“Tengo Miedo”
We were in Cabo San Lucas many years ago and had taken a water taxi to Land’s End. We were to jump off the bow into the surf and walk ashore. Our companions and Klee had all gotten off unaware…
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Top Notch Documentary on Ray & Charles Eames
Interested in industrial design, husband and wife creative teams, designs with lasting influence? Then check out: Eames: The Architect & the Painter (2011), written by Jason Cohn, directed by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey. This is probably one of the…
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The Return, 2003
Recently watched “The Return” directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (2003). Superb direction, cinematography and acting working a good story. Mystery that is not solved, suspense & human drama without exclamation marks and expletives. A man, a husband a father returns after…
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Four Documentaries About Film
We recently saw four documentaries about film. There were common threads intertwining these films on film and I was glad we saw them in close proximity which highlighted their connections. I recommend watching these as a set, but each one…
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Mom’s Last Words
So, mom was a photo journalism major. She used words and used them well though, like many other mothers of the late 1940s and 1950s she elected motherhood and community service over career…it seemed more of an either/or matter in…
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First Thoughts on Apple’s “Scratch & Claw” Sensors & Accessibility
I was quite excited when Klee pointed me to CNET’s article, “Apple wants you to scratch and claw your iPad”. It sparked a vision of a pairing of percussion instrument ‘beaters’ adapted to this new technology that can detect and…
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The Pizza Thief
So I hate to think of this person as a neighbor. It is much more pleasant to be surprised when you are expecting worse and get better. But here is the sad truth about a neighbor, a pizza and a…
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“The water is taller than me” or How I Learned To Swim
There is a line from Frightened Rabbit’s Swim Until You Can’t See Land “the water is taller than me” and that is exactly how I viewed deep water, as not simply taller than me, but in being so, was also…
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