Elizabeth October 25th, 2009

I discovered Christoph Niemann today, thanks to a link from the brilliant Information is Beautiful. These images were selected from a blog post he created for the New York Times on the complexity of sleep.

Click that link to read the whole series – it didn’t feel right to repost the whole thing here!

His Web site is christophniemann.com. Take a look at the rest of his portfolio there, including many covers of the New Yorker and the books he has written and illustrated.

I hate mosquitoes.

What with all that buzzing and itching, the hubbub they cause is disproportionate to the microdrop of blood they make away with. Besides, I am the world’s most formidable mosquito hunter. I have brought to justice every single mosquito that has ever attacked me (except when I spend nights in rooms with patterned wallpaper, which makes mosquito hunting impossible).

The second most wonderful thing about sleeping is the sensation of your cheek meeting the cool half of the pillow after you’ve turned from one side to the other. I found that it takes about 45 minutes for the other end to completely cool down again so the procedure can be repeated.

Winter is coming, and slipping into a cold bed is tough. But believe it or not, sometimes when I go to bed before my wife does, I will offer her the half that I have just warmed up.
I obviously love her very, very much.

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