the takeoff blog

خيام اگر ز باده مستى خوش باش

با ماه رخى اگر نشستى خوش باش

چون عاقبت كار جهان نيستى است

If wine-drunk – be happy

If reclining with beauty – happy

The final purpose of all is absence of self

looking at apartments in the former French Concession

we met this man with friendly expression

that isn’t his car

Dubai, UAE.

Emirati architecture –

not always megalomaniacal and idolatrous

winter 2008, 上海,中国.

Iceblocks in Kashgaria

Hotan bazaar, Xinjiang, China.

Muztagh Ata – the Ice Father – on the Karakorum highway, Xinjiang province.

My first time in western China, and the fulfilment of a long-held desire.

thanks to john, paul, and to dan for the cipro.

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