My favorite destinations of 2007.
The Yucatán Peninsula. Tacos, Mayan ruins, Topes, Mennonite colonies, pristine beaches.

Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstätten, outside of Berlin.

Christopher Hitchens couldn’t even make it through 5 minutes of the Daily Show without diverting a discussion about the meritlessness of religion into real life religion n’ drinkin’ stories. Although it seems like everyone has a God Bashing book out right now, and I think that is fabulous, as it’s rare that someone dares to [...]

Researching a potential Chernobyl disaster vacation I came across more pictures this time, along with very haunting graffiti that has gone up, apparently for the 20th anniversary last April, silhouettes of children playing and other spooky but insanely poignant images. There are pictures of the abandoned town of Pripyat, and the graffiti, both on the [...]

I’ve always dug the culture jamming ethos, as bratty and hypocritical as it can sometimes be, because it’s so often really fucking clever. Nothing blows my dress up like good satire. Jean-Christian Bourcart gets it right with his incredibly impressive guerrilla art photography project of images of Iraqi dead projected on unsuspecting suburban houses and [...]

See the photos section for some stuff from the Dominican Republic and Cuba.