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A visit to the Byrd antarctic archive at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
I was fortunate to spend a couple of days at this wonderful and vast archive of all kinds of resources in the study of Byrd’s second expedition to Antarctica in 1934. I am writing a motion picture screenplay about Byrd’s time while alone in the Antarctic winter darkness. Pictured with me is Laura Kissel, Curator..
Read MoreAlone, by Admiral Richard Byrd
August 7-10 2022 I have spent a couple of days doing research for my project about Richard Byrd’s “Alone” at the vast and astonishingly interesting Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Vast resources pertaining to Antarctica and Byrd, absolutely a wonderful collection for research. I searched and…
Read MoreBlase Bonpane (RIP)
This is very sad news that went under the COVID radar. Blase was a great man of action and deep thought, with the highest ability to express his moral and ethical ideas. I love him so much for what I have learned from him. I am working on a project now where I have relied…
Read MoreThe repression of dissent: The Occupy movement was (temporarily?) quashed by a coordinated BLOB of Police, FBI, and BANKS
Thanks to my friend, Myles Cummings, now in the UK, who steered me to an interesting article with very ominous overtones about the FBI coordination with banks for the crackdown upon the Occupy Movement activities. SEE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy I have written in earlier blog entries on this site about my philosophical support for the Occupy movement and…
Read MoreWat Mathathat and other Buddhist Temples in Bangkok with Classes in Vipassanna Meditation
I’m trying to find beginning meditation classes in English Buddhist Temples in Bangkok
Read MoreHow to be a Sadhu
“Whenever you think of anything or anyone as your own, you are actually letting yourself be trapped in this web of ego.†I have had a lifelong interest in becoming a Sadhu as a way to experience my own life. I want to learn and experience how to live a Sadhu life. I am working…
Read MorePlaying at Valmonte School with my son, Niall
Today I walked to Valmonte School with my 7 year old son, Niall. The first thing I noticed was the breathlessness that I sensed as I walked up and down the steep but tiny hills that are on the way to/from the school. Far too out of shape for my own good! As I huffed…
Read MoreOccupy LA and an unethical response to dissent
I am disturbed by an arrogant disregard among common folks as they consider the Occupy LA movement. I am troubled by their underlying assumption that this movement has no logical core and that what the “protesters†are doing is wrong or pointless. I have been searching for ways to involve myself and to express my assent…
Read MoreNOTE about SOMALI PIRACY and ITS PIRATES
I was writing in an earlier entry to this blog about the LRAD and its appropriateness for use against Somali piracy. But any generalized assumption on my part about the nature and causes of Somali piracy causes me to reconsider what I have just written–it is probably nothing more than an oversimplication–what if some of…
Read MoreDigital Filmmaking in Sharjah
2011. I recently applied to be on the Fulbright Specialist Program list. One important motivation for my application to be included on the list is that it provides a great opportunity for me to collaborate with educational institutions or organizations, faculty and administrators in foreign countries in several ways—as a filmmaker, teacher, artist-designer-producer, or educational…
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