The amount of memories that come flooding back while watching this is intense, to say the least…
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A Year in New York
TOC Guide to San Fran
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-Ruthlessly edited to present only the most standout places in the city. We chose restaurants run by perfectionists who really care about their food, and truly understand hospitality.
-In addition to restaurants, the guide will tell you about hidden bars, the best view in the entire bay area, walking tours, underground dinner clubs, and a public park 15 stories up.
Everyone who purchases a copy gets access to our Twitter Concierge, who can do everything from reservations to recommendations, and is there to help with anything else that might come up while you’re exploring the city.
Via Boing Boing
Astronomy Picture of the Day
And it seems that the weeks are going by nearly as fast as the weekends! It’s been all good, though; the lack of posting this week was due to my workload really picking up. Something I always approve of! This weekend and next week I’ll be sure to plan ahead a little bit better so that I can at least get my daily posts out.
For now, enjoy this: today’s entry in NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day of NGC 3239 and SN 2012A.
About 40,000 light-years across, pretty, irregular galaxy NGC 3239 lies near the center of this lovely field of galaxies in the galaxy rich constellation Leo. At a distance of only 25 million light-years it dominates the frame, sporting a peculiar arrangement of structures, young blue star clusters and star forming regions, suggesting that NGC 3239 (aka Arp 263) is the result of a galaxy merger. Appearing nearly on top of the pretty galaxy is a bright, spiky, foreground star, a nearby member of our own Milky Way galaxy almost directly along our line-of-sight to NGC 3239. Still, NGC 3239 is notable for hosting this year’s first confirmed supernova, designated SN 2012A. It was discovered early this month by supernova hunters Bob Moore, Jack Newton, and Tim Puckett. Indicated in a cropped version of the wider image, SN 2012A is just below and right of the bright foreground star. Of course, based on the light-travel time to NGC 3239, the supernova explosion itself occurred 25 million years ago, triggered by the core collapse of a massive star.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Stereoscopic Streetview
Family Time
Well, well, well, hello there! Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving; ours stretched out into a week of family fun! It’s always so great when my parents come to visit and this trip was no exception.
- Saturday: Art Party! Jack took the lead on it, so I could take my parents for a walk downtown, along the Boardwalk and the Wharf.
- Sunday: We all hopped in the car and took a day-trip down to Carmel and Monterey. 17 Mile Dr in Pebble beach was magic!
- Monday: Quickly grabbed breakfast with Cyd (Jack’s mum) and then on to San Francisco! We took a very cool walking food tour of the Telegraph Hill neighborhood. Afterwards we walked through Chinatown, down to Union Square. Then drove to our hotel in Marin.
- Tuesday: St. Helena in Napa for a winery tour at The Beringer Vineyards.
- Wednesday: Sausalito and taking the scenic route back down to Santa Cruz.
- Thursday: Thanksgiving! It was most exciting! My parents got to meet a ton of Jack’s family. We ate, drank, played some poker and were very merry!
- Friday: Sightseeing along the westside coast, in the beautiful weather! Steamers Lane, Natural Bridges and the Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab.
- Saturday: A bite to eat at Paula’s and sent my parents off to the airport.
Thanks to my mom and dad for showing us a great time, as usual and Jack’s family for a truly warm and wonderful Thanksgiving! Love you all more than I can ever say!
Above in the Lone Cypress found along Pebble Beach’s 17 Mile Drive. For more pics from the trip check our our Flickr feed!
What if Jack Kerouac had GPS and Yelp?
Ari N. Schulman dives in to the impact navigational technology has on our sense of adventurous travel.
GPS navigation, in its present form, …dulls our receptivity to our surroundings by granting us the supposed luxury of not having to pay attention to them at all. In travel facilitated by “location awareness,” we begin to encounter places not by attending to what they present to us, but by bringing our expectations to them, and demanding that they perform for us as advertised. In traveling through “augmented reality,” even the need for places to perform begins to fade, as our openness to the world gives way to the desire to paper over it entirely. It is an admission of our seeming distrust in places to be sufficiently interesting on their own. But in attempting to find the most valuable places and secure the greatest value from them, the places themselves become increasingly irrelevant to our experiences, which become less and less experiences of those places we go.
Via Vagabonding | Image: “Gas” by Edward Hopper
Ocean Sky
And now something to chill-out to after a crazy busy week (and before a possibly crazier weekend!).
At a star party in August 2009 I took my first long exposure photograph of the night sky. I was so thrilled with the results that I dedicated most moonless weekends since then to photographing two things I love the most in nature – the night sky and the Ocean.
Taking a series of images and combining them into a time lapse video sequence made it even more interesting. I have since experimented with all-night time lapses, panning motion, etc. But most importantly I’ve enjoyed the journey immensely.
This time lapse video is the result of almost 1.5 years of work, 31 hours of taking images during six nights on Southern Ocean Coast in Australia.
Have fun at any pre-Halloween parties you may be haunting!
Life is the Story: The Travelogue
Lucy Knisley gives her tips, trick and advice on keeping a travelogue, an illustrated travel journal. I really should get in the habit of doing a small version of this. I do love going back through old sketchbooks and journals, as embarrassing as they can be sometimes, it’s intriguing to have this part of my life that’s so captured in time.
Doggy Surfing Competitions
How did we not know this was going on while we were living there!?
Five competitors piled on a surfboard during Sunday’s Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon in Del Mar, Calif. The event welcomed 4,000 spectators, 80 pooches, and raised more than $100,000 for orphaned animals. Canine surf competitions have recently grown in popularity, and a number are held in Southern California each year.
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