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A Not-Always-Linear Narrative of the Life and Times of Me, Russell Kaye, A Father, Husband, and Photographer.

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  • Mary Swanson
    Brian Lesteberg Artist Talk at the Mpls Photo Center - Photographer Brian Lesteberg will be giving an Artist Talk at the Mpls Photo Center on Tuesday, November 10th About the artist (from the Mpls website): Bri...
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  • Lightstalkers
    Who is using the WordPress-PhotoShelter integration? - Hello all, I was playing around with integrating my Photoshelter site into a Wordpress site with Visual Society/Graph Paper Press yesterday. Is anyone usin...
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  • i like to tell stories (Jonathan Saunders)
    In The Canyon -
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  • Boing Boing
    What MP3 player should I buy? - I'm in the market for a new MP3 player -- my second-gen iPod Nano is finally dead, and I don't want to buy another iPod, or any other player with DRM built...
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  • ELIZABETH AVEDON
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  • Lenscratch (Aline Smithson)
    Margriet Smulders - Margriet Smulders was born in the Netherlands, where she continues to reside, surrounded by flowers and influenced by Dutch masters. In 1999, Margriet expe...
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  • Photograzing
    Applesauce Cake - A family recipe for a simple loaf cake made with applesauce, cinnamon and nutmeg....
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  • The Sartorialist
    On the Street....Laurel, NYC -
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  • The 20x200 Blog
    Mike Monteiro Celebrates El Vética - El Vética t-shirt designed by Mike Monteiro 20x200 artist Mike Monteiro is the head of a Mule, a design studio in California. In addition to creating exempla...
    3 hours ago
  • You Saved What?
    Tyson Labels for schools ..weekend coupons - Well this weekend there are a few good coupons coming out. The hungry Jack Pancake mix 55c at Bi-lo will make it less than 80c a box. So if you eat panca...
    5 hours ago
  • The Baseline Scenario
    Warren Buffett And The G20 - The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors are meeting today in St. Andrews, talking about the data they will need to look at in order to monitor...
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  • Seth Godin
    Take what you can get (?) - When you're just starting out or when your organization is struggling or when the economy isn't hot, it's very tempting to take what you can get. You just gr...
    6 hours ago
  • Flak Photo
    November 7, 2009 - Untitled, Niigata, Japan, 2009 — from the series Not Niigata Photo © Andrew Phelps
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  • Zoe Strauss
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  • Richard Renaldi
    Totally Rad Manhattan Graffiti -
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  • Tethered (Elizabeth Fleming)
    Ian van Coller - © Ian van Coller This image by Ian van Coller is incredible. I had the pleasure of meeting Ian in Santa Fe and was happy I was able to view large, beautifu...
    13 hours ago
  • Mrs. Deane
    nice: the museum of english rural life - Castle Howard oxen — source Livestock photography has been on the periphery of our photographic radar ever since rediscovering the image of the 5-legged co...
    14 hours ago
  • Vincent Laforet
    Jamie O’Brien “Who IS J.O.B?” Trailer - So here’s an update on the Jamie O’Brien collaboration. I’m real excited to have been a part of this project with Jamie - a lot of others contributed to ...
    18 hours ago
  • Lens (New York Times Photo Blog)
    Pictures of the Day: Friday, Nov. 6 - Grief and somber disbelief were palpable at the Fort Hood Army base, a day after a rampage that left 13 people dead.
    19 hours ago
  • A Photography Blog.
    Happy Friday, with Some Help from istockphoto. - Sometimes when you're taking life a little too seriously, it's nice to stop and look at hilarious photo captions.
    19 hours ago
  • Ian Aleksander Adams
    Elizabeth Heppenstall: Fashion Face and Plant Sneak - Today I’m posting about a couple of Beth’s little installation projects. The first you may know about already (I think a couple of my readers are actually ...
    20 hours ago
  • Thomas Broening
    Rye Bread -
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  • The Food Section
    How To: Open a Bottle of Wine Using Your Shoe - Drunk Frenchmen demonstrate how to open a bottle wine with your shoe (and a wall).
    21 hours ago
  • Landscapist
    still life # 13 ~ slice of life - [image: 1044757-4679250-thumbnail.jpg] *Sunflower and gourds* • *click to embiggen**So I've been screwing around*, photography-wise, for a couple of weeks...
