From my first Kodak Brownie camera to the latest techno imaging gadgets, I've always enjoyed capturing the moment, through photographs. Here's a sampling of personal snapshots, including some performance and travel photos. To view captions, just move your cursor over an image, and click on any photo if you wish to leave a comment.
The great philosophers and teachers have always fascinated me, Plato , Aristotle , Abraham, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi , John Locke , Sathya Sai Baba , and countless others. Pacifists Henry David Thoreau , Martin Luther King, Jr. , Mahatma Gandhi , and Nelson Mandela ; scientists Alexander Fleming , Sir Isaac Newton , and Jonas Salk ; Renaissance artists, including Dante Alighieri , Michelangelo , Leonardo da Vinci , and Sandro Botticelli ; political luminaries Thomas Jefferson , Benjamin Franklin , James Madison , John Marshall , Benjamin Disraeli , and Abraham Lincoln , of course; great women photographers including Julia Margaret Cameron , Margaret Bourke-White , Tina Modotti , and Annie Leibovitz ; and people who have always struck my fancy and imagination, such as Shoeless Joe Jackson , Will Rogers , Bob Dylan , Joni Mitchell , Nanci Griffith , Joan Baez , Richard Branson , Bill Gates , and many others, including all of my friends here on MySpace .
My music tastes are quite extensive and eclectic. For starters, here's a short list: Amilia k Spicer , Amy Speace , Big Wide Grin , Bob Hillman , Bright Blue Gorilla , Caroline Lavelle , Cecilia , Chris and Meredith Thompson , Christene LeDoux , Connie Dover , Dar Williams , Darryl Purpose , Don Conoscenti , Eliza Gilkyson , Enya , Grant Langston , Happy Rhodes , Heather Nova , Ingrid Karklins , Jack Hardy , Jane Siberry , Joni Mitchell , Heather Nova , Indigo Girls , Jenny Bruce , Kate MacLeod , Kathleen Wilhoite , Loudon Wainwright III , Mary Coughlan , Loreena McKennitt , Michael McNevin , Monique Brumby , Noa , October Project , Orchid Ensemble , Paula Cole , The Prince Myshkins , Randi Driscoll , Sam Phillips , Sara Hickman , Sarah McLachlan , Steve Poltz , Susan Werner , Suzanne Vega , Tiddis , Tim Flannery , Todd Thibaud , Tori Amos , Wendy MaHarry , Wendy Rule .
Eventually, there will also be a top ten jukebox. For the moment, these are songs from John Stewart's , two CD compilation album Gold. John appeared at a house concert in Lakeside, CA (just outside San Diego), produced by my good friend Jimmy Duke , on June 17th, 2007.
To play these songs, first stop the song that is currently streaming in the single stand alone player located above the slide show. Then, click on one of the songs in the playlist below, and press play on the multi-song player.
There are so many favorites, including Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain <[i>Amélie], American Beauty , Les Amants du Pont-Neuf <[i>The Lovers on the Bridge], Before Sunrise , Before Sunset , Being John Malkovich , Bian Lian <[i>The King of Masks], Blade Runner , Bubba Ho-tep , The Castle , Cidade de Deus <[i>City of God], Fantasia , The Godfather , The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , Good Will Hunting , Goodfellas , Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle , Hearts in Atlantis , A History of Violence , Holes , Little Children , Lola Rennt <[i>Run, Lola, Run], Last Train to Freo , Lost In Translation , The Matrix , Memento , North & South , The Notebook , The Piano , The Queen , Le Violon Rouge <[i>The Red Violin], Saving Private Ryan , The Secret Of Roan Inish , The Shawshank Redemption , Sideways , Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand <[i>Turtles Can Fly], Smultronstället <[i>Wild Stawberries], and many others, but Der Himmel über Berlin <[i>Wings of Desire] is my all time favorite movie. Here's a clip from it:
Wim Wenders - Wings Of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)
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And just for fun, here's my favorite job interview:
OurSpace (the myspace sketch)
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This is offered for anyone who's ever wanted to leave home:
Leaving Home
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Yoga fans everywhere, take a lesson from Opie, Portrait of an Artist:
Here is a lovely song by Rhys Fulber of Conjure One with vocals by Poe called Center of the Sun juxtaposed into a Japanese Anime:
Here's a beautiful video to just calm one's soul and focus on peaceful thoughts:
Ontwaken/ Awaken
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Children can sometimes speak more eloquently than poets and philosophers:
The meaning of the Sanskrit mantra OM is explained in this video:
OM
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There have been so many books that I have enjoyed. Off the top of my head, here are some favorites:
Paul Auster, The Music of Chance , Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull , Coleman Banks, The Illuminated Rumi , Billy Collins, Questions About Angels , David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest , Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls , Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea , Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises , Peter Jenkins, A Walk Across America , Franz Kafka, TThe Castle , Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer , Rory Nugent, The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey Into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra , Francoise Sagan, Bounjour Tristesse , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince , J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye , Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar , Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad , Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle , Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death , Herman Wouk, City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder , Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny ,