Chasing The Blue Beyond

Photo / Film Note / Blogger Archive Two Signals From the Road A visual field note from the road, pairing one travel image with two short videos about movement, memory, and the moments that stay with us after the journey ends. See Full Image Show Text Field Image Video Pair Two Embedded Films Video Signal 01 Video Signal 02

White Cliffs / Disney Magic / Pandemic Pause / Dover Do Not Give Up the Ship The Disney Magic waits beneath the chalk cliffs while the world holds its breath. See Full Image Show Text Cliff Signal White Cliffs, Stopped Ships Looking at these chalky cliffs, part of the English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The Disney Magic is docked in the background. Do not get too close, Sarah. The ship was still there. The world around it had stopped moving. Image Archive The Cliffs and the Cruise That Could Not Sail White Cliffs, Disney Magic Chalky cliffs facing the Strait of Dover and France, with the Disney Magic docked in the background. Do Not Get Too Close, Sarah The English coastline is beautiful, but those cliffs still ...

Goring-by-Sea · Pandemic Event Time · Driving / Walking / Cycling Trials Location. Location. Isolation. When the calendar stopped behaving normally, the neighborhood became the destination and Mother Nature became a necessity rather than an amenity. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Close to Home Mother Nature Is Not an Amenity Try the outdoor spaces closest to home. Mother Nature is not an amenity. It is a necessity. There was certainly no shortage of green space, thanks to the generous amounts of rainfall. Father Clock Time had been replaced by Pandemic Event Time. We could not change the content or storyline, but we could gamify our relationship to it and step outside our worries. To be uncertain abou...

From the Cayman Field Notes More Grand Cayman Stories Five dispatches from the island: coconuts, barracudas, flying machines, offshore money, and the month when time forgot to pass. 2014 An Embarrassment of Coconuts 2013 Scaling Back the Fish 2013 Flying Machines 2020 A Sunny Place for Shady People Month 14 When Time Forgot to Pass

UK / Ireland / Pandemic Memory / Before Covid Covid-19 And The Stiff Upper Lip A Journey Through Pandemic Times and UK Memories See Full Image Show Text Opening Signal Not Talking About the Pandemic Was Like Denying Gravity Back in The U.K. after a visit to Ireland. Not talking about The Pandemic is like denying gravity exists. That ostrich approach of sticking our collective head in the sand will not delay or deny the medical catastrophe, the logistics nightmare and the financial Armageddon that each of us experience in our own idiosyncratic ways. Call it malignant optimism, but the shared hallucination that it is "just the flu" is junk science. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger but make no mistake about it: This virus can kill. It doesn't have a brain, but we do. Careers are on hold, people are in limbo, and there are only two ways this epidemic will end: Medically, probably never. Socially, when...