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Bora Bora- The Infinity Pool verses The God Molecule

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1/31/11Reprint  James Michener had proclaimed it the most beautiful island on this Earth. Still, it's not where you go, it's who you go with. Particle Accelerators are  OUT, Island paradises are IN "Ive just been shot Bob" ..."Me too Ed" His speeches leave me speechless- He is the most interesting man. Another Day in Paradise

King Of The Mountains- It's Not Unusual

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An inexpensive window to a great location! 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.

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. God's Garden-CA

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. God's Garden-CA

Windows 2012-ImagineNATION

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A Virtual Room Of My Own How often have we wondered what lies beyond the next door. Rooms by their very nature are crowded places.Life is  a series of rooms, and who we get stuck in those rooms with, adds up to what our lives are. One day.One room...for that matter One Day One Ship.   Traveling is a Life Sentence--We yearn for journeys like prisoners dream of rooms without bars. And we all want time off for good behavior . I am the smartest guy in the room even when I'm not in the room! My Nine rooms of Joy and Happiness-- The Basement: Nostalgia and Memories The Family Room: Your nearest and dearest The Living Room: FriendSHIPs The Office: No Place like work when your at home The Bathroom: some BODY image The Bedroom: Intimacy and relationSHIPS The Kitchen: Nourishment and the division of chores The Kid’s Room: Parenting The Attic: Expectations That's why I am attracted to the sea. There is a certain comfort in the space of the fjords, neithe...

The Importance Of Being Ernest Without Having Ever Read Him

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Reprint/ 1/17/10 The Sun Also Rises   Dear, Hotel @nyware, I soon discovered that life in remote Key West was like living in a foreign country while still perched on the southernmost tip of America . Have fun up North doing battle with The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ed Reif Tight Is Right Ernest Hemingway loved it. "It’s the best place I’ve ever been anytime, anywhere, flowers, tamarind trees, guava trees, coconut palms...Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks."   Key West Accords Truman spent 175 days of his presidency at the Little White House in Key West. Took a walking tour of the grounds. I was at : Wickhams Cay 1, Road Town, "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love" "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen" Roll Video

The Importance Of Being Ernest Without Having Ever Read Him

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Reprint/ 1/17/10 The Sun Also Rises   Dear, Hotel @nyware, I soon discovered that life in remote Key West was like living in a foreign country while still perched on the southernmost tip of America . Have fun up North doing battle with The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ed Reif Tight Is Right Ernest Hemingway loved it. "It’s the best place I’ve ever been anytime, anywhere, flowers, tamarind trees, guava trees, coconut palms...Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks."   Key West Accords Truman spent 175 days of his presidency at the Little White House in Key West. Took a walking tour of the grounds. I was at : Wickhams Cay 1, Road Town, "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love" "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen" Roll Video

Las Vegas-Heads Up-Be Brave And Shave!

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Vegas Neon: Bald & Beautiful BALD & BEAUTIFUL ★ VEGAS STYLE ★ ★ WELCOME TO THE STRIP OF SMOOTH SCALPS ★ WHERE HAIR GOES TO DIE AND CONFIDENCE COMES ALIVE ★ I resemble those guys. In the beginning, there was MICHAEL JORDAN - 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 in the neon lights of the strip! ★ ME NO HAIR CLUB ★ ...

Los Angeles-To London in 110 Days-In One yEAR and Out the Other!

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World Cruise 2011 / Los Angeles to London / 110 Days Are We Clear—Crystal? Headed to Oz, then onward around the world: the first leg of a voyage that would turn ports into chapters and distance into a way of life. See Full Image Show Text Reprint / January 15, 2011 Starting the First Leg Monday Los Angeles. San Pedro. California. The gangway ahead and a world map waiting to become personal. The itinerary began in the Pacific, crossed through Oceania and Asia, rounded Africa, and finished in London. On paper it was a sequence of ports. In practice it became 110 days of thresholds. The $60,000 Question “Fly a Russian MiG-29 at Mach 2 or take a world cruise in zero gravity—I’ll take things that I know for $60,000, Alex.” World Cruise 2011 The route before it became memory. Pape...

Apocalypse (Not) Now- Santa Monica

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California Years / Santa Monica / Pacific Landfall Harbor Without Moorings A Zen sailor comes ashore in Santa Monica and discovers that dry land moves too—only the currents are traffic, ambition, memory, and the difficult art of staying put. See Full Landfall Show Story The pier was a gangway that went nowhere. The ocean kept moving. I was the thing expected to stop. Landfall 01 California arrived as light before it became a place. 34° 01′ N / 118° 29′ W After years of measuring life in ports, gangways, watches, and departures, Santa Monica felt like an island that had forgotten to detach from the continent. The Pacific was there, performing its ancient work. Behind it, Los Angeles accelerated in every direction. The sailor in me trusted the water. Water announces its intentions. It darkens. It rises. It changes pitch against the hull. Dry land is more deceptive. A road looks still while carrying a current. A building ...

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