Makin’ a splash

© Armando Bellmas

© Armando Bellmas

© Armando Bellmas



Alright you creative types: what could this photo be a print ad for?


Nick and Sophie outside the Georgia Theater in downtown Athens, Georgia.

I was working late the other night and received this text from my wife before I came home:
Out of beer- have ribs & wine
Yep, she’s a keeper.
My kids love public transportation. Especially Charlotte’s new light rail system.
Every time my two-year-old daughter Sophie sees anything pertaining to public transportation — a city bus or light rail train — she calls out LIGHT RAIL! in that sweet little voice of hers.
My five-year-old son Nick knows all the light rail and Charlotte Trolley stops from 7th Street to Tyvola.
Anyway, it’s a fondness for kids and their obsession with public transportation that endears me to illustrator Christoph Niemann’s The Boys and the Subway, a story and illustrations from his blog Abstract City at The New York Times.
Check out these excerpts:

My sons Arthur, 5, and Gustav, 3, are obsessed with the New York City subway system.

People often ask me for directions in the subway. Even though I know my way around rather well, I still have to defer to Arthur very often. Yet it seems people don’t trust the advice of a preschooler. They should.
You gotta see and read the whole piece. It’s priceless.
I took a break from the digital norm while on vacation at the beach last week. These and all the photos I took were made with an Olympus XA2. It’s a great little camera and a perfect tool for revitalizing my creativity.





