Apocalyptic Reverie: Archive

Apocalyptic Reverie

January 2011

ryanfitzphoto: It’s been a loooooong time, I know. I’m very sorry for that. Unfortunately bandwidth is pretty pricey out here in Kenya. That said, I have some news… I’m coming home in a couple days! Once I’m rocking the good old high-speed Comcast internet, I’ll be spamming the shit out of all of your dashboards. Thanks for sticking around. I promise the wait will be worth it! Trust...

There I was thinking I was savvy when it came to...

THEN I went to the Maasai market in Nairobi and my confidence was absolutely destroyed. I walked away with an armful of gifts and no money in my wallet. Those guys are fucking pros. Thank christ we leave tomorrow.

Big things happening today, people...

Big things indeed.

amphora37 asked: I hope you are using your camera to capture all of the loveliness! I know I will be looking forward to your pictures. Safe travels!

-synthesis asked: HAHAHA its really not that big of a deal.

how do I get rid of this Facemoods shit?

it’s fucking annoying, and I may murder Mark Zuckerberg.

by the way, I saw a cheetah and a bunch of big...

hejjmobejjmo asked: What are you getting? Where are you getting it (as in, geographically)? How many more weeks until we all get to see you again?!

Aaaaaah Nairobi...

Spent the night rooting for Blackpool over the evil M.U. empire. They may not have won, but god damn if the game wasn’t fun to watch. Then spent a couple hours discussing U.S. drug policy with a group of wealthy Kenyans. Guess what… They think the “war on drugs” is just as ridiculous as I do!

Get Cutler a Fruit Roll-up, his blood sugar is low.

iannorris asked: Ryan, your latest picture of the night sky is simply fantastic. I hope you dont mind, but I have emailed it to a friend to share the awesomeness of it, plus it gives me a chance to say "i know this guy"

Thank you for posting images from your trip, I have very much enjoyed sharing your experience through your photographs.

I hope to see you back home safe.

iannorris asked: Ryan, your latest picture of the night sky is simply fantastic. I hope you dont mind, but I have emailed it to a friend to share the awesomeness of it, plus it gives me a chance to say "i know this guy"

Thank you for posting images from your trip, I have very much enjoyed sharing your experience through your photographs.

I hope to see you back home safe.

Faces burned by the sun, hands blistered, covered in dust, tired and sore. As so many before us, seduced by a sense of the undiscovered, tomorrow we venture into the hills once more.

hejjmobejjmo asked: missing PDX? when do you come home again???

hejjmobejjmo asked: missing PDX? when do you come home again???

Talk about people wiping feces on bathroom walls...

some folks just can’t handle a truth-bomb in the middle of the day. So it goes…

To continue this deep conversation...

What is it that drives a man/woman to wipe poop on a bathroom wall? I get that in A LOT of places in Kenya there aren’t toilets, only holes in the floor. I also get that in those places there is even less toilet paper. HOWEVER, in every SINGLE bathroom I’ve entered, there is a sink WITH SOAP. These observations are what has led me to this ultimate question: Why wipe shit on a...

On practicality vs. idealism and trying to find a...

What is it to live practically, to search for the interconnectivity of all things past and present, to subscribe to all ideologies while believing in no one in particular? As one man put it, it’s what it means to be truly lonely. Where is the middle ground between practicality and idealism? Is there a middle ground? There must be. At what point does absolute practicality become just another...