Massacre of Fact: Sebastian Rich at Gallery Stock

Above is ©Sebastian Rich

Amazingly well-written and angry and true by photographer Sebastian Rich. Please read this about working in Croatia: Massacre of Fact

Can't you see a couple of goats up there?

Click to enlarge ©Russell Kaye

The thing I really miss about our past life in Maine was renovating our 1850 Farmhouse. I hadn't really thought much about houses and building since moving to Georgia. But that ended yesterday. I attended the opening of the new Southface Eco Office Building. Call me a gear queer but the garden on the roof that also serves as a rainwater catchment for all the buildings gray water got me wanting to buy a little piece of land and get building again.

Can't you see a sod roof and a couple of goats up there? And a homemade chevre with a crisp rose´?

*Those pavers in the garden above were recycled from that spongy surface you see especially in urban playgrounds. Nicely repurposed, I'd say.

Michael Pollan Explores Why We Watch Cooking Shows

Untitled, From the Road, North Carolina, 2009 ©Russell Kaye

Needless to say, I am fascinated by the concept of food and our culture. Today's Sunday Times has the newest installment of the Pollan Chronicles. This time he explores Julia Child and the birth of the cooking show as well as the success of the Food Network.

My favorite quote of Pollan's from todays story has to be the following:

"Food shows are the campfires in the deep cable forest, drawing us like hungry wanderers to their flames."

Read the whole story here on the NY Times.