the irish reporter fergal keane is the bbc’s correspondent in amman, jordan. here he gives some impressions of waiting for war. (a version for the independent newspaper is here)

i just joined corbis, looking for many royalty free images… found some of helsinki.. during the summer! this one is of finlandiatalo on töölölahti just beside the city centre here in helsinki. in the background is the parliment house.

this finnish brand produces many home cutlery and glasses and things along those lines. they have some amazing stuff. pretty expensive, but worth it if you want to fill the emptiness. harri koskinen is one of their designers. he did an amazing (work with me here) candle holder. pretty hard to make out from that […]

webcam time! the image below is from today. click on this link for a live one! as you can see its going from “almost spring” with melting snow and blue skies to winter time again!. snow! grey white wonderful snow. the camera is pointing at kauppatori at the bottom of esplanadi (about 7min walk from […]

the whitney museum of american art is having an exhibition by an artist called david crawford. he did a pretty cool thing with stopmotion in london/paris/nyc + boston. you can view it here