Personism

Dirty Panda!

Panda, a 20x200 edition by Charlie Crane

Following up on my earlier panda post, I am so in love with Charlie Crane's Panda, just announced over on 20x200.

The First Panda in Space

The First Panda in Space

When we were kids, my brother and I used to play a lot of make believe games. Spaceship was a favorite, and invariably my role was as the first panda in space. (I am surely dating myself when I say that my endless fascination with Ling-Ling and Tsing-Tsing at the National Zoo was a defining aspect of my young life.)

A long-ago boyfriend of mine was sufficiently charmed by this (not to mention sufficiently geeky enough) that he created the animated .gif you see above in homage. Said boyfriend also happens to be totally OCD astoundingly organized, which means that when I asked him whether he still had said .gif a few weeks back, he was able to unearth it and send it along to me in short order.

Why am I posting this? Because I've got pandas on the brain lately. (Check 20x200 later today and you'll see why.)

We Love Having You Here

We Love Having You Here by Ms. Zoe Strauss

I am not in Paris anymore, and have not been for a while. There was Amsterdam between Paris and NY, and it was good. So good. Up next:

San Francisco
Boston
Minneapolis
Santa Fe
Austin

I'll be back soon with past and future details, because you know: WE LOVE HAVING YOU HERE.

Thanks to the inimitable Ms. Zoe Strauss for the fine photographic stylings. I think this would be an excellent image for her to use for her 20x200 edition... don't you?

If You Were in Paris, It Would Be 2008 Now

And since I am, it is.
Bonne année!