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Rust, originally uploaded by plemeljr

I’m safe in China, trying to make sense out of the fractured urbanity which is modern Chinese urbanity.
More soon.

If you’ve wondered why I’ve been quiet, it is because I’m gearing up for the massive trip laid out above.

The Pantheon at night, originally uploaded by hinius

It is one of Paris’s most celebrated monuments, a neoclassical masterpiece that has cast its shadow across the city for more than two centuries.
But it is unlikely that the Panthéon, or any other building in France’s capital, will have played host to a more bizarre sequence of events than those revealed in a court last week.
Four members of an underground “cultural guerrilla” movement known as the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France’s cultural heritage, were cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument in a plot worthy of Dan Brown or Umberto Eco.
For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon’s unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid “illegal restorers” set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building’s famous dome. Under the supervision of group member Jean-Baptiste Viot, a professional clockmaker, they pieced apart and repaired the antique clock that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s. Only when their clandestine revamp of the elaborate timepiece had been completed did they reveal themselves.

Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock.

TWA, originally uploaded by plemeljr

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Photo essay: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel from the book Hungry Planet.