Last week my daughter and I biked to school as we regularly do. For the first time, however, she was now on her own bike. The Dutch Bobike seat, which was so difficult to find in the U.S., now seems to her like something that’s for babies. Nostalgia that these almost unexpected transitions trigger is tempered […]
Last week Instagram, the popular photo-sharing social media site, announced that it’s inviting a new medium to the party: video. Video sharing on Instagram will work much the same way that photo sharing works. You snap a video on your smartphone (up to 15 seconds in length) and then have a number of filters to choose from […]
In Latin, sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), the day when the sun stands still in the seasonal movement where it comes to a stop before reversing direction. Whether you are in the Northern Hemisphere heading into the expansiveness of summer or in the Southern moving into the depths of winter, here is a new […]
As I stood in line for one of the films at MountainFilm in Telluride a few days ago, my neighbor told me that he had been coming to the event for 16 years. It made sense to me. This was my first trek to MountainFilm, and I had already started to wonder what had taken me […]
Recently I was browsing the Patagonia website and stumbled across a micro-documentary for one of their jackets. Now, a video on a product as mundane as a jacket could very easily be as promotional as it gets. Most are. They feel like commercials. Patagonia did something different. They created a testimonial that was authentic, engaging […]