June 03, 2008
February 03, 2008
weavers
At National Museum in Niamey, artisans are doing their thing, silversmiths, leatherworkers, a guy making lamps out calabashes, and these guys weaving blankets, or one weaving, two text messaging. Remember I said it's in the eighties? So everyone is wearing winter hats.
January 20, 2008
out on the plateau
Like Moscow daily blog, I have a question for you: when you think of Niger, what image comes to mind? What screams, "Niger." Yellow cake uranium? A camel beauty contest? Wadabi dancers? The sun shining in the sky? Your thoughts greatly appreciated.
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I'm trying to notice
- “The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.” - Charles Baudelaire
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