Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently near San Francisco

Way back in May I went wine tasting up in Napa and, thanks to a friend who works at winery, was able to try some mighty fine wines. A bottle that costs $150 really does taste better. I'm posting these now because I've run out of pictures and I feel like I need to post something and these were lying around.

William Langewiesche on Haditha [Vanity Fair, 12 pages]. Langewiesche, my favorite magazine writer, explores the events that led up to the incident at Haditha in which 24 Iraqi civilians were killed. The piece delves into the soldiers point of view during war with all the boredom and stresses and provides a context for understanding what happened. He goes into some gruesome details but in the service of explaining the incident. It's a long read but fantastic.

Accompanying the article is this amazing series of portraits of Kilo Company, the group of marines involved in the incident. They were taken by photojournalist Lucian Read two months before the incident. Read was embedded with the unit as part of his project of following a single group of marines from deployment, into combat, their return home and, in many cases their subsequent redeployment to Iraq. Read's website shows many of his photos and I also came across this excellent 10 minute video interview with him talking about his project. Read obviously has a comradarie with the troops so it is ironic that his photos of the dead Iraqi civilians were what helped spur the outrage that lead several of the troops to be charged with crimes.

Friday, October 20, 2006

Portraits 2005. I'm a little late on this.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

A few weeks ago all the cool bloggers were linking to Flickr MiniCards by this British printing company called Moo. You pick images from your Flickr account to be printed on the cards. It's $20 for 100 cards. I figured I'd be trendy and order myself a box. The images don't have the resolution I was hoping for, although the card stock and packaging is nice. The cards are long and narrow. It's an odd aspect ratio that calls for some serious croppng. You can see the images I used on my flickr account.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Me at La Costeña Burritos in Mountain View.

Miranda is this technopop group from Argentina that got very popular all over Latin America this year and last. I first heard their stuff on Super Estrella, the latino pop radio station in LA and loved them immediately [I miss that station]. Here are their videos on YouTube of their two big hits, Don and Yo Te Dire.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

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