Free Post Blog Objects in mirror are closer than they appear I'm not ready for the summer heat; Seattle threw me a bone today. A chilly spring day with the best kind of rain. You could see it approaching, you could smell it in the air. I was walking south, and I knew things were
Free Post shoulda been a tweet Shoulda been a Tweet: History and American exceptionalism I wanted to share an excellent opinion piece in the Washington Post - "History isn't just for patriots", by Daniel Immerwahr. I thought it concisely and eloquently explained how the point of teaching history is not to show how great or bad America is,
Free Post On the Streets The Guild I have a lot of Seattle I should have regrets. It's a flaw, I admit. I too often fall on the thinking about doing something vs. the actually doing it
Free Post Blog Shoulda been a tweet: Beirut I'm critical of CNN. If you watch them on cable, you're just becoming less-informed. It's visual twitter. A stupid game. I'm not faulting the on-air personalities. They're hard-working, and I think they want CNN to be informative. But there's too much working against them.
Free Post Architecture Another Anhalt A few posts back I discussed Capitol Hill’s Loveless Building. In reading about the architect’s history and the building’s story, I hatched a vague
Free Post 35mm Palmyra, Syria 2001 Palmyra, Syria*, summer 2001. The photo is not very good. I’m posting it for two reasons. It’s from my first attempt at scanning 35mm film negatives
Free Post Fujifilm Ilan Pappé at Town Hall Seattle: Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine On Monday 22 May 2017, historian Ilan Pappé spoke at Town Hall Seattle in a forum titled “Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine.” Mr. Pappé, an outspoken critic of
Free Post Film Syria, before the storm I’ve started on a second archival project. Scanning and preserving photos I took in the Middle East in the early 2000s. The photos are flawed. I was using
Free Post Chinatown-International District On the Streets: Chinatown-International District and Pioneer Square Social media platforms don’t have to be a chase for follows and likes. I caught up with Seattle artist and photographer Brett Nelson for a photo walk through
Free Post History Preserving and archiving old photos, movies, and letters. If you like photography and photojournalism, you should consider following Lens, a New York Times section devoted to “Photography, Video and Visual Journalism”. It has become my favorite
Free Post Fujifilm On the Streets: Georgetown, Seattle Photography can be a solitary pursuit. It’s nice to be able to mix it up occasionally and chase shots with a friend. Did that Wednesday night, and it
Free Post Authors Short Takes: Countdown to Pearl Harbor December 7th gets me everytime, much like the anniversaries of the JFK assassination, the lunar landing, and 9/11. It seems impossible to not reflect on how Pearl Harbor happened
