I've only been to Lisbon once before, and it was on a thirty-six hour TAP layover flight from Newark to Zurich on my thirtieth birthday 'Around the World in Seventy-Seven Days' celebration. For this reason I had no choice but to feel a real taste of the place was missing from palette. I've been to the drier rural areas of Portugal on numerous occasions, but Lisbon and Porto have both slipped through my metropolitan net of experience.
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The Orange Sunshine gently rippled and rolled across the surface of the embryonic liquid lake on Day 6 of Boom Festival 2023. A yogi joyfully soaks in the final golden sunset glow from a floating wooden dock on the Boom Land Lake as an inflatable rainbow-tailed unicorn listlessly gazes through the Portuguese summer horizon's heated haze.
The Festival Freak Flags were flying especially high one sunny summer morning by the Boom Land Lake at Boom Festival 2023 (Day 6). The morning lake breeze made the audible flapping seem as if the festival flags were proudly proclaiming their undeniably vibrant iridescent message: fly your freak flags up, fellow festival freaks!
July 1st 2023: I think it's the highest I've ever been (geographically). I made it to the summit of Imbabura (4640 m) along with a three-legged dog named Rambo and a ten-month old mutt. These intrepid dogs belonged to my guide, Jose, the grandson of Aida, owner and founder of the laid-back hostel, Casa Aida, located in the idylic little Ecuadorean village of La Esperanza. This tiny Andean town, tucked away in the Imbabura Province, is the principal launching pad for the majority of Imbabura Volcano climbers.
The vibrant Boom Festival flags fly high at the acid-head-hued golden hour outside of Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal.
The warm Portuguese summer breeze blows through the sacred geometry's rippling topography imbuing it's original message with new, encrypted non-Euclidean expressions. Now's the time to consider the mathematical portals unlocked. The electromagnetic download begins once You take off your clothes and enter Through the Embryonic Lake. I have a sobering obsession with William Leonard Pickard's The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments. I like to revisit the secret, Jorge Luis Borges-inspired literature Pickard penned whilst serving twenty years of two of his life sentences in prison for a conviction of conspiring to manufacture and distribute a massive amount of LSD back in the year 2000. The resulting manuscript evolved into the finished book which transformed my life forever. The psycholinguistic rhythms, hypnotic prose, expansive metaphors and poetic wisdom reinvigorated my perspective of what is possible with language and knowledge. Below is an excerpt from the beginning chapters of what I consider to be a sacred text.
The Met's exhibition'Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art' portrayed the multitude of gods and goddesses who ruled over aspects of the Mayan cosmology. The Mayan gods and goddesses are depicted at all stages of their lives, ranging from infants to revered elders. The extraordinary talent of classic-period Maya artists were on full display in Manhattan from November 21, 2022 - April 2, 2023.
A giant Florida Gator gazes up at curious tourists. A ruby red gorilla pounds his barrel-sized chest as if he were declaring that he is kicking King-Kong to a forgotten curb. A solitary geometric wolf howls up at three Florida palm trees as a giant panda casually munches on a stick above a crowd of gawking tourists.
I noticed the peculiar balloon-like sculpture while biking around South Beach during Miami Art Week last year. I knew the overwhelming frenzy of Basel-related activity was going to prevent me from visiting the Orb again, but I made a note of the surreal sculpture. A year later I returned to Art Week and photographing the Orb was at the top of my list.
After Boom Festival 2022 came to a close, we took an Andalusian flavored ride over to Granada after a Mediterranean dip around the geographically significant city of Alicante, on the Valencian side of Spain. There's nothing like a summer tour of Spain, and we've been planning on returning to Granada in order to visit the world-renowned, architectural wonder of the Alhambra (with a dash of that mind-altering Arabian spice). So with Spanish Caravan by The Doors playing on a loop, we road tripped back over to this magical multi-cultural palace of a place.
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