Chasing The Blue Beyond

Hawaii · Saint Louis · Saudi Arabia · Caribbean · South Pacific Answer the Call Shovel Sunshine When the weather freezes the story, memory becomes propulsion and the South Pacific starts looking like a plan. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Operating Principle Swim Out to It If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. Waiting is one form of travel. Movement is the better one. The line turns arrival into responsibility. The ship may be late, distant, or imaginary. The traveler still has to leave the shore. Roll Video Swim Out to the Ship The Ed Reif Brand ...

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.