Gina + Summer + Italian ice =

Farm life is about getting back to the land, becoming one with the earth, getting in touch with nature, and then blowing shit to pieces.

you lookin' at me? (250k .mov)

We live in a world of technological advance. The computer, the Internet, cell phones. For all practical purposes it seems we as a race are rapidly moving into a new era.

But this monumental leap forward is only apparent to me because I live in the industrialized world. Less than ten percent of the global population is online. Most people in the world have never used a telephone. The basic technologies I take for granted aren't even a dream to most people in the world. I own a cell phone that can take digital photographs and then post them to the internet. Yet there are over one billion people in the world who don't have safe water, and over two billion who don't have sanitation.

I lived in frustration waiting for high speed internet access at my house in Minneapolis, taking for granted that I had clean water to drink.

We were pretty sure that the can was a terrorist, and in this age of fear and terror and evil doers lurking everywhere (even in a coke can) you got to shoot first, and then shoot again later.

I thought this was the coolest thing. They will stamp your passport with a German Democratic Republic (East German) passport stamp at the Check Point Charlie Museum in Berlin.

Some photos from Europe...

A little shout out to Jim and Gina: Almost everywhere I've stayed in Germany/Austria they hav served a basic breakfast, and this breakfast has almost always included a roll with butter, a brochen(sp?) as they say. Many times this brochen could be clasified as a Kaiser Brochen...I'm in the land of the roll and butter for breakfast. And damned good coffee to boot.