Andrew Blackwell

Andrew Blackwell is the author of VISIT SUNNY CHERNOBYL,

a book about visiting the world's most polluted places.

You can follow it—and him—here on Tumblr, or on Facebook, or on Twitter.

1.24.2011

Lost hook - Brooklyn.

12.4.2010

Manhattan soy sauce spill.

10.5.2010

Fresh from the North Pacific Gyre, a slideshow of plastic treasures retrieved by Project Kaisei and yours truly.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ablackwell/sets/72157624962199587/show/

9.13.2010

Back from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Visiting the CA Academy of Sciences in SF

8.14.2010

Finally setting out for the Pacific. No Internet until Labor Day.

8.12.2010

Aboard the Kaisei.

8.11.2010

Where I’m at.

8.4.2010

My goal in a nutshell. Setting sail for the Pacific Gyre in six days.

(By the immortal Charles Barsotti.)

7.27.2010

BP Oil Spill - Google Ad Fail

This is from the Gulf oil spill video feed in late May. BP missed the coupon deadline, needless to say.

It outdoes my other favorite inappropriately-placed google ad, which was one for Haiti real estate deals, placed on top of a satellite map of the devastated Port-au-Prince.

I guess we do need the semantic web.

7.23.2010 Using Your Travel Dollar Wisely.

Go where the deals are:

Photos Of Surfers And Other Ballsy Tourists On Oil Contaminated Beaches (Business Insider)