September 27, 2008 Brother Can You Spare $700 Billion? written by Steven Barrymore My friend and I were discussing America’s economic issues while watching the first 2008 presidential debate between Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama, and he asked me if I thought that America is still a world power. I thought for a moment and [...]

October 17, 2007 Who Am I? written by Steven Barrymore SCANNING THE RADIO Late at night, at the age of 17 in the mid-1970′s, I was listening to the radio in my bedroom. MP3 players and the computer for home use were not invented. So our main distraction for entertainment was watching television or listening [...]

July 6, 2008 Mini-Blogs written by Steven Barrymore Idle Hands Are The Devil’s Workshop. So the saying goes, and what have I been building in my workshop lately? Designing and creating, the term that best comes to mind is, mini-blogs. An online service called Squidoo provides the place to build these mini-blogs. The word Lens [...]

January 13, 2008 written by Steven Barrymore photographs by Steven Barrymore FROM THE FILM COLLECTION Taking some time off. The Being of Life articles will return next month. Below are some favorite images from a collection of slides, photographed circa 1980′s in San Francisco. These scenes were photographed with Leica equipment (Reflex and rangefinder). Image [...]

Major and minor updates have been applied to the photography web site http://www.imagesmagical.com Images Magical. The major update has been a redesign of the ‘landing page’. Minor updates have been applied through-out the web site.

article originally published in The Daily Green Why California Recycled 80% of Glass and the Rest of the U.S. 30% Evidence that Nickle and Dime Deposits Work By Dan Shapley California is on pace to recycle nearly 80% of the glass introduced into commerce in 2008, according to the latest statistics — up from 71% [...]