Good Reputation Sleeping

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, A Rememberance

I met Dr. Hunter S. Thompson in January of 1988. It was on the eve of his 50th birthday, and one of his traveling buddies from the campaign trail, Curtis Wilkie, then a writer at the Boston Globe, had talked Hunter into an interview. He had not, however, talked him into photographs - but I was nevertheless sent off to Aspen a few days after new year's to make my request in person. I was told only 2 things; Hunter does not get up before 9 p.m. and before going to see him, coat my stomach with a few glasses of milk.

Hunter S. Thompson, At Rest

Author Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide - A.P..

Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67.

All the News, Part Deux

Following up on the earlier post, All the News that's Fit to Print, I had a few thoughts while looking at the article in print ( I initially read it online). I recorded some comments while driving, here they are (MP3, 2.6 MB). This is not a podcast, is it?

Fashion Photography from "T"

T: Style Magazine.

Photographs by Raymond Meier, Paolo Roversi, and Nobuyoshi Araki.

Over The Top!

Nano-Journalism.

Tired of TiVo? Beyond Blogs? Podcasts Are Here.

"From "Say Yum," a California couple's musings about food and music, to "Lifespring," a Christian show whose creator said he had a vision to podcast, to "Dutch Cheese and American Pie," by a Dutch citizen planning to move to the United States, these shows cover a broad variety of topics.

Podcasts are a little like reality television, a little like "Wayne's World," and are often likened to TiVo, which allows television watchers to download only the programs they want to watch and to skip advertising, for radio or blogs but spoken.

And as bloggers have influenced journalism, podcasters have the potential to transform radio. Already many radio stations, including National Public Radio and Air America, the liberal-oriented radio network, have put shows into a podcast format. And companies are seeing the possibilities for advertising; Heineken, for example, has produced a music podcast." - Kate Zernike

All the News that's Fit to Print.

Hard News.

"The venerable newspaper is in trouble. Under sustained assault from cable television, the Internet, all-news radio and lifestyles so cram-packed they leave little time for the daily paper, the industry is struggling to remake itself." - Frank Ahrens, The Washington Post

Hell Yes!

Stuff #4,
originally uploaded by Burnt Pixel.

Beck's EP homage to 8-bit gameboy music, Hell Yes - ripped and burned via iTunes.

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6 Degrees

I'm having a Kevin Bacon moment. Just found out that 3 top flight 'boots on the ground' multimedia journalists are all being courted by The New York Times for 3 new jobs. Another very web-saavy journalist was hired away from The Washington Post just a few weeks ago.

None of them initially knew about each other, but there does seem to be a pattern taking shape.
What's cookin' in the Big Apple?

Spring (Training) Is Here!

Emerging From the Shadows - The Washington Post.

VIERA, Fla., Feb. 15 -- There was a blue sky. There was an unfiltered sun. There were palm trees beyond the outfield wall, and quiet everywhere in the empty stadium. And there was a baseball in the air, its lazy arc ending in a leather glove that was attached to the end of a muscular arm, which belonged to a baseball player, who was wearing a gray athletic T-shirt that read: "Property of the Washington Nationals." - Dave Sheinin

My First Flickr! Welcome, Again.

My First Flickr! Welcome.,
originally uploaded by Burnt Pixel.

I have become addicted to flickr, both the easy to use software for uploading photos to the web, as well as the community that has come with it. I now regularly share photos and comments with photographers from as close as Northern Virginia and as far away as Poland and China.

I didn't think I could get sucked into something 'new' on the web so quickly, guess there is still some magic left! Here is my first test post on GRS from my flickr files!