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Posted on January 14, 2006 @ 5:05 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world, blog, diving, travel, wordpress

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If you go off beaten roads and stroll along the leeward sea shore, easily you’ll watch natives diving in shallow waters. They do spear-fishing, home-made wooden goggles on, and a rough spike in a hand… A very basic outrigger-canoe anchored close by, marks the diving spot. They spend a couple of hours before quitting: usually they get just a very few coral fish and that’s enough for the day…
Perhaps I learned something about material needs during my living in the Tropics; basically I learned that poor people’s attitude towards life and environment is really eco-logical. I’ve tried to practice this issue while travelling and I enjoyed very much. At home I keep on training –somehow- such pure “ecology of the mind”.
I know that here is comparatively harder. Wealthy people definitely forgot their real needs, in the name of profit and comfort. After all my life-style here, looks unconventional: certainly I belong to a valuable minority…

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Ecology and Economically Existing! It’s amazing how little is needed to survive and how fast one doesn’t miss ‘extras’ when existing ecologically minded :) Love the goggles!

Anonymous wrote on January 15, 2006 - 2:19 am CET

I agree. I think we’re happiest when we live in balance with grandmother earth.

I love your style.

catnapping wrote on January 15, 2006 - 4:19 am CET

Great illustration of a very valid point.

(And that fish is stunning! Electric!)

How can we live more in tune with nature when the people driving consumption are measuring the success of their companies by growth and not balance?

Caroline wrote on January 16, 2006 - 11:52 am CET

I really like your work. I like the link to spear fishing too. Perhaps I will make my own spearfishing tools made from a fork, broomstick handle and a section of garden hose. The water in the Ohio River is a little muddy so i don’t know what i will catch. Maybe a plastic bottle or an old tire or something or a shoe.

larry wrote on January 16, 2006 - 4:27 pm CET

I really like your images, I look at your blog now and then. When I make my own pictures I often start with an old image, using the colours in it and then try to make something new based on that.

Johan Wallberg wrote on January 18, 2006 - 7:52 pm CET

cool the illustrations…I’d like to see you in action!! and I’ll submit you one of my handmade treeyes doll as inspiration!! good luck!!

eli wrote on February 21, 2006 - 5:22 pm CET

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