Vitro Nasu

Aloha Bernie Sanders. He was in Honolulu.
About the Mittens.

The mittens were created by Vermont teacher Jane Ellis. Ellis made the mittens from repurposed wool sweaters and lined them with fleece from recycled plastic bottles.

Naomi Klein from Intercept

The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities

(Bernie levitating at Guggenheim Museum in New York)
See more Bernie Sanders art history memes here

(Bernie in Kyoto)

Bernie was in Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Ikiru
Thanks to Sachin Shrijith

(Bernie in Tijuanna, Mexico )

Bernie in Budapest

Bernie Sanders in Burlington (see more photos and links from here)
Bernie and Allen

(Here is Bernie Sanders in front of my house)

How Lebanon transformed Anthony Bourdain

In 2006, he found himself in a country falling into war—an experience that forever altered how he would understand people, culture, history, and conflict.

Remembering Anthony Bourdain trips to Beirut

In 2006, Bourdain and his crew were caught in the crossfire of the 2006 Lebanon war. The crew was planning to shoot an episode of his “No Reservations” show when the war broke out.

They had to leave Lebanon, but it didn’t stop them from coming back.

(Anthony Bourdain with Palestinian children)
Previous post Bourdain passed away one year ago

(Photos by Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen)

The noise of single hearts battles noise of society in media … whilst the volcano is just there, and so also this farmer. Together they collaps into a fiercely peacefulness that no western journalist or her editor can accept.

When Pieter Bruegel painted his “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”, did he leave us with an accusation, metaphorically, represented by that farmer who seems to ignore the scenario he is captured within? (via Citizen 5 )

Punk Daydream (Lamuna-oi)

See more photos from previous post.

(Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen did some steadycam work in Bandung’s toxic environments back in January 2014 for this film.”

Photo taken from Grand Canyon.

Yosemite

Hermit’s Rest
South Rim Grand Canyon

John Muir passed away on 24 December 1914
He was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of United States wilderness.
“John Muir convinced Teddy Roosevelt to conserve Yosemite Park. In 1871
Also that year, one of Muir’s heroes, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, arrived in Yosemite and sought Muir out. Muir’s former
professor at the University of Wisconsin, Ezra Carr, and Carr’s wife
Jeanne encouraged Muir to publish his ideas.”

Painting from watch tower at Grand Canyon

Agnus Dei, Museo del Prado – Francisco de Zurbarán

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The Goat and Øivind

The goat I met in Lombok on a silent sunday. We had some good conversations together before I had to head back to Bali on a motorbike

Oslo to Bali –Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen is Citizenfive.. ( previous post )

Marguerite Yourcenar

Personality of the Sheep
People born in the Year of Sheep are tender, polite, filial, clever, and kind-hearted. They have special sensitivity to art and beauty and a special fondness for quiet living. They are wise, gentle and compassionate and can cope with business cautiously and circumspectly. In their daily life, they try to be economical. They are willing to take good care of others, but they should avoid pessimism and hesitation.

Strengths
gentle, softhearted, considerate, attractive, hardworking, persistent, thrift
Weaknesses
indecisive, timid, vain, pessimistic, moody, weak-willed

Photo of Navajo lady by Laura Gilpin Master photographer of Southwest

Map Goat (Literally every goat in the United States)

Part I – Citizenfive
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Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen – multi-media artist, engineer – world traveller.
videos.

Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen
Citizenfive

is from 2015 head of the study center at Udayana University. Øivind is civil engineer from Norwegian University of Science and Technology with additional education in Media Sciences and Cultural Psychology.

Øivind lives and works in Bali
(Click to see large)

Part II – Citizenfour

Snowden with Bob Greenwald (Greenwald almost blows the biggest story of his life)..

Part III The trial of
of Citizen K was not directed by Pasolini

(Jan 2, 2014 Photo by Fung Lin Hall)

See more photos.

(Jan 2, 2014 Photo by Fung Lin Hall)

MISSION SAN XAVIER DEL BAC was founded in 1692 by a Jesuit missionary, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. It was then that he became the first non-Indian to visit the village of Wa:k, or “Bac,” as he wrote it.

Approaching Half Dome click to see large

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4 Ducks Captain Monty
leading us to the journey of unknown.

See more photos here on FB album (Camping, biking and rafting at Yosemite)

Google celebrates Yosemite as Government shuts famous park down.

Demand pay freeze for congress..Petition sign here..

Cartoonists take aim at the shutdown.

Dome

Noguchi Garden
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( Photos by Fung-Lin Hall taken from the Billy Rose Garden in Jerusalem)

Isamu Noguchi – Nov 17, 1904

(image via)

This set by acclaimed designer Isamu Noguchi, used in Martha Graham’s ‘Embattled Garden,’ was damaged when basement storage of the Martha Graham Dance Company, located in the West Village, flooded in late October 2012. The company said it is still assessing the extent of the damage.

See Isamu Noguchi design from The Appalachian Spring..

Noguchi Museum NY..(youtube)

Yoshiko and Isamu Noguchi
Yoshiko Yamaguchi – Isamu Noguchi’s ex-wife .. an international diva who became a politican and has become a passionate advocate for Palestinian causes.

Edward Said on Israel occupation (youtube)

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The above photos by Alex P. Hall

One more IPhone pix
Highest toilet in Arizona

Sundance – Skiing in Utah (Previous post)

The Majestic El Capitan

A British veteran paralyzed while serving in Iraq is climbing Yosemite’s El Capitan to raise money to help injured fellow soldiers. (via)

Facebook Yosemite Park here

My travel photos from Yosemite (previous post)

Watch our earth rising from the moon via Kaguya (youtube)

Driving to Sundance

Hitokuchi senbei

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Sundance lodge

Sundance is a small place. Not many people. We saw quite a few kids with mommy or daddy. The controlling parents all talk weird to their kids. “Do the Spaghetti”; “do the pizza”; or “do the french fry”. (different fast foods seems to mean different ski positions we guess.) Talk about the influence of the fast food culture. Such poverty of expression – so sad.

Yukiguni (Snow Country) by Kawabata Yasunai – Previous post