Travel Day
I conducted an experiment yesterday and flew with AirBerlin from Berlin to Minneapolis via Chicago. The verdict? NEVER AGAIN. It was awful. But I did get to my destination and for that I am happy. These last weeks were mostly quiet—in the best possible way—including some lovely evenings with friends old and new. In a ...
Berlin Walking Tours: Context Travel
We are big fans of checking things out on foot—especially in Berlin, where the most interesting finds are often easily-overlooked remnants of the city’s wartime/divided past. So we were happy to join Context Travel on their Divided City walking tour, which uses the city’s architecture as a thread through history. Our path illustrated how quickly ...
Berlin for awhile
After our visit to Salt Lake City, Anthony went to San Francisco for work and then on to Portland—and I came back to Berlin. We will reconvene in Minneapolis next week and hit the ground running. So it’s been just me and Berlin, kind of like old times, which has given me time to reflect ...
Baby Keira
Meeting Baby Keira the other week in Salt Lake was pretty spectacular. My favorite moment with her was the day we left; she was fussing a bit and I got her to quiet down by holding her slightly on her side, facing me. She stared up at me sideways, looking into my eyes with a ...
Twelve Blog: High
Mankato, Minnesota This photo is part of an ongoing series at twelveblog.tumblr.com. You can find a collection of my photos for the project here.
Wildflowers Bed & Breakfast
Last week we went to Salt Lake City to visit my sister and brother-in-law and their new baby. We booked a few nights at the Wildflowers B & B because it was in their neighborhood—which was great—but my oh my was it so much more. This place is simply a jem. Not only is the ...
Installed
Two—two—snowstorms have blown through here since that last post. It’s April 24th. Yesterday a friend called it February 72nd. Because of the snow, we’ve had an interesting time this last week with installing the work and everything else—but more on that later. Right now I have to get ready for the talk and the opening, ...
April in Minnesota
Since we landed in Minnesota, the weather has been awful: honest-to-god-snowtorms, rain, cold, just the gamut of terrible weather. Yet somehow I am in good spirits—it makes such a difference to be surrounded by so many friendly faces, good conversations, and good food. Yesterday there was sun—I sat outside all day and actually got a ...
Parallel worlds and creative foundations
I became aware that there was an old world existing parallel to the present when I was about eight. We’d just moved into a brand new house built on land that not ten years earlier had belonged to a larger estate. The massive old house still stood—out of view—on the other side of the thick ...
Wild parakeets print + free shipping
We were enchanted by the wild parakeets flying around Natalie‘s garden in London. Bright green blurs against overcast skies. Prints of this photo by Anthony are now available in our Society6 shop. Sizes range from minis (7 x 10″) to extra-large (28 x 40″) and you can get free shipping worldwide now through April 14th ...
A Map of the World
Drawing + places are kind of my thing so I was super excited to work on A Map of the World, Gestalten’s new book about contemporary illustration that explores the subject of place. As a writer for the project, I got to find out a little bit more about old favorites like Oliver Jeffers and ...
