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"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to
find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more
about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring
what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of
the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in
essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken
in, and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was
best described, perhaps, before people even took to frequent flying, by
George Santayana in his lapidary essay, The Philosophy of
Travel. We 'need sometimes,' the Harvard philosopher wrote, 'to
escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of
running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste
hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no
matter what.'"
Pico Iyer, Why We Travel, Salon, 2000
That pretty much sums it up for me. Time to plan an escape.
recent work
Intel AppUp Product Launch Exhibit
Intel's AppUp is the go-to place for netbook apps. For their big product launch at Intel's Developer Forum (IDF), I was tasked to design posters, wraps and scrims for an exhibit hall in San Francisco's Metreon. It's not every day I get to work in three dimensions.
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140 character book review
The Age of Kali
by William Dalrymple
The Age of Kali is a time of change and strife. 19 essays explore India's dark side as the nation struggles to find its place in the 21st century.