Posted in Audio, NPR, Process, Stories on Jan 24th, 2012 2 Comments »
How The Glock Became America’s Weapon Of Choice fresh Air had a fascinating show today about the plastic Austrian pistol, it’s history and evolution. I’m not into guns but this was a fascinating listen for me nonetheless.
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software, Stories on Jan 13th, 2012 3 Comments »
Pictory: Something to write home about There’s a new issue of Pictory out and it’s great. Some day I’m going to submit things to this most excellent photo site (I keep saying that and not doing it for some reason). [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Stories, Video on Dec 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Moran tells a great story about hacking and robbing banks. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Audio, iPad, Stories on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
The excellent radio show This American Life is available as an excellent iPad app for browsing and listening to shows both online and off: This American Life iPad app.
Posted in Adventure, Photographers, Stories, Travel on Oct 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Road Trip: Night Skies and Long Days National Geographic Photographer Jim Richardson takes a long road trip across the USA in search of examples of “light pollution.” Next day I would be driving on with thousands of miles ahead of me. I had a trunk full of gear and my iPod loaded with music and [...]
Posted in Animation, Audio, People, Stories on Sep 18th, 2011 2 Comments »
This piece is part of StoryCorps. After discovering it a week ago I’ve listened to it numerous times and it makes me smile and laugh every time. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Stories, Video on Aug 13th, 2011 No Comments »
The Norton Project from Jamtron on Vimeo. This is a story about how my brother and I stole our father’s 1969 Norton Commando, had it restored and then gave it back to him for Christmas. He had no idea. Great. Made me tear up. A full-screener for sure. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories, Video on Jun 23rd, 2011 2 Comments »
Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer born in New York City. Although born in the U.S., it was in France that Maier spent most of her youth. Maier returned to the U.S. in 1951 where she took up work as a nanny and care-giver for the rest [...]
Posted in Creativity, Juggling, Stories, Video on Jun 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Circus Circus is a new six-hour series that takes you on an unforgettable trip with the legendary Big Apple Circus. From the big top to the “back lot,” explore a distinctive world with its own rules, lingo and no fixed address. Follow the diverse characters who make up the Big Apple family and find out [...]
Posted in People, Stories, Video on May 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Kings Park Trailer from Kings Park Documentary on Vimeo. Our good friends Lucy Winer and Karen Eaton have been working on Kings Park for a long time. The movie documents both Lucy’s experience as a young adult in Kings Park and Kings Park the institution. Kings Park was one of those nightmare mental institutions that [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Process, Stories, Video on May 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Sam Klemke has done a short video bio on himself each year for the past 35 years and edited them all together into a 6 minute piece that’s quite amazing to watch. The “arc” of time reminds me of watching Forrest Gump move through decades of familiar cultural landmarks. In this video, Sam’s weight, facial [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Stories on Apr 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Two War Photographers On Their Injuries, Ethics Fresh Air: Terry Gross interviews Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, both seriously injured on assignment as combat photographers. This was a fascinating interview and an excellent update on Joao Silva who we’ve been following here since his injury.
Posted in Animals, Places, Stories, Video on Apr 2nd, 2011 9 Comments »
Japan tsunami dog rescued after three weeks at sea This just made my day. I hope it makes yours.
Posted in Copyright, Photo Sites, Photographers, Stories, Video on Mar 9th, 2011 3 Comments »
The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo. About two years after publishing photos of myself screaming on the Flickr, I discovered that my face was ‘for sale’ in several stores around the world, as well as on the Web and spotted it in places like Spain, Iran, Mexico, England and [...]
Posted in Movies, Stories, Video on Jan 1st, 2011 No Comments »
Ken Kesey’s classic story SomeTimes a Great Notion about the Stamper family logging on the Oregon coast is very tough to find on DVD but there’s hope, the entire movie is on YouTube in eleven segments and can be watched full screen on anything that can get access to YouTube. The segments are nicely cut [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Stories on Nov 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Good Deeds in Hard Times OnPoint had a great story last Friday and I just re-listened to it. Great stuff. Ted Gup found out, through a box of old letters, that during the depths of the depression his grandfather helped people he didn’t know with small amounts of money. He did this without identifying himself [...]
Posted in Ideas, Stories on Jul 8th, 2010 5 Comments »
You were doing it wrong Fantastic comment thread of epiphanies. Everything from finding out at age 30 a better way to tie one’s shoes to realizing that one ought to take the husk off before eating a tamale and a load more. These are great. [via Derek Powazek]
Posted in Art and Design, Cats, Humor, Ideas, Stories on Jun 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Missing Cat Poster I can relate to this in variety of ways: As one who lost a cat and made posters (they worked, we got her back) As one who’s been asked to do things and couldn’t sync with the person asking As one who’s asked for help and couldn’t sync with the person helping [...]
Posted in People, Social Software, Stories on Jun 13th, 2010 5 Comments »
The Stork Lost One, An Adoption Reunion My long-time online friend Greg Newman (who I’ve never met) searches for his biological mother and in the process, finds a sister and brother he didn’t know he had. These kinds of incredible reunions happened less frequently pre-internet and as Greg says, adoption privacy laws can make searching [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories, Video on Apr 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Human Scale in the Grand Central Dig I highly recommend watching this short feature of New York Times photographer Todd Heisler on a photo assignment in a new subway tunnel in New York City. Great videography, narration, and nice images. Zoom it out full screen. Looks like he’s using 2 EOS Canon 5D Mark II [...]
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