Chasing The Blue Beyond

Maui Journey: Island Awakening Timeline 🌺 Breaking: Paradise located in Maui • Serendipity levels at all-time high • Google Maps officially OUT, Cosmic Cartography IN • Local reports: Pizza bringing universal enlightenment • Weather forecast: 100% chance of island magic • Aloha spirit confirmed contagious • Trade winds carrying good vibes 🌴 MAUI AWAKENING A Timeline of Island Transformation 🛬 Landing in Kahului Trying to English Aloha! These are the days when I start to think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. When I landed in Kahului, things started to take off. I was on a different plane. I didn't wake up. I came to. Cool, unlying life rushed...

Declassified File CG-011 · Mexico / Key West / At Sea The Cruising Godfather The Hemingway File Cabo, Cozumel, Key West, bicycles, blue water, and the covert operation of converting money back into time. See Full Image Open Evidence Locker Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir 011 Mission Brief After Monday and Tuesday, all that was left in Cabo was W T F, eh? Last November I was in Baja, Mexico. A year later the memory still arrives like intelligence from another life: sun-struck, salt-stained, and slightly unbelievable. The official explanation was that I was travelling. The operational truth was more complicated. I was testing a theory: that a person could denounce the cult of permanence, convert money back into time, and exchange potential income ...

Mexico / Cozumel / Cabo San Lucas I Am an AmeriCAN, Not an AmeriCAN’T Cozumel, Cabo, money, language, guacamole, jazz, and the recurring discovery that life gets better when you stop treating the border as the edge of the map. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir First Impressions The Geography of Hotel @nyware A Second Chance to Make a First Impressionist Painting I like writing about Mexico. I just do not like the paperwork. So I painted Cabo instead. The Last Thing a Fish Notices Is Water Environment becomes invisible when you live in...

Hawaii / Presence / Original Love Vegas Magic: Living Timelessly Not living forever, but becoming present enough that the moment no longer needs a future. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Opening Reflection “I don’t see things as they are; I see them as I am.” I am not smart enough to be wrong all the time. Whether I geographically move to Hawaii or psychologically return to what I feel when I am there, I keep breathing and keep #winning over death—not by living forever, but by living timelessly, by being present to the Present. As I wrote in 2007, perception is never only about the world in front of us. It is also about the awareness looking through our eyes. The Asymmetric Equation ...

 The ship has already sailed An Art(ist) Director cannot fail because to be one is a success. I  have all the airs and graces of an investor whose ceiling has become the floor. The Warhol's and Chagall's are marketed reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.  I worship the quicksand they walk on because I am not hung up on nostalgia, but just for now, I will pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time, believing, money can't buy happiness, but it can buy art which is kinda the same thing. The rich(er) galleries are different from yours and mine because they have more credit. And credit is is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. New York, however, without serious money is an opinion. My opinion rolls up its sleeves and spits in the street. and swears. If  I attack the SoHo  establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make me a member of it, right? . Se...

Magical Thinking at Sea · A Photographic Field Note Living Well Is the Best Revenge The voyage was never only about new landscapes. It was about developing new eyes: using photographs, imagination, and years at sea to rehearse a life—and then discovering that the rehearsal had become real. New Eyes Photographic Memory Magical Thinking World Cruises See Full Image Show Story “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” The camera captured where I had been. Imagination kept showing me where I might go next. 01 Ordinary World · The Camera Everyone has a photographic memory. Not everyone has film. Digital photography turned fleeting moments int...