Entries for category "Live Blue Blog"
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wallacejnichols
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Aug. 5, 2011
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What is it about the way the ocean moves, reflects, glimmers and glows that mesmerizes and transfixes us? Earlier this summer I gathered a group of leading neuroscientists, ocean explorers, advocates, communicators and creative people together in a room at the California Academy of Sciences to begin to answer this…
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wallacejnichols
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May 25, 2011
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"We are more than logical. We are human." --Jacques Yves Cousteau Once, I met a man who hated the ocean. Intensely, he said. He described to me fear, negative associations and a general unease that he couldn't quite put his finger on. His aversion was so strong -- especially when…
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wallacejnichols
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March 17, 2011
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Our thoughts are with our friends and their families in Sendai, Japan. I walked their beautiful coast with my partner Dana and photographer David Barron over a decade ago in search of Adelita's final location. The joy, traditions, hospitality and kindness of the people of Miyagi Prefecture were abundant. The…
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wallacejnichols
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Feb. 1, 2011
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As a child, I could read Where The Wild Things Are in an infinite loop without boredom.When I was in high school, I came across these words by Henry David Thoreau: "In wildness is the preservation of the world." I secretly carried them in my pocket for a decade.In college,…
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wallacejnichols
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Dec. 3, 2010
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The stuff of war is the stuff of art. Some of the earliest cave drawings depict tribal strife. Since before history, the material and materiel of war has served as a vast palette for artists to explore and explain the times in which they live. Eighteen-year-old Lovetta Conto designs jewelry…
