Two years
It’s been two years since arriving in Rome. I don’t have a lot to say about that, but I thought I should acknowledge it in some way—so that’s that.
Oh, hi
It’s been a while and I wanted to update and document some of the things that have been going on lately. First, I’m doing that because I can—I finally switched hosting providers and my site is now running pretty quickly as it used to in the past. Not just in the front-end, what you’re looking at, but in the back-end where I have to work to change the things you see. It had been so bad that it really discouraged me from posting anything because it took so long. Now that that has been fixed, I’m excited to get back to this posting and blogging and documenting business.
a Navy man
The best part about my job is the people I meet. There is one older man in particular I feel compelled to write about. After spending just a few days in his company, I felt that this is the kind of person I want to be when I grow up. I’m not sure if I’ve ever felt this way before, even when I was much younger. I may have wanted a particular achievement or trait of someone I looked up to, but never in such an all-encompassing way.
Corinne Vionnet
The images made by tourists are picture imitations. They demonstrate the desire to produce a photograph of an image that already exists, one like those we have already seen. It is in fact a style of manipulating the viewer. Why do we always take the same picture, if not to interact with what already exists? The photograph proves our presence. And to be true, the picture will be perfectly consistent with the pictures in our collective memory.