    23 hours ago
  • Timothy Archibald
    The Family Portrait - We shot this ad for Don Sebastiani And Sons a few months back and had to keep it quiet until the season arrived....and now 'tis the season. We blogged ab...
    23 hours ago
  • A Photo Student
    The Future of Photography (BHQF Part III) - Last week I posted part of a department-wide email that was sent out. There is a lot of discussion at school about the future of photography, social networ...
    23 hours ago
  • Chase Jarvis
    Help-Portrait Is A Good Thing - I wrote about Jeremy Cowart's great idea for a collective "give back" holiday project earlier. Behind the scenes, Jeremy and a handful of fellow photogs ...
    1 day ago
  • PDN Photo of the Day
    Robert Frank: The Americans - Charleston, South Carolina, 1955, [Plate 13 from The Americans] © Robert Frank/Courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery, New York City Robert Frank at the Robert Ma...
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  • New at Pentagram
    Quick Link: Riverways in The Architect's Newspaper - Riverways in The Architect's Newspaper
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  • Colin Pantall
    Sullen, Smiling or just Unconvincing: More on the NPG - No Smiling Please #1 by Colin Pantall More on the NPG Photographic Portrait Prize from Diane Smyth (one of the judges) at the BJP - this time on th...
    1 day ago
  • The Stone's Colossal Dream (Tania Rochelle)
    Best-Ever Article on Sex - When I was growing up, we learned about sex from nasty graffiti on railroad bridges and sewer drains. If we were really lucky, we might find a stash of ...
    1 day ago
  • AMERICANSUBURB X
    INTERVIEW: "Interview with Camilo Jose Vergara (2007)" - Interview with Camilo Jose VergaraBy Jesse SerwerWhat is it about American cities that draws you to document them versus, say, ghettos in other places like...
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  • A Photo Editor
    Foto Week DC Starts Tomorrow - Foto Week DC starts tomorrow and it looks like there’s plenty to do for people in attendance (here). This screening (here) of a movie on Yousuf Karsh caugh...
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  • Thoughts of a Bohemian (Paul Melcher)
    This ain’t Wal Mart - One of the premises for the acquisition by Getty images of Istockphoto was that customers of the microstock site would eventually migrate to the higher pri...
    1 day ago
  • Conscientious (Joerg Colberg)
    Review: Case Study Homes by Peter Bialobrzeski - Described as "one of the most significant movements in post-World War II architecture" (source), the Case Study House Program "included the building and desi...
    1 day ago
  • RESOLVE (LiveBooks Blog)
    Photo News: Two new mag/paper models - Judge says photogs not authors - German mag bans models - Toyota apologizes for stealing Flickr photos - A Photo Editor pointed us to some hopeful news about the future of the media industry. Maggwire.com is planning to charge readers a subscription fee to acc...
    1 day ago
  • whats the jackanory ? Andy Hetherington
    Books, Ballen, Adhesive & SPD-AI/AP-SLPSXIV - Well if you want something to do photo related over the next seven days here are some choice selects: Friday 6 and Saturday 7 Monday 9 Roger Ballen in Conv...
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  • The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
    Kainaz Amaria - Jamey, 18 & one month pregnant, shares a smoke with her mother moments before her wedding. Ohio, 2007 Kainaz Amaria (b. 1978, USA & India) is a photojourna...
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  • Orion Magazine
    Vanilla Sound - Richard Keil stands ankle-deep in the tidal flats below Seattle’s Magnolia Bluff, tugging some test strips from his backpack. The bluff rises gently behi...
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  • HeatherMorton Art Buyer
    A Year in the Life Project in Which Grant Enters some Contests and Jaime Finishes his Website - Grant Harder: Here’s a run down of the past week: Kevin Miyazaki is a Milwaukee based photographer who is instructing a course at the Milwaukee Institute o...
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  • Noah Kalina
    view - vancouver (opus hotel) - view - vancouver (opus hotel)
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  • Burns Auto Parts blog
    Success - I’ve written on success several times before. One thing that I have tried to teach is that it is so important to define success on your own terms. Your suc...
    1 day ago
  • NOTIFBUTWHEN
    Aisling…?! - via Brandon Sorg
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  • i heart photograph
    michele abeles - new pictures by michele abeles. see more here [ all michele abeles.]
