Category: photos
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How Overpriced are Electronics in Europe
Here is proof that I made the right decision about buying my Canon Powershot S90 in NYC. See My New Camera for details of the Canon and my old but still-in-use Lumix. I bought my S90 at B&H on 9th Av/34th St for just under $400. This picture was taken outside a camera shop in Bern,…
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Diptyque ✻ 34 Boulevard Saint Germain
Diptyque is a French parfumeur based in Paris which started the fragrance business in 1963. We received two Diptyque candles (bougie) as a gift from Tracy a while back. One was a colored version of the Baies scent which is described as a bouquet of roses and blackcurrant leaves (above). The other scent is Violette –…
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Our Old Cars: #1
Since I was talking about car yesterday, I thought about my old cars. In theory, we could have taken at least one of the cars with us since we are nowhere near filling up the 40-foot container that the company provides for shipment of our things. In practice, it seems quite complicated to get the…
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A Temporary Means of Transportation
The company has generously providing me with this rental car from Hertz for 60 days. It is a Mercedes-Benz A180, a rather small car that I have never seen in the states. Here’s a link to this car on the Swiss MB’s multimedia web site: A-Klasse. In the US, I think they sell only class C…
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My New Camera
Canon Powershot S90 All my pictures on this blog up to this point were taken by a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3. Its 28mm lens with true panoramic aspect ratio, and 10x optical zoom (up to 280mm) are rare for a point-and-shoot camera. Here is a review of the Lumix TZ3. I bought the camera in 2007 and…
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Louis Vuitton / Super Flat First Love
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqaXxSBZTZc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] While I was uploading my Louis Vuitton/Solari video on Youtube for an earlier post, I discovered a series of anime by Takashi Murakami that involves the LV trademark monogram. The anime are all breezy, magical, and cute. Last year, the Brooklyn Museum put on a retrosepctive show of Takashi Murakami’s work. The show…