Before I left on this trip, I speculated I might come across some polar bears. These aren’t the best polar bear pictures, but still they are polar bears and there is a dog, too, so here they are:

http://www.logbookwasilla.com/logbookwasilla/2012/9/27/dog-chases-polar-bear-polar-bear-chases-dog.html

I also speculated that I might get into some whales. I still might, but I am doubtful. Even though I am doing so much better than I was, I am nowhere near 100 percent and am not certain my surgical wound and subesequent affliction will be up to all the bouncing about in a little whaling boat that a day on the Arctic Ocean can entail.

WHAT NOT TO LOVE !!!…wow!

come to the Bubble Lounge on September 24 in New York if you in town…all out Rio blast!! Bubble Lounge has great photo events and many top photogs and editors to be there for this..yes, of course, we sign (based on a true story) and i think Roberta and Renata , the twins from Rio, will be there along with Candy to sign ….this won’t happen again….

pictures, music, dancing, caipirinhas, what not to like? and send us off across the U.S. with hangovers!!

cheers, david

3 chickens down…oups…

Strikes,no drugs…I am out fighting…
reporting from beautiful,broken Grecolandia…

keep the BURNING Spirit UP…I will be back to get your reports…

Life is a journey,risk and enjoy …BURNing scares are not optional!!!:)))
your civi

Except that they can tell the difference between what they see on the screen and what they see elsewhere and their brains are no different than other human brains of recent generations. Their aesthetics are, no doubt, different than other generations and those aesthetics will change throughout the course of their young lives. Perhaps they will harden their views at some point in the aging process. Perhaps not. Same as it ever was.

“JB: I have some students, and we were looking at some work last week that was really super-digi. Over-saturated, hyper-real, hopped up, textured and degraded. I talked about that, and these are younger students, and they couldn’t see it. That archive that we have in our head, of the cinematic and celluloid look, they don’t have that baseline. Their baseline is digital reality.

They can’t tell the difference between the super-saturated color look on the screen, and what you see when you walk out your door. Their brains are just different now.”

I know it’s always dangerous to project one’s own experience out to “youth culture” in general, but that said, Imants’ contention that kids are so much different these days, and that, the artistically minded at least, are unlikely to discuss Rembrandt or the like, is not my experience. My experience pretty much consists of my own kids and their friends who grew up in NYC and are now juniors in college and 8th graders in middle school; my nieces and nephews and their friends who are about the same ages and come from small town and rural America; and a group of high school kids who I worked with for several years at a failing school in the south Bronx. The first group has access to the world’s best technology with plenty of role models and teachers who show them how to use it; the second lives in a computer laden environment mostly devoid of creativity; the third have little or know access to computers outside of school or libraries.

I’m just not seeing any kind of tectonic shift in thinking, certainly nothing approaching the changes that occurred in the 60′s. They just struggle to come to terms with the world, same as it ever was. The technology is in no way revolutionary for them. It is all they have ever known and they have no more care for what it was like before everyone had a cell phone than we cared about grandpa’s stories about how he had to walk to school through four feet of snow and how it was uphill both ways.

As for the travel, I’m all for it. Although my enthusiasm has changed over the years and I no longer care about exotic world travel as much as I used to, I strongly encourage anyone who hasn’t traveled a lot to do so. I think if I were writing the constitution, I’d make living at least a year abroad a requirement for holding public office. Right now my daughter is going to school in France and my son just got back from spending the summer in Gabon. And if they’re not talking about Rembrandt around the campfire, they’re talking about Godard at the café. Or Houellebecq. Or whoever. Point is, they’re talking about somebody whose work they admire, whether around a campfire or a table, someone whose work challenges and changes them. Same as it ever was.

My best advice is, after a three week trip to Germany and England this summer, is that whatever you do, don’t bring along a three year old boy! It’ll seep the wanderlust right out of you, what with all the whining and complaining and inability to sit still for even a SECOND! (unless you got a DVD player that is).

Nah, I love my family (esp Felix), but man they can sometimes drive you nuts…. ;)

CP

I suppose, to a degree, this is impossible, because once you learn from someone, be that person living, dead, or ancient, even if your cultural references are different and your interpretations incomprehensible to the other, you have shared a common experience.

And yes, I believe sincerely what I am saying.