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  • Less Is More (James Worrell)
    The Last Days of Gourmet... - A lovely photo blog from Kevin DeMaria, formally of Gourmet. See it here.
    1 day ago
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    Start Asking - Start Asking was Ryan Fitzgibbon's solution to the final challenge of Command X: Season 2, the graphic design reality show at the AIGA Make/Think Conferenc...
    1 day ago
  • eyecurious
    Yaniv Waissa - Yaniv Waissa is a young Israeli photographer working around memory and landscape. His series Disintegration of a Revived Nation deals with “the urban revol...
    2 days ago
  • Robert Wright
    New York City Marathon 2009 Race Report part two: analysis - Officially 3:38:33. 7370/43741 total (top 17%). 6252/28354 of men (top 22%). 1379/5551 men age 40-44 (top 25%-the most popular demographic). I spanked that...
    2 days ago
  • swissmiss
    Google Dashboard - Also read the followin article over on Mashable: Google Dashboard: Now You Know What Google Knows About You.
    2 days ago
  • BLDGBLOG
    Aqueous - [Image: From *Amphibious Architecture* by The Living; photo by Chris Woebken ]. New York architects The Living, mentioned in an earlier post, have completed...
    2 days ago
  • Granta Magazine
    Kiltykins - Ved Mehta This article is for online subscribers only
    2 days ago
  • Strobist
    Shedding Light on the Gender Gap - *UPDATE: I figured there would be some comments on this one. But still, I had no idea. Kinda like turning on the comment firehose. Thanks much for all of t...
    2 days ago
  • Michael David Murphy-ACP
    Gallery Talk at the High Museum on Thursday - Look Again - Danielle Avram will be leading a walk-through and discussion of “Look Again” at the High Museum on Thursday night, at 7pm. Details over on the High’s website.
    2 days ago
  • AV Producer
    Recovery - av_producer posted a photo: [image: Recovery] Recovery Copyright 2009 Ron Diorio Courtesy of Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art phhfineart.com/ron_diorio.html
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  • Magazine Death Pool
    Purpose Driven Connection magazine: RIP November 2009 - No longer showing any faith in the project, Readers Digest beckoned the Reaper to take its Rick Warren magazine to its just fate after a mere four issues. Af...
    2 days ago
  • SHANE LAVALETTE
    Sesame Street: Geometry of Circles - Happy 40th birthday to Sesame Street! To celebrate, I give you one of my favorite moments (next to maybe this, of course): Geometry of Circles, a clip from...
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  • Zack Arias
    Photography Critique :: Episode 12 - Welcome to episode 12 of Photography Critique. We take a look at four sites and I do my best to stay on track, make my point, and move on. Trying to take y...
    3 days ago
  • Exposure Compensation
    Renato D”Agostin - © Renato D’Agostin Renato D’Agostin, a photographer from Italy and now working in New York City, captures life situations in the most elemental manner, so...
    3 days ago
  • Liz Kuball
    Collect this: Ron, Navajo, Arizona - I found out about Corey Presha and his print sale through Digressions, Daniel Shea’s blog, and, man, I’m glad I did. This photo from Corey’s *The Road Is L...
    3 days ago
  • The Year in Pictures (James Danziger)
    A Rich Harvest - A lot of good images that were new to me popped up over the last week. Above - "South Downs Way, West Sussex, 8th October 2007." By Simon Roberts from ...
    3 days ago
  • Horses Think
    Roger Ballen + Darius Himes - Roger Ballen, Prickles, 2002 Roger Ballen is going to be speaking about his work in conversation with Darius Himes next week at SVA. From what many people ...
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  • Jeff Singer
    Spam A Lot - There’s a lot of talk about email promo’s lately. Here, here, here, here and here. See what I mean. It seems the consensus is email promos aren’t very e...
    3 days ago
  • Unphotographable (Michael David Murphy)
    Golf Tee Crack Raccoon - This is a picture I did not take of an emptied, mini-size ziplock bag most commonly associated with crack cocaine lying beside a broken golf tee, smack in ...
    4 days ago
  • Green Olive Media
    Benton's Bacon Beer From Brooklyn Brewery - We had a great dinner at Craft last night courtesy of Tom Colicchio and Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver...the highlight? Brooklyn's 'Reinschwein...
