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I stood staring—a group of strangers milled to the edge of a giant gash... I thought—if one fell—would they splat or splash—or both? God help me if it's both...
Check out the full article here—
https://open.substack.com/pub/ipushabutton/p/a-giant-gash
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Howard Luck Gossage
The Socrates of San Francisco
Archive on 4
2025-01-07 2000-2100
In a former Fire Station in 1960s San Francisco, there's a party going on, involving some of the most celebrated writers, artists, thinkers and musicians of the age. There's John Steinbeck, chatting to architect Buckminster Fuller; Marshall McLuhan is over in the corner telling another of his bad jokes to a young Joan Rivers and Tom Wolfe is talking to fellow author and Merry Prankster, Ken Kesey, who's hanging out at the bar with the Grateful Dead.
How did all these people come together in one place? The answer lies with a reluctant advertising innovator, an instigator of ideas, an agitator and a mentor - Howard Luck Gossage. The man who came to be known as ‘The Socrates of San Francisco’.
Howard Gossage was an advertising man first and foremost, a preternatural marketing and propaganda genius – but he was so much more. Defiantly independent, he both proved to be one of the industry’s most inventive innovators, astute prophets – and often its greatest critic.
A vocal thorn in the industry’s side, Howard operated the agency out of the supposed advertising backwater of San Francisco – a continent away from the Mad Men of Madison Avenue. And yet its influence is still felt around the world.
But upending the world of advertising was never going to be enough for Howard. He always felt that “changing the world is the only fit work for a grown man”. And so, in the mid-1960s, he set about to do just that. Among his many madcap adventures, Howard saved the Grand Canyon from being flooded for profit, tried to start a revolution in the Caribbean, discovered "the Patron-Saint of the Internet", Marshall McLuhan, and helped to create Friends of the Earth.
In this intriguing tale, celebrated West Coast advertising executive Jeff Goodby, whose own work and ethos has been profoundly influenced by Gossage, explores his life and legacy, which even today exerts its influence on advertising campaigns and agencies all around the world. "He was the inspiration behind the foundation of my agency and taught me about the positive impact advertising could have for society, to do more than just sell, that it can also build communities and drive change".
Presented by Jeff Goodby
Produced by Ashley Pollak and James King
Assistant Producer: Emma Stackhouse
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
A TellTale Industries production for BBC Radio 4
(available for 30 days)
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A dragon in the Grand Canyon? Researchers name new fossil for ‘Star Wars’ creature
The Grand Canyon is known as a world-renowned tourist destination for its breathtaking vistas and outdoor adventures. But…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Cambrianperiod #GiovanniMussini #microscopicfossils #outdooradventures #prehistoriclife #rocksamples #TheGrandCanyon #UniversityofCambridge
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/54980/
Photography is The Most Lethal Activity at Grand Canyon National Park https://petapixel.com/2024/08/15/photography-is-the-most-lethal-activity-at-grand-canyon-national-park/ #thegrandcanyon #grandcanyon #selfiedeath #News
Went to the Grand Canyon in Chiang
Mai today. Smashed my tailbone
doing a cliff dive, ripped off a
fingernail and scored a rope burn
and tissue trauma to my shin... Had
a great day!
#ChiangMai #TheGrandCanyon #Injuries
I’ve posted about the Great Unconformity several times now (and you still must capitalize it), and had the chance to see it when visiting the Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area in Las Vegas.
After almost 5 years, I didn’t trust I’d be able to find it again. I decided to search Google maps and sure enough, there it was. Thank you to the wonderful person who put it on the map, and thank you Google for adding it! See the location below.
In the last picture it is in the rocks near the left of the picture where the trail can be seen and the metal sign is standing (zoom in). They are the same rocks layers known as the Great Unconformity at the bottom of the Grand Canyon in an easily accessible part of Las Vegas. You’re welcome.
The Great Unconformity
https://maps.app.goo.gl/THA4SbtdXtqvVotVA?g_st=ic
Refresher:
Tapeats Sandstone - 525 million years old
Vishnu Schist - 1.7 billion years old
Time Gap of 1.2 billion years = The Great Unconformity
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In the supreme flaming glory of sunset the whole canyon is transfigured as if the life and light of centuries of sunshine stored up in the rocks was now being poured forth as from one glorious fountain, flooding both earth and sky." - John Muir
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🗺- In Grand Canyon, you are on Havasupai, Hopi, Pueblos, and Paiute land. #FindYourPark
📸 - shot on a #sonya7riv, #bealpha. Edited in #Lightroom.
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