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 [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories on Apr 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Alison Wright The New York Times Lens blog has an interview with Alison on her photo work in Tibet: Tibetan Nomads, Remote in a Remote Land. It’s worth following the link above to her site and after browsing her excellent images, watching the video/interviews, especially Learning to Breathe in which she describes an accident she [...]
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Stories on Mar 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth CNN pioneering female photojournalist Margaret Moth has died. Watch the two CNN videos for more on her extraordinary life. [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Stories, Video on Mar 27th, 2010 No Comments »
This is an excellent 16 minute documentary on the history of pirate radio in London including what’s going on right now as the internet replaces it. I love the spirit of this, like ham radio and early internet experiments, pirate radio became not just a vehicle but a style. From Palladium Blog. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in People, Stories, Tools, Video on Mar 24th, 2010 5 Comments »
Wonderful story, nicely produced by Jerry Bowen at CBS. The kicker is that Kramer is dyslexic and his struggle with that no doubt routed him into doing things with his hands. [via Jon Moss]
I’ve written about AppleCare and related issues before at this site and no doubt some think I’m an insurance salesman. I’m not. I just think AppleCare a good idea. Here’s why. I have a 2.5 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 15″ MacBook Pro that I bought in 2008. At the time, this machine was near [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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]
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