Tag Archives: usa

ghosts in the desert

“There never was another place where, in proportion to the population, so many murders were committed without the criminals being brought to trial or even apprehended.” This is what a certain John Riggs wrote some 130 years ago about the time and place in which the Techatticup mine seems to be frozen in nowadays. Underneath […]

philadelphi-yeah!

History, art, culture, nature, food, hiking, biking, rafting, city tripping and so, so much more is part of the DNA of Philly and its countryside. From the snow dusted Pocono Mountains to the foodporn of ‘Mushroom Capital of the World’ to the rolling hills that gave birth to the United States army to the streets […]

walter de maria

West Broadway 393 is a thirteen in a dozen building, squeezed in between a New York City gallery and bar. But looks can be deceiving. You’ll find out after you ring the bell and the door opens. Inside #393 you do not only find tranquility and a break away from the pace of SoHo. You’ll […]

50 shades of black

History built a home on Washington’s National Mall where monuments and museums are windows into the United States’ past. It took until september of 2016 to complete this ‘house’. Then an architectural gem openend its doors to tell a dark tale but also show what a centuries long struggle has given a nation that took […]

elvis the pelvis

Elvis A(a)ron Presley, son of Gladys and Vernon Presley, wasborn on January 8 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi. Elvis’ middel dame, Aron according to this birth certificate, is one of the corner stones of the ‘Elvis lives’ theory. On his tombstone we read Elvis Aaron Presley. A typo made by Vernon or the civil servant […]

moonwalker

One legendary evening in March 1983. Motown has been around for 25 years and that calls for a party. After having performed with the Jackson Five, Michael takes to the stage and start singing Billy Jean. About halfway into the song, the audience gasps. Jackson seems to float an inch above the stage, sliding backwards […]

la mission

The Mission District in San Francisco is one of the most colourful neighbourhoods of this shining city on the hills. Its walls are the painted stories of the (for now) mostly Latin American population. Are the pictures on these walls fading now gentrification takes over? Only time will tell if La Mission’s history will soon […]

fallingwater

The icon of American architecture is hiding in the woods of Pennsylvania. Fallingwater is Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece. A work of art that he envisioned to be an integrated part of its surrounding nature and built over the Bear Run waterfall……click here for full article published in America Magazine issue #2 – summer 2017

america magazine #2 2017

The summer edition of America Magazine – an Elvis special – hit the stores including four articles by journeylism.nl which are now available online in the publication section of journeylism.nl in September. The topics of the four articles are American Songbook – Michael Jackson, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, The Mission District in San Francisco and Las Vegas’ […]