Got a lot to write about: Jazz in the NBA playoffs, NCAA Gymnastics National Championships, FLDS exile Wendell Musser and more. In the meantime, here’s a photo of Carlos Boozer dunking the ball in the Jazz victory over the Houston…
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Got a lot to write about: Jazz in the NBA playoffs, NCAA Gymnastics National Championships, FLDS exile Wendell Musser and more. In the meantime, here’s a photo of Carlos Boozer dunking the ball in the Jazz victory over the Houston…
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The greatest thing happened at the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics National Championships last night. No, it wasn’t the University of Utah taking second place nationally, although that was pretty cool. Something else happened. I just happened to be “backstage” when the…
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Covering the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics National Championships, I left my camera unattended near a couple of college students for just a few moments. Only later when editing did I discover a few frames that I certainly didn’t take. Good joke,…
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From Kid Robot: From Argentina, where suave desserts and happy pills keep company with nauseous oil barrels and 3-D lightning bolts, street art and design collective DOMA firmly plants one foot in reality and the other in psycho-tropics. Acid Sweeties,…
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This is a piece I wrote for the SportsShooter newsletter. I don’t know how the idea evolved, since the thought of quoting Manowar in the newsletter is simply, well… Here’s the article: Issue #100 of the SportsShooter newsletter is here.…
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Since the posts come up in reverse chronological order, I’m posting this correctly ordered list. It’s always best to start at the beginning. 10.2.1986: Twenty Years Ago Today 10.3.1986: Twenty Years Ago Today 10.4.1986, 8pm 10.4.1986, 2:30am 10.5.1986 10.6.1986 10.7.1986…
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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at In The Venue, which will always be Brick’s to me. Great music, even at 1/15th (above) and 1/30th of a second (below). I set my white balance to daylight so that the color and…
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Digital camera guru Rob Galbraith offers up his thoughts after testing a pre-production model of Canon’s new high-end camera. A little quote: The camera’s features may be difficult to sum up, but the camera’s performance isn’t. It’s awesome. Pixel-for-pixel, the…
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Amazing photos by Richard Barnes of starling flocks over Italy in today’s New York Times Magazine: Richard Barnes’s photographs capture the double nature of the birds — or at least the double nature of our relationship to them — recording…
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From The Observer: When Britain’s hardiest metal band played their first Indian gig, Ed Vulliamy joined them and their fans for a frank discussion of war, economics – and music Whereas a Maiden audience in Europe tends to be what…
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Assignment: Attorney Stewart Peay. After landing a job at the firm Snell & Wilmer, Peay was called up by the National Guard and served 18 months in Iraq. Our story is on Peay’s re-adaptation to civilian life. This was my…
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Check out this amazing plush Donkey Kong designed for the I Am 8 Bit show, found on Michelle and Amanda’s The Girls blog, which showcases their work as The Girls Productions Amanda Visell and Michelle Valigura are always posting great…
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I just got a great idea for a book. It would be compiled of the crazy information found on assignments slips. I’m talking about the things reporters and editors write in an attempt to be funny. And it gets even…
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Featuring Josh Brown, Andy Martin, Scott Bort, Jorge Javier Lopez, Jonathan Hanson, Francesa Dotta, Yeulmaus, Lars Borges. Check it out here.
Back to good news in the photojournalism world: The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week. The Pulitzers are the top awards in newspaper journalism. The award for Breaking News Photography was awarded to Associated Press photographer…
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Some new pieces from one of today’s greatest art prankster Banksy are up at Banksy’s website. Thanks to Juxtapoz for the notice. I’ve been meaning to review Banksy’s book Wall and Piece for months now. The man is a genius.…
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I’d really like to move on to other topics. The last thing that this blog needs to become is the Allan Detrich zone. But today the Toledo Blade published the results of its investigation into the work of its former…
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The winners of the UK photojournalism competition, The Press Photographer’s Year, including their Photograph of the Year (seen here), by Sean Smith of The Guardian. As they say: Designed for press photographers by press photographers. Sponsored by Canon cameras, the…
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From LA Weekly, a conversation with Quentin Tarantina, Robert Rodriguez and the masters of grindhouse films (Richard Rush, Bob Clark, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Allan Arkush, Lewis Teague, and George Armitage): TARANTINO: I have to tell you that, of course, everyone talks…
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From The Observer: Colonel Bob Stewart, a British commander of United Nations forces in Bosnia, told the Sunday Times that the MoD had turned a military disaster into a media circus. ‘The released hostages are behaving like reality TV stars,’…
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