Washington Post: Karl — a.k.a. John Ukec Lueth Ukec, the Sudanese ambassador to Washington — held a news conference at the National Press Club yesterday to respond to President Bush’s new sanctions against his regime. In his hour-long presentation, he…
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Deron Williams, I’m as upset as you that the season’s over. Hey folks, as much as I would love to sit here and blog all about Game 5 of the NBA Western Conference Finals, it’s 11:20pm in San Antonio. That…
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Traveling also brought back a memory from a trip ten years ago. We had just put together a new computer setup. Back then we were shooting film, then scanning and sending with a laptop. It meant for a lot of…
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Another day traveling to yet another Jazz playoff game. And flying with all of this equipment (which you have to carry-on) is a huge hassle. Southwest Airlines has a policy where members of the media can jump ahead of the…
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I know this is late in the day, but there’s still an hour left of Memorial Day. Two years ago I wrote this Memorial Day piece that was published in the Tribune: In a suburban Utah home earlier this month—…
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From the NYT Magazine: The more we talked over the following 18 months, however, the more painful his adolescence began to sound. Apatow was always small for his age, and he grew adept at making fun of himself before others…
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Is it worth complaining about security anymore? I wonder if it’s worth the retribution I might face. But can any security expert tell me why I have to pass through a metal detector to get in, but my large shoulder…
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Just set up the computer for tonight’s game three of the NBA Western Conference Finals, Jazz vs. Spurs. The photo workroom is packed. More photographers that we’ve yet seen all season. Every available table space is covered with laptops, card…
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great piece on david alan harvey’s blog, talking about William Albert Allard. Allard is a pure photographer. I first saw him speak in 1989 and I could probably recite several choice Allard quotes from memory eighteen years later. A great…
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Every Sunday I go through the list of new releases on Netflix. Here are two that I’m sure you’ll soon be renting: Drive Thru (2007) Nothing ever happens in the tiny Orange County, Calif., town of Blanca Carne, but that’s…
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dead time pacifies: I went to Burnt Ramen in Richmond. Burnt Ramen reminds me a lot of 924 Gilman circa 1991. I am not a big fan of that place. It is in a poor neighborhood which serves to keep…
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There are profiles of six photographers on Canon Europe’s professional website. Most interesting to me was the profile of Swedish photojournalist Per-Anders Pettersson, who has been doing fascinating work from the Congo (that’s his photograph above), where millions of people…
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I’ve been staring at this photo by Florida photojournalist Chip Litherland for a few days now. I kept a browser window with his blog open, intending to post it. His blog always has something cool on it. Link: Redlights and…
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Nuruddin Farah, in the NYT: My subsequent meetings with the Islamists and their sympathizers were equally frustrating. There was no discussion of the peace plan that had brought me back to Somalia. Instead, the discussions centered on matters they deemed…
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From Wooster Collective: BiPed spotted this new piece yesterday in South London. While it hasn’t been confirmed, it has Banksy written all over it. BiPed writes: “The photo is quite misleading as the stencil is actually about 9ft high -you…
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Here are the photos I sent from the second half of the Jazz loss in San Antonio, Game Two… This Tim Duncan dunk took place on the far end of the court, him facing away from me. But the flash…
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From the blog of Jeff Gerstmann, GameSpot: “Paint It Black” by the Rolling Stones “Cherub Rock” by Smashing Pumpkins “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys “The Metal” by Tenacious D “My Name is Jonas” by Weezer “Knights of Cydonia” by Muse “Rock…
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Okay, here are the photographs I sent in from game two of the Western Conference Finals, Jazz vs. Spurs, Game Two. Jazz lost. Carlos Boozer flies out of bounds, trying to save the ball. Tim Duncan over Andrei Kirilenko. Duncan…
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Covering the Jazz in the Western Conference Finals is a tough gig. All day I’ve been facing some hard decisions as game two against the Spurs approaches tonight at the AT&T Center in San Antonio. But here is what I’ve…
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Dee Brown on the bench at the end. Jazz lose. Paul Millsap. And that’s my take from Game One.