Welcome to my blog about what inspires me in this world. I mainly write about art, travel and writing, but you’ll see other topics crop up from time to time.
My name is Leigh Shulman. I used to live in Brooklyn with my husband Noah and daughter Lila.
Then, we decided to sell everything to travel. And travel we did. Through four lovely years and four continents.
Our style of travel is slow. We’d spend a week, a month, maybe even a year or more in one place before moving on. This requires us to find a place to live, a school for Lila and work. It also means we have a chance to get to know a place not just as a travel destination, but as home.
So far, we’ve lived in Panama City (Panama), Bocas del Toro, Atlanta, Buffalo, Buenos Aires and now, Salta, Argentina. We plan to be here for a while.
What do we do in Salta?
We explore the mountains and desert. We take photographs and paint. We’re learning Spanish and also how to live as expats. I like to think of it as the best of traveling while also the best of having one place to call home.
Last year, we founded and now run Cloudhead Art, an art and education organization designed to bridge communities using social media and technology.
What the hell does The Future Is Red mean?
In 1998, I started my own internet design and consulting company called Infrared, Inc. Just about every other URL that made sense for the company had already been taken, so after much thought and deliberation I landed on The Future Is Red. And there it stuck.
Over time, the name has taken on many meanings for me. It was my business. Then became my lucky color. Then, when we started traveling, it became my blog. Over time, it became my online identity. There are actually people out there who know me only as The Future Is Red.
In short, The Future Is Red means what I want it to mean. It means the world around us is not fixed. It grows and develops through our own perceptions. If we choose to see opportunity and beauty, we will find it. If we decide to see the opposite, we will find that too.
14 Things About Me
- Blue is my favorite color. I just don’t like using it for design.
- My favorite place in Brooklyn is beside the water ferry in Red Hook.
- I’m probably the only one on the planet who doesn’t like dulce de leche.
- Living on a tropical island is paradise, but paradise isn’t quite as ideal as one might think.
- Lila and I climb into bed during thunderstorms and count the seconds between lightening flash and thunder.
- I didn’t learn to ride a bike until I was 21 years old.
- I’d like to one day live in Holland, Cinque Terre, Italy and Israel, probably Haifa.
- Our camera is a Nikon D90.
- I’m still learning how to use all the features.
- I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t write.
- Noah worked with naked mole rats and studied earthquakes.
- I love coffee, but can’t drink it because it gives me migraines. I drink it anyway.
- I probably don’t tell Noah often enough how much I appreciate him.
- I can sleep through honking cars, but chirping birds wake me. I don’t mind the birds, though.
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