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Purposeful Wandering: on miracles
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007. I talked with my mom today. A Tuesday. In the din of rush hour traffic, I stood with a cellphone pressed to my ear. my free hand pressed to the other ear. Staring at my shoes, I spun slow circles next to my bus stop, and talked to mom. Mom had been on my mind all day yesterday, maybe more so than any other day. I'd tried her on the phone once. No one answered, and I didn't leave a voicemail. I didn't have to. She called me today. She knew. They gave me a gift. one so sacred, s...
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Purposeful Wandering: tell them you love 'em
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Friday, July 14, 2006. Tell them you love 'em. Are Do it today. pick up that phone. June 12, 1979 - July 14, 2005. Loved more than ever -. Song: P.S. You Rock My World. I was at a funeral the day i realized. I wanted to spend my life with you. Sitting down on the steps at the old post office. The flag was flying at half mast. And i was thinking 'bout how. And maybe it's time to live. I don't know where we're going. I don't know what we'll do. Walked into the thrif-tee. Saw the man with the hollow eyes.
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antarc-tia: maag; opaque quiet
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Monday, January 08, 2007. Maag; opaque quiet. I showed my still video at MAAG: the McMurdo Alternative Art Gathering. I joined a team of dedicated folks, together we organized and curated the MAAG events early last month. The event was very different from my jewelry sales, my role as an artist was behind the scenes. 8230;…………………. And gossip howls like the wind. Work and personal life is indistinguishable. All space is public, someone is always watching and thus everyone can know. Quiet is rare.
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antarc-tia: winter wonderland
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006. I recently became a trained leader for the mcmurdo station outing. Club, and on christmas eve we took our first outing club trip! Held the trip out at snow mound city, a site out on the sea ice shelf. Located on 40 meters of snow, suspended above 80 meters of ocean. Spot i took a piston bully (basically a mini tracked truck) with all. Of our group gear and met the campers who came on foot. the weather. Was absolutely beautiful, with afternoon temperatures in the mid 20's.
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antarc-tia: 02/01/2007 - 03/01/2007
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007. This place, this big dead place, is so alive. My appreciation for repetition is mimicked all around me. Subtle repetition, similarity again and again. I find satiating pleasure in the landscape. The white repeats itself over and over again- changing tones, minute by minutes, lit with different forces, reflecting and refracting glows, often fading into a featureless white expanse. From my perch, the driver’s seat of a 44,000 lb Delta, VAST is the only appropriate word. Today,...
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antarc-tia: happy camper
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Friday, December 08, 2006. Last night i spent my first evening sleeping on snow in snow. I went to happy camper! Happy camper is an over night school that teaches the basic in skills needed to survive out during harsh polar storms. We learned how to read the weather, put up scott tents, which are designed based on the traditional tents used by first antarctic explorers. Create strudy anchors for glacier/mountaineering tents,. And, to my surprize, they were warm. i slept all night without a peep. The most...
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antarc-tia: still, cold blank video
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Monday, February 12, 2007. Still, cold blank video. Then with a few crunches I entered the framed landscape. The camera still rolling, I mindfully stopped. Dropped to my knees—again perfectly still, I rested there. For five minutes the camera records the silence. Even to people here on the ice, they perceived the video to be a still photograph until I entered the frame. 8230;……………. But no doubt, I will long for this vastness and silence once I deploy. 8230;……………. Last week I took a cruise down the channel.
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antarc-tia: stellar axis
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Friday, December 22, 2006. On the solstice i participated in the first ever conceptual art performance piece to be funded by the NSF. Created by Lita Albequerque, an artist based out of LA, this work maps the constellations locatated above this particular location, nearly at the bottom of the earth. Then, i drove IVAN the Terra Bus, out to her sight with 58 people. together, coordinated with helocopter pilots and a cinematographer, we walked to create a moving spiral within these ploted stars.
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Purposeful Wandering: Friday Funnies
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Friday, March 10, 2006. Good night T'aim.". Shelton. it's a lot of fun traveling with you.". It's fun traveling with you, T'aim.". Hey T'aim. are we really getting up at 6:00? Yeah, unless you want to join a prayer group.". Oh no Well, good night then.". Good night Shelton.". Laying there in the dark, eyes open, I realize this mattress on the floor is the first one I've slept on since Nelson, two weeks ago. Huh? 6-years-old. clings to her dad's [Bob's] leg and steals shy glances at the strange Americ...
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Purposeful Wandering: Reverse Culture Shock
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Sunday, June 04, 2006. A few days ago I returned to the beautiful city of Seattle. I absolutely love this city. It's actually been 8 months since I left. my time abroad (I've never really liked that term, "abroad". sounds pretentious or something. like, "What are you doing for the summer? 10 Adjustments/Surprises/Novelties of Returning to Seattle, USA. And I actually got excited to find $2.99/gal gas. Spotless. We have it so good. 8 How far my money doesn't go. 7 Seeing the temperature (70F), and actuall...
