Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Last spring, I was on an early-morning photography trip through Schoharie County. Got a few pictures here and there, and then my tummy started rumbling. And when you’ve got a rumbly in your tummy, you know what that means. No, it doesn’t mean I’m going to get stuck in a hunnytree… I went instead to…
Read MoreIt’s Labor Day weekend, and I’m running around trying to take care of things that I normally can’t do during the working week. Drop off this, pick up that, purchase these, pay for those… And as I drove from Latham to Watervliet, I caught a glimpse of an old, abandoned car wash. Now the Blackbird…
Read MoreI know the neighborhood. Heck, my high school – Street Academy of Albany – was across the street from what’s left of this house. And when I heard that the house at 162 Clinton Avenue had collapsed, leaving only the front of the building standing … I had to capture it on my camera. I…
Read MoreIt was mentioned by name only once in the Star Wars movies, and it was the first time we saw this elegant weapon. The “lightsaber” was identified when Obi-Wan Kenobi gave Luke Skywalker the glowing sword of energy, as seen in this clip from Star Wars IV: A New Hope. Over the years, technology has…
Read MoreAs my “competition season” for my photographs winds down, my “charity season” – where my artworks are donated to various charities and fundraisers – ramps up. In the past, I’ve donated framed photos and artworks to the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society, as part of their “Art Saves Animals” annual charity fundraiser and auction. If anything…
Read MoreWhat if I told you that the retro 1950’s movement – that occurred in the 1970’s – was started by a bunch of Columbia University graduates in the 1960’s? Yes, Chuck knows what time it is. And he also remembers the classic doo-wop tribute revival band Sha Na Na. The band we know as Sha…
Read MoreAs Labor Day weekend continues, I’m reminded of some songs from the late 1990’s, a collection of one-hit wonders that exploded onto the radio, appeared in heavy rotation on music video channels – and then the song, and the band, disappeared as if it never existed. And I thought it might be nice to hear…
Read MoreI’m not really sure where I was the first time I heard Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. Maybe it was on the radio in a heavily edited 45 RPM version, where it was touted as the theme from The Exorcist. Or maybe it was in college, when I was a disc jockey for WHCL (88.7 fm),…
Read MoreAll you Phish fans, pay attention. This is important. Apparently, someone out there likes one of your hits. So much so, in fact, that the melody of one of your hits is remarkably similar to their breakout hit. This is not new. Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism, and I’ve chronicled in past blogs…
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Resolved. We are NOT going to have what happened last year happen again. Last year, two of my pictures were initially disqualified from the Vermont State Fair’s photography competition because the dimensions were too narrow on one side (the pictures needed to be a minimum of 8×10, and two of them had widths of about…
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