Hotel @nyware

Home is a feeling not a place.

River Of Silence- It's Not Unusual

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Everyone has a photographic memory,
 but not everyone uses film. 
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. - Ansel Adams. 

Cha Ching Second Sale.Here in Las Vegas, Your analog eyes see a digital world, Peter Lik, Jeff Mitchem, Michael Carr, Art Wolfe, and then there's  Lowe Jr: All of Rodney's compositions are photographed on Professional Fuji Velvia film, using either his Toyo 4x5 AII, ArcaSwiss 4x5 f-line or ArcaSwiss 8x10 f-line field cameras.

King Of The Mountains, AK (An inexpensive window to a great location!)

ImagiNATION-Home Is Where The Art Is

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What happens on cruise ships happens in Vegas. Selling Art.
My first piece called,Toward The Light, shot of The Grand Tetons in Wyoming by Master Photographer Rodney Lough Jr.
These images are stunning.


 Here is Imagination, somewhere on Idaho.

And  Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve, AK


Las Vegas-Heads Up

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I resemble 
those guys.


Headlines-Q Balls by choice
In the beginning, there was Michael.Jordan was the poster guy for the perfectly bald man. He made shaving cutting edge.

He took 'the shaved skull' from social outcast to rock star chick magnet status. The follicly challenged started doing the numbers .

Shaved head= Shiny, Smooth and Sexy. You could count on being noticed. Just ask

Me no hair

Is bald beautiful? Perhaps. Is bald a high end haircut? Maybe. One thing for sure,(Listen up Blue Man Group) Bald is a hair color. If you want to make the statement that says, I run my own life. Shave your head and join the Union! Guy Laliberté, founder of  Cirque du Soleil is a card carrying member

Me no hair is a walking, breathing billboard and bullhorn that shouts, "I've got other plans" to the "Have a nice day" retail speak, and the SNL's (Saturday Night Live's) flight attendant "Ba-Bye" sketch.

Be Brave and Shave!

"Getting Kojack-ed" was made popular by 1970's TV star, Telly Savalas. Who loves ya baby? We do---the perfectly bald.

Yul Brynner was the quintessential Fuzzy Wuzzy when it wasn't (very) fuzzy. to "go all the way", back in the day, when Mr Clean, a household brand was the only game in town. Now we have MiliTerry O'Quinn.

We have yet to see a celebrity call a press conference to deny they are wearing a wig (David "Weave" Roth did it on radio). If indeed, there were such a day, Sir Elton John, William Shatner, and my all-time favorite, Burt Reynolds, would have what ---I Love Lucy's Ricky Ricardo--- would say, have some "splaning to do". The Donald's cover up has an honorable mention for all of its dishonesty. Rosie trumped that.

Life is too short for hair. In fact, a BBC survey says men who shave every day have a lesser chance of stroke than those who shave infrequently We are not skinheads, or Chemo patients, but would we shave our head for cancer, research, a cause? You know, get people to sponsor you, and the biggest donor gets the honor of the first cut.


Nowadays, Celebrities, Politicians, Athletes, and folks just like us are all saying, "Me No Hair".The ten "baldies" you H8 or dig in this world---who are they? Post your comments here at Hotel @nyware. If you need any ideas, check out my jumpcut music video.

We, the "young and the ruthless" who were growing too tall for our hair, started conforming to the idea that we could be running our own show; and rebelling against the $2 Billion Dollar hair "restoration" industry of plugs, rugs and drugs.

The tragedy really was not in something that was, but in something that wasn't. Drinking the kool-aid of late-night infomercials that going "hair-free" cost too much was bunk. The fear merchants put the con back in confidence with "Wayne's World"-style public access shows and 1-800 numbers.

They tried to make us afraid, and take away the "pain", the pain of once parted hair that now was de-parting, cutting "itself". As if it was happening to us, and keeping us separated from looking good. It was just exchanging an I for an I, and keeping us blind to the fact that hair "loss" is no loss at all, and, more than that, the upside of shaving it all off, is all gains, in street cred and social and spiritual capital.

Then Of Course, there is Dr Evil--

The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery...


