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On the lack of Common interests and mobile phones getting the blame

Aug 6, 2015

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in observation, social media, social networking

Reading Time: 4 minutesOn Linkedin and Facebook people believe that mobile phones are making people less sociable then they would be if phones were not around. They believe that the world in which we lived before mobile phones was an open and sociable place where everyone communicated with everyone. These people are forgetting the social…

Social conversations and the social media

May 1, 2015

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in lifestream, mobile, mobile streaming, observation, social media, social media living room, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you read “How to Win Friends and Influence People” you see how important it is to take notice of other people, to be positive and to be interested in what they are doing. That can be a challenge for everyone. We all have different priorities so putting other people first is…

The Crosscall Odyssey Plus

Apr 22, 2015

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in Android, observation, reviews, Swiss walks, tech related, Via Ferrata

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Crosscall Odyssey Plus fills two niches. It is a rugged weather proof phone rated to the IP 68 standard and is equipped with dual sim capability. This makes it ideal for the sports I enjoy, mainly via ferrata as pictured below and hiking. It comes with a smaller carabiner…

Access to contemporary technology helped promote my habits as an early adopter.

Mar 13, 2015

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in observation, social media, social media living room, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesParents in the silly con valley are idiots. They are in a trillion dollar industry and make billions a year because people want to use the technology they are developing. Think about how different my childhood would have been if we had learned camera work and video editing in art classes rather…

The Rescued Film Project

Jan 20, 2015

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in Documentary, observation, vimeo

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUndeveloped World War II Film Discovered from The Rescued Film Project on Vimeo. We all have a deep fascination for the past and photography gives us a window in to that past. This documentary follows one individual as he catalogues and then develops 31 rolls of film. As he does so…

Modern Life Is A Western

Jan 3, 2015

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in fun, Holidays, observation, travel

Reading Time: 2 minutesA few afternoons ago I tuned in to a Western on Television and I thought about how similar our modern lives have become to Westerns. Either we’re the ones travelling all the time meeting new people and then leaving them behind or we’re the ones staying in place while everyone around moves.…

Rome’s Lost Empire

Jan 1, 2015

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in Documentary, observation, Post-university life, reviews, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDocumentaries have been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. This year I started with the Documentary Rome’s Lost Empire narrated by Dan Snow. With Sarah, an associate professor they travel from Rome to Transylvania, to Petra and to Tunisia to uncover the Roman Frontier. Using a…

On Film and Television

Nov 29, 2014

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in observation, Video

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI like that I can watch days of television series and that I can’t spend 90 minutes watching films. Television series are about people, places and situations and the characters are realistic. In contrast films are superficial, shallow and too full of special effects for a story to be told. The…

Village Photography

Nov 25, 2014

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in Documentary, lifestream, observation, social media, Swiss walks, Switzerland, travel, Uncategorized

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn Google Plus, one of my muses, I saw that instead of Street photography someone suggested Village photography. I like the idea because villages are such an integral part of my life. Life in villages is a privileged one. Every time we go for a walk we cross people we do…

Will Marshall: Tiny satellites that photograph the entire planet, every day

Nov 24, 2014

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in collaboration, observation, tech related, Video, youtube

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUp to date earth imagery every day.

Category: observation