Searching for Sugar Man - Tribeca, New York

Being at the Tribeca Film Festival for Searching for Sugar Man was a trip. And, at the risk of sounding desperately name-drop-ish, we were absolutely starstruck when we spotted Michael Moore in the audience. He stayed to chat to us specifically. What an approachable, down-to-earth, sweet, awesome and genuinely humble person. 

Here is a short photo-essay of the whirl-wind 36 hours we spent devouring as much as we could... of the big apple.

Chelsea Market

Doorway near Chelsea Market

Graffiti on Perry (West Village)

Porthole to the rooms - The Jane Hotel

Bottle, coasters and glasses in rooms - The Jane Hotel

Malik Bendjelloul, Michael Moore and Craig Bartholomew Strydom (husband)

Opted for vintage safari dress in honor of heritage (and 'cause it isn't too tight!)

Luggage ready for car

A portion of the High Line in the West Village

Lunch at Republic, Union Square (with daughter)

Classic Soho

Detail - Soho

Buena Vista

My physical yearning to visit Cuba is immeasurable. The colors, the decay, the architecture. But, it is the Cuba in its current time capsule that holds most appeal. The Cuba before the sluice gates of tourism open. The Cuba, so beautifully depicted here by photographer Michael Eastman...

All images from here

Roost

Discovered the most exquisitely photographed blog during one of my regular blogosphere binges. The food styling is practically celestial - each photograph looks like a 17th century Dutch still-life oil painting. Coco, the author and photographer, has a wonderful sensibility. Makes one want to leap into this delectable world for a loooooong time, and demand to be fed. Not stalking yet, but super close...

See what I mean? Of course, the photographs from a trip to Italy (Ode to Italy) induced pure unadulterated wanderlust...

 All photographs by Coco from Roostblog

Transversing History in Paris

Filled with nostalgia for Paris - it has been just about a year since our trip. One of the many things I was constantly enamored with were the bridges crossing the Seine. So beautiful and intricate. Never a simple passage - it would take half an hour to walk across due to all the ogling (non-lecherous) and exclamations of wonderment...

Here are some breathtaking photographs of the Viaduc de Passy, now know as Pont de Bir-Hakeim. The bridge links Passy on the right bank of the Seine (16th Arrondissement) and De Grenelle on the left bank in the 15th Arrondissement. Incidentally - some film trivia - the apartment in which Marlon Brando trysts with Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris, is in Passy.

Enfilade des lampes du Viaduc de Passy

Detail immeubles Passy

Viaduc de Passy

Forgerons riveteurs Gustave Michel

Viaduc de Passy

Armoiries de Paris

Passy

 All images via here and here

Through the Looking Glass (XXI)

Via here and here