Kickstarter campaign aims to bring a beautiful dream to fruition. When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel burst onto the music scene with “The Sound of Silence” in 1965, America was spiraling into the grips of a protracted war in Southeast Asia, leaving those at home to shake off the dross of Pat Boone’s happy-go-lucky, Chevrolet-and-apple […]
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Daniele Ate the Sandwich
In the skirmish of modern life, where even the gray and wrinkled stare quizzically down at their hands, thumbing through their “e”mails on “i”Phones, it is rare to find souls who walk with eyes ahead, hearts open and minds alert. Rarer still are those who share themselves without contrivance or ego. So, it was serendipitous […]
folk musicAntje Duvekot sails to New Siberia
The number of songs, nay bands and songwriters in the iTunes library that Rags and I share is staggering–now approaching 13,000 songs. Yet, we always have our ears open for new additions, especially artists that we’ve never heard of before. When Rag’s found Antje Duvekot a couple of weeks ago after looking up the details […]
americana, folk musicOne Soul to Another
Is it possible for a photograph to actually capture part of the soul of the subject? Certainly some aboriginal cultures have a very clear answer to the question: Yes. Yet, the immensely beautiful portrait above, appearing here courtesy of Benoit Paillé, may actually have a different effect, causing the soul of the viewer to […]
humans, photographyTelevision, the Drug of the Nation
The first I ever heard of Michael Franti was when this song showed up on a compilation disc for some indigenous rights cause in the early 1990s. America was just wrapping up its first successfully televised war in the Persian Gulf, and the homeland’s economy was circling the drain. The lyrics immediately caught my […]
culture, music, televisionBlessed Day
Few things bring me as much pleasure as waking up wrapped around the same woman, day after day after month and year. She is my pole star and my rock, my reality check and my down comforter. Not much ever distracts from my daily dawn awakening thought: She is there and Life is good. Four […]
Seven Minutes That’ll Blow Your Mind
After over four decades of human visitation to outer space, many people are rather blasé about the images that come back from space. Well, astronaut Ron Garan aimed to change that during his most recent mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The video below, which runs just a little over seven minutes, represents an […]
Insane Asian Market for Endangered Species Parts Has Now Driven the Western Black Rhino to Extinction
While you were making your 2011 holiday plans, the Western Black Rhinoceros—a species of rhinoceros once relatively common in the savanna of central west Africa—has joined the ranks of the dodo and passenger pigeon. Why? Because Asian demand for body parts from endangered species—everything from rhino horn powder to tiger penis pills—continues to swell, right […]
Conservation, wildlifeMoving as One | A Murmuration of Starlings
The two minute video below, produced by Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith, a pair of young videographers from London, is making the rounds on the Internet nearly as fast as the starlings in the video change direction. The video was shot along Ireland’s River Shannon and the phenomenon portrayed in the video is […]
Avian Collectives, birds, physicsSeven Billion and Groaning
I’m sure I’m not alone (oh, the irony!) when I say I’m not all that psyched that the human population has just screamed past the seven billion mark [see article]. With everything else that our planet and its inhabitants (including homo sapiens) must confront as a result of human avarice and appetite [see Wikipedia […]
climate change, overpopulation