Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
For all the years I’ve owned a camera, I’ve tried to photograph the spectacular fireworks show at the Empire State Plaza. I’ve dealt with oppressive heat, poor shooting angles, and people bumping into my gear in the middle of the fireworks show. This year, I wanted to avoid all that. I knew that Price Chopper…
Read MoreHere’s the deal. You’ve set up a location where you think you can get an amazing photo, one that should win any competition from here to the moon and back. And then you have to deal with the naysayers, the downchatters, the ones who feel that no good parade can commence without them raining on…
Read MoreAs you all know by now, I am a dedicated BlackBerry cell phone loyalist. For me, BlackBerry phones are much more dependable and secure than iPhones or Samsung Galaxy phones. Unfortunately, last year I had a wee little accident with my BlackBerry PRIV phone. And by “wee little accident,” I mean that I dropped it. …
Read MoreThis ought to be fun. I recently acquired a 100-pound burlap sack from Fort Orange Dairy in Albany, New York. Fort Orange Dairy was a brand of farm and poultry feeds and seeds, produced by Barber & Bennett, who had their offices at the corner of Arch and Church Streets in Albany. Here’s an old…
Read MoreYou’re familiar with the Stephen King story Christine, with a possessed car? You’re familiar with the Transformers car Bumblebee, which depending on your fandom is either a yellow Volkswagen Beetle or a yellow Chevrolet Camaro – both of whom are sentient beings? Well, apparently over the last few days my 2013 Chevrolet Cruze “Dracourage” may…
Read MoreMy fellow blog readers, before I begin with this week’s “7 and 7” blogroll harvest, I want to address something very important. And it concerns my relationship – or what was left of it – with the Albany Times Union. As you know from reading my blog posts over the past year or so –…
Read MoreOn occasion, if I’ve heard a song on the radio more times than I care to count, I’ll start focusing on a specific part of the song itself – the drummer, the bassist, something to find a nuance that I hadn’t noticed before. On today’s K-Chuck Radio, I want to take you into the rock…
Read MoreAs far as my art prints go, my printer of choice is McGreevy Pro Lab in downtown Albany. They can print my photos into stunning artworks, and I can get my works in a variety of formats – glossy print, matte print, gicleé print… But they’re not able to print my artworks on metal. It’s…
Read MoreThere’s a very curious building on Green Island. It looks like a manufacturing complex, and it has a chain link fence surrounding it. And inbetween the building and the chain link fence? Children’s bicycles. Lots of them. Some are in various stages of repair, others look like they just rolled off the Huffy factory floor.…
Read MoreWhen the studio group Gorillaz first released records way back in ancient times – what, the late 1990’s – I wasn’t sure what to expect. The songs were a mixture of R&B, rap, funk, deep groove – with a premise that four animated simians were creating the tracks. Yeah, think The Archies or The Chipmunks…
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