Seven years ago, in the spring of 2010, a personal crisis hit. I woke up one day and found I had lost a client in my I/T work that significantly jeopardized the quality of life for my sons and myself. Facing the prospects of an income that was approaching poverty level, I endeavored to think outside the box for a solution that would not…
In an effort to keep you current ("you" lol, as if), here's an updated blog post. Also, I couldn't stand seeing my most recent post always coming up; "Way behind...". I don't do "way behind". Anyway, since driving off the lot with a 2016 model Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies degree from ASU, I figured I needed to get right to the…
This site has become woefully out-dated as I finish grad school. I keep paying the ten bucks a month to keep it lit however so there's hope. I'm looking forward to updating it often after graduation in May. Until then, here's some "proof" at least that I've been busy with academics (not to mention, life in general)....
Trying on a new hat. Michael Mufasa as filmmaker. As an interdisciplinarian (yes, that's a word, but remains red-lined by most spell-checkers), I am often drawn not only to new ideas and theories, but also to new ways of expressing myself. So with apologies to Yogi Berra, I decided to take another fork in the road. After my undergrad interdisciplinary focus of Human…
Okay. Semester II of Grad School is in the books. I'm hanging in there.
I got up at 4am the other morning to watch the eclipse. I can't remember if it was a Lunar or Solar but I do know that the Earth was passing between the Sun and the Moon- so in effect the Earth's shadow was being cast across the lunar landscape. I shot a couple hundred images...all hand-held, so the results were a bit…
I have a problem with this. "This" being a musical interlude setting a particular tone for the Masters Tournament beginning this morning at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. So here we have a Nina Simone ballad, "Feeling Good", playing while a mosaic of players and past champions is paraded by. At the very least it is 90 seconds of irony. At…
My application of Ngugi wa Thiongo'o's concept of "colonizing the mind". Please click here: Prezi Presentation
I stumbled on a seemingly innocuous tweet accompanied by a photo, both from Rainn Wilson (AKA Dwight Schrute from the sitcom “The Office”). The tweet: @rainnwilson “Meeting with some of the 1st girls we taught in Haiti @JPHPRO 5 yrs ago @LideHaiti www.facebook.com/lide.org” The accompanying image: Analysis and Interpretation First let me presume what Wilson intends to express to his fans and…
(Side note: RIP Leonard Nimoy. Even though he was 83 and had lived long and prospered, his passing shocked many and he will be sorely missed in this world.) We evolve. As individuals and as species, we all evolve. I look back at the last decade and besides the obvious aesthetic and sometimes superficial changes, and setbacks and advancements which I experienced, I…