    4 days ago
  • 5B4 (Jeffrey Ladd)
    Protest Photographs by Chauncey Hare - Over the next month, time willing, I will be featuring several books which are my picks for best books of the year. The first is the new Steidl and Steve...
    4 days ago
  • Steve Aishman
    A Report from the Phantom Zone - Information has evolved into a new species of garbage. The entire concept of someone who is “informed” has changed and now fragmentary 140 character lines ...
    5 days ago
  • Homily (Julian Richards)
    Gerard Hopkins: The Manley Burden of Responsibility - ‘Enough: corruption was the world’s first woe. What need I strain my heart beyond my ken? O but I bear my burning witness though Against the wild and wanto...
    5 days ago
  • Sean Kernan
    Cloudy day in Oaxaca - Nearing the end of a workshop during the Day of the Dead in this southern Mexican city.
    6 days ago
  • Amy Stein
    Happy Halloween - Via stevechasmar I was so busy shooting today I almost forgot to wish everyone a Happy Halloween.
    6 days ago
  • playing with fire and water
    bat wings - Chicken wings basted with black sesame paste, soy sauce, mirin, and brown sugar. Pomegranate ketchup. Butternut squash crisps... because even bloodsuckers ne...
    1 week ago
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    Out Takes - A writer will often cut a lot out of a book before it is published and will then keep these pieces of fiction, these out takes, around for one reason or an...
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    Waiting Dangerously in Rio - Waiting Dangerously in Rio by Scott Listfield
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  • Cara Phillips
    Good Job Boys! - Last time Humble did this exhibit there was quite a bit of hubbub about it, and while I stayed out of the fray, I was very happy to have this email in my i...
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    The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 7) - The conclusion of the Depression-era photo-fakery series, with an account of a visit with the subject of "Migrant Mother."
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    It's Deja View All Over Again - Part II - Day two in New York City for PhotoPlus Expo... it's deja view all over again!
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    I just got off the phone with Dion - My phone rings; It's Dion Dimucci, the only headlining act to survive Buddy Holly's Winter Dance Party in 1959. He's calling to tell me how much he likes...
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    Jonathan Melber: A Remix Manifesto for Our New Copyright Czar [del.icio.us] - Featuring a guest appearance (via comments) by a suit from the RIAA.
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    “The great Handsman”… - Thanks to the Great Paul…
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    Otto Snoek - I was familiar with Otto Snoek’s photography from in-public, but I’d never visited his site until this evening. The best of his work reminds me of the best...
    3 weeks ago
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    The Blue Poet Dreams - After months of work, I am proud to announce that The Blue Poet Dreams by Brenton Hamilton has been released. The book contains a beautiful selection of Br...
    4 weeks ago
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    Fish-Work flies to Orlando - I’ll be in Orlando, Florida this weekend for the opening of a three person show including Peter Beste, Joe Conzo and myself. Come in and say hello this Sa...
    4 weeks ago
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    moving day - I’ve decided that I will not automatically redirect, since I find it annoying when I encounter it myself. Instead, I will just say give you the link to the...
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    20 Years - Our official 20th anniversary is December 1.It was on that day in 1989 that we first opened our doors for business with about 3000 used books, no employees, ...
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    Home again, off the road - We just got home tonight. Completed a nice project with art director Rich Albright of Luckie Advertising, for the Morgan Keegan firm. Environment portraits...
    5 weeks ago
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    Night Vision - Images by © Jennilee Marigomen NIGHT VISION is a renegade outdoor photograph projection show in Vancouver, Canada. The premise of NIGHT VISION is to bring ...
    1 month ago
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    PBN09 Awards Ceremony @NYC - “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”—Alan Kay Last night, on a beautiful, balmy, breezy September eve in New York City at Tribeca Rooftop,...
    1 month ago
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    Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists - [Still from Modern Times] “The construction of situations begins beyond the ruins of the modern spectacle. It is easy to see how much the very principle of...
    1 month ago
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    2 months ago
  • Magnum Blog
    Getting too close? - [image: ARO2009004G_0408.jpg] © Olivia Arthur/Magnum Photos When I am asked about my work, one of the questions that often comes up is 'How much differen...
    2 months ago
  • Jennifer Loeber
    - Hey psst! I'm over here!
    2 months ago
  • Henning Bock
    Henning Bock | June 2006 -
    4 months ago
  • Onebyfourbynine
    sam taylor-wood - "A Little Death", 2002....
