I had the opportunity to travel to Rio de Janeiro for Carnaval. Here’s a selection of cellphone pics in the slideshow, below. If you hover your cursor inside the gallery window, image captions will become visible.

Station for the funicular train to the summit of Corcovado

Tourist at the summit of Corcovado

Mural inside a restaurant at the base of Corcovado

Corcovado seen from Parque Lage

Koi in Rio de Janeiro’s Botanical Garden

View from a walking path in Rio’s Botanical Gardens

Casa Pacheco Lion, Rio de Janeiro

Near Rua da Lapa, Rio de Janeiro

A couple getting an early start (or late ending) to their Carnival partying

Escadaria Selarón, Rio’s iconic, tile-covered staircase linking pedestrians from Lapa to Santa Teresa.

“Irrational greed national ruin”

A float from Estácio de Sá in the 2020 Sambadrome Parade

Viradouro, 2020 Sambadrome Parade

Virodouro’s closing procession, 2020 Sambadrome Parade

One of Mangueira’s floats, 2020 Sambadrome Parade

Mangueira school, 2020 Sambadrome Parade

A block party on Escadaria Selerón

Early morning clean up after a block party

A beautiful view of Sugarloaf is interrupted by plastic trash floating in with the tide

View of the bay from Copacabana Fort

View of Copacabana from the fort

Inside Copacabana Fort

One of the galleries interpreting the history inside Copacabana Fort

Ordem E Progresso

The trip to Rio was 15 hours each way

August 15, 2026

Do Androids Dream of Alternative Futures?

In this post I take the opportunity to engage AI in a conversation about 1,000 Miles Per Hour, an exhibition I co-curated in 2022 for Ohio’s FotoFocus Biennial. Our back and forth considers how history can help us imagine more just and sustainable futures. and concludes by turning the same questions toward AI itself.