How to feel insignificant and awed at the same time: 23 stunning satellite photographs of Earth, courtesy NASA’s huge archive. Las Vegas looks more inhospitable than Antarctica. How would my city, Portland, fare from this lofty perspective?
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Too much of my life is spent living vicariously through what I read and watch, through people I think about. This trait hardly sets me apart. But recognizing it as I did today feels notable. The trigger was a post on one of my favorite blogs, Boing Boing, from guest blogger Gareth Branwyn, who writes […]
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Until seeing Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler last week, I thought only Daniel Day-Lewis could so completely inhabit a movie character. Or Robert DeNiro when he did serious roles. Battling frailties and demons galore, Rourke’s character makes one ponder the fates of wrestlers once age and countless poundings have taken a despairing toll.
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A blog post awarded my prize for revealing what I didn’t know about myself way back when.
Looking back, I hope the story’s loftier themes seduced me, too: Benjamin’s ability to see the world differently than programmed, his willingness to defy the rules that defined adulthood, unafraid to confront the world with his peculiar and soft-spoken outrageousness.
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An amateur photographer obsessed with jet contrails snapped photographs from the Burnside Bridge about ten days ago. Later, while reviewing his images, he noticed two tiny circles of light above Oregon Health Sciences University. He zoomed in on the circles and came away convinced that they were UFOs.
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We could live much longer if we really wanted to. Or maybe we want to but can’t get our act together, individually or collectively, to take the steps that forestall death. I’ve been pondering longevity since coming across two items recently: a study that shows reducing smog adds an average of five months to lifespans […]
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Different clients want different levels of editing, ranging from a light touch to wholesale revisions.
Here are two examples. The first illustrates basic copy editing that tightened, smoothed, and corrected the writer’s prose while preserving his style and voice. The second illustrates extensive editing that included included organizational changes and other rewriting.
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Someone might question a father who posts a photo of his naked toddler online. But I’ve cropped it tastefully, which helps focus the viewer on Atticus’ intense gaze as he loses himself in shower-time “drawing.” I captured the image last night not with my expensive Nikon but wimpy iPhone camera. Besides the photo’s unusual quality […]
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A look at my work in an unfamiliar medium: a sprawling museum space.
My job, in a sense, was providing the raw materials and textual story framework that collaborators highly skilled in exhibition work built upon in shaping a dramatic visual journey through time.
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News comes that my grown son, Zachary, is learning the banjo. I knew that like me he loves the instrument’s sound — singular and echoing and mournful. Not discordant but of the earth in the way the guitar and other stringed instruments are not. I didn’t know he harbored ambition to make music. The news […]
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I’ve come around to the view that Portland Mayor Sam Adams should not resign for lying about his relationship with another gay man. I say man because that’s how Beau Breedlove describes himself at age seventeen, though both say the sexual side of their brief relationship began when Breedlove turned eighteen. As awful as Adam’s […]
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