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 about technology, pop, and fringe culture:
“My friend, photographer and filmmaker, Seanie Blue traveled north, to Iceland, to blow his mind on the aurora borealis, in hopes that its incomprehensibility might help him forget a love gone south.” Read More
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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. Read More
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A blog post awarded my prize for revealing what I didn’t know about myself way back when.
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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. Read More
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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 and a blog entry and photo about a typical diet in Japan, where people live an average of four years longer than in the United States. Read More
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Different clients want different levels of editing, ranging from a light touch to wholesale revisions. Two cases in point: Read More
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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 (to my untrained eye), I like how it celebrates the magic of children entertaining themselves with the simplest of things. I swear that boy would still be showering if the hot water lasted and I let him. Read More
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A look at my work in an unfamiliar medium: a sprawling museum space. Read More
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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 made me wonder whether musical tastes are genetically linked. For two people born thirty-five years apart, we share remarkably similar likes when it comes to bands. In our personal relationship we’ve had plenty of differences over the years, but we delight in exposing each other to our individual discoveries of singers. Read More
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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 lies to the public have been, he’s the best person to run the city. Considering the deteriorating economic challenges we face, I’d rather have as mayor someone who’s progressive and pragmatic and proven. The only remaining question: can Adams be effective after all the shame he has brought upon himself. If he’s ineffective and a state investigation of his relationship with Breedlove discloses illegalities, then he can be recalled after his first six months in office. Read More
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