Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
It’s Sunday afternoon, and I want to test out a lens I haven’t used in a while – my super-telephoto Soviet cadiatrophic lens, the MC MTO-11, an 1100mm f/16 piece of glass that can pick up images half a mile away. My plan – stand at one end of the half-mile oval at Saratoga Harness…
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Two weeks ago, I showed off the lid of what I hoped would be a new art project – creating a hope chest or storage box from old wooden Coca-Cola soda carrier crates. Now comes the rest of the fun.
Read MoreHey everybody, it’s time for a Saturday wrapup of blog posts from my friends and colleagues that I believe deserve your attention. First we start with seven blogs from my old haunt, community and independent bloggers from the Times Union – and then seven blogs from my blogroll that I think deserve your attention. Ready? …
Read MoreLet’s get a few things straight. I enjoyed the Spider-Man trilogy with Tobey Maguire as the webslinger. I kinda was okay with the Amazing Spider-Man double feature with Andrew Garfield in the suit. They both had their strengths and they both had their weaknesses, to be sure. And last night, I watched the reboot of…
Read MoreThe early years of rock and roll music were full of monaural output. Most kids had monaural single-speaker phonographs, so there wasn’t much of a need to produce a stereophonic version of a Top 40 hit. Heck, even producer Phil Spector completely eschewed stereo output, believing that his records sounded much better in mono. Mind…
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I got there. I got the photos. And I got away. That’s usually the gist of my photographic excursions on Independence Day. And I’ve got the pictures to prove it.
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I have a theory. Okay, it’s more like a hypothesis, but I’m calling it a theory. When we encounter stress in our lives, we take that stress and use it as fuel to create something tangible. One of my friends, when she gets angry or frustrated, she cleans her house. Place looks museum-spotless every time…
Read MoreFor the past six seasons, I’ve operated as the statistician with the National Basketball League of Canada. For the last four of those seasons, I’ve worked in one capacity or another with David Magley, a member of the 1983-84 Albany Patroons championship squad. Two of those years were when Magley coached the Brampton (Ontario) A’s,…
Read MoreLong before the days when one could purchase songs through iTunes or add them to a Spotify playlist, one had to find purchaseable tracks through the pages of music collector magazines like Goldmine or Discoveries. Those mags would be packed with advertisers offering rare records AND promo-only CD’s of current popular tracks. And during the…
Read MoreEverybody ready to enjoy the Fourth of July holiday weekend? (Except in England, where the Fourth of July is known as “Tuesday.”) Be that as it may, it’s time to share some of the best writing from both the Times Union’s community (non-staff) bloggers, and then seven blog posts from my blogroll of friends that…
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