Richard’s Notes

This takes some time but it’s an incredible story. Warning, it will make you cry (in a good way).
[via Dale Allyn]

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Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch?
When I was in high school a friend and I used to volunteer to be in experiments conducted by professors and grad students at the UCLA psychology deparment. These were generally quick and easy ways to earn $5 and in a few hours we had enough money [...]

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My friend Gary Sharp found one of my old business cards and scanned it. I think my skills as a photographer were much fewer than my skills as a rubber stamp artist, which were almost nonexistent.
I’m not quite sure why I felt the need for a business card, maybe it was wishful thinking (wishful [...]

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New York City, 1952. Walter Richard Wanderman, Richard Samuel Wanderman. My father is about thirty seven here, I’m six months.
My father died in 2000, just before the tech bubble burst, George W. Bush stole the White House, and 9/11 happened. He was 84. Had he not died in 2000 any one of these events would [...]

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[bit] The Machine That Changed the World
The Machine That Changed the World is the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced, but since its release in 1992, it’s become virtually extinct. Out of print and never released online, the only remaining copies are VHS tapes floating around school libraries or in [...]

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He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
Wow, what a touching find and story.
[via Digg]

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The NPR radio show This American life had a special episode on the mortgage and credit crisis that I just listened to while mowing the lawn: The Giant Pool of Money.
Wow, that a great show and it told the entire story of how these sub-prime mortagates got invented and how people up and down the [...]

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Independent Lens had an incredible documentary last night: Na Kamalei (the men of hula).
Follow the journey of legendary teacher Robert Cazimero and the only all-male hula school in Hawaii as they celebrate their 30th anniversary and prepare to compete at the world’s largest hula festival. NA KAMALEI: The Men of Hula goes beyond deep-rooted stereotypes [...]

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What Adams Saw Through His Lens
Don’t miss the interactive feature: Ansel Adams’s Yosemite narrated by Andrea G. Stillman, his former assistant. The narration over the slide show of his images is superb.

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Here’s a great example of how great the internet is and I continue to wonder how I ever lived without tools like the web and Google. Talk about “a new type of memory.” (the web is a new type of memory too).
I just read this article: After 38 years, a new type of memory to [...]

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Dith Pran, ‘Killing Fields’ Photographer, Dies at 65
What this man went through during the revolution in Cambobia was incredible. He lived through it, escaped, and built a life over here as a photojournalist for the New York Times.
Movies with themes related to The Killing Fields (revolution tearing people apart): The Kite Runner and The Year [...]

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A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
Wow, what an amazing story. Way to go Julio. You’re a model for all of us.
[via kottke.org]

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© 2000 Richard Wanderman
March, 2008: This is old stuff I wrote a while ago and published in numerous print and web publications in 2000. But this history may still be interesting for modern digital photographers. In writing it I was trying to document not only the early days but a trajectory of what might come. [...]

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Matt Haughey tells a story of a used car scam I once almost fell for.
Dang, the whole world is a scam. Bummer.

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New York City. After delivering a musical instrument I sold on eBay the day before (my first eBay sale) and making the buyer extremely happy with the hand delivery which made me happy, it was beer time.
My friend had a Guinness and unfortunately I blew that shot. I was going to have a black and [...]

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In Bronx School, Culture Shock, Then Revival
A Hasidic Jew becomes the principal of a Latino-populated school with a history of violence. The results are dramatic.
This is an incredible story and worth taking a look at. The video (below) is incredible, made me tear up.
A Bronx School Revives

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Nick Devlin has written a fantastic essay (not a typical review) on his use of The Canon Powershot G9 in Japan for The Luminous Landscape. The G7 and now G9 have appealed to me and still do but I’m waiting just a bit longer for Canon to work out some of the last bugs. For [...]

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Howard Dully was the youngest person (12) to undergo a transorbital lobotomy, performed by Dr. Walter Freeman. Dully’s book My Lobotomy documents many things: how the medical establishment could allow Freeman to do such monsterous things, what it’s like to grow up with a traumatic brain injury, and how our culture tosses people aside that [...]

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Can Burt’s Bees Turn Clorox Green?
In the summer of 1984, Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine, picked up Roxanne Quimby, a 33-year-old single mother down on her luck, as she hitchhiked to the post office in Dexter, Me. More than a dozen years Ms. Quimby’s senior, the guy locals called “the bee-man” sold honey in [...]

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Hitchhiking is a great read.
I have so many hitchhiking stories… Oh my, times have changed, or maybe they haven’t.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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