EDITOR’S NOTE:
this is a guest post by Lassal and Haik, two BURN participants who have organized a birthday surprise from all involved with BURN Magazine…
After a few weeks of conspiracy, Lassal’s and Civi’s unrelated cryptic comments it is time to unveil.
Operation “BURN plot” was made by BURNIANS for BURNIANS and is to celebrate BURN’s first birthday.
Happy birthday to BURN. David, thank you for making BURN a reality and thank you for making it a home for us.
We present BURNIANS.COM – the site dedicated to celebrate BURN magazine by all BURNIANS. Most of us have put a little into the site and it became big. BIGGER than we could imagine.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BURN – FROM BURNIANS !!!
Please join and share your day and celebrations with the rest of us by emailing your photos to live(at)burnians.com.
With the rest of BURNworld … With the rest of BURNians …
FROMM???…from BURNLAND…hihihihih…
PLEASE …fly …dream…fly … I suggest to FLY …
WHY NOT TO FLY !!!…keep shooting after you finish …flying…
What do I know after all…I am just a civilian …A farting one…:)))
HAPPY,HAPPY,HAPPYYYYYYYYYY …Can I fly now ???
Where are you BURNIANS ???
MyGRACIE,AKAKY,HAIK,MARCIN,AUDREY,HERVE,JARED,CARRIE…
Keep shooting…I am watching …KATIE…fly baby ,fly BURNing fire …
easy with my landscapes …
I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE You ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
i will be back …like a flying saucer …full with souvlakia and mousaka…
Oime…
erich Fromm wherever you’re Fromm lets skype tonight..
but gotta wait…Thomas & Ross are already ahead of u..
:)
( sorry its the wine )
wtf is that “Oime” u greek freak?
PANOS,
OIME ~~
O= Official
I= International
M= Media
E= Emerging
(sorry it’s the wine…) WHAT not to LOVE !!!
DAH are you okay with this?
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A Leica with a 35mm lens on? I doubt this makes any problem for David, Cathy! I mean, david curbed all this like a pro, years ago, when he told us to, as photographers, to travel light and swift. I tend, like you, to travel like a snail, ie. my house is on my shoulders! But we are wrong, David is the one right.
I prefer to have the gear with me, but I think there is no problems checking all that in, going to Asia. I’d be more weary if I was in France, or Italy, where there are real cases of handlers stealing from luggages.
I have a feeling that “going to asia flights” TSA disciplines, are less stringent than domestic and europe flights, that are the target so far of terrorists, and also do not fly over US territory.
That latest case, if that is the BIG BROTHER we have to put up with, kind of oversight letting a registered terrorist riddled with explosives on a plane, I am not too afraid of losing my freedoms in this Brave New world.
Grrr…, when i think all that we have to go thru at checkpoints, totally innocent, and Grand ma too, and that guy went undetected.
This is fucking ridiculous!
Hey Herve, just to let you know I thought that was a great comment you made under the main essay.
HERVE,
Yes, Leicas are easier to transport than Canons, DAH doesn’t have those concerns.
We’re all in the same boat (I mean plane) when it comes to the other stuff however. Some flights were allowing NO electronic devices to be used throughout the entire flight (ipods, laptops.) Now it seems to be mostly the last hour of the flight that you have to sit still and do nothing. An opportunity for all to become meditators? :))
I’m proceeding with my packing as planned and will have to repack and check my gear if necessary. I just hope if it comes to that it’s on the flight back to the US only so if anything is damaged or stolen I can deal with it at the end of the trip rather than the start.
OHHHHHHH…NOoooo…CATHY ,
that means that my flight days are over…
Cause , I can’t hold my pee for so long…I am a Civilian…
Therefore…a message to all the BURNIANS…
I stuck in Greece and whoever can hold their pee…COME OVER…!!!
VIVA !!! I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Can you hold it ???
and CATHY ,
May the travel spirits …be with you…WE LOVE YOU ???
and CATHY ,
May the travel spirits …be with you…WE LOVE YOU !!!
