When I first embarked on this road trip, I had all these fantasies of getting some great fashion shots with nature as my backdrop. And then as reality set in and I found myself living in t-shirts and jeans that could be easily rolled up in my tiny suitcase (not to mention the Madame Frankenstein hair), I realized that fashion pics would be few and …
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Road Trip: Hoover Dam Via Las Vegas
I have friends who religiously make annual pilgrimages to Vegas. Out of their own volition! I’ve been there maybe seven or eight times in my whole life and that’s about five or six times too many. I don’t drink (much), gamble (at all), or enjoy buffets (unless there’s such a thing as a crab-only buffet?!?) (or unless I am challenged to the biggest/best buffet at …
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CES 2013
Take a bunch of gadget freaks–about 150,000 of them–put them in Vegas for a week under the guise of work and you’ve got the Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world’s largest global conferences. I’ve heard about this for years but didn’t find a work-related reason to attend it till this year. And it was more or less as I …
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Vegas And Hoover Dam
We’re a few weeks shy of Christmas and that means two things here in southern Cal: (1) really awesome sunny weather while people in other parts of the country are digging themselves through snow and rain and (2) winter sales. This time last year I was trekking from Morocco through Spain so had missed out on a lot of the …
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Tornadoes Under Glass
In Texas we used to have tornado drills at school. The alarm would go off and we’d all have to get into position under designated structures with our hands over our heads. Luckily I’ve never experienced one in real life, and I traded tornadoes for earthquakes when I moved to California. The fascination for natural disasters, however, remains. There is …
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