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Bear!
This weekend, while on a peaceful hike in Shenandoah, I saw another hiker scrambling back up the path, eyes wide. He slowed down when he saw me, and explained in a breathless North Carolina accent, "Bear! There's a bear just around the bend. I'm not kidding!"
Down the Rabbit Hole for Cave Week
"Cave of Forgotten Dreams" poster
I started last week seeing a movie with a friend about caves, and ended the week scrambling around inside caves with a totally different crowd of people. Sometimes, life just works that way, creating its own themes. Welcome to Cave Week. Watch your step!
Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” is a documentary about the Chauvet caves in southern France that have drawings made 30,000 years ago. Because a cave-in sealed the entrance to the caves, the drawings look as if they were made last week, but they are, in fact, the oldest known drawings by humans. 30,000 years ago, paleolithic ancestors painted the walls with horses, lions, rhinos, bison and bears, and pressed handprints against the wall.
The cave is closed to the public to protect the drawings, so Herzog’s film is one of the only ways to see the ancient drawings.
In keeping with Werner Herzog’s weirdness factor, an intriguing part of the movie, beyond the wonder of cave paintings, was the odd characters drawn… Continue reading
My Brief Career as a Bathing Suit Model
While grandfather was a newspaperman in his professional life, he was a shutterbug in his off hours.
Continue readingPhotography: Christine Tomaszewski, Satirenoir
When Christine Tomaszewski, a photographer I met when we worked at the same tech firm, excused herself from a lunch table of coworkers to climb a wobbly bar stool, lean way over the bar, and shoot a photo of the glasses lining the back wall, I knew we would get along. The pursuit of art and pretty shiny things continues to infuse our conversations and so I was more than pleased when she agreed to an email interview.
Continue readingLove and War at Fort Reno
Memory is unpredictable. What stays and what goes lacks any rational processing.
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