A Rich & John Photo / Early Morning Exercises in Miami Making Adjustments in/to Florida John Fraim Naima / McCoy Tyner _________________________________________________ My good friend (and photographer of many of the photos you see after I touched them up in Photomatix 6 HDR editing software) has taken a number of very cool shots on his […]
Naima Coltrane McCoy Tyner / Naima _____________________________________________ John Fraim I heard a mesmerizing piece over the jazz radio station I stream all day and night into my office: KCSM Jazz from the campus of the College of San Mateo on the San Francisco Peninsula. By the San Francisco International Airport. I used to live in […]
Red Clay / Freddy Hubbard _______________________________ Delicate Balance or Lop-sided John Fraim When a presidential administration comes to power, ratios control the initial power of the administration. The first ratio is the percentage of voters the election is won by. This percentage is the ratio in the executive branch which is translated into ratios in […]
A Delicate Psychological Balance in a New Type of World John Fraim (Photos & Story) Backward Step ________________________________ It is a myth that a current United States Presidential Administration controls the destiny of a nation. It depends on the relationships in the two houses in the legislative branch and their relationship to the executive branch. […]
Photo by John Fraim / Downtown Pittsburgh Peace Piece / Bill Evans _______________________________ The latest on my application of symbolism to political slogans that subliminally excluded two voting generations. The opening of a recent post of mine: Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” uses symbolism in an interesting […]
Scene from The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms Jagadishwar / Translinear Light (2004) / Alice Coltrane ________________________________ It was a foggy day in early February when I drove up to the little midwestern college for the conference. I had been up to the college a number of times before and knew the way up from Columbus […]
Need for Speed / Amin Bhatia __________________________ Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death (2005) is really an updating of Aldous Huxley’s prophetic Brave New World (1932). If you’ve read Brave New World you know it depicts a society controlled through pleasure, consumerism, and conditioning rather than physical force. It proposes a very different future than George […]
In a Silent Way / Miles Davis ___________________________ Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” uses symbolism in an interesting manner. The quote asks a few questions. Is there a time in your memory when America was great? Yes, for the baby-boomers thus Trumps appeal to his own generation […]