Sorry for the typo …too much drink …all organic…???!!!:)))
LOVE,LOVE,LOVE all we need is LOVE !!!
Cathy
Flew today..it was great..the attendants were very humorous about the new rules..they announced them prior to the end of the flight and then turned around and didn’t seem to care if anyone actually complied. I mean, the whole book in laps business..they did lock the restrooms 1 hr. before landing. We were allowed to use electronic devices..and security at the airport seemed close to routine..they were a bit more assiduous in their duties regarding carry-on bags and told everyone no powder allowed. But otherwise it was seriously fine. Great, actually. i upgraded to first class for a pittrance and had maybe the best flight of my life, hands down. I got off that flight feeling like i’d just been to a spa..which should tell you a little something about how i felt BEFORE i boarded..ssssstressssed outttttttt…
I of course know where those beaches are but never go to the beach so the onlytime i see So Cal surfers is when they get on or off airplanes while i’m at the airport. i must be the ONLY person in Costa Rica who does not get off on the beaches. Puerto Viejo is nice..cuz of the food..i can take or leave hot humid air at sea level. Give me the cold clean mists of the cloud forests. Not too many surfers there..just quetzals and weenie native grown apples..intoxicating.
Don’t fret the airlines stuff..maybe where you’re headed things will be stricter but in CR they aren’t worried as much about terrorism as they are about a bellyfull of cocaine filled capsules or condoms or whatever it is the mules swallow before jetting off to Amsterdam.
Ok..Civilian, babe. I am burning in Jersey..and it’s all good! Now the folks are calling and i have some decent homemade fare to sit down to..you be good and happy and healthy and all of that..
missing you, Civilian..and Ross…yes, the late shift will be back to normal in a few weeks. Patience :)
best all
Kathlee
KATIE, Street fighter, my sword tongue,
How does it feel to be back home…???
I am sending all my LOVE to u and to your family.
It seems that you can hold your pee…quite well…OIME…
Patience…BURNING Patience…
DoAsHarvey …travel light and safe …!!!
i will be here…and there…waiting
Kathleen,
Glad you had a nice time at the (flying) spa :))
Thanks a lot for your report. I’m happy to hear it was fairly mellow for you although my experience may be different. Each airport has its own way of doing things. Right now they are requiring a 3.5 hour check-in in Delhi.
Enjoy your family visit.
One day when you’re not on vacation I’d like to hear more (by email perhaps) about the cloud forests and how you found yourself in Costa Rica. If you’ve written about it here previously I missed it.
Take care.
Kathleen/Cathy;
The last time I flew to Tonga the Tongan immigration stamped my passport with a different year; the year before… So technically I had arrived on my second trip the year before my first When I left I showed the immigration guy; he gave a huge Tongan belly laugh; stamped my passport and waived me through.
Security is pretty lax in the Pacific Islands. Don’t think I’d want that to happen at LA or I’d probably have the official get WAAAAY more intimate and friendly than neccesary… :-)
Ross,
There is a TV show here in the US called LOST…not sure if you’re familiar with it.
Arriving on your second trip a year before your first sounds like a scene right out of LOST. :))
Thanks Michael W! I will go read it again, can’t recall, oops!, quite what I wrote…:-)
10 days to go, Cathy, I am all packed, carry on and luggage! I get these great “under the counter” sleeping pills in Thailand, and so, on big oceanic flights, I just sleep thru, waking up like a charm a couple hours before landing. 14 freaking hours to Taipei from SF, but leaving at midnight…
unexpectedly, made a bunch of money this month, everything is shaping up wonderfully for the traveling season. yet, a bit of depressing News on the thai front (1), just after Cambodia snatched 20 Uyghur refugees from UN quarters in Phnom Penh and sent them back to China, one of them is a pregant woman. KHMER SCROOGE!
