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The Magic of Lanterns

Every year in fall, the Montreal Botanical Garden hosts « The Magic of Lanterns », a dazzling exposition of lighted hand-made paper sculptures in the finest Chinese tradition. This year’s theme was « In the Kingdom of the Birds ». I’ve posted a few samples in the Traveling Colors gallery, also accessible directly via the thumbnails below.

02-12-08 Update: since the site redesign, the Traveling Colours page has been morphed with a newer Flash gallery and can be found here.
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2005-10-04 10:17 • Posted in Photoblogs:

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The Sex Lives of Cannibals

)arrow I was recently reading a book when suddenly, hidden in the middle of a chapter, I recognized... Myself.

)oquote This would be me, I realized, if I remained in Kiribati any longer, a dissolute man untethered from his own land, a foreigner who has adapted to the queer realities of island life, but a foreigner always, disconnected from the world beyond the reef, and possibly from his own mind. )cquote

That’s a quote from « The Sex Lives of Cannibals » by J. Marteen Troost, an excellent story about life on an island, set in the Pacific but so completely pertinent here on Little Cayman. It’s a modern version of the classic « Don’t Stop the Carnival » and I strongly recommend it to anybody still nursing illusions about the island myth...
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2005-02-17 15:52 • Posted in Quotes:

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    « eternal blue skies, white sands and faraway islands are not only myths and mirages, they carry an underlying but very strong message, at least for the people of northern regions. They symbolize the lost paradise for ever pursued and unobtainable. »

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