is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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I’ve been back 
I want so very badly to visit another country. I’ve long considered Paris one of the top options, but this confirms it.
Also, the French riots are sad. I don’t see how destroying things is a good way to make a point. But then, I’m not in their situation, so I don’t know if there’s another viable way…
You and Joy were blessed, bruh, to get in and out unscathed. Your flickr set is right on time. It’s amazing how “life goes on”, even though it’s real in the battlefield just around the corner. Glad you two are safe. Be easy, bruh.
I’m jealous – it’s been a few years since I was last Over There and I’m long overdue for a return visit. Did you check out Le Centre Pompidou? It was the last gallery we went to in a long string of galleries when I was there, but it easily was my favourite.
Don’t kick yourself too hard about the riots. If you had known, what could you have done differently?
What’s the money situation over there? Are they happily using the Euro or are they still using the franc quite heavily?
Welcome back, Khoi. I swear I saw you setting a car on fire on the evening news. 😛
Glad you’re back safe.
(Sarcasticaly-)funny, reading your post while Im currently watching a tv show about the social troubles & civil riots in our country.
Yes funny to read comments from France. Riots seem to have a great international cover. But it’s like more an urban gang / police game than a new mai 68… Hope it’ll be a short game.
Beautiful pictures – thanks for sharing. Makes me also want to venture back to France.
Ive been thinking about the D70 as well, but havent gotten over my fear of not wanting to tote around an SLR… wish I could just bite the bullet!
Sorry to hear about the jet lag problems. Sounds like part stress and release also. I hope you are easing back into things and getting well adjusted on this end.
I have found Vitamin Water’s Revive to work quite well in jet lag repair and for short night’s sleep. I also use focus when traveling if am traveling for presentations or work. I was in Amsterdam, Den Haag, and Brussels last month and Vitamin Water Revive did the trick as did getting as much sleep as possible on the plane over (overnight flight) then staying up until normal bed time that night.
Next time…
Erik, France have been using the Euro as completely as you use the dollar for around 2 years…
Nice to see it Paris again, I haven’t been that way in a while, spend most of my time in France way up in the Alps or in the countryside.
Glad to see that the riots didn’t affect all of Paris. Just goes to show how the media enjoys exagerating the situation in foreign countries.
Alex, foreign medias (Fox, CNN, The Independent) are exagerating about the cause of the riots, but about the places, they (riots) affect many places in whole France now, not only Paris suburbias. I live 1 hour from Germany & Switzerland in the north-east & cars were burnt here as well.
Great photo from Paris. I was there last September and I always feel like I’m still there when looking at picture from other people.
As for what was going outside of Paris, the fact that you didn’t see anything is a reflection of the problem in France.