Edward Hopper and Company: The American Landscape
Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture, Photography | 2 Comments
Too often we look at cultural and physical landscapes of places we visit as tourist brochures: America as the massive architecture of New York City and Chicago, quaint New England villages, the Bridge and Bay in San Francisco and pinkish western landscapes. One of the best examples of cliché America is a propaganda film called [...]
Read More..>>Izzy Stone and Social Media
Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Culture, Tech & Science | 1 Comment
One of my journalism heroes was I. F. Stone. “Izzy” was perhaps 1953′s premiere blogger, publishing his own muckraking newspaper from then until the early 70s, campaigning against McCarthyism and later exposing the fallacy of Lyndon Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin resolution, the US excuse for plunging into the Vietnam War. Here is an excerpt from [...]
Read More..>>Floating Through Kerala
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Culture, India, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment
My first impression of India was high culture plus high chaos. But then I hadn’t been to Kerala, a multicultural waterworld in India’s southwest. Watch HD Video on connectedtraveler.com
Review: Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
Posted on January 19, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture, Photography | Leave a Comment
Most travel photographers work casually, keeping an eye out for the serendipitous or waiting for a mashup of subject, action and light in one magic “aha!” moment. Unlike Disney, I have never chased lemmings over a cliff or like Geographic, lit a cave with a thousand flashbulbs. My highest level of management is usually simply [...]
History’s High Note
Posted on November 6, 2008 - Filed Under Culture | Leave a Comment
“History sometimes hits a high note, sweet and soaring, clean and clear, as if from Satchmo’s horn.” Dayan Jayatilleka – Diplomat to the UN from Sri Lanka I was optimistic that the election of Barack Obama would be a world-changing event, but I didn’t realize that the celebrations in the US and many countries around [...]
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