(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/world/asia/28hmong.html
Herve,
I am also very upset about the Hmong. Can’t someone step in and save them? (Wishful thinking.)
When do you leave? We may both be going on the same day!
I’m not packed yet but made a good start this weekend. Will keep chipping away at it.
More (in French) about the Uyghur here: http://ka-set.info/actualites/pouvoirs/cambodge-ouighours-chine-expulses-hcr-unhcr-refugies-convention-geneve-091223.html
They were shipped away the day before the Chinese VP came to sign a few deals…
And this about the Hmong:
http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2009/12/thailand-deports-lao-hmong-despite.html
JOHN.V,
I can relate…hmmmm…
“intolerance”…
THANK YOU !!!
HERVE…CATHY
i do not put ANYTHING into checked luggage that i cannot afford to lose….all of my photo gear is on my back…as a matter of fact i could almost go on assignment with no checked luggage…only clothing and toothpaste checked…
KATHLEEN FONSECA…
i think you are all set to stay in the Burn Hotel….final arrangements today…call me 202 413-1137 (or text) if you have any questions…by the way, i like Puerto Viejo and the humidity and the surfing scene and Mango Bar on the beach….but, like the cloud forests too….i guess i like PV and surroundings because at least there is a Caribbean culture feel to it lacking in so much of CR…the west coast is too much like USA/California for my taste…nice of course, but well, nice in an American, non-Central American way…no?..swinging down to Panama though is the way to go…the islands….been there? what you think?
DAVID,
So tell us a bit more about this assignment in Rio….what is the plan exactly???? I know it is for Natgeo but are you going there “free as a bird” or do you have a detailed plan on what you want/ need to shoot??… just curious on how much freedom you have from the magazine on what to explore around the topic of Rio…Presumably you will be getting there for the carnaval so hopefully we will have many colorful “sensual” Harvey pictures back… the ones you did in Salvador during the carnaval are all time classics Harvey!!! Rio might be a bit more “formal” than Bahia in that regard but I am sure there will be many loose moments!!!! and can anything be formal anyway in Brazil…unlikely!!!…
Also, will you be traveling on your own of do you have a “fixer” who is preparing for you on the ground??… I hope you will be sharing some details with us on your plans…. Brazil is a place I have to go to someday… now need to convince Lassal to show me the way there !!!!
Looking forward to hear more….
Eric
ERIC…
the plan is no plan…free as a bird…..after this 10 day exploratory trip i will have to come up with a story line of some sort, but it will be my plan….the NG plan is to have Susan Welchman (Ilustrations Editor and collaborator on my best NG projects) and i find a story that works and makes sense…i have worked in Rio before , but not for NG and it has been awhile, so i will have to get my “street legs” all over again ..one of the things i am personally interested in, is that right in the middle of Rio’s almost state of crime emergency, they get both the World Cup and the Olympic Games bid…so obviously something is wrong, but also obviously something is right…the Olympic Committee must have been assured that certain things would be “fixed” in the next few years…from my past experience i know that Rio is beautiful, romantic, hot, jet set capital, old world rich, religious, cultured, drug gang ridden, and potentially dangerous…a great combo for a story….and obviously i have my mind on book….and film…the carnival season begins New Years Eve and i will be there…i do not know if the more formalized Carnival will really be of interest to us in the long run , and might be too too obvious, but i am sure i will take a look…surely the whole point of course is to dig way deeper than either the tourist glamour of carnival or the depiction of an AK47 controlled favela..anyway, i am sure i will be best able to answer your question after this first trip…stay tuned…it could be interesting….
cheers, david
ALL.
Just discovered that I am being featured on Alex and Rebecca Webb’s blog today along with 14 other photographers who have taken workshops with them. Very happy to be included as part of this group!
http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/happy-new-year-from-four-continents/
My website
http://www.cathyscholl.com (under construction)
was omitted but perhaps they will add it.
Cathy, it looks great!
