We are cruising on the Panama Canal. I’m not sure this post will ever go through, so this is a trial post. I may have trouble for the next few days. We are aboard the 90-passenger Tere Moana. They said the currents may be very choppy tonight. Ugh.
Eliot, Andrea, Me, and Ron
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A very talented waterscape photographer (a friend of mine, from Florida,) just launched a Kickstarter campaign with his collaborator, an Earthscape Artist. Entitled, “Between Worlds,” Jason Henthorne and Andres Amador, want to raise money so they can pay for their post production as well produce a book of the their work.
I promised Jason coverage in DigiDame.
“Between Worlds” is a documentary film that follows the four month long collaboration between international award-winning photographer Jason Henthorne, known for his black-and -white, long-exposure landscape photography and Andres Amador, self-proclaimed ‘Earthscape Artist,’ who creates works of art on beaches measuring up to 100,000 square feet large during low tides.
For the film, documentary film-maker, Brad Kremer of Cross Media International, went on location to capture the process of two creators of very different styles and personalities blending their art forms. The project took Henthorne and Amador to the rugged and scenic beaches of Northern California.
The film features the scouting sites, preparation, executing the artwork, and photographing the result within the landscape as well as revealing aspects of the lives of both creators, concluding with the final gallery unveiling of the artworks produced.
Check it out:
http://www.henthorne.com
http://www.andresamadorarts.com
We were told that Panama City is the 18th largest City for the amount of Skyscrapers.
We flew here today with friends, Andrea and Ron. The flight from Miami was easy. We start touring tomorrow. Tonight we had dinner on the terrace over looking the Pacific Ocean.
And we were thoroughly entertained.
We reminded everyone to keep their smartphones on airplane mode in order to avoid cellular data charges. This is what your screen should look like.
Good night
I just had to tell you about a man and his company that just may change the entire footwear industry. You can meet Karim Oumnia in the above video. He is the founder of Glagla Shoes, based in Nancy, France,
Glagla is the first ventilated-connected shoe company by inventing Digitsole, a digital sole that fits inside any regular shoe size and also has Bluetooth capabilities so that it’s totally connected.
Glagla told Business Insider that a companion smartphone app communicates with new insole in order “to track your day, warm your feet to a desired temperature, track how many steps you’ve taken during the day, check the calories burned, the distance walked as well as your current altitude.”
I had the pleasure of talking to Karim on the phone this afternoon. He hopes to have full distribution late this year and promises that the Digitsole will be offering many new features every few months. He said, “Our feet will never be the same.”
Images from Business Insider
It doesn’t matter what your political affiliation is, I hope you will agree that it is pretty remarkable that Kara Swisher, executive editor at Re/code, the leading tech publication, secured an interview with President Barack Obama.
Obama was in Silicon Valley last Friday to speak at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection.
Below are videos of that interview and click here to read the questions and answers.
Deeny and Ken Lorber, owners of The Kitchen
Over 40 friends showed up for our first networking party in Miami. We call it our senior tweetup. The main purpose was for friends to meet friends and business folks to network.
The discussion was led by Deeny Kaplan Lorber, Executive Vice President of The Kitchen. Deeny runs one of the most successful entertainment companies in the United States (along with husband Ken). She recently wrote a book called “Waiting At Joe’s,” the inner workings and personal stories about the most adored waiters at the world famous restaurant.
The event was hosted by yours truly and Gary Greenberg, Management Consultant. Eliot and I have hosted political and business salons in New York. This is just the beginning for Miami.
I love that headline from the New York Times story about a growing number of museums prohibiting selfie sticks. It has become pretty apparent to museum administrators that they don’t want the masses waving those sticks anywhere near their precious treasures.
Eliot and Steve Greenberg trying to maneuver the selfie stick so it doesn’t show in the photo.
As indicated by the New York Times article,
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, are the most vocal about forbidding selfie sticks.
I don’t blame them. I own one and I can see how unwieldy it can be. They are fun to use a few times, but you are far better off asking someone else to take your photo. Everyone I know who tried a selfie device gave it up because it just took too long to unfold and set up, take the photo, and maneuver the smartphone camera so you didn’t see the stick.
On top of that, the sticks are just another thing to carry around. Did you ever notice, as we are getting older, we don’t want to carry any excess baggage? I drove Eliot crazy to buy just the right one for me. He bought two, just so I can figure out which one I liked best. They are now both stored on the bottom of my closet.
Juan Carlos and yours truly look like we are fishing.
Every time I'm about to go to the dentist, I truly wonder if I absolutely need to. Everything feels okay, so why go to the dentist to look for trouble.
I know that what I just said doesn’t make sense, but for some reason many folks feel the same way. Now there is a mouth camera that allows patients to actually see plague buildup plus other conditions that will force them to go the dentist on a more regular basis.
Brant Herman, chief executive of startup MouthWatch, said his company makes Intraoral, or mouth cameras, that are priced at $199 (the competition is priced at $2,000) so patients can buy them from their dentist. The whole purpose is to let patients see what dentists see. Yuck!!
I just found out that about 600 dental practices use the cameras. My dentist, Bruce Blau, reads DigiDame. I’m curious to find out what he thinks. I will let you know.
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My friend, Dr. Williams Lucena, gave me a gift that I have been looking for over 20 years. I know that you don’t believe me, because what could I have been possibly looking for so long? It’s called a digital task manager. It’s actually a “things to do” list.
After carefully listening to my needs, Williams identified Wunderlist as the task manager that could present my lists in the ways I needed them to show up. Williams, a mental health counselor (he was a psychiatrist in his hometown of Caracas) and a sex therapist, also uses lists to help organize his practice. He was able to pinpoint the task manager I needed after looking at the ones he recently used. For some crazy reason, I didn’t know about Wunderlist.
There are many “things to do” lists available, but none of them offer a specific feature I needed. Most of the time, I was forced to use pen and paper because I could never find a task manger that allowed me to create one master list and then take each item and put them into separate client folders. The ability to have one master list, and then be able to categorize them into groups, is a type of organization tool I need to work on 15 to 20 projects at the same time. I know that this feature may seem pretty routine, but trust me, task managers don’t offer this kind of flexibility. Wunderlist allows me to be organized my way.
Thank you Williams. It’s comforting and wonderful to know that you were willing to take the time to find this golden treasure for me.
I’m not sure what happened last night but my Internet was not working. No Internet, no DigiDame. I wrote my daily blog post, but the email blast never went out, I can see by the stats that most of you just went to the DigiDame website to see if I wrote something.
I did write a post and it is important that you read it on “God’s Bankers, A History of Money and Power at the Vatican.” This book is getting a lot of attention because of its subject matter. All you have to do is scroll down to read what I wrote.
I think I will also use this opportunity to post some recent photos.
New fashion designs at Art Wynwood.
A panel of gallerists at Books & Books talking about collecting art.
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