BurningbirdToday was a beautiful day, warm and sunny, and I headed to Area 44 to see if the dogwood were in bloom yet. Found plenty of blooms, but no dogwood. I won’t go to Area 44 in the summer because the ticks are so thick there, but I wanted to catch the dogwoods this year. […]
I am not a Walker Evans expert, but from my recent readings about him, I sensed there were three significant events in his life that shaped the man, and subsequently, the photographs we’ve come to cherish. One of the events I briefly mentioned in the last Walker Evans writing, and that was his search for […]
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An older woman with a cricky knee and tired faced, but with a twinkle in her eye and a sashay in her hips, was walking along a path one day when she was faced with a fork in the road. She looked down the first path from the fork but all she could see was […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Some discussion recently about the new backchannels that are appearing at technical conferences. If you’re not familiar with the term, in this case it means that the people in the room are communicating with each other on an IRC channel while the presentation or talk is happening. Liz Lawley started an invitation […]