Simon Griffee
Department of graphic design, art direction, and photography.

March 2014

Via della Lungaretta, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 31

5th Avenue Near The New School, New York City, March 2015

Published 2014 March 31

The cat’s name is Nicolas.

Viale Aventino, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 30

Via di San Gregorio, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 30

Outtake from new story: Obama in Rome.

Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 25

Security detail for Obama’s upcoming visit to Rome rehearsing this past Sunday.

Piazza di San Calisto, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 23

Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 23

Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 23

Via di San Gregorio, Rome, Italy, July 2013

Published 2014 March 21

Via di San Marcello, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 21

Piazza Celimontana, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 19

Piazza del Colosseo, Rome, Italy, February 2014

Published 2014 March 17

Almost. Lets see how this goes. Maybe publish one frame of film a week?

Piazza Venezia, Rome, Italy, March 2014

Published 2014 March 17

Via del Portico D’Ottavia, Rome, Italy, January 2014

Published 2014 March 14

Viale Aventino, Rome, Italy, January 2014

Published 2014 March 12

Via Marmorata, Rome, Italy, January 2014

Published 2014 March 11

Cosmos

Carl Sagan holding the Pioneer plaque.

Carl Sagan holding the Pioneer plaque. If you know who the photographer is please let me know.

The successor to Carl Sagan’s classic work of education about the cosmos — the universe seen as a well-ordered whole — begins tonight1. Here’s a trailer2.

The original is as relevant today as it was thirty years ago and if you are at all interested in the greatest of questions and grandest of mysteries please watch the series and read the book as they complement each other perfectly.

Here are links to each Cosmos episode on YouTube:

Sagan’s work is certainly one of my touchstones.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together - surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing.

—Carl Sagan, Cosmos (01980)


  1. Ironically, the new show can only be watched in certain geographic locations and is not available worldwide on the internet, an example of our species’ — in this case television executives’ — limited intelligence. ↩︎

  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the new host — a perfect choice. Here’s Neil speaking about meeting Sagan for the first time↩︎

Piazza Albania, Rome, Italy, September 2011

Published 2014 March 8

From a re-edited story with working title of Fashion Squad.

Piazza Venezia, Rome, Italy, September 2013

Published 2014 March 8

Yellow Bar in Viale Aventino, Rome, Italy, September 2013

Published 2014 March 7

Viale Aventino, Rome, Italy, October 2013

Published 2014 March 5

Aeroporto Fiumicino, Rome, Italy, December 2013

Published 2014 March 4

Piazza del Colosseo, Rome, Italy, January 2014

Published 2014 March 1

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