May 2008
4 posts
April 2008
11 posts
Q&A with NYT Travel Editor Stuart Emmrich →
Please excuse my mess.
I’m in the process of customizing the CSS of this thing at the moment. Apologies for the visual disarray. It will all be fixed soon… I hope.
“Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most...”
– from Don DeLillo’s White Noise, via: Mary-Jo
“There has continued to be massive growth of international tourist flows…...”
– John Urry, The Tourist Gaze, p. 45
Not that I needed any justification to make all of them.
March 2008
5 posts
Postcards from Warren - The Animated Life -... →
Jeff Scher’s animated assemblage of postcard imagery in remembrance of a friend. Thanks Leslie
“I remember the time when I thought that Graphic Designers were the people who...”
– Jerlyn
February 2008
8 posts
WatchAlien-Themed Tourism Ads Cause Uproar (26th Nov 2007) - LiveVideo.com
Postcards in peril: Camera phones, Internet... →
Could it be true? Postcards seem to retain enough cache value as collectibles that I wonder if they will ever fully die out.
Tourist-friendly Kuwait Looks to Australia →
Kuwait has developed a 20-year tourism masterplan with the UNWTO, which includes increased hotels and leisure infrastructure. Another example of the delicate balance between tourism (leisure) and post-war reconstruction.
January 2008
6 posts
Entrepreneur Unveils New Tourist Spacecraft - New... →
Awesome. He finally did it.
DOPPLR →
A social networking tool for business travelers. Put in your schedule, and find out if your friends will be in town at the same time. Thanks Jessie
December 2007
8 posts
U.N. Force Takes Control in Darfur - New York... →
FINALLY.
Jet Lagged—Navigating the Unfriendly Skies →
New York Times blog on air travel with some really poignant jabs at airport security in the post-9/11 era.
PACK THIS! →
via Jeong-Hoon
Traveler IQ Challenge →
via: mj
Tourist Remover →
‘Removes unwanted objects from your photos!’
via:cds
November 2007
13 posts
“Our spoons are one of our indispensable possessions here. To lose one’s spoon...”
– South: the story of Shackleton’s last, by Sir Ernest Shackleton (chapter5)
Icy Rescue as Seas Claim a Cruise Ship - New York... →
Tourists following in Shackleton’s wake. via Jessie
Watchtell your douche friends — objectsinspaceandtime
Fishaay and his megaphone rain wisdom down on the streets of Providence in support of Marcos and Taylor’s movement. Absolutely brilliant.
“The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has...”
– Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 3 (1961). via NYSH&TA
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the...”
– Max Lerner (b. 1902), U.S. author, columnist. repr. in The Unfinished Country, pt. 1 (1959). “Lo, the Poor Sightseer,” New York Post (Sept. 15, 1954) via NYSH&TA
“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don’t...”
– Don Delillo, from James Axton, in The Names, ch. 3 (1982), via Mary-Jo
“The tourist certainly yearns for the authentic—and tourism fuels that desire. In...”
– Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, ‘Suit Case Studies: The Production of a National Past,’ p. 34