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 Posted on May 15th,2007I recently had to go to a conference in Sonoma,CA. It was a rough assignment,what with all that wine tasting,but I managed to pull through. Along the way I stumbled on the gallery of Lisa Kristine,a San Francisco-based photographer. Ms. Kristine specializes in images of indigenous peoples and the nice thing [...]  Posted on November 7th,2006My sister recently went to Vietnam and sent us this great postcard: This is apparently a floating market,and,while no doubt somewhat touristy,this is still a country with emerging tourist infrastructure –its probably not too far off traditional maritime life. I like that there’s quite a diversity of boats,with small [...] Category:Larger Traditional Boats |  Tags:dugout canoe,fishing boat,vietnam,work boat |  3 comments |  Trackback this Post Posted on October 4th,2006My new client,Rare,who had a project I blogged about recently,has redone their web site and now includes,among many other nice features,some nice photos from its work supporting an ecotourism venture in Honduras. Such work is always exciting because it tends to be such a win-win-win-etc. proposition. One highlight of [...] Posted on July 31st,2006I love these stories,like this one from Reuters or this one from the UN about dugout canoes bring ballots to parts of the Congo. Who says traditional boats don’t still have important geopolitical roles to play? Posted on February 12th,2006I found this last night:Civilization.ca’s section on watercraft built by Canada’s First Nations People. For a web-based resource,it appears to have a nice overview of some traditional boats. I find these dugouts in particular to be quite lovely. It also covers kayaks,umiaks,birchbarks,and other flavors of dugout. Seems [...] Category:Boatbuilding,Canoes,Kayaks | Tags:dugout canoe,haida canoe,pacific northwest | Leave a comment | Trackback this Post | ||
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