Category: June/July 2013

The Wilder West: Anything is Possible…The Art & Wit of Dave Wilder

Anything is Possible Acrylic, 20×10″ I like to think of myself as an optimist. But let’s face it, the world’s a mess. Our mess. But we can turn things around can’t we? Climate change, overpopulation, mass extinctions, you know, all…

Losing Solitude: Theme Parks…by Martin Murie

THEME PARKS John Colter, 1807-08 They kept track of him that winter west of the Absarokas, by day brilliant ravens avid over snow, wolves and coyotes hung around refining careful judgements, the man recognized: one of them, killers and scavengers…

Herb Ringer’s American West: Before & After…Herb Ringer Style

Sedona, Arizona. mid-50s & 2013 via Google Street-view MARBLE CANYON… 1950 & 2012 (Google) TONOPAH, NEVADA… 1942 & 2012 (Google) HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West,…

The Bulletin Board of Doom!

  SMARTPHONE ADDICTION? How long can you go without checking email, or glancing at your smartphone? Clifford Nass, a psychology professor at Stanford University, says today’s nonstop multitasking actually wastes more time than it saves—and he says there’s evidence it…

The Evolution of “The Journey Home” by Edward Abbey

A look at his original manuscript–the Introduction EDWARD ABBEY’S collection of essays was originally to be called “Desert Music.” Ed was always trying to help out young artists and writers and based on a single cartoon I’d given him the…