Up to Atlanta, Georgia - March 24th-30th 2007

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March 28th 2007: All Over The Place

Two movies (1,2) are of the accordion book Guerre du Jour by Larry Thomas. I figured it was easier to record the small book as a video than to take twenty-six separate pictures. Just watch the two videos with your finger on the pause button so you can pause at each page and read it. Other than that, this piece of literature needs no further introduction.

The other movie is of a drive down a random street in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta. After driving through this neighborhood for a while, I recorded the video to prove that I found yet another nice neighborhood in Atlanta, filled with distinctive houses and dense foliage. I hadn't driven down this street before filming it nor did I know anything about it. I didn't even have much of an idea where I was going.

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Breakfast at Hotel
My breakfast of a cinnamon swirl, a bowl of raisin bran, a banana, and a cup of orange juice.
My breakfast of a cinnamon swirl, a bowl of raisin bran, a banana, and a cup of orange juice.
Sweet Auburn
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site Visitor Center.
View full-sized image. Glass panels in the Visitor Center displays laws restricting what blacks can do. Even full-sized, it's often difficult to read. But it's worth reading and getting an impression of the enormity of racism and segregation.
View full-sized image. The top half of the glass panels in the previous picture. It's amazing how detailed many of these laws are.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, a basic church where three generations of King's family preached. The church is being restored by the National Park Service. The congregation now regularly meets in a church across the street.
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site Visitor Center.
View full-sized image. Glass panels in the Visitor Center displays laws restricting what blacks can do. Even full-sized, it's often difficult to read. But it's worth reading and getting an impression of the enormity of racism and segregation.
View full-sized image. The top half of the glass panels in the previous picture. It's amazing how detailed many of these laws are.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, a basic church where three generations of King's family preached.
The church is being restored by the National Park Service. The congregation now regularly meets in a church across the street.
An oblique photograph of the nice garden by the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Rotate your monitor! (Trust me: it looks a lot better that way.) I didn't bother taking a photo of either King's tomb or the eternal flame. Both were pretty bland.
These Victorian houses have Queen Anne flourishes.
Elsewhere on the street are a row of shotgun houses, so named because one can see from the front door to the back. It's striking how economically integrated this neighborhood is. It's easy to see how King, growing up in such an integrated community in this sense, found segregation based on appearance so repugnant.
The home in which Martin Luther King Jr. was born and raised.
An oblique photograph of the nice garden by the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Rotate your monitor! (Trust me: it looks a lot better that way.)
I didn't bother taking a photo of either King's tomb or the eternal flame. Both were pretty bland.
These Victorian houses have Queen Anne flourishes.
Elsewhere on the street are a row of shotgun houses, so named because one can see from the front door to the back.
It's striking how economically integrated this neighborhood is. It's easy to see how King, growing up in such an integrated community in this sense, found segregation based on appearance so repugnant.
The home in which Martin Luther King Jr. was born and raised.
Fire Station No. 6, where I waited for the tour of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home to begin. It houses a small museum.
Fire Station No. 6, where I waited for the tour of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home to begin. It houses a small museum.
Downtown (yet again)
The Atlanta Daily World building. It doesn't look like any business could be run out of that building, let alone a daily newspaper.
A sample picture of the urban environ of Georgia State University. Yes, this is the most appealing shot I could get--most buildings are uglier and most streets have equally few trees.
The Atlanta Daily World building. It doesn't look like any business could be run out of that building, let alone a daily newspaper.
A sample picture of the urban environ of Georgia State University. Yes, this is the most appealing shot I could get--most buildings are uglier and most streets have equally few trees.
Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under's humdrum exterior.
Its interior, lit well due to a wall of windows.
The cemetery across the street and hence justification for this restaurant's name.
A catfish taco, a fried calamari taco, and a blackened shrimp taco, accompanied by potato chips and green salsa.
Six Feet Under's humdrum exterior.
Its interior, lit well due to a wall of windows.
The cemetery across the street and hence justification for this restaurant's name.
A catfish taco, a fried calamari taco, and a blackened shrimp taco, accompanied by potato chips and green salsa.
Oakland Cemetery
A panorama of Oakland Cemetery. View full-sized to see the variety of headstones, tombs, and mausoleums.
One picture that captures a selection of the diverse architecture styles of the mausoleums in Oakland Cemetery.
A panorama of Oakland Cemetery. View full-sized to see the variety of headstones, tombs, and mausoleums.
One picture that captures a selection of the diverse architecture styles of the mausoleums in Oakland Cemetery.
Museum of Papermaking
The building that houses the Georgia Institute of Technology's Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking.
The actual entrance to the museum, as seen from the building's lobby.
A classic story: religion is afraid of both new technologies and foreign cultures. Eventually, economics wins out.
The building that houses the Georgia Institute of Technology's Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking.
The actual entrance to the museum, as seen from the building's lobby.
A classic story: religion is afraid of both new technologies and foreign cultures. Eventually, economics wins out.
George Institute of Technology
A fairly typical vista of Georgia Tech: most buildings are brick of these reddish-brown colors.
One of the few modern buildings I found on campus.
A fairly typical vista of Georgia Tech: most buildings are brick of these reddish-brown colors.
One of the few modern buildings I found on campus.
Underground Atlanta
The old cars on display in Underground Alanta attempt to give it a historic feel.
This photo was not taken because by the carts of kitsch but rather because I believe the two types of lamps in the background convey the feeling of Underground Atlanta.
The old cars on display in Underground Alanta attempt to give it a historic feel.
This photo was not taken because by the carts of kitsch but rather because I believe the two types of lamps in the background convey the feeling of Underground Atlanta.