatsoever.
Yesterday I picked up the amazing new McSweeney’s, made in newspaper form. Coincidentally, I had already bookmarked this blog post from Jonah Lehrer on the cognitive inner workings behind why we travel, which is part of McSweeney’s No. 33.
Tags:dreamscapes·McSweeney's·trains
Tokyo’s Building that Tweets
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Novelty, Obsessed with Japan, Urban archipelagos
Tokyo is on my top three list of places to go to next, and this kind of innovation is part of the reason why. According to Buzz-Beast’s helpful summary: looking at the building through the app can “display up to date shop information, interactive advertisements and even display the tweets that are coming out of the building.” Crazy, but kind of awesome.
Tags:dreamscapes·hyperbole·iPhone·Japan·Japanese design·Tokyo
The Empty City: Beautiful, Disturbing, or Both?
January 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Novelty, Obsessed with Japan, Urban archipelagos
I love cities. Pretty much every trip I’ve ever taken was, essentially, a trip to cities, and more than that, I identify with them as bastions of multicultural and cultural vibrancy. I subscribe to the idea of exalting the urban archipelago.
If you combine an obsession with cities with the idea of having it all to yourself, you get amazing “empty L.A.” shots by Matt Logue.
Tags:dreamscapes·Edward Hopper·Los Angeles·New York City·Tokyo
