More Numbers and Percentages

The trillions of dollars lost in the last few days could represent the total number of yellow leaves that have fallen this Autumn in the mountains of Colorado...







8,451.19 represents the number of leaves on the ground in my backyard.
Time: 4:09PM ET
Color Change: -128.00 (1.49%)
Prev. Green: 8,579.19
This Morning: 8,568.67
Day's Range: 7882.51 - 8901.28
52wk Range: 8,523.27 - 14,280.00












FDR's take on his version of the Banking Crisis.
"We had a bad banking situation... bankers had shown themselves either incompetent or dishonest in their handling of the people's funds. They had used the money entrusted to them in speculations and unwise loans. This [shocked] the people for a time into a sense of insecurity and to put them into a frame of mind where they did not differentiate, but seemed to assume that the acts of a comparative few had tainted them all. It was the Government's job to straighten out this situation and do it as quickly as possible -- and the job is being performed."

Internet Storytellers, Landscapes into Silence

I don't live in a heavy traffic area yet there are days and nights where I wake up thinking this is the day the internal combustion engine will finally been silenced.

silence

I recently came across an internet storyteller, artist, anthropologist Jonathan Harris and his project Whale Hunt. The silence of this piece is profound. It extends into the visual landscape invading the senses in a powerful, elemental way.

Along the same lines, Polar Artist, Irene Sullivan's "Excerpts of the Arctic" a photographic exploration of her time spent in the Arctic in 1980, continues to echo the silence nurtured by many of today's digital storytellers.