Green-based service companies are proliferating and some seem incredibly promising. GreenDimes is one of them. Guess how many trees have the honor of being chopped down every year for junk mail? Did you say 100 million? Then you’re right. Now you want to find out about how to get off those lists, now right? But, oh yeah, you wanted to do that three years ago. What happened? It’s not simple… there’s research, multiple lists… etc. Or maybe you did do it yourself and now, horror, you’re back to being inundated. (more…)
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James Turrell And Skyspace
Okay, just bear with me a bit while I compare the artist James Turrell to the musician R. Kelly.
1) They create things that are very moving (shut up, haters of R. Kelly)
2) They both believe they can touch the sky
Last night in New York City, Turrell spoke about the use of natural light and the sky in his work. He made a pretty good case for light as a tangible substance: Your skin gets Vitamin D out of it, your pupils dilate, the neurons in your eyeballs go nuts. “It’s almost physical, like to touch.”
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Valentines and Doing-It-Yourself
A woman named Marian Bantjes hand-drew over 150 valentines for her friends. Who needs Hallmark’s when you’ve got yourself? (more…)
Marc Newson at Gagosian Gallery
Michael recently ferreted out an art show we’d all like: Gagosian’s Chelsea Gallery is displaying several objects by Australian designer Marc Newson, including surfboards made of hollow nickel. Michael will be blogging about the installation soon, but in the meanwhile, New Yorkers should go check it out before it comes down on March 3rd.
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Cross Stepping
Okay, so I am learning to cross step and its taking me a little while. I understand the part about taking the bottom turn, coming up high and stalling to bury the tail of the board, but this whole ninja walk thing on the board feels… er, new. Though she is still learning, Susan is far better at cross stepping than me, but, ha ha, I was at the beach when the guy with the camera was there so you’ll have to wait to see Susan at the nose and just see these pics of yours truly flailing precariously on a tiny wave.
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Two Hearts
Valentine’s Day is ripe (too ripe?) for poetry, and this Robert Browning poem is as sexy as they get, and totally worth the eye rolling one may get for pulling out verse on the day of St. Valentine. By the way, those two silver hearts in the picture were made for me and Susan and are now somewhere in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Nosara.
Cheers, and Happy Valentines Day!
— John
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Welcome to Harmony Hotel’s Blog!
The Harmony Blog is officially up and running today. Happy Valentine’s Day! Stop by for for your daily dose of sustainability, surfing, and creative culture…
Sand Surfing
I had been curious about sand surfing, so this last Fall, on our way to the Maldives, we stopped in Dubai and drove out to the desert to try it. I can tell you that the scary thing wasn’t sand surfing but rather driving up to the highest dunes to get decent pitch for your ride. As anyone who has driven in deep sand knows, the wheel feels loose and you have to keep your speed up. Combine that with stomach clenching drops that would roll the car three or four times and you get a feel for what getting to the ‘peak’ was like.
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