In the Autumn of the year - – – 3 a seemingly otherwise unremarkable friend of mine inherited a sum of money from an aunt at Marienberg am Rhein whose immediate line had died out. The freedom thus conferred upon my friend allowed him to leave our company suddenly and completely. Some years later I [...]
In the interest of continuing our collaboration, and of providing ourselves a bit of external accountability, my good friend and Edges of Bounty collaborator William and I have commenced a new project, which we will post here.
Here’s how we hope it’ll work: I shoot five or seven potentially evocative pictures, send them to William. He [...]
William came to Seattle last Wednesday for a bit of a Northwest tour. As mentioned before, we had three events planned.
First off was Island Books, on Mercer Island. This is the kind of bookstore that gives bookstores a good name. The kind that inspires people–Amy’s mom among them–to look at books on Amazon.com, just so [...]
May the era of American arrogance end today. May a thoughtful, hopeful, humble, workful, respectful new American era finally begin.
Our work is just starting.
(the post’s title is from Elizabeth Alexander’s Inauguration poem, “praise song for the day.”)
So I had this crazy idea the other night. Haven’t slept since, basically.
Call to Visual Journalists, Documentarians, and Artists:
“Janteenth: A New Day in America”
Deadline for Submissions: January 31, 2009
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What does it mean that America has elected its first Black President? Show us.
The Janteenth Project is issuing a call to photographers, poets, writers and filmmakers/video artists [...]
