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  • A Day in Lüderitz – Two Different Soundtracks

    Recently my daughter and I took a trip to the small, somewhat odd Namibian coastal town of Lüderitz.  I say it’s odd because we arrived on a Saturday afternoon, after driving a long, winding road which seemed unable to keep the sand dunes at bay – at several points the dunes were slowly making their…

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  • One Day on Earth: the 12/12/12 trailer is here!

    On 10/10/10 and 11/11/11, filmmakers all around the world collaborated to create a film that captured life on earth on those specific days.  The trilogy is going to be completed on 12/12/12 and the best news is that you can take part! First, take a look at the trailer, then I’ll explain what needs to…

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  • More Ovamboland bars (shebeens)

    I posted some time back about driving through Ovamboland – which is in north-central Namibia, and about the bars, or “shebeens” you see along all the major roads, and the creative names people paint on them.  Here are some more examples: This one is for the well-read who would recognize that Nimrod is the biblical…

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  • A cardboard bicycle?? Yeah, but is it lighter than carbon fiber?

    There’s a story making the rounds about a guy who has invented a bicycle nearly entirely made of cardboard.  In short, they told him it couldn’t be done, and he went and proved them wrong – the best kind of story.  Apparently they think it can be marketed for 20 bucks, which will make a…

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  • Photographing the Ghost Town of Kolmanskop

    Just outside the small, quaint port town of Luderitz, Namibia is a popular tourist destination known as Kolmanskop.  This former diamond mining town, where once diamonds could be collected from the surface sand as they lay glinting in the moonlight, has been abandoned and is now gradually being taken over by the sand, which gets…

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