{"id":2982,"date":"2006-02-09T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2982"},"modified":"2006-02-09T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T22:03:36","slug":"the_merchant_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/the_merchant_of\/","title":{"rendered":"The merchant of vices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to let you in on a terrible vice of mine. It&#8217;s a habit that just may turn me into a pauper: photo surfing. Give me pretty women, <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/helipilot\/PhotoAlbum20.html\">aerial photography<\/a> or Friendster, and I can blow hours just clicking through.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you too are gluttinous in your vision, stay away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\">the photos of mutineer Preston Merchant<\/a>. A documentary photog, Merchant apparently goes to every desi event and destination you&#8217;ve ever wanted to see:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gpgs.aspx?pgid=408058&#038;e=0&#038;p=0\">Artwallah<\/a> \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gpgs.aspx?pgid=849963&#038;e=0&#038;p=0\">Kiran Desai reading<\/a> \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gpgs.aspx?pgid=656449&#038;e=0&#038;p=0\">Vikram Seth reading<\/a> \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gpgs.aspx?pgid=374705&#038;e=0&#038;p=0\">SAJA convention<\/a> \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gpgs.aspx?pgid=316236&#038;e=0&#038;p=0\">Trinidad<\/a> \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gpgs.aspx?pgid=264306&#038;e=0&#038;p=0\">Guyana<\/a> \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gpgs.aspx?pgid=260465&#038;e=0&#038;p=0\">Miss India Georgia<\/a> \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gpgs.aspx?pgid=473381&#038;e=0&#038;p=0\">Desilicious party<\/a> \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gpgs.aspx?pgid=908205&#038;e=0&#038;p=0\">Azim Premji ringing the NYSE closing bell<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>Some of the photos that caught my eye:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gps.aspx?pid=316458\">Hanuman statue in Trinidad<\/a><\/div>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gps.aspx?pid=296483\">Kite flying in Guyana<\/a><\/div>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gps.aspx?pid=375160\">Vanita Gupta<\/a> \n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gps.aspx?pid=408184\">Shaheen Sheik<\/a><\/div>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/pmerchant\/gps.aspx?pid=473457\">Comedian Vidur Kapoor hanging out with Rekha<\/a><\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>Look, buddy, I&#8217;ve got Desai photos too&#8230; from, uh, outside the Rubin Museum (<a title=\"TODAY: Kiran Desai reading (February 01, 2006)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002947.html\" target=_blank>it was sold out<\/a> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/smile.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0>).<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/Photo-001-small.jpg\"><img class=thumbnail src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/Photo-001-small_small.jpg\" border=0><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/Photo-013-small.jpg\"><img class=thumbnail src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/Photo-013-small_small.jpg\" border=0><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to let you in on a terrible vice of mine. It&#8217;s a habit that just may turn me into a pauper: photo surfing. Give me pretty women, aerial photography or Friendster, and I can blow hours just clicking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/the_merchant_of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}