Chasing The Blue Beyond

Chase Plaza Hotel Lobby Those TSA airport pat downs are for the birds, I mean the bears .

France · Analog Masters · Digital Copies · Hip-Hop Sampling Trials From Xerox to Infinity A legendary French producer, a catalog of jazz-funk recordings, and the question that digital culture keeps asking: when does inspiration become copying? See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Fifth Beatle Copy Right? Wrong! Almost all music is distributed digitally now rather than through analog media. Back in the analog era, music had to be triaged by a record label and produced in commercial recording studios, often with musicians backed by large symphonic orchestras. The system was expensive, selective, and physical. The catalog lived on tape, vinyl, and compact disc before it lived everywhere at once. ...

Why be a man when you can be a success? Self Presentation 2.0 . A narcissist used to be  someone better looking than you are.Yet w hat is the internet, if not a narcissist's dream come true?   JBI- Just Be It! Digital  Narcisism or shared experience?  Everyone will be famous for 15 megabytes.   Er I mean 15 people,  Authorship is no longer the transmission of experience, but rather the construction of utterly personal experiences. Telling your own story plus technology  control the editing rooms and you get to run your own show. For a long time now, the United States of Unconsciousness   has seemed like a country where most people stared at TV, most of the time. But only recently after my YouTube Epiphany  video on The Carnival Splendor went network on ABC with over 22,000 unique hits in 48 hours, did I notice that it is also a country where television watches us. (GMA's Amanda Keegan sent me a gmail, as well as  Nightline Produce...

When I landed in Paris, things started to take off.I was on a different plane.  7 days made one weak/week. Avi-Navi-gation seems as natural to me as  sending an e mail or going to  Starbucks.  I fold up my self and carry "me"around as if I were a gym bag. CDG-Charles De Gaulle Airport is no exception.   Unchecked Baggage- My Airport My Self If you want to be a multinational soul, you cannot do it in New York or Los Angeles, London or Tokyo alone-you need to get consecrated in Paris. Yet writing about this is not PC. it should only be done on a MAC because  this place has style. I meet therefore I am- a multinational soul. I shrink therefore  I am part of — and apart from  American, European and Asian culture. and the  countries I visit(ed) and live(d) in  are as eclectic and restless as airports I "inhabit". Along with the displacement, and the associated jet lag, I  am simply a fairly glib product of a movable feast, living and w...

 I am the state @The Chateau Versalliles,visiting the reign of the sun king. Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.  Louis XIV

Mission To Mars Located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, The Eiffel Tower,  a global icon of  Brand France,  makes me think of Bruno Mars, and that song -Nothin On You.

  DaVinci Code Possibly one of the most famous paintings in the world, the portrait of the Mona Lisa is referred to as simply the Mona Lisa, La Joconde, or La Gioconda. It hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France and was   visited by me today. An Army of One Could Macbeth  have been written by a committee, a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done or the Mona Lisa painted by a club, because Leornardo would have refused to join any club that would have him as a member. Creative ideas do not spring from crowds. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let thin...

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.   Nothing Left To Choose Back to the future in Paris.  Although it has been a staple of science fiction; I feel like I have been time traveling with proof. One of my  greatest insights is realizing that time is relative. It speeds up or slows down depending on how fast one thing is moving relative to something  else.  "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty woman for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." Albert Einstein

No Noose Is Good News It is better to ask for forgiveness than Permission To Go Ashore.  On the U.S.  Midway flight deck, with the crippled Carnival Splendor in the background. Ironically, Aircraft carriers are accidents looking for a place to happen.This time it wasn't a Battle Ship but  a cruise ship.  These guys at CCL, however,  were the Tim Gunn's of the industry. You know, because they made  it work no matter what. CCL ships are flagged under Panama.Therefore, when you buy a ticket, you essentially give up your constitutional and consumer rights. Carnival Cruise Control, nevertheless went into overdrive and has gone overboard with comp upgrades-as we are staying three nights at the Hyatt. Headed for Paris tomorrow-Carnival is paying for the flight, reimbursed the voyage and is giving us another one too. The WalMart of cruising is living up to its moniker-pay less and have more fun. Didja (here about The Carnival Splendor) Story or Black Swan Event ? ...

How To Recognize The Future When It Lands Right On You. ABC Nightline Bud Light Salutes Mr. Blogger-You Tube Cruise Ship Guy with a cellphone camera and access to wireless.Yes, you. Mr Cruise Ship Guy, You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world, master of the Youniverse Mr. Real Man of Genius. I have seen the future and it works! My cellphone is my credential, my ABC press corp pass, My  thirty  something years in-the- the trenches-experience. Mr. Cruise ship guy will be Professor Emeritus and guest speaker at Columbia' Graduate School Of Journalism next semester, and hosting an upcoming Larry King Live on CNN to discuss his "Let's Make Sausage" the tipping point moment of Citizen Journalism. You see, you don't have to be a navaho code breaker to use a cell phone. Just post something to Youtube. An I for An I- From Bradcasting to Narrowcasting. We don't watch tv, tv watches us Good Morning America The world has always been seen through different ...

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Getting lost at sea has its advantages--- Thank you Carnival Cruise lines, ---I shall call my next child, Splendor, where he was conceived in total darkness for the past 4 days! Weight Lose Gallery-

What Time And What Aircraft Carrier ? Who says you can never be too rich or too thin--for the past five days I couldn't spend any money and I lost weight! drifting at sea in Mexican waters, fighting off pirates, onboard the Carnival Fun Ship, Splendor, after an engine fire left us without electricity. We are not those Chilean  Miners, or even that 9-11 crew who said "Let's Roll". Being stranded on the Carnival Splendor was like Camp Cupcake-With an open bar, and a free cruise to nowhere- an episode of The Biggest Loser-- With a lot of veggies and fruits and some good old American Watermelon, a food of our people.

Los Angry Cars · Mexico · Paris · No-Limit Poker Trials The Sex of Poker First, you do it for love. Next, for others. Finally, for the money. See Full Image Enter the Poker Site Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Progression Love, Performance, Money First, you do it for love. Next, for others. Finally, for the money. With props to DJ Khaled and “All I Do Is Win” , the table became a place where desire, identity, and money all sat in the same hand. Hello. I’m all in. Stage 01 For Love The game begins as fascination. Stage 02 For Others The game becomes performance and identity. ...

Any Given Sunday With three minutes left to go in the Rams-Panther's game, I looked up on the Video screen, and  the inspirational speech Inch by inch speech(Full) by Al Pachino,  Inch By Inch , was playing. Thanks Bob Because in either game life or football the margin for error is so small. I mean one half step too late or to early you don't quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in ever break of the game every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch .

 Uncle Ed, Chase, Bob Reif Happy Father's Day