You ever get a call from a friend who wants you to come to their office because they’ve “got something for you”, and you go and they hand you a Leica M camera? And you get to keep it?! That actually happened to me last week. I walked out of the office holding the camera…

I started a post a couple weeks ago as I started a two-week binge of photographing high school basketball games. I had been editing photos from February tournaments from the past decades and realizing the many shortcomings in the typical newspaper photographer (a slur) approach to basketball. The idea I took going into the first…

From Lens Blog this morning, a fantastic piece on legendary photographer Ralph Gibson (link below): “I wanted to make photographs you could look at for a long period of time, photographs that were not ephemera, photographs that were made to last and could support a great depth of content,” he said. “That’s the opposite of…

“Let’s just pretend it never happened… and what would we create?” —Kathleen Hanna. The Punk Singer..

I stopped in on a photo exhibit the other day. Amazing portraits done in some sensitive situations. One thing missing: the photographer’s name. Later today there’s an event for the exhibition. In the event announcement on the venue’s blog? No mention of the photographer’s name. And here in my writing, something missing because out of…

You need to take on projects that are It’s become Big projects. Taking on large tasks. That is where I have ended up. Do something every day for a year. Completely remodel the web presence, removing (deleting) content that is weak. Adding content that is strong. Every day I am posting photographs from the past…

Thinking a lot about an offhand comment someone made about templating making things all look the same. The trade-off is productivity. Templates save a lot of time. But true, you need to use the saved time to continually refine and improve the template, and develop the next version. My version – build a template or…

My sister says I need to post more. That I need to write more. That at some point I retreated inward and stopped sharing. .:. Zine #4 just about done for fovi8. Join us at fovi8.com. We are building a community of photographers, and photos uploaded in December will be considered for zine #5.

changing things up a bit here in prep for next year’s blog. there is going to be more content and three main areas I’m focusing on: the work (my photography) – photojournalism, gifs, polygamy, outtakes media – a running tally of the media I’m taking in, rated. core – daybook, screenshots, video if you just…

Podcasts: The Daily, 3 Intercepted – the distraction in chief, 4 Bill Simmons Ta-Nehisi Coates on the NBA’s Popularity and Issues Plaguing the NFL, 4 On The Media Rebecca Traister Says ‘the Anger Window’ Is Open, 3 Joe Rogan 1039 JRE #1039 – ILIZA SHLESINGER, 4 A Small Voice 066 – Sian Davey ‘Times’ Reporters…

.:. Coding. Coding. fovi8 .:. Lots of ideas coming for 2018 blog, changing things up for that. Looking forward to new tempo, new format,

Assignment: Utah v Washington State .:. Film: The Love Witch .:. 7:35 – Still plowing through this week’s new music. 695 songs to go in initial sift. Right now it’s a band last.fm’s bio says “It’s Swiss made, but it’s definitely far away from being cheesy.” Then there’s Elvenking, with a folk metal album about…

New music release day today – by 7am I have added 1,755 songs for review, and that’s after removing the Classical, Country, Christian, Jazz, R&B. People don’t believe I do this, but it’s true. All year, sifting through new releases from Apple Music. The technique: Add new releases to library by genre: Alternative, Indie, Reggae,…