Colman school is getting turned into something nice. African American museum and apartments and a "village"(?). i hope they keep the W graffiti and don't turn it into a mall.

here's T dressed as scooter (Colman school is outside the window of our livingroom).

here's what the plan for Colman looks like

interesting exhibit about ecstasy at the MOCA

found these pics while organizing images
2001, my first office at the UW room 243

with Meredith, Mellie, Mark and Paola


and my desk in 243 facing a door that constantly rattled like there was a ghost trying to get out.

this is a photo that my uncle took in 1976 in Rome

i took this one in 2005 in Bologna

i like the similar use of the window to create face parts

found this on capitol hill near Jerms' house. click on image to see the big picture.

my uncle emailed me some pics for the Urban Archives here's one that he took in 1979 in Rome.


and this one is from Siberia, 1954 (not for the Archive, just to see). The title is: Lunch Time at the Deer Herd. The Nenez-Eskimos Region in the North of Ural Mountains. My uncle Sasha was the photographer on an expedition to Siberia in 1954.

To see more of his photographs click on the image.

and here it is now as seen in google maps (the orange drop is in the wrong place for some reason, the house is actually two houses over to the right from the drop. I put a little orange dot in front of it, but it's kind of hard to see).

This, by the way, is kind of creeping me out. In the near future this will be live -- constant surveillance, people will be able to see my butt crack as I pull weeds in the back yard.

here is my house in 1940! it's two lots behind the school, second house from the SW corner. I wish I could zoom in and see who lives there.

a couple of months ago in front of the HUB, a UW student was collecting donations for his invention -- a suit to help people walk. you strap your body into it and it moves your legs! It's a prototype, but the inventor participated in a walkathon wearing it. He is not paraplegic though...but still...check out theyshallwalk.org

gi in sepia on the beach in golden gardens

i like this

Happy New Year. In Russia, Ded Moroz (Santa) comes during the New Year and with him comes Snegurochka. She is made from snow.