Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Stories on Jan 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
Life before your eyes
A Pictory feature on growing up and growing old. Pictory is combining images and captions (picture – story) to give more context to both images and words. It looks like a successful site, worth following.
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Slide Show, Stories on Dec 28th, 2009 No Comments »
One in 8 Million
This is a New York Times online feature and happens to be one of the best of its kind I’ve ever seen.
This is an incredible collection of still images built as slide shows with voice overlays of the people being documented. Everyday New Yorkers telling their stories. Great photography, well edited and [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories, Video on Dec 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial subjects with empathy, so that we see the pain of a Liberian war criminal, the quiet strength of UN women peacekeepers and the perseverance of Delhi’s under appreciated firefighters.
This is a wonderful TED [...]
Posted in Cats, Our Place, Stories on Dec 2nd, 2009 26 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Today was one of the roughest days of our lives. Anne and I had to put Kitty, a cat we’ve had just shy of twenty years to sleep.
She’s been living with a worsening case of kidney disease for over a year and in the past month she started showing signs that it had [...]
Posted in People, Stories on Oct 7th, 2009 No Comments »
In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery
This is a fascinating, must-read article.
Posted in Adventure, People, Photojournalism, Stories on Sep 12th, 2009 3 Comments »
The Denver Post’s Captured Photoblog: Ian Fisher, American Soldier.
27 months from the decision to enlist through induction, boot camp, Iraq, and back home. A slice of one person’s life, beautifully (and disturbingly) documented and produced.
Read the captions, they’re important.
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Objects, People, Stories on Sep 9th, 2009 6 Comments »
David Stannard has just died.
David was one of my first ceramics teachers at The University of Oregon in 1972 and when I got an MFA in 1980 he was on my graduate committee.
David was a potter’s potter: he went deep into materials science, deep into process, and deep into philosophy. So deep in fact that [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Stories on Sep 8th, 2009 5 Comments »
Days with my Father is a beautiful journal in pictures and words.
Note forward and backward navigation at top and bottom of window.
Posted in Opinion, People, Stories on Sep 7th, 2009 2 Comments »
The Deal with Disability
Hey, I’m Eva. I’m 26 and a recent college graduate. I like to write, to take Digital photographs, and just chill. But this blog is not about what I like. This blog is about how people treat me. You see, I am physically disabled. Actually “severely” physically disabled. I have Cerebral Palsy, [...]
I was watching PBS’s Nova the other night and one of the segments was on a neurosurgeon who’s doing research on cancers in the brain at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center: Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa. The timeliness of this piece was coincidental given that Senator Edward Kennedy was about to die of just such an illness [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Stories, Video on Aug 20th, 2009 No Comments »
This is a very rare piece of film which is incredible, made me cry. Sullivan was way ahead of her time in the way she taught Keller and it took them many years to get this communication system worked out, let alone Keller’s speech which she had no auditory model for.
[via Boing Boing]
Posted in Stories, Travel, Video on Aug 19th, 2009 No Comments »
During the Summer of 2007, I had the opportunity to backpack around Europe for 2 weeks. I talked about it often before I left. My girlfriend however, although great in many respects, was not the world’s greatest listener. I left on Friday June 1st. Despite even calling her to say goodbye the night before, she [...]
Posted in Animation, Art and Design, People, Places, Stories on Aug 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Sand artist, Kseniya Simonova, performs a story of love against the backdrop of Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.
This is a wonderful performance although I have to say that the cuts to the women crying seems a bit over the top. Still, it’s brilliant and worth watching.
[via Justin Blanton]
Posted in Art and Design, People, Photographers, Stories on Aug 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Narrated slide show: Teresa Zakow: The Art Restorer.
Excellent images by Todd Heisler, wonderful story.
[via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Art and Design, Stories, Tech Stuff on Jul 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Design Observer: That Pesky Television Test Pattern
Back story on the TV test pattern. Fascinating.
My wife grew up in Evansville, Indiana. I grew up (until the age of 12) in New York City. One thing we both had in common was turning on the TV and finding “the indian” on.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in People, Places, Stories, Video on Jun 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
YouTube Reporters’ Center
YouTube has a new channel where professional journalists post tips on covering stories and more. Here’s Nicholas Kristof on covering a global crisis.
Posted in Photojournalism, Politics, Stories on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Bank Failure Angers Both Victims and Supporters
A photo essay on the failure of New Frontier Bank in northeast Colorado.
Posted in Ideas, People, Stories on Jun 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Note: I picked this piece up from a book many years ago and I’m reposting it here because it remains brilliant.
What is Intelligence, Anyway?
© Isaac Asimov
What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Stories, Video on May 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Frontline: The Madoff Affair
This is going to be a fascinating show. Frontline is one of the best investigative journalism shows on the air.
There will be more video and information on the site after the show airs tonight.
Posted in People, Politics, Stories, Video on Apr 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Jim Lehrer talks informally about his life as a journalist at The Commonwealth Club. Wonderful.
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