Eric Taubert is a creative nonconformist who practices in the disciplines of communication, photography, analytical thinking, crowdsourcing and digital technology. Taubert is the founder of Barometer Media, an internet marketing company based in Southwest Florida. Tumblr (3.0; @erictaubert)http://erictaubert.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzajgxiH5G1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>South Florida - Sun and Gators</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/17495763134http://erictaubert.com/post/17495763134Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:34:09 -0500<p><a href="http://www.onenewslive.com/home/123-galungan" title="Galungan in Bali" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5aoxg0Je1qa4od6.jpg"/></a></p> <p>This is my interview with Nikolay Titov, a Russian photographer living in Bali, who spent most of this week photographing their sacred Galungan holiday festivities…</p> <p>Read the article at my <a href="http://www.onenewslive.com/home/123-galungan" title="Galungan in Bali" target="_blank">OneNews blog</a></p>http://erictaubert.com/post/17334067010http://erictaubert.com/post/17334067010Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:37:30 -0500galunganbalinikolay titoveric taubertphotography<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz0amjB52D1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Don’t Feed the Alligators…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/17196394635http://erictaubert.com/post/17196394635Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:47:06 -0500arcadialake suzyfloridaswflphotographyeric taubertnav a gator<p><span id="internal-source-marker_0.3327918016091469">Ancient. Well into the final months of his life, he approached me, all tubes and oxygen tanks, alone he walked, beneath the burden of his portable life-support system.</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>He glanced at me, young, before him. Images of his own youth flashed across the inside of his mind, the only part of him still feeling young, the only part that hadn’t visibly aged, interior self. My youth was a time-travel mirror-image in his eyes. Nostalgia hurts the old.</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>Visions of cherished memories, late-summer romances in near-forgotten years, the dreams, the hope life holds for the young, the hope life once held for him, faded now, vanquished, leaving the void only regret can ever fill, all brought back by our chance meeting, two strangers facing two human truths.</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>He stopped before me. Looked at me, beyond me.</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>”</span><span>Ahh, if only I had your youth…</span><span>”</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>I could feel his feeling of fleshly imprisonment, empathy, feeling his feeling of frustration at being trapped in his failing body, trapped with his young mind yearning for a body to match it, angry and powerless. Why does the body grow old just as the mind begins to learn to be young?</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>He saw a former self in me as I saw a future self in him. It scared us both, kept the rapid clock of sad age ticking.</span></p>http://erictaubert.com/post/17012441960http://erictaubert.com/post/17012441960Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:03:00 -0500writingeric taubertexistentialismageyouth<p><span id="internal-source-marker_0.3327918016091469">What is it we’re always telling ourselves? We’ve got these voices in our heads, urging us in the direction of our egos, leading us away from nature, turning us in to so much less than we were ever intended to be…and we need to ask ourselves, who is doing the talking here? </span><br/><span></span><br/><span>Who owns that recognized whisper, the one that sounds just like we do even though no one else can hear it? Is it us? Or is it someone pretending to be us? Or is it someone convincing us they are us? </span><br/><span></span><br/><span>The easiest way to get someone to buy into an idea is allowing them to believe they imagined it first — and then praising them for their brilliance. Would you think it’s safe to say we praise ourselves during our moments of brilliance? Are they ours? Is it us doing the praising? </span><br/><span></span><br/><span>Who is it we’re constantly listening to, and why do we trust them at all?</span></p>http://erictaubert.com/post/17011399831http://erictaubert.com/post/17011399831Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:43:33 -0500eric taubertwriting<p><a href="http://www.onenewslive.com/home/118-unveiling-egypt" title="Egypt - Luxor - Helen Bailey" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyu29vBcJK1qa4od6.jpg"/></a></p> <p>“Now, in these times, with the demonstrations and voices of people growing louder every day, there is a fine line between who will allow you to take their photo, and who won’t…”</p> <p>Read the entire interview <a href="http://www.onenewslive.com/home/118-unveiling-egypt" title="Egypt - Luxor - Helen Bailey" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/16986628461http://erictaubert.com/post/16986628461Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:03:43 -0500helen baileyegyptluxoreric taubertonenews<p><span id="internal-source-marker_0.3089753687414747">I’m surrounded by printed and digitally broadcast information.  Archives and reruns, redundant and opiate, drawing me in.  Stacks of books with pleasing colors on their covers, fancy fonts, compelling blurbs…all full of other peoples’ ideas.  </span><br/><span></span><br/><span>Thoughts are more easily pondered than conveyed.  You’ve got to push to communicate.  Work and wine make you tired.  Other human beings demand attention and validation.  </span><br/><span></span><br/><span>Television and music distract us from our calling.  Pondering the expressed thoughts of others is almost as fulfilling as expressing thoughts yourself.  It certainly requires less work.  </span><br/><span></span><br/><span>Don’t give in.  You need to take the stage…command the stage…crowd the stage…your performance is all you have.  Make it count.  Make it meaningful.  Assert your own existence.