and the Eiffel is alight. I miss Paris.
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
One for the romantics
October 10, 2010 – 4:38 am
I love this 1922 Kodachrome film test, one of the earliest motion picture films. It’s beautiful and gently heartbreaking because its illusion is so powerful. The color in the film makes the women look real and alive, as if they could walk out of the reel and into our lives. Watching this made me think [...]
Bosnia’s elections for TIME
October 9, 2010 – 1:59 am
I loved my first trip to the Balkans for this story on national elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I must say, though, that I have never encountered as complicated and byzantine a political system as the one in this country of about four million people. Needless to say, this was a very hard story for [...]
Chinese investment in Greece for NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’
October 9, 2010 – 1:27 am
I traveled to a quiet part of the southern coast of Crete for this story on how massive Chinese investment in Greece is being viewed by the Greeks themselves. There have been plans in the works for years for a port on the beach of Kokkinos Pirgos, near the southern Cretan municipality of Timbaki. It [...]