Brazil, with India, are currently the buzz word for big “basket case” democracies (put that one in parenthese too) moving on up, to the eyes of the powerful international institutions, governmental, but also the eyes of the media.
Just as China was not so long ago. yet, we can see that this happens only as long as some of the injustices and grave assaults on man’s dignity are put on the back burner, or swept under the carpet. Let’s face it, in the age of Blair/Bush/Sarkozy/Obama, we are not really standing for anything, but the right of businesses to do business. The fate of Hmongs and Uyghurs repelled under the eyes (and from the arms of, in Cambodia) of the big donor community is a symptom of how far down we have come from “never again!”.
It is true that the population, in its majority, is suffering less, but also at the cost of global homogeneity, and even worse, at the cost of too many minorities.
This discrepancy is probably very hard to convey in photos, as complexity is more of the order than manicheism (I am not sure it’s about good and bad, and I am not sure who is to blame?) but hopefully, Someone like you, David, who has felt/seen souls divided already, is one to pull it off.
Hell, I may try too… ;-)
Thanks Marcin! For the “like” on facebook too! :))
I am getting ready for the New Year’s PARTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Come on BURNIANS …let’s try…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdz88MBWomo
JAMES BROWN
please, don’t try this without protection…hmmm…
David AH
Puerto Viejo is really nice, you’re right. Especially in off-season. The whole vibe is relaxed and rastafarian. Cahuita is an amazing beach and the Carribbean water, ahhhh, like a juicy jewel sloshing through a sandy hourglass. But the crime…the drugs..the drugged criminals. er..for women, not the safest evening stroll, you know? The west coast used to be safer but not so anymore. Drugs changed everything in Costa Rica.
Now, Panama, Bocas del Toro, oh man, what not to love? You get off the plane on the main island that’s what, like a mile long? You walk two blocks to the main strip, pick your waterfront hotel that’s in popsicle colored clapboard buildings, your room hanging over the sea, the rhythm so slow and easy, so safe. The food is a total bore but the ambience, the beautiful clear water, the unspoiled islands, the water taxis, the people..the Bri-Bri (Indigenous tribe) selling organic cacao wrapped in aluminum foil and coffee in little paper bags in the park that they grew themselves in the Talamanca mountains of Costa Rica and they come overland to Bocas to sell it. I was only there once but loved it.
But…the third world..even the emerging third world, well, it’s nice for vacation but to live there for a long long time, mmm..it’s difficult. However, being here in NJ for just two days..i’m loving it so much but, but…so many aging boomers waddling heavily in XXL sweatshirts from car to restaurant. I look around trying to imagine these places without the boomers..empty..save for a few young harried mothers with their mini-broods of 1.5 kids. What will it be like without the boomers? Strange i think. I went to an artist’s studio today..in the hills..my sister took me. I admired a painting. The young gay artist gave it to me. Just handed it to me. Never met me in his life. Said, here, it’s yours. Well, it’s all strange..the long slanted rays of light raking across the bare brown ground, skeletal trees, as wan and sculpturally elegant as a Calvin Klein model. Different, horrible, beautiful, efficient, clean, home. It’s home.
Well, i should stop wining and whining. Civilian, care to join me in a glass? We can talk of our homes and our homing instincts. oime indeed.
I will call you this evening David. I don’t have a cell phone here and will call from my parent’s house. They don’t have internet. If i want the internet i don’t have the phone. If i want the phone i don’t have the internet. Many thanks to you. You will be fine in Rio. You have stage fright. You will be so, so, so fine. I predict it. I read once someone who said that what’s happening on the fringes of the event is always more interesting than the actual event. I have found that to be so. For whatever’s it’s worth. Best of luck..best of light..best of karma and carisma and the creative muse. May she guide every click of the shutter.
