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A wonderfully eclectic photoblog I have been looking at for more than a year.
A photographer with an eye for composition who always gives me something to think about.
When you get to the site, click on the photo and enjoy.
Dana and Robin
Originally uploaded by Burnt Pixel.
"At The Post, which captured the biggest one-year number of prizes in its history, Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith won the Pulitzer for investigative reporting for uncovering abuses by Abramoff, a former Republican lobbyist who has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy.
Dana Priest won the beat reporting award for revealing that the CIA was using secret prisons in Eastern Europe to interrogate terrorism suspects. David Finkel won the explanatory reporting prize for tracking the failure of a U.S.-funded program to export democracy to Yemen. Robin Givhan won the award for criticism for her sometimes unorthodox writing about fashion." - Howard Kurtz, TWP
I have been jones-ing tunes lately; here's some of the new stuff on the iPod!
~ Anne Akiko Meyers
~ Dengue Fever
~ midaircondo
~ buffalo daughter
Spinning Hope on Incarceration Station - New York Times.
ANGOLA, La., April 6 - "KLSP, a radio station with one turntable, six employees and a $48 weekly payroll, has limited reach over this patch of swampy farmland and razor wire northwest of Baton Rouge. It is meant to be that way.
The station director and most of the D.J.'s are convicted murderers. Most of its 5,100 listeners are serving life sentences at the Louisiana State Penitentiary here. The 100-foot metal pole that transmits the station's F.C.C.-approved signal - a relatively weak but consistent 100 watts - rises from a grassy knoll behind death row.
Death row, home to 83 men, is where KLSP-FM (91.7), which prison officials say is the nation's only licensed prison radio station, finds its most dedicated audience and inspiration for its core mission: spreading the word of Jesus (and an occasional message from the warden) to men doomed to die behind bars." - Paul Von Zielbauer, NYT
Fell.
A wonderfully moody, gritty and dark detective series from Ben Templesmith and Warren Ellis. Short stories done right.
Find it at comic shops and online; read issue #1 here.
The View
Originally uploaded by Burnt Pixel.
The size slowed me down, the film gave me wonderful tone and detail, and the ground glass forced me to study the picture before I took it. I fell in love with the upside down world under the dark cloth, and as I returned to the 35mm world, I never forgot it's magic.
The digital world has given me hope of returning to familiar territory with their view screens, but until now they have been too small to use for anything else but simple framing.
All that has changed for me, however, with my Canon A540. Its 2.5 inch screen is so large and clear that I want to put a loupe on it for focusing (it has one built in). Also, it has digital grid lines so I can keep my pictures straight. As we move further into the 21st century, my digital cam now looks back to beginning of photographic time.
