My World Café – insights & experiences from my travels, café visits and daily life.
Business & Career Mentor, Photographer, Aviator
Not only will AI-Art and "conventional" Art coexist, they will cross-pollinate All Photos and AI-Prompts are mine. Photography became its own Art Form, as did Digital Photography Photography was all new in the 18-hundreds. Cumbersome, low quality, expensive and exclusive at first. Many traditional artists must have considered it a threat at the time, just… Continue reading Why AI-generated Art will enhance Art as we know it
(Title photo: Ice Dragon Teeth. Ice stalagmites and - stalactites forming teeth-like ice sculptures. Close-up taken along the Yukon River in Whitehorse.) It could all be so warm and fuzzy I read a love story generated by AI. Not more shallow than any of today's junk-books. Authentic enough and quite sweet. My wife read an… Continue reading Sinister Perils are looming behind today’s AI-Hype. Don’t become an “AI-Lemming”!
Winters in Whitehorse are not only cold, but can be grey and long - I found that Vitamin D supplements don't really cut it. So whenever the sun is out, I'm out there exploring ever changing ice- and snow-scapes. Nature's beauty can be fleeting: What may be an exceptional motif now can be gone in… Continue reading Ice Art – my Way of shooting amazing Winter-Scapes
Our 8 Weeks in Korea - a Travel Essay with Photos (all my own) Apple - Awesome! We had just visited the MMCA in Bukchon and were passing three young women at a park bench. They were holding high a red apple, taking pictures of it. In Korean, I loudly commented "Apple - Awesome!". They… Continue reading Part 3: Some cool Anecdotes of Korean Life
Reflections from 8 Weeks in Korea. Essay with Photos (all my own). Seoul's cultural and culinary offerings are second to none. Ticket prices for concerts and museum are very affordable - not like the prohibitive prices we see in Europe and Canada, like $133 for a mediocre seat at a recent ballet performance in Vancouver.… Continue reading Part 2: Cultural Immersion – Korean Style
An Essay with Photos (all my own) Our Statistics of cultural and culinary Immersion After 16 museums, 7 concerts, 3 palaces, 2 temples, 450km of walking, and numerous encounters with cool Koreans, we gained some meaningful insights. And despite enjoying so many Korean delicacies, we lost a few pounds! Mecenatpolis Shopping Mall in Hapjeong, Mapo-gu,… Continue reading Reflections from eight Weeks in Korea – Part 1: The State of Korean Society
To maintain our sanity and fitness, my wife and I walk the Millennium Trail in Whitehorse almost daily. But this trail is about much more than the five picturesque kilometres along the Yukon River. Ice Photography I have a secret patch along the river that never freezes and generates ever changing wonders of ice. Mother… Continue reading Why the Millennium Trail is the best Covid-Therapy: Critters, Encounters and Ice Wonders
Bears and People The number of bears and people in the Yukon is about the same - roughly 37,000 - in a space about the size of Spain! About 85% are black bears, 15% are grizzlies plus a few polar bears. Most people live in the capital Whitehorse (27,000). Dispelling some Myths about the Yukon… Continue reading Canada’s Yukon – Things You Never Knew
A Rainy Day Fund Anyone? It is important these days to distinguish the truly distressed from the whiners. Many will have to close their business permanently and look for entry-level employment. When 911 hit, we had to close our air charter and tour business, and I had to start off washing cars (later becoming the… Continue reading Saving our Way through this Crisis
Bad News first Printing Money has a huge delayed Cost Governments' massive stimulus packages will eventually have to be paid for. But how and by whom? One undesirable scenario is hyperinflation - inflating the debt away. With the incredible amounts of money being printed now, inflation is kept artificially low. The other - more likely… Continue reading Our post-Corona Future
My World Café - insights & experiences from my travels, café visits and daily life. 