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Congo/Infrared
The Congo. A tough place, indeed. In 2005 I briefly stepped foot across the border of Rwanda into this lush, dense, jungle land that is the heart of Africa. I was there doing humanitarian work, and it was exhilarating and tragic and real. I met strong Africans who told me stories of the violence and [...]
Stopping Keystone XL
On Thursday, November 10th, President Obama decided to send the massive Keystone XL pipeline project back to the drawing board. He delayed any decision-making on the project for at least two years, effectively killing it. Most experts agree that the pipeline will never be able to meet the strict zoning, environmental and health requirements that [...]
Legend.
The death of Steve Jobs hit me like a stack of lumber to the chest. I knew his health was poor, though naively believed that someone of his importance would receive extraordinary medical care that would cure him. He was just as human as the rest of us, despite his incredible mark he’s left on [...]
Time to Build.
For all of the talk of recession these days, corporations and businesses are making money, and many of them are sitting on huge piles of cash. It can’t help but conjur up images of Scrooge McDuck, swan diving into a giant swimming pool of gold. Despite all of that, unemployment is becoming a chronic plague [...]
5 Amazing Places You’ve Never Heard Of
The world sometimes seems like it’s so small. And at other times, it still manages to hold incredible wonders, secret gems that most of us have never even heard of, let alone visited. Here is a collection of five of those places. Rare, gorgeous, raw. And yes, this author knows the irony of showing and [...]
Information
I do a fair bit of design work for a living, ranging from web design to identity/logo design to photo manipulation. One growing and fun category in the design world is infographics. Having evolved from simple graphs and charts, designers are rapidly realizing that we live in a visual society, and breaking information down (especially [...]
Albertus Seba
A lesser known, but critically important Dutch naturalist. Albertus Seba was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector. Born in 1665, Seba grew up near the ocean, and at a young age was captivated by the diversity of life living in the sea. Seba moved to Amsterdam as an apprentice and opened around 1700 a pharmacy [...]
Ominous
Spring is always a time of uncertain weather. Phrases like “In like a Lion, out like a Lamb” are so engrained into the psyche that there’s little about storms that seem out of the ordinary. However, it seems like the volume knob on the weather has been cranked as of late. Thunderstorms of monumental proportion, [...]
Charley Harper
Artistic genius, modernist, visionary. Charley Harper (1922-2007) was a well known American artist from Cincinnati. His work is immediately captivating, exuding both a playful sense of humor and an exacting eye for form and color. In a style he called “minimal realism”, Charley Harper captured the essence of his subjects with the fewest possible visual [...]
Glory Days
For all the desolation, sterility, and utter lifelessness of the Moon’s surface, there is something so endlessly fascinating about it that it keeps me up at night. Some might question why going to the Moon was necessary, and the vast sums of money spent could have been better allocated to something else. But the programs [...]
