Enterprising vendors in Cusco selling mostly music in bulk. 5 Soles (about $2.50USD) gets you 3 or 4 CDs or DVDs. Vendors have their CD players nearby to confirm the validity of their wares.

Security in Peru is all over the place. I don’t know much about the history of things that may cause security concerns — I can imagine — but it’s like driving through a neighborhood with lots of bars on residence windows and security grates in front of retailers. Here, police and militia toting automatic weapons tel…

A peculiar bit of 1×1 white pixel space seen on the Pacific Coast Highway this morning. I must’ve driven by this sign a hundred times and never noticed.

Back for a bit to the world of prototyping peculiar Near Future kinds of things. I’m still working through this anti-game controller, game controller to do some experiments in alternative sorts of mobile interfaces for traditional game devices.

A persistent architectural geometry in the Andes, theorized to be resistant to damage from Earthquakes. All evidence indicates it mostly works.

Some curious structures and dwellings seen in the very touristy town of Agua Caliente, which serves as the out-and-about place just at the base of the mountain where Machu Picchu rests. The town is under heavy construction for nice, small refined hotel rooms for tourists to stay in comfort. There are many hostels tu…

Definitely not a viable near future human social practice, especially with gas approaching its inevitable $5 USD per gallon prices, here in the US. This non-staged dog driving was seen recently in Lima Peru in the Barranco district, which reminds me of New York City’s Upper East Side (aka “Planet of the Apes” bizzar…

This photograph is my second “Truman Show” moment, near the end of day four of walking the Inca Trail, with this bit of exposed infrastructure along the seam where mountain meets trail. An abrupt reminder that the trail is maintained in the contemporary sense, pretty much exclusively for visitors using it as I was —…

I’ve been pondering a comment Michal Migurski made on Adam Greenfield’s blog about how hard hardware is (he says how easy software is, but in the context of doing hardware)