</span></p>http://erictaubert.com/post/16960337454http://erictaubert.com/post/16960337454Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:17:56 -0500existentialismcreativityartwritingeric taubert<p><span><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lystheVNxa1qa4od6.jpg"/></span></p> <p><span id="internal-source-marker_0.3089753687414747">I’ve got blind spots in my past. Months I can hardly remember being me. Cinema memories faded blurrier than a forgettable movie. The sad sequels and counterculture fuzz of my chemically induced days. Lost histories. Strange seasons.</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>Sometimes they come back. Snippets of experience, the hidden foundations of who I was, who I’ve become. A hint of the skies overhead, the color of autumnal leaves falling from trees, the rough and tumble manners of early twenty-somethings groping through their vague half-decade. Empathy music and swirly heads, waking lives and grinding teeth, restless nights and the rising sun… </span></p>http://erictaubert.com/post/16959211058http://erictaubert.com/post/16959211058Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:55:42 -0500eric taubertwritingworcester“The entire universe is a great theater of mirrors, a set of hieroglyphs to decipher; everything is a sign, everything harbors and manifests mystery.”<br/><br/> - <em> Alice Bailey</em>http://erictaubert.com/post/16851172677http://erictaubert.com/post/16851172677Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:57:06 -0500alice baileysynchronicityjung<p><a href="http://www.onenewslive.com/home/117-rio-building-collapse" title="OneNews - Building Collapse Rio" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymktaJU541qa4od6.jpg"/></a></p> <p><em><span>“Many of the onlookers were scared because there was no apparent cause for the tragedy.  We had suffered no earthquake.  We had endured no terrorist attack…still, there was damage on a massive scale.</span></em><br/><br/><em><span>Photographing the event was an interesting experience, because I soon realized that they were not maintaining old buildings next to the luxurious city’s Municipal Theatre, with the influence of French architecture, which shows the huge class differences in our society as well as the unfair division of income in our country.”</span></em></p> <p><a href="http://www.onenewslive.com/home/117-rio-building-collapse" title="onenews - eric taubert" target="_blank"><strong><span>Read the entire interview by Clicking Here! </span></strong></a><em><span><br/></span></em></p>http://erictaubert.com/post/16770016702http://erictaubert.com/post/16770016702Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:05:25 -0500building collapseriophotographyrodrigo loboeric taubertonenews<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyl373tCVS1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sunset tonight in Southwest Florida…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/16726524349http://erictaubert.com/post/16726524349Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:42:39 -0500swflcape coralfloridasunseteric taubert<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly2du1CPyo1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="messageBody">Roberto Vongher was an early responding rescue worker called out of bed by the Coast Guard on January 13th to help with the Costa Concordia disaster.  He brought a camera.  He let me interview him about the photos he took that night.</span></p> <p><span class="messageBody"><a href="http://www.onenewslive.com/home/115-costa-concordia" title="Costa Concordia" target="_blank">Click Here for the interview and more photos.</a><br/></span></p>http://erictaubert.com/post/16131003952http://erictaubert.com/post/16131003952Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:18:01 -0500costa concordiaroberto vonghereric taubertonenewsphotographyboatingtravelcruiseboatsitaly<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxdr02Dxe1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taffy…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/15992739180http://erictaubert.com/post/15992739180Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:28:12 -0500swflmatlachafloridaartpaintingphotographyeric taubert<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxde88i6m1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Polka Dots…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/15992349767http://erictaubert.com/post/15992349767Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:20:32 -0500matlachaswflfloridaleoma lovegroveartphotographyeric taubert<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxd2ffsVl1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Lovegrove Gallery…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/15991981651http://erictaubert.com/post/15991981651Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:13:27 -0500swflfloridamatlachapine islandartgalleryleomalovegrovephotographyeric taubert<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxcl47POb1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Making other Plans…lovegrove…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/15991421959http://erictaubert.com/post/15991421959Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:03:04 -0500matlachaswflfloridaartphotographyeric taubertleomalovegrove<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxc96LN4h1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Parking Lot Pilings 2…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/15991029459http://erictaubert.com/post/15991029459Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:55:54 -0500matlachaswflfloridablack and whiteartphotographyeric taubert<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxbx9Yprv1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Parking Lot Pilings…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/15990622213http://erictaubert.com/post/15990622213Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:48:45 -0500matlachaswflfloridablack and whitephotographyarteric taubert<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxb5lPHPD1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bottle Art…Lovegrove…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/15989664413http://erictaubert.com/post/15989664413Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:32:09 -0500matlachaswflfloridalovegroveartphotographyblack and whiteeric taubert<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxas4dpnv1qa981uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Candy Colored Iron…</p>http://erictaubert.com/post/15989192505http://erictaubert.com/post/15989192505Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:24:04 -0500matlachaswflfloridapaintingartphotographyeric taubert