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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Jonathan Kingston in Columbia Magazine

Note:  This is cross posted from the Aurora News blog here. December 26th, 2008 The December issue of Columbia Magazine, published in the Netherlands, features two images by Jonathan Kingston of the idyllic Hawaiian landscape.  After teaching an annual photography workshop on the unspoiled island of Molokai, he was able to spend some time shooting at [...]

Naye sāl kī hārdik śubhkāmnayeṅ!

Or as this nomad likes to to say, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  

The Ram Ram Remix

While working on the original Ram Ram Man post, I began messing around with my audio in Apple’s brilliant Garage Band and came up with this remix by adding a few samples and loops to the morning chanting. Having played Violin for most of my life as well as plinking around with a number of [...]

The Ram Ram Man

“It’s four am in the morning! Time to get up!” The annoying little man says in Hindi into the PA system that seems to be mounted above my head. I fantasize about finding the loudspeaker and doing my worst to its wiring system with my Leatherman. My mosquito net hangs dangerously close to my exposed [...]

Suzy

I struggled not to gag from the exhaust fumes in the gridlock of Ajmer.  Night was falling rapidly and the main street of the town in the heart of the Thar desert seemed like a narrow canyon leading to Hades filled with honking vehicles, smoke and dust.  I motioned to my rickshaw driver that I [...]