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(Unless otherwise noted, all images by James Lull)
Symbolic Creativity. Nurturing our need to create and express ourselves as routine cultural practice in everyday life.
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Vacationers in Maui, Hawaii, USA. |
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Appropriating an institutional slogan to sell tacos locally. Tijuana, Mexico. |
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The Touch of Culture. The sensual qualities of culture affect us deeply and never go away. Returning to the spot where I went fishing as a young boy in the little farm town in Southern Minnesota where I grew up.
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The Straight River, Owatonna, Minnesota, USA |
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Putting my hands on the same stones I touched many years ago provokes a powerful cultural rush. |
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The Globalization of Good Ideas. Globalization is rightly criticized for problems it creates and intensifies. But there are many positive sides to media and cultural globalization too. Individual human rights, social justice movements, protecting children, protecting the environment, and transparency are among many positive globalized discourses.
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Bono and Project Red in the fight against AIDS. (Sharpbyte.net) |
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Globalization promoting women’s rights. Monterrey, Mexico. |
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Raising global consciousness about smoking. Campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. |
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Does anybody think Shakira’s world tour is a bad idea? C’mon, hips don’t lie! |
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Even cultural practices like audio street-crossing devices that help blind people navigate urban terrain are globalized concepts. Buenos Aires. |
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Handicap access to the Aztec Ruins at Monte Albón, near Oaxaca City, Mexico. |
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Visiting Charles Darwin. Down House, the home of the great naturalist, outside London near Orpington. Visitors can sit in the room where Darwin authored The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, among the greatest scientific volumes ever written.
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Face-to-face with Charles Darwin at the entry to Down House |
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Walking the path behind Down House where Charles Darwin mulled over his revolutionary ideas |
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Roots and Wings. We are connected to our home territories, but we search great distances for sources of cultural inspiration too.
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Beautiful British Columbia , Canada. |
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Indigenized black saints share symbolic spaces with satellite signals in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. |
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Immigration. The “Arab immigrant” statue, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. |
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The Mexico we left behind. Deterritorialized fans of Jorge Hernández and Los Tigres del Norte in San Jose, California. |
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Fundamentalist Thought—especially religious fundamentalism—is the most profound barrier to the development of true human potential and peace. This is a central argument I make in Culture-on-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World.
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The mix of religion, nationalism, and militarism on display at the Museum of National History, Monterrey, Mexico. |
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Blind trust in religious mythology and superstition. Greenwich, England. |
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Oh, really? Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, USA |
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Let’s Go to the Fair! World cultures began to truly develop when nomadic groups settled down and started to live off the land.
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Agriculture is culture |
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Young family farmers face intense and unfair competition from agribusiness corporations |
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Holstein judging between 4H Club members |
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Taking care of the bacon |
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Farm equipment, history, and patriotism |
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Preparing for a life of hard work; young children compete in tractor pull contest |
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Annual women’s nail-pounding contest |
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Diverse 4H Club members and volunteers take orders from customers on “Pork Feed Night” |
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Oaxacan Wood Carvings. Artists in Arrazola, a small village outside Oaxaca (wah-há-ka), capital city of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, create the fantastic alebrijes for the global market.
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Men carve the figures from green wood of Copal trees. |
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Women do the expressive, detailed painting in groups. |
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Total concentration meets artistic imagination. |
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Bought this powerful beast from a family in Arrazola. Son finds the wood, dad carves it, mom paints it. |
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Some of the small figures are among the most beautiful. |
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The art combines local realities with the supernatural in perfect harmony. |
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Autism: Increasing awareness and understanding of this condition which affects one of every 150 children in the United States is absolutely necessary.
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Autism Walk 2007, Pleasanton, California |
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Roseanne Anderson and children John and Ashley |
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