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
