Assignment: The Coronavirus
Month: March 2020
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eyeball Podcast #9: Kenneth Dickerman
Washington Post photo editor and college friend Kenneth Dickerman trace their journeys since studying photojournalism at Mizzou together and talk photo books, baptisms, short circuiting creativity via pretension, Scandinavian photography and the traits of a good photo editor
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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
*Not an endorsement of the music
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2020 Week Twelve
Assignment: Earthquake
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The scene at the Rescue Mission of Salt Lake after an earthquake in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The statue of Moroni atop the Salt Lake temple, damaged in an earthquake in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Curt Green works to remove loose brick from the roof of Caffé Molise, damaged in an earthquake in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bricks that fell from the facade of Red Rooster Records in Magna after last week’s earthquake, as seen on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A closure notice due to COVID-19 is covered up by a warning notice after earthquake damage to the VFW Post in Magna, as seen on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Damage to Colosimo’s Market in Magna from last week’s earthquake, as seen on Tuesday, March 24, 2020.
Assignments: Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A security guard looks out from the closed City Creek Mall in downtown Salt Lake City on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Men in a parking lot in downtown Salt Lake City on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A lone woman walks along 300 West as Salt Lake City continues to shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man looks at his phone in an empty Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Elysian Burial Gardens in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 19, 2020.
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Eyeball, Ep 4: David Scott Holloway
Photographer and filmmaker David Holloway joins John in the studio to discus authenticity and memories of working with Anthony Bourdain, handiness and the artistry of mechanical know-how, white nationalism and awkward accidental portfolio critiques.
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The Accusations Were Lies. But Could We Prove It?
When the university told my wife about the sexual-harassment complaints against her, we knew they weren’t true. We had no idea how strange the truth really was.
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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
*Not an endorsement of the music
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2020 Week Eleven
Assignments: The Coronavirus
Press Conference from the Emergency Operations Center
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Michael Good, CEO of University of Utah Health, at a news conference in the state’s Emergency Operations Center on Thursday, March 12, 2020 addressing the current state of COVID-19 in Utah. Representatives from the Utah System of Higher Education, the Utah Board of Education, Utah Jazz, local health authorities and Utah Department of Health were also present. Restaurant Closure Decree
Masks
Just before the ski resorts closed
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Skiers at Snowbird on Friday, March 13, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Skiers at Snowbird on Friday, March 13, 2020.
Meanwhile on State Street
And Elsewhere
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2020 Week Ten
As I wrote last week photography is in the forefront of everything I’m doing right now. Looking through this week’s photographs it’s the way to go. Ditch the podcasts, stop reading social media, ignore the political soap opera, stop watching mediocre streaming content. Get out there and create!
Assignments: The Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Negative pressure tents have been set up outside University of Utah Hospital in preparation for COVID-19 cases, in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Negative pressure tents have been set up outside University of Utah Hospital in preparation for COVID-19 cases, in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Negative pressure tents have been set up outside University of Utah Hospital in preparation for COVID-19 cases, in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) UDOH State Epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn answers questions as Utah health officials announce the state’s second case of COVID-19, at the Utah Department of Health in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 10, 2020.
Assignment: The LDS Church’s $100 Billion in Investments
Each block in the center tower represents $1 billion. I documented the process of building this illustration at this link: https://www.thetrickstergod.com/2020/03/13/illustrating-100-billion-dollars/
Assignment: Protest over LDS Church’s Schools Honor Code Changes regarding LGBT Students
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators at a rally about BYU’s changing position on “romantic behavior” by same-sex couples march around the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 6, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators at a rally about BYU’s changing position on “romantic behavior” by same-sex couples gather in front of the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 6, 2020.
Hurricane, Utah
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2020 Week Nine
New Blog: Rough Draft
I made a big change on March 1st, moving photography to the forefront of what I do on a daily basis. I’m spending much more time with the camera to eye. To keep my mind in a creative space I exchanged podcasts for music. And I started to publish my work on a more real-time basis on a new blog: Rough Draft (@thetrickstergod on Twitter).
The format on the blog is starting to stabilize. I photograph constantly, am buried in editing, and post as I catch my breath. I will be writing there as well. A lot of the photographs from Rough Draft will be in my Instagram story (@trenthead).
So the landscape is this –
Rough Draft – blog – a free-flow of successes and failures as I create them, as well as links to stuff that is cool.
Trent.Photo – archive – my best / important / personal work. Heavily tagged, cross-referenced by subject, location, band, team, etc.
Trenthead.Com – only my best work compiled by week.
Assignment: Mitt Romney
Assignment: Utah’s first cannabis pharmacy opens
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mario Enriquez, a patient, livestreams as Dragonfly Wellness becomes the first of Utah’s 14 medical cannabis pharmacies to open for business in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 2, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dragonfly Wellness becomes the first of Utah’s 14 medical cannabis pharmacies to open for business in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 2, 2020.
Assignment: UTA 50th Birthday
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A GM “Old Look” transit bus from the Salt Lake city line on display to mark the 50th birthday of UTA at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Buses of this type were produced between 1940 and 1959. -
How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
“Proactive and reactively we will delete evil my brother.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saudi-arabia-infiltrated-twitter
