It takes more than a sailor hat and roller skates to get noticed in San Francisco.
Christopher Michel
@christophermichel.com
Photographer and explorer. Usually found with a camera, a dog, or a boarding pass.
Tim Berners Lee: the inventor of the World Wide Web. explorers.com/tim-berners-... I made this portrait as part of my New Heroes project, which is about spending time with the people shaping our future and trying to see them clearly, as they are. @timbernerslee.bsky.social @nationalacademies.org
Google's Chief Scientist Jeff Dean has spent much of his life building systems most of us will never see, though billions of people pass through them every day. Read more about Jeff here: explorers.com/jeff-dean/ @nationalacademies.org @jeffdean.bsky.social
On foggy mornings, old California sometimes surfaces for a moment, rough, solitary, and still half wild.
There are corners of San Francisco where the city disappears completely. Just trees, fog, and the feeling that you’ve wandered somewhere you weren’t meant to find.
#Stunday "Every now and then, the sky stops being a backdrop and becomes the whole story. Big Sur." @christophermichel.com
No one does amused better than @kevinkelly.bsky.social. Walk with him and be ready for “What did you learn?” Offer conventional wisdom and he will gently pull it apart. Kevin is an artist, a friend, and one of our great question askers. explorers.com/kevin-kelly/
John Jay Osborn Jr.‘s The Paper Chase wasn’t just a great novel. It introduced millions of people to the intensity of Harvard Law School and the Socratic method, where every assumption is challenged. Years later, life came full circle, and John became a dear friend.
I often saw Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Caffè Trieste, arriving by bicycle from City Lights to sit among the North Beach regulars. Losing him at 101 felt like losing a living link to the city’s past and the Beat Generation. @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
One of those naps where even Antarctic rain can’t wake you.
I got to know Tony Hawk while hiking Japan’s Nakasendo Trail. Away from the ramps and roar, I found him thoughtful, funny and deeply present. We walked through cedar forests and old post towns. Somewhere along the way, I made this portrait. @tonyhawkproskater.bsky.social
When the kid drops to the ice and decides the day is over. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The ice offers no argument. Alone out there, you meet whatever you carried in. Union Glacier, Antarctica.
“We, too, are made of wonders, of great and ordinary loves.” Those words are bound for Jupiter. Ada Limón wrote “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa” for NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The poem aboard the spacecraft, now making its long passage toward Europa. More: explorers.com/ada-limon/
Gravity has no known edge. Every star, every planet, every person pulls at us, however faintly, and we pull back. Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
Avi Loeb asks questions that make many astronomers uncomfortable. His views on ‘Oumuamua and extraterrestrial technology are controversial. I photographed him at home in Lexington, Massachusetts. explorers.com/avi-loeb/
American icon. @stewartbrand.bsky.social Some people move through this world differently. Stewart has spent a lifetime looking past the edge of the present, toward what might come next. More: explorers.com/the-long-now...
Always such interesting people at Greens Restaurant in SF.
The city felt battered and half undone. In the middle of it all, a group of boys crowded around a homemade foosball table. For a few minutes, the street belonged to the game. Play finds a way. Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The best light isn’t always at sunrise. Sometimes it’s the hour after the world has gone to sleep. Esalen, California.
The National Academies are known for bringing experts together to address complex challenges, but we're also committed to making science engaging and accessible. Learn about our #PublicEngagement activities — including LabX and our SciComm Excellence awards: https://ow.ly/Pjs950ZsWLW
Good advice. 😉 #This
Christopher Michel@christophermichel.com · last wk.It sure feels like there is too much advice in the world. Advice about how to work, sleep, eat, love, travel, think, grow old, and spend an afternoon. Somehow, nearly every ordinary part of being alive has been turned into something we need to optimize. Maybe we just need a little room to live.
It sure feels like there is too much advice in the world. Advice about how to work, sleep, eat, love, travel, think, grow old, and spend an afternoon. Somehow, nearly every ordinary part of being alive has been turned into something we need to optimize. Maybe we just need a little room to live.
I made these photographs at Meroë and while traveling through the Bayuda Desert near Karima in Sudan. Even now, when I look at them, I can feel the grit against my face and hear the sand moving across the ground. More: www.christophermichel.com/Travel/Lost-...
An ambulance is useless if there is nowhere close to take you. Dr. Renee Hsia studies the brutal math of emergency medicine: who gets care, who waits, and who dies because a hospital closed or help came too late. Read more about Renee's work here: lnkd.in/gEdQn_iu @nam.edu @nationalacademies.org
Every now and then, the sky stops being a backdrop and becomes the whole story. Big Sur.
Our eyes collect photons. Our minds assemble constellations. @illuminatethearts.bsky.social #photography
