http://lifeonearth.gatheringblogs.org Community, Travel and Good Living Wed, 07 May 2008 20:56:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I happened to be in Minneapolis over the weekend and was able to experience the annual Mayday parade, ceremony and festival. It was fantastic-- Complete with bureaucratic puppet heads (above) and blood donations to save those addicted to oil (below). This year's theme, A New Bridge: Infrastructure for Future Beings, ... http://lifeonearth.gatheringblogs.org/archives/160 Take this test. It is short. It has everything to do with seeing. Used here to promote driver awareness of bicyclists. www.dothetest.co.uk It is also reflective of photography as a practice of seeing the complete picture. Seeing the unexpected. Seeing the subtle. Seeing, and capturing, what otherwise would be ... http://lifeonearth.gatheringblogs.org/archives/159 Last month I spent a day witnessing the making of cheese. The story ran in yesterday's Detroit Free Press. Basically, the process I saw was a few hundred gallons of milk slowly being stirred into a curd, poured into forms and then pressed into wheels that will become what was ... http://lifeonearth.gatheringblogs.org/archives/158 I can see the light! Yesterday the winter tires came off and spring is here! Right? ..... Although i haven't been posting to the BLOG of late, I have been shooting more than usual for this time of year. Some of the jobs I've are below. The New York Times covered a ... http://lifeonearth.gatheringblogs.org/archives/157 Q&A with Chris & Jody Treter of Higher Grounds Trading Co. I'm still trying to post some work from my January trip to Colombia with coffee roasters Jody & Chris Treter. I'm working on a slide show to post soon. For now, if you want to learn a little more about ... http://lifeonearth.gatheringblogs.org/archives/156