Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
So what happens when you have a legendary singer slash vocalist slash musician who unfortunately is no longer alive slash living? Well, there are several instances of posthumous hits on the pop charts – Otis Redding’s ‘”Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” and Roy Orbison’s “You Got It” are two examples of artists who…
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I flipped through the cable channels last night. Figured there had to be something worth watching after 9:00 p.m., as opposed to sitting through a new episode of Ax Men on the History Channel. I flipped through channel after channel, basically humming a Bruce Springsteen song after every single “ah I’m not watching this junk”…
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I love experimenting with film. It’s fun to create new images and new photography concepts. Part of working with film is to use the properties of the film itself to create something special in the final image. I’ve already experimented with redscale film, expired film, cross-processing and sprocket-hole photography. Now to take this to the…
Read MoreWhen I was a kid, many thousands of years ago, my Grandma Betty introduced me to the wonderful world of coin collecting. She started me with something easy – pennies – and explained what pennies are the most desirable to collectors (the 1909 S-VDB, the 1955 “double die”, etc.). I acquired a few pennies –…
Read MoreMan, did I pick a bad time to try to fight this battle. Background. I’m gathering images together for competition season, and one of the images I wanted to enter in the New York State Fair this year was this little graphic. That’s right. I had plans to print this image in such a way…
Read MoreHi there. If you’ve arrived at this blog via the Times Union’s page in the print edition, then I bid you welcome. Every Thursday, I turn over my blog to showcase ten of the best blog articles and posts from my fellow Times Union community and independent bloggers. I hope you enjoy these blogs, and…
Read MoreI have to hand it to the Amish Mafia producers. Just when I think they can’t sink further into the pit of tastelessness, they get a shovel and start digging to China. We currently have a plotline where Li’l Wayne is involved with Karrie, an English woman (a woman who has more curves than a…
Read MoreNOTE: This blog post is about Santa’s Land in Putney, Vermont. it is NOT about Santa’s Workshop, a theme park in the Adirondack Mountains, and no confusion should be made between the two locations. Growing up in the Capital District, we had many different amusement parks and fun centers to visit. Many of them are…
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This is the God’s honest truth. I was driving home the other night, and my Sirius/XM satellite radio was tuned to channel 33 – the “First Wave” channel. They were in the middle of their “Saturday Night Dance Party” show, in which the songs are segued into one seamless track – for example, the tail…
Read MoreI’m a very staunch supporter of Erin Davies’ “Fagbug,” the little Volkswagen Beetle that went from a humble transportation vehicle to a symbol of tolerance in the face of vandalism and homophobia. The Fagbug has traveled across this great nation of ours, it visited every state in the Union (yes, it was shipped to Hawai’i…
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