Apocalypse (Not) Now- Santa Monica

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Rest In Paradise

 

  

The future is so bright even for dogs
 who have to wear sunglassses
  Let this blog serve as a guide to surviving the  2012 Mayan apocalypse.If they only knew how many people they freaked out by running out of room to write on that rock. I gotta wear shades. Why wait for 2020 to have a perfect vision:



The whole aim of travel is not to set foot on exotic land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as an exotic land...

Video Thilled the Radio Star ---2011  Roll Tape:



And I thought 2010 was a good year: When I wrote  Santa Monica-Whip It Good



The future is full of possibilities that I must constantly shoot in the head, because if you want something GR8, you must be able to limit yourself.
 Normal people  need three things to travel-Time, Money and Opportunity.


As an abnormal person doing abnormal things---It has never been about resources. You see, I am the Bobby Fisher of resourcefulness, the Cosmo Kramer of planning , the Curious George of predictable unpredictability. >note to self< Rock on man with the yellow hat, rock on.



No matter how low the budget bar gets, I always manage to limbo my way under it. If you think about it, I am the Wilt Chamberlain of shoe-string  travel. I'm putting up numbers so unthinkable that normals will never, ever reach them.-300 ports in 365 days.


Why Be A Man When You Can Be A Success?
As the Morgan Freeman of travel writers , if you will. Everyone recognizes me but I never gain any due recognition., Hotel @nyware hasn't exactly  been the Edgar Allen Poe of knock-outs, the Emily Dickinson of ground n pound, the Robert Frost of ass-kicking.


It's just me, born with a Ph.D. in throwing junk up against the wall, and seeing what will stick.Looking back, it's been the Colonel Kurtz of experiences. I've gone native and insane so many times, but in a Lance Armstrong Barbara Bush sort of way. Sometimes I am the census taker, sometimes, the cannibal psychiatrist.  Roll Tape...


My Top Ten World Tour 2010 YouTube Videos
When a good time turns around, You must whip it , You will never live it down, Unless you whip it.  No one gets their way, Until they whip it-Devo 


 
#1 BUI: Embracing The Life Forced Upon Me--OMG! WTF? I have nothing in common with myself anymore



#2: Insulin Shock and Awe, eating the Celebrity Solstice



#3.Acropolis Now-Ed Reif and James Hopkins; making the world safe for Hypocracy..er ..I mean Democracy in the cradle of Western civilization---Athens, Greece



#4 Buddha Boy Ed Reif ---From Monk to Millionaire--- in Sint Maarteen--It ain't much if it ain't Dutch





Success is continued enthusiasm despite failure after failure
#5.The Importance Of Being Ernest (Hemingway) without having ever read him-Never go on trips with anyone you do not love

#6 You(th) are as young as your spine is flexible.

#7 What color is your Parachute Money?

#8 I am at one with the chainsaw. British Virgin islands

#9 Have A Cigar-And did we tell you the name of the game, boy We call it Riding the Gravy Train.

#10 Put That Coffee Down-Ed Reif, former NYU classmate of Alec, and Starter for Team Baldwin, votes for Starbucks today, where life changes instantly, as he drinks from a paper cup.


Honorable Mention
#1   Regular-- Kissing a stingray while being filmed in Grand Cayman Islands Extra Crispy- Going out old school Steve Irwin Style-Being fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming in GB Reef

#2 Eminem has 8 Mile, Bob Marley, the small village of 9 mile... Bob,just sMILE.

#3 Container Cargo Cult Madness

Happy Last Year-Write? Right!

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Here are my accounts of the last 364 days-Once around without leaving the ground.
There is no doubt about it, the exhilarating state of mind that travel can evoke, when everything seems suddenly fresh, vivid, intensely interesting, and memorable.



That Was Zen. This is Now

California-The Coast Is Clear

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Greetings from the user-friendly universe of Southern California.
After discovering the God Molecule, flying  a Russian MiG-29 at Mach 2 and Taking  A World Cruise in Zero Gravity- there is something extraordinary about being an "Ordinary People", a mere civilian again; mearly walking in L.A. It's so post September 11th, so pedestrian.


Planes are like diets. I don't like being on them,




If God had really intended men to fly,
 he'd make it easier to pick people up at the airport