This push to be “on top of things” by doing too many things creates a white noise experience in the brain where priorities are equalized and perspective is minimized.
The result is an ongoing and never-ending buzz that cannot be discerned or condemned because the quivering emotional electricity is coming at you from everywhere and nowhere and so you live in a constant state of undefined fuzziness.
About the photo: It’s titled multitasking and was taken by Wireman. In true multitasking fashion, I flickred through a ton of shots of multi-monitors and multitasking moms before settling on this one. I chose it because I think it shows how multitasking is becoming so central to our culture that it’s ingrained in the fabric of our lives.
This Week’s Photo: The Fluoride Uncertainty Theory by Judge Mental is probably one of the most ignored scientific works of this or any age. As long as that age is “12″ or divisible by 37.
I am tired of looking in my refrigerator and feeling guilty about the amount of food in it, not to mention the amount of food I will throw away, not to mention the fact that I even have a refrigerator.
As long as nothing changes every time I close that door on all that food and all that cold and all that bounty that 9 out of every 10 souls aboard this world will never taste, I should feel guilt … and shame … and not a little fear.
I sometimes feel that we (well, at least “I”) treat this whole “life” like some cheap, throwaway novelty. Who cares, what the hell, no big deal, I’ll buy another.
I have no doubt that the contents of my refrigerator could feed five families and still feed my own, and I’d really (truly) like to work with anyone and everyone to make that happen.
This refrigerator photo is by April, who takes a lot of great photos. Check it out.
I was contacted by a US government publication who wanted to use this photo. I didn’t think much of the original, so I decided to bump it around in photoshop. I found it pretty cool how a picture that made me yawn was transformed into something that captured a little of the energy and pop of the very cool Traverse City Film Festival (July 31 - Aug 5, 2007, annually thereafter).
My digital photography ethic has been to try and do all the work with the camera. I think that may be changing.
Got Detroit? tipped me off to the hyper-cool video of the demolition of the Stardust Hotel in fabulous Laaaas Vegas (that’s how the TV station I watched Superfriends on every afternoon before work would say it). I used to work two doors down under the big clown and many times saw about the same view (usually when coming out of the Riviera at 5 am after a post-work bowling marathon.
He says that this is totally how Detroit should demolish Tiger Stadium. I think I would prefer 9 giant robots of Tiger greats wielding titanium baseball bats with Ernie Harwell on the call (…and Kaline rears back and those press boxes are looong gone!) but that’s probably out of the city’s price range.
If a position ever opens up for “Champion of the Great Lakes”, I will be throwing Dave Dempsey’s name into the hat. In addition to being a heck of a writer, he runs a Great Lakes environmental issues blog that very economically keeps you up to date on not only the news that affects the lakes, but also broader trends in how folks are thinking about the environment … and how to change the way we think about it.
Journalist Andrew Revkin says global warming is one of those “slow drip” news stories. Revkin has been covering science and the environment at the New York Times for more than a decade, and he says it’s sometimes hard to sell his editors on the latest small development in a giant story like global warming.
The problem goes way beyond global warming. Whether you’re talking about the deterioration of the Great Lakes or the increase in environmental-related disease, the story is all around us — but rarely newsworthy in the conventional sense.
About the photo: Kent is Austrian and while he is less than a year into learning photography, shots like water slomo show that you can do a lot in a short period of time.
