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High Contrast Flickr
So I’m uploading a fair bit to flickr at the moment. I always *have* to look at the bottom of the homepage, the section called Everyone’s Uploads. Earlier today were two images that contrasted hugely; one from a refugee camp in Jordan, the other from San Frans ‘Bay to Breakers‘ (which looks like fuuuuuuuun):

It’s a small world, but a very different one depending on where you live.
(The image of the Palestinian lasses can be found here, the Californians here.)
Beaut morning in Welly
Roseneath, Wellington, Sunday, May 18th, 2008San Francisco





Washington DC









NYC


Mexico City
Is unexpectedly really really cool!











Houston Space Centre
I only have time to put up a couple of the highlights:
Mission Control (yep, that’s the real deal):

Shuttle and space station training centre:

The Saturn V was certainly the highlight. It is absolutely enormous. The first stage:

The second stage:

The third stage:

The top bit:

Apollo 17’s command module:

Mercury:

Gemini:

Austin, Texas
Next stop, Austin, Texas for South by Southwest.
At the Make party:
Another fancy party, this time for Frog Design:


Petey the Boston Terrier made us feel very homesick:

Tash Glen and Tash:

The next day I visited the Capitol:

Which has a Confederate memorial:

On the way back to the conference, I wandered past Barack’s Austin campaign headquarters:

SXSW was rockin’, but how about a little less swag? This is incredibly wasteful:

Caesar’s Palace
This sums up Vegas, the water in the fountain at Caesar’s Palace is dyed blue.







