When the first ever Telluride Fire Festival ignites Wednesday, January 14, the guest list of founders Erin Ries and Christ Myers includes a number of very hot kinetic artists: Duane Flatmo, who brings his now legendary fiery beast “El Pulpo” to town ( see related story here); metal sculptor and...
Philanthropist, idealist, humanist, architect by training and a globe-trotting heavyweight champion of photojournalism – he is a National Geographic fellow whose images have graced many covers – the man known simply as Reza was an honored guest of Mountainfilm in Telluride last May. His subject, ironically in the...
Telluride Historical Museum & Pinhead Institute unveil local contribution to groundbreaking, collaborative Smithsonian exhibition [caption id="attachment_47780" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Pinheads on Hydroelectric Generator at Ames Power Plant. THM 2005-01-189.[/caption] If you’ve been in the area for a while, you have undoubtedly heard the names L.L. Nunn, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla...
We are hard into 2015 now. So how are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions? How many of them and the other reprimanding voices in your head boil down to ginormous wastes of your precious time. Found this great – and all too familiar – list...
Here’s what see in our review of the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival: "It’s a bird. It’s a plane – not. It’s “Birdman,” a winged version of Superman and all the other hollow comic book super heroes at the center of pow!, wow!, bang, snap, crackle and pop orgies,...
Know the expression “making lemonade from lemons?” But what if lemons are great as is? Check out the reasons why in this blog by Anastasia Pantsios posted in EcoWatch. Lemon water looks so clean and healthy, so fresh and bright. It’s got a crisp, tart edge that...
U.S. News ranked them, Huff Post curated them, and now you get to see which diets work and which don’t. Hint: Mediterranean & Weight Watchers, good; South Beach & Vegen ok; Atkins & Paleo, not so much. Read on...
Remedy Yoga in LA expects students to smoke some cannabis before arriving at the studio and then think of their mats as “private magic carpets.” It is a glittering generality, but nonetheless true that a yoga practice is designed to change consciousness, i.e. deepen awareness of...
Art and technology meet in the two-story (26-feet tall) fire-breathing, steampunk windup toy affectionately known as “El Pulpo Mecanico” (Mechanical Octopus). [caption id="attachment_47678" align="alignnone" width="480"] Duane Flatmo WIth ElPulpo Mecanico, by Jason Mongue[/caption] El Pulpo is a found object masterpiece fashioned from junk found at at local...
We know all about it. Just shy of the stroke of midnight you added “dieting” to your list of New Year’s resolutions – before dashing to the 'frig for just one more bite of Brie or piece of chocolate. But if you are serious about making 2015 the year for...
