Another picture of the Prague Astronomical Clock. My reasons for posting this will become clearer next week.

posted 9 July 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

It shines for all. A picture from a few years ago of the clock promoting The Sun, the defunct New York newspaper. (At the time, the name had been revived by The New York Sun, which kicked off in 2002 with an issue that included the solution to the crossword puzzle in the last issue […]

posted 19 March 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Australia. I’m pretty much completely jetlagged, but I’m just functional enough to blog, and I thought I’d share a couple of photos of the main train station in Melbourne.

posted 21 August 2009 in Photos. no comments yet

In lower Manhattan, on the corner of Broadway and John Street, there was for many years a large public clock. I thought of it as the city’s worst timekeeping device. It wasn’t merely broken: that would be far too mundane. Twice a year, when most clocks changed to reflect the shift from daylight savings time, […]

posted 9 January 2009 in Photos. no comments yet

  The clock dates to 1410; I took this picture in 2005, when I was visiting Prague to write about the TV miniseries Revelations, which was filming there.

posted 7 November 2008 in Photos. no comments yet