February 29, 2012
I love you, Vancouver. Environmentalist David Suzuki, University Chair Andrew Petter, Activist Jim Green and other Vancouver luminaries in a funny & also really touching PSA.
RIP Jim Green, defender of the poor, a Vancouver icon, one of the greats.
“The years have passed/And so have I”
February 21, 2012
That pretty much sums up much of my recent trip to India. Never ending tasty chatting.
Gajali or gajalee (also the name of a famous fish restaurant further up the Maharashtra coast in Mumbai) means “an informal gathering” in the Malvani & Konkani languages.
This is a poor photo of a very interesting bottle, despite the fact that the boy running this soda cart in Mysore was being super helpful. (Below, some clearer photos of this type of bottle, courtesy of Wikipedia.) This is known as the Codd-neck bottle and you can read a full history and explanation below, but in short, the bottle is sealed via the use of a glass marble held in place by the pressure of the aerated soda; pressing the marble down either with a thumb or wooden plunger releases the seal, dropping the marble into the curved cavity and allowing the soda to pour out.
February 20, 2012
Hodgepodge of beautiful lamps seen in India, most of them vintage.
The glass, the hardware, even the wiring seem more attractive in India than they are in North America, and often have more design integrity.
February 19, 2012
I hate it too. Maybe not this much, but a lot. Meanwhile, at the Gateway of India last week (gorgeous sari):
February 17, 2012
If you are the type who notices recurring patterns, and like me are not from the Indian subcontinent or Central Asia yourself, you would start to notice a common concentric diamond pattern if you spent time in India.
February 16, 2012
This ant, seen at a roadside restaurant near the border of Goa and Maharashtra States in India, appeared at our table the moment the condensation did. There’s a famous quote from Diana Vreeland that hot pink is the navy blue of India, but that’s equally true of orange—human, animal and mineral.
February 14, 2012
This is a hodgepodge of painted walls in India, where I have been travelling for the past five weeks. All of these are in South India (Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa). The buildings are generally made of laterite stone sealed with cement (see previous post).
What appear to be red bricks below (at left in the photo, and on the wall surrounding the yellow building) are in fact quarried blocks of laterite, a porous red stone common in India and other countries.
