Burning Mind

Burning Mind

When the day winds down and the sky is filled with the fire of light, the shadow of the past is burned into our mind, waiting to reference the coming.   Date: 06/2011 Location:  +40° 42′ 31.04″, -74° 21′ 59.88″ Focal Length: 17 mm Exposure:...
John Lennon Educational Bus

John Lennon Educational Bus

Urban Arts Master Classes The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Visits New Design High School!   For three days, from May 25th-27th, three groups of New Design High School students had the opportunity to write, record and create a music video based on their original...
Pax Romana

Pax Romana

How small is large? And how powerful is belief? Location: Piazza San Piedro +41° 54′ 11.65″, +12° 27′ 26.39″ Focal Length: 7.4 mm Exposure: 1/60 sec at f/2.8, ...
See’ink

See’ink

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. Albert Einstein Location:  +31° 14′ 19.09″, +121° 27′ 42.72″ Focal Length: 70 mm Exposure: 1/600 sec at f/2.8,  ISO 100
Seeing is Doubting

Seeing is Doubting

Many things seem obvious. Documented. Real. Really? Date: Take a guess Location: Take a guess Focal Length: 7.4 mm (interesting information) Exposure: 1/60 sec at f/2.8,  ISO161
Balancing Act

Balancing Act

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. Franz Kafka Location:  +39° 56′ 11.73″, +116° 25′...
By Hand

By Hand

The Imperial Palace, Beijing. What monumental space. The heat? Painful. Driven by need, a women crouches for hours, removing grass and weed with a tiny torx wrench. Inch by inch, hour by hour. Day by day.Yes, they must. Location:  +39° 56′ 11.73″, +116°...
Renewal

Renewal

Renewal   Somewhere in Beijing. The country renews itself – every second of the day, everywhere. My lens searches through the countless alleys, the majestic avenues, the sea of people, the tranquility of ancient structures. The renewal of time is forceful,...
Shuffleboard 2.0. The modern way of sliding the groat

Shuffleboard 2.0. The modern way of sliding the groat

BROOKLYN, February 1st, 1867 Excursion of the steamship “Quaker City” to the Holy Land, Egypt, The Crimea, Greece, and intermediate points of interest. On board: Samuel L. Clemens aka Mark Twain. “At seven bells the first gong rang; at eight there...
2011 Leadership in Retail and Consumer Products Forum

2011 Leadership in Retail and Consumer Products Forum

2011 Leadership in Retail and Consumer Products Forum (Chicago) Thursday, May 12, 2011 Jan-Patrick Schmitz President & CEO Montblanc North America   Interviewed by: Lisa Gudding Executive Vice President GfK Custom Research North America Link to Transcript  ...
Human Boundaries

Human Boundaries

Human Boundaries    Standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon Date: 03/22/2011 Location:  +36° 3′ 56.78″, -112° 7′ 3.81″ Focal Length: 16 mm Exposure: Various Shutter Speed at f/13,  ISO100
Connecting Dots

Connecting Dots

Connections Date: 04/25/2011 Focal Length: 35 mm, multiple exposures at different focal points Exposure: 1/25 sec at f/3.5,  ISO 100 As I am sitting in an uncomfortable but overpriced airplane seat rushing to Los Angeles on an early Saturday morning to take part in...
At the Heart of Swiss Watchmaking

At the Heart of Swiss Watchmaking

Montblanc Montre S.A. was established in Le Locle, the heart of the Swiss watch industry, to maintain Montblanc’s philosophy of master craftsmanship and the satisfy the high quality expectations made on Meisterstück watches. I visited the manufacture in 2010 and...
Lange Kerls

Lange Kerls

Jockey Hollow   On October 17, 1779, the Continental Army bivouacked for the winter at Jockey Hollow. Soldiers camped at this location until January, 1780, during which they endured some of the harshest conditions of the war. Date: 02/12/2011 Location:  +40° 46′...
Winter Afternoon

Winter Afternoon

冬の午後そぞろ歩きの街凍る Date: 1/27/2001 Location:  Shinjuku Gyoen, Tokyo Japan +35° 41′ 12.07″, +139° 42′ 29.21″   Focal Length: 20 mm Exposure: 1/420 sec at f/5.6,  ISO 100
Easy Rider

Easy Rider

Standing Stills means Going Backwards Saddle up in San Francisco. There you are: Highway 1. Careful – black ice. Let’s go South. Hear the sound of your bike. Feel the vibration of the engine. Smell the ocean. A strong breeze is blowing from the sea. Lean...
Cape of Good Hope

Cape of Good Hope

Legend of the Flying Dutchman The year: 1641. It is said that Captain van der Decken and his crew are on their way home to Holland. As they approach the tip of Africa he fails to notice the dark clouds looming and he did not hear the fierce screams of terror from his...
L’éducation artistique

L’éducation artistique

The Power of Arts Education There seems to be no concept used more often, in today’s debate regarding our Nation’s future, then The American Dream.  The expression dates back to James Truslow Adams’ book “The Epic of America” published in 1931 where he...
Uphill Ride

Uphill Ride

Uphill Ride 外灘廣場 Entrance of an apartment building, minutes away from the ultra-modern skyscrapers which decorate the banks of the Huangpu Jiang River. The contrasts of life in China’s premier city of commerce are remarkable. Date: 8/23/2007 Location:  +31° 14′...