Saturday, July 15, 2006

the venetian problem ... a modest proposal

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on the one hand, you have lot of sinking islands on the other, you have the italian concrete producers and the murano glass makers my soluti...
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bastille day

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and another thing ... as we were flying back from venice across france towards the ruddiest afterglow of a long slow sunset, nebulous puffs ...

venice, by the slow boat from the airport

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the fabulous arsenale gate

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looks comfy

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new bells

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nice sign

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a sweet fancy

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reclining lady by botero

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nice shop front

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although i'd copied this zodiac from photographs before, i'd failed to notice the face on the scorpion's back

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jeff koons nine foot high balloon dog

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peggy guggenheim

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the photo was taken by david seymour of magnum there are some fantastically good things in her museum  

peggy's giacommetti ... possibly his best

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peggy had all these glass figurines made in imitation of figures created by picasso

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what's he so happy about ?

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Friday, July 14, 2006

away from the steam bath of venice by train into the dolomites

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stazione per l'alpago, an old station on the railway from venice to calazo de cadore

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the terminus at calalzo de cadore

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must be about seventy miles from venice ... the journey takes two and a half hours but cost only fifteen euros

at the house where titian was born

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while we were in this house, in pieve de cadore, about three miles up the hill from calalzo, a young red haired woman was speaking to her re...
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