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95 percent totality, 100 percent wow
There is something magical and powerful about a vast group of people gearing up to witness a solar eclipse together at the same time. My partner and I had such an opportunity on April 8 in Boston, but we were totally unprepared for totality! (95% of it, to be perfectly accurate.)
An astronomical family reunion
Ten members of my family flew to Texas from all corners of the country for the major astronomical event of the year: a total solar eclipse on April 8.
Reportage News: Mereida Fajardo, Joan Chiverton, Chip Sullivan, Luís Simões, plus a new Sketcher Press book!
Hello readers, Here’s a new bulletin of sketching and reportage news. If you like what you read, please share so others can learn about On the Spot and Sketcher Press. Behind the scenes at a London hospital “Vital Organs” is a newly-released 48-page publication collecting the gripping reportage drawings made by Mereida Fajardo at Chelsea […]
What 600 walruses were doing in costumes and bathing suits
Walking in the footsteps of trailblazing women
Today I am being a tourist in my own city. I have booked a £25 ticket for a two-and-a-half-hour excursion titled “Working Women in the East End.” The walking tour will wend its way from the world-famous Tower of London and a section of the old Roman city wall into hip Brick Lane, finishing at the popular Spitalfields Market.