Look What Santa Brought…
Saturday, December 25, 2004 • Posted by jcb
A shiny new web-site! Feast your eyes on the stylings of Nick Findley and the crew over at thinkless.org. Thinkless, together with the technical team here at Further.com, made the leap from blogger to movable type with nary a hiccup. Presented to you dear viewer, for your visual, auditory and orgasmic pleasure. Interweaving the finest in web-publishing technologies, editorial content and graphic design, further.com is poised on the brink of a paradigm shift in blogging history. So without furthe…
OK. LIE LIE LIE. It’s madness here behind the curtain and the wizard skipped town! Mis-labeled directories, ftp problems, hosting fuck ups. Behind the pretty new face of Further.com lies the heart of an angry step child. And let me tell you, getting said red-headed step child out the door on time to see grandma for Christmas was no easy task. Battling server errors and index rebuild issues for the better part of a week has me longing for the relative tranquility a Wack-a-Mole game followed by a shag behind the machine with the local buck toothed carnie. Good times. Anyhow, bear with us and the growing pains. Hopefully we’ll make you proud when we grow up. Now back to the rebuild. Isn’t there some sort of move coming up for the editors?
A photo album
Thursday, December 16, 2004 • Posted by jcb
Some pics from the patagonia expedition. Just practicing the photo album thing. Enjoy.
When blackness was a virtue
Thursday, December 16, 2004 • Posted by jcb
Who lives under the Brooklyn Bridge?
Sunday, December 12, 2004 • Posted by jcb
A few weeks ago chaos reigned in the streets of Manhattan. However, instead of the usual cabal of drunken cab drivers and myopic MTA bus drivers, New Yorkers were treated to the band U2 driving through the heart of Manhattan on a flatbed semi truck. Apparently the lads from Eire thought mucking up mid-town traffic for the afternoon might make good celluloid. So did I. So I grabbed the one man I knew would spend the whole day canvassing New York in search of the world’s greatest rock band. Adam Jones. I soon found Adam had his own motivations for coming along. (ed. note. my good friend Adam seems to have stumbled upon a rather successful career directing commercials and short films.) Before I could offer Adam the last of my stale bear claw, he had me saddled up with a mini-dv camera, batteries, extra-film, a digital camera of some sort, and a super-8 film camera. In the midst of this maelstrom of activity I managed to scrawl out a sign with the phrase “Rock and Roll Stops the Traffic”. Older fans of U2 might remember the U2 concert documentary Rattle & Hum. Bono spray paints the phrase on a fountain during an outdoor concert in San Francisco. A political firestorm later followed the mayor’s attempt to prosecute Bono for vandalism. I thought it oddly fit the moment.
As the noon hour approached our nervous apprehension soon melted away as we spotted the band and it’s caravan of approach vehicles and film cameras lumbering our way. Suddenly drunk on fanaticism, I jumped up on a traffic barricade completely forgetting about the film/dv/ or still cameras. I waved my ridiculous sign and spotted Bono giving my sign a wide eyed grin followed by a deep bow. Crazy.
For the better part of an hour Adam and I tailed the caravan getting various shots and just taking in the madness of it all. We finally headed to the Brooklyn Bridge where U2 ended the caravan with a full blown free concert for all. What a day in New York.
See the clips here.
U2 Jammed clips
Beta
Monday, December 6, 2004 • Posted by jcb
To anyone taking the time to read this blog we would like to say thank you. Please bear in mind this is a beta version intended to see what works and what does not. Eventually we aim to tell the story of our misadventures in Brasil so our friends and family back home keep us in their hearts. Plus a few pics of Witz passed out in a Brasilian thong might be fun too! If you have any ideas on the sorts of things you would like to see in such a blog, feel free to comment or email at jcb(at)seeingfurther.com UPDATED
Is a dollar bounce in the cards??
Monday, December 6, 2004 • Posted by jcb
After today’s central bank action could we finally see the much anticipated dollar rally? We hope so!
Brazil Central Bank Buys Dollars at 2.715 Reais (Update1)
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — The Brazilian central bank bought an undisclosed amount of dollars from financial institutions, the first time it has purchased the U.S. currency since February 4, the bank said in a statement.
The bank paid financial institutions a maximum 2.715 reais per dollar in a transaction that took place between between 10:55 a.m. local time (7:55 a.m. New York time) and 11:05 a.m., a bank spokeswoman who requested anonymity said from Brasilia.
The bank said on Nov. 24 it plans to buy as much as $2.4 billion worth of dollars through June 2005 to pay maturing debt and bolster international reserves. The currency weakened as much as 0.7 percent to 2.7270 to the dollar after the purchases. It had gained as much as 0.5 percent earlier on the day.
“If the central bank buys reserves now it will definitely have an impact on the exchange rate,” said Paulo Leme, chief emerging markets economist for Goldman, Sachs & Co. at a seminar in Rio de Janeiro.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Guillermo Parra-Bernal in Sao Paulo at at gparra@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Laura Zelenko at lzelenko@bloomberg.net
update Wednesday, December 8th 2004
Looking good so far…
Copacabana
Saturday, December 4, 2004 • Posted by jcb
Buzios
Saturday, December 4, 2004 • Posted by jcb
Praia Forno
Mt Rainier
Thursday, December 2, 2004 • Posted by jcb
Just hanging on for dear life.
A solid wall of ice to climb up.
Crevasse Rescue!! Only practice. It’s eerily quite down in those things.
This is a very deceptive picture. It doesn’t appear to be such a large face to climb. Feels like that in person too. I don’t think the brain can process how large it really is until you actually get on the face and start climbing. Look behind the green tent at the climber in the distance and get a better feel of the scale.
Nod to Witz
Thursday, December 2, 2004 • Posted by jcb
The leaves seen through my window pane
Remind me that it’s time to move my life again
November sun is felt by none
A chilly breeze has blown my thoughts to what’s to come
Be Bilingual
Wednesday, December 1, 2004 • Posted by jcb
Since getting back to New York about a month ago I have been taking portuguese classes at Be Bilingual. My tutor’s name is Flavia and she comes from Goiania, Brasil. The classes are two hours long and I usually take five or six a week. I actually started my portuguese education this summer in Santa Barbara with a tutor named Cristinne from Brasillia, Brasil (the capital). I was only taking one lesson a week so my progress was slow and painful. Now that I have been studying with Flavia I think my portuguese has definitely improved but I am nowhere near fluency. Aye… Que Pena!
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