Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
During my experiments with color infrared film – both medium format slide and print formulae – I wanted to determine the best outputs for both products. What I’ve discovered is – with the color print Infrared film (“CIR 120”) I’ve acquired, I have more flexibility with my shots.ย In sunlight, I can use the photographer’s…
Read MoreI was driving through Greene County yesterday, and out of the corner of my eye, I spotted something. It was a very distinctive artistic spraypainted tag.ย Someone had makred up a steel girder with an American flag. Not just any American flag, mind you … an upside-down flag. As you know from flag etiquette, an…
Read MoreIt’s 1979, and the National Broadcasting Company – who for many decades was the predominant force in primetime television dramas and comedies – was sputtering.ย The network, mired in third place behind ABC and CBS, tried everything they could to draw an audience.ย Put McLean Stevenson in a sitcom about a radio talk show host?ย …
Read MoreI am normally a very open-minded person when it comes to Facebook.ย My friends have differing opinions and ideologies, and they post them on their Facebook walls.ย I don’t have to agree with what they say, and they don’t have to agree with me. Yesterday, I unfriended a longtime Facebook friend.ย The comment made?ย “If…
Read MoreActress Whitney Avalon has done whatever it takes to break through in the entertainment industry.ย She’s appeared in several TV shows and commercials (she’s the mother in the blended family Cheerios commercials), she’s produced a series of wildly popular “Princess Rap Battle” videos (the one between Snow White and Elsa from Frozen has maybe 70…
Read MoreI remember the moment clearly.ย It was the spring of 2014.ย I was visiting the Albany Center Gallery; my photo The Jumbuck, a profile shot of an Icelandic sheep, was my first-ever acceptance into the Capital District Photo Regionals.ย Man, what a great moment.ย What an accomplishment. Then I received the text. “Dad died.ย Don’t…
Read MoreHi everybody, and welcome to another Saturday recp of the great writing and photography from the bloggers and photographers that make up my personal blogroll.ย While I have a steady habit of blogging at least once every day (and have done so for nearly ten years), I take one day each week to step aside…
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Nothing like trying to enter my photos in a competition in which I already know I have no chance of succeeding. That has to be the epitome of cojones, right? Let me explain. The United States Government has an image competition every year for their national Federal Duck Stamp.ย Painters and illustrators around the nation…
Read MoreThere have been recent protests in Albany by the Poor People’s Campaign.ย These protests, which have disrupted traffic in the downtown Albany area, are designed as a non-violent alert to the systemic problems of racism and police brutality and pay inequality.ย Noble effort, to be sure. The City of Albany sent the organizers of the…
Read MoreI’ve done these “interpretation” K-Chuck Radio blog posts before – different interpretations of pop chestnuts like Smash Mouth’s “All Star” or the re-interpretations of the “Steamed Hams” mini-episode of The Simpsons. So for today, I bring you this classic 1983 yacht-rock #1 song by the studio band Toto. No, it’s not “Hold the Line” or…
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