When Art Speaks to You
Editors: We recently caught up with our colleague Marina Bird (right), in Dubai, where she was busy establishing new distribution outlets for ESG News. “Travel with meaning” is a phrase that can be interpreted in many ways. It could mean traveling with a purpose or...
Wherever you go, there you are. The inescapable problem with escape vacations.
Mount Buffalo, Victoria, Australia. I watched this young man for more than an hour. He was trying to get enough momentum in his run up to carry him over the top of an imposing granite rock formation. Despite his persistence, no matter how hard he tried, gravity always...
It’s what happens when the world is not looking that counts the most A look back on events in Indonesia following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
The image above is from the photographic collection of Peter Rancie. He was in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, at the beginning of 2005, following the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004. At the time I was 30, a young mother, with the first of my six boys. I knew about...
Ignore. Renew. Replace. PAUSE. FULL STOP. What do you see?
INITIALLY, I see what everyone sees at first glance … asymmetrical rust on a metal roof … an abandoned structure becoming increasingly dilapidated from years of non-use or neglect … a Mater-like old truck with character but nonetheless relegated to a...
Our Beautiful Paradoxical Dichotomous World What might we see when we view the artificial intelligence dialogue from a Maasai warrior's point of view?
Cowherders by day. Tourist guards at night. Protecting safari visitors straying too far from their tents and being caught in the maw of grazing hippopotami or an occasional lion. Are these mostly traditional tribal folk part of the global artificial intelligence...
