Wangari Maathai died today. I heard her speak in 2005 at the Clinton Global Initiative. She was a lady who planted trees. Like Jonny Appleseed. Or the man who planted trees. She was certainly a hummingbird. A special woman who’s best was pretty darn impressive. Thank you Wangari. Thank you. The world thanks you. ps [...]

Love this idea! tx seesaw

I just caught the trailer of “A Film Unfinished” on BoingBoing & I got goose bumps. I must see this film. “…Yael Hersonski’s “A Film Unfinished” is about found footage from a Nazi documentary rough cut, produced by the Goebbels Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Goebbels had a two-fold urgency to his work: short-term [...]

I caught this on the anthropologist and it has to be one of the nicest uses of multi-media storytelling I’ve seen: photography, writing, print/typography & film…by photographer David Eustace about his road trip with 16 year old daughter Rachel. At 2:07am on the 9th of October 1992 my life changed forever. My daughter Rachael was [...]

Tokujin Yoshioka’s Window Installation For Hermes, Japan. Breathy magical digital storytelling. Even if it’s for a brand. What a pleasure it would be to be able to walk past: via solid frog & alice

Happy New Year to you all! As part of my idea that this year I will be sharing stories & doing much more storytelling here is one of the most beautiful videos/digital storytelling pieces I’ve seen in a while, by Jonathan Reed* (from Nov 2007!) Here is the text. Read it and then read it [...]

The world is speeding up. Or this year has. And there is a TON of stuff going on. I feel that given I am not 85, where it could make sense to be June already, I am able to make this statement. I’m wondering whether the antidote is to slow down. Be extra slow? Musings [...]

It seems that lately my blog posts are about stuff I’m loving. And as I’ve heard no complaints I guess I’ll keep doing it ;) So, some finds the last week: Modern art (via another great find: the image site ffffound) In a Dream, a new documentary is out & playing (I had the privilage [...]

I’m loving the video and animation I come across of late!! These two in particular made me smile big time – so I am passing it on …and of course you might like to do the same Oh, and don’t forget EarthHour tonight!! 830-930pm everywhere – turn your lights out :) Tomas Nilossonse‘s ubercool version [...]

The other day I mentioned to a friend in finance that I thought the markets were going to keep falling much more. “That’s rather pessimistic”, he said. My reply: “No, that’s me being optimistic. I actually think that they are going to crash burn and disappear*.” That’s my opinion and mostly I’ve been wondering for [...]