Imagery take 2

Inter­est­ing. Watched Chan­nel 9’s pack­age of tsunami mourn­ing in order to test theory that visual foot­age tweaks emo­tional trig­gers in a way that writ­ten stor­ies did not. Admit­tedly, anyone who knows Chan­nel 9’s brand of emo­tional manip­u­la­tion...
Observation

Observation

I’ve been musing lately on cam­eras, the power of the image and the role of the media. It star­ted when Naomi paid for a video person to sky­dive with me and record the exper­i­ence. I had no prob­lem with that — or at least with what I thought was...

Sigh. Back to the World.

Per­sonal evol­u­tion on my hol­i­day does not seem to have magic­ally cre­ated a world in which evil does not occur. Why is that? Anyway, fol­low­ing art­broken’s excel­lent ana­lyses of the vari­ous depress­ing and sur­pris­ing events of the last few days...

Birthday stuff!

So, it’s a little over a week until my birth­day and fiz­it’s birth­day (Janu­ary 22). (kitling is Janu­ary 23, for those who’ve for­got­ten this tri­um­vir­ate of delect­able devilry). Some of you prob­ably know that I’m a weird polit­ical eater: I’m...

Whirlwind

There are times when I have too much to say. This year I have hardly writ­ten a thing… just exper­i­enced it. This is a Good Thing. I have had my Kahuna mas­sages, I have thrown myself out of a plane, I have caught up with some...