Plaza of the national science museum, a gem from the ’90s.
Urban seasons
The autumn arrival as it’s happening – downtown Athens.
Backyards
The inner story of Athens.
IBM central, Amsterdam
Complete with official and unofficial meeting rooms…
Kitchen…
Offices…
… Cheesy decals.
Inverted ladybug and street view
Bombardment by high standards
Two years ago these days … this traveller was in the middle of her only massive cultural shock ever.
Landed on Tokyo to spend two months and overwhelmed by the amount and totality of design, beauty and purpose everywhere around; within a week I lost weight, got a bunch of white hair and wasn’t sleeping well; it took me days to simply start catching the subway and go sightseeing.
Don’t get this wrong: the feeling was ecstasy. The whole time. Continuously. I was under constant bombardment by high standards.
A few photos of the mind-blowing flat and view. It was warm and fuzzy, it had a bathroom unit and a kitchen unit, and the elevated metropolitan express highway was passing only a few meters from the third-floor balcony. (At nights I was feeling that some mythical golden river kept streaming by.)
The café and the fusion lab
Typical morning coffee at the campus of KAIST polytechnic, with views on the national fusion research institute while ice latte is brewing.
Saturday afternoon beat
Streams and beers at the heart of Leiden.
Power nap to the future
Taipei metro, Wenhu line, afternoon in May.
Xiangde palette
I remember a spring noon pondering about things big and small at Xiangde temple, perched in Taroko gorge…