CATHY:
Ohmygod, how i ended up in Costa Rica, how i found myself in the cloud forests, and the above-the-cloud-forests, stubborn burly knots of trees clinging to the ground, clouds racing, RACING overhead, the sun burning a beam of pure light right through your closed eyelids, the air so pure you wonder how you could bottle it and take it back down to the city with you, you lay down and make angel wings in the volcanic sand and while there might be a distinction between you and an actual angel, it’s a very slight distinction. Because when you’re up there that far, where the oxygen is thin and the sun a glowing soccer ball seemingly within reach..well, if there’s heaven anywhere it might just be there. And if there’s a God, her name is Bliss. And for a moment, you are God. He is you. Anyway, how i got here is a story that if i told you you’d think i made it up. But i will tell you if you like. One of these days. After i’ve bid a fond adieu to all of it. And it all becomes retrospective.
ROSS
That was an hysterical story about the passport stamp..absolutely classic. I love your sense of humor! Don’t ever lose it (or as many on the internet write it ‘loose it’. Don’t ever loose it. haha)
Bye all
Kathleen
Hey David, I can’t imagine that you would have time to read a novel, or that if you did you didn’t already have a massive reading list prepared. Nevertheless, if you are looking for insight into Brazil, Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The War of the End of the World” is high art.
Katy;
I find that if you can’t laugh at yourself you may just be missing the best joke of the century. My mirror never fails to reveal that fact either :-)
MICHAEL…
reading novels is always my best prep….you know i love much of Llosa, but have not read The War of the End of the World”…will get it tomorrow…many thanks…novels always have the real truth…
Aha…
“The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S’s: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he/she is perceptive, he/she is feeling, and he/she has the power to express in language what he/she observes and reacts to.”
Lawrence Clark Powell (American Librarian, Writer and Critic, 1906-2001)
KATIE …Did I say… I love you…!!!
ROSSY,
AUSSIE…VIVA !!!
to all BURNIANS …
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
Pablo Picasso
WHO…
WHO???
Maybe a BURNIAN …laughing all the way to the bank…payday in Grecoland…
Santa Claus is coming …
Santa Claus is coming ……….to get whatever money you have left
Laughing like there is no tomorrowwwwwwwwwwww…
I am the Happiest Civilian in the World…???
sure…sure
WHAT NOT TO LOVE !!!
Come on BURNIANS … can you feel it???
Life is beautiful …!!!
Keep shooting…keep loving…keep wandering around…
My new project is …coming soon…
Something is really …BURNing !!!
ARE YOU READY ???
NEW YEAR is almost …here …!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc0YuyCnLAk&feature=related
I LOVE YOU
from a BURNED penguin …
ABRASOS, GOODBYE, BON VOYAGE …ANTIO…CHEERIOS, BUGS…
I WILL be BACK!!!
P.S Please, take care yourselves and your FAMILIES…that’s all you have after all…
thanks to the Spirits…I am FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
CIVILIAN
enjoy your time and have a good start to the NEW YEAR :)
Looking forward to reading you again …
What not to love?
THOMAS…
I’m coming back everyday…for your everyday…almost everyday…
it’s sometimes the everyday…
that it makes everyday not like every every day…
falling in love with the everyday…is not happening everyday…
OK.I am tired of me…Everyday, every single day …
now I am Running…
you all know like who…:)))
BURNIANS !!!
Visual food on aisle…Photographic Essays…
VIVA …!!!
BURNIANS !!!
burnians.com was meant to be a short-lived site to celebrate BURN birthday. Lassal and I had a decision to close it after a few weeks and we have done so.
But things aren’t always go as planned. The demand for the site to stay up and be the reminder of BURN’s first birthday celebration is overwhelming and our decision is to bring it back to life. However, comments and live picture posting is closed since it requires much of our attention which we cannot accommodate.
I have also added a link in the links section of BURN pointing to BURNIANS.com.
Enjoy and Happy New Year !!!
Great news, Haik!
WHAT NOT TO KEEP?? ;)
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie (American lecturer, author, 1888-1955)
THANK YOU!!!