    4 months ago
  • Green Rhino / Brooklyn Print Works
    Bushwick Open Studios - The Bushwick Open Studios this weekend was a great event. The weather was perfect and even with the L train not running normally there were large numbers o...
    4 months ago
  • Pause to Begin
    Catalogue Edition Books in Progress! - Ethan and I have been hard at work in Rochester, New York with Tom at New Ridge Bindery (585-271-6990) and Eric at Booksmart Studio. Ethan cut bookboard an...
    6 months ago
  • Magnum Blog / From the field
    Getting too close? - [image: ARO2009004G_0408.jpg] © Olivia Arthur/Magnum Photos When I am asked about my work, one of the questions that often comes up is 'How much differen...
    7 months ago
  • Drinking with A Dead Man (John Loomis)
    Shammys - Predictably I've been roped into watching tonight's Grammy awards due to the 1st ever Radiohead live performance (I could wait for the inevitable YouTube vid...
    8 months ago
  • Avisualsociety
    What now? - So as my 4 or 5 regular readers may have noticed there’s been a lack of posting of late. Between post-holiday syndrome and whatever else (laziness, 24 and...
    9 months ago
  • Photo District News - PDNewswire
    Kodak Cutting Thousands of Jobs, Up to 18% of Workforce - The cuts, which follow a steep drop in sales of the company's film and digital imaging products, will reduce Kodak's workforce by between 3,500 and 4,500 e...
    9 months ago
  • Mobtown Creative
    Emmett's hat -
    10 months ago
  • David Harvey
    site moved - please come now to my new online magazine Burn:burnmagazine.org
    10 months ago
  • David Alan Harvey
    goodbye.....hello - this is my last post on this platform.....please go now to: burnmagazine.org our "road trips" blog is now simply called "Dialogue" on the new Burn homepage...
    10 months ago
  • you call this photography?
    Palin draws 60000 people. (more like 5,000) - I think someone forgot how to count. Because our friend Palin's has hijacked the media in believing that she spoke to 60,000 people in Florida this weekend...
    1 year ago
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    And Then It Was Over: Shoot! Takes its Final Bow. - Ok, so this picture is a metaphor of-sorts. You see, those are beautiful balloons. And we had a wonderful New Year's. But eventually the balloons floated to ...
    1 year ago
  • Mrs. Raye Says (Sandra-Lee Phipps)
    - Jon Edwards School House 2003 Thinking about teaching again, I have to toot the horn of a very great documentary photographer Jon Edwards. I can humbly c...
    1 year ago
  • Byron Oneal
    An article on How to Win a Photography Contest - A not bad blog article on how to win a photography contest written by a judge. The rest of their blog is worth a little poking around time if you have it.
    1 year ago
  • WHILE SEATED (Michael David Murphy)
    Michael David Murphy Interview - Photographer and blogger Liz Kuball interviewed me over here.
    1 year ago
  • Nutopia Forum Blog
    Hot Off The Presses: PDN30 - We would like to congratulate two forum members, Mike McGregor & Andreas Laszlo Konrath on their inclusion in the illustrious PDN30 this year. Spot on fellow...
    1 year ago
  • The Photographs Not Taken
    - ABOUT The Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers about the times they didn't use their camera. This collection is a series of ph...
    1 year ago
  • See Speak Remember (Christian Patterson)
    More Blog Rant - There has been some reaction to my last post, both positive and negative. And I have received many kind, supportive e-mail messages. Thank you. I was in a ...
    1 year ago
  • Bitter Photographer
    New Consulting Business/Legal Defense Fundraiser - The BP has been mired in a string of legal cases that have been brought against him by former employees so he has not had time to devote to blogging. But l...
    1 year ago
  • thecruelvisualworld
    With the record business dying, what about cover art? - A rarely mentioned consequence of the expected demise of the record business in its current form, is the fact that graphic design and photography for cd ...
    2 years ago
  • Alec Soth
    The mystical moist night-air - I’m hitting the road and hanging up the blog. Join me for a non-virtual visit in Memphis (Oct. 5th) and Atlanta (Oct. 11th). Otherwise, send me a letter – ...
    2 years ago
  • Susan Daboll
    - A LANDSCAPE OF LONGING To travel by train is both the journey itself and the specific landscape through which the train passes. Enclosed within the carriag...
    3 years ago

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