January 2009
48 posts
- This aural fiesta of interview and musical interludes (http://tinyurl.com/b259kl) by my colleague, @mitchhanley, is hilarious.
- Madly miss Bella and the boys. Now for my Batman gear.
- Our Repossessing Virtue series on the economic downturn in iTunes top 25 for cat: http://tinyurl.com/af67q4.
- I’m so distraught about Georgetown’s dropped internet connection. Sorry.
- DC pub. Dude at jukebox. Finely coiffed. What’s his choice? My guess: Seattle grunge. His selection: Pearl Jam.
- Fine dinner w/ passionate head of Center for Public Integrity. He’s quite a chap.
On the ground at DCA. Krista does Kojo on WAMU. I check out Georgetown later.
- Flight to DCA cancelled. Perfect opportunity to make chicken stock and pack smarter with a 3-camera setup.
Mama Africa: Land of Banjoes →
- Writing script for online elements on a public radio show is a craft oft neglected.
The best argument I've read *for* the stimulus →
Calculating Your Risk of Divorce →
- After hundreds of times getting Raindog to nap, it isn’t luck or a gift. It’s fortitude…and my magical renditions of Otis Redding tunes.
Jan 20th, 2009 →
- My lovely wife used my Gmail account and now I’m being barraged relentlessly with e-mails from Pottery Barn and Coldwater Creek. Yikes.
RT @onehouse Biden’s giant bible. Colbert “as opposed to Biden who was sworn in on Hogwart’s spell book.”
- The LOC is collecting important moments and memories of Obama’s inauguration. They’re looking to you: http://tinyurl.com/8ujosb.
- Most moved by John Williams’ piece and the quartet’s ebullient smiles. Behold.
- Man, Joseph Lowery has the graciousness, gravitas, and humor that sings with reverence, inclusion, and humanity.
Puente peatonal en Zapallar / Enrique Browne →
"On Editorial Responsibility" with Photos →
A short post for SOF Observed:
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Choosing leading images for each program is often a joyful experience. But, the editing is a sensibility game that leaves one restless at times. I want something evocative, differentiating — a photo that captures the bouquet of the program and not just the finish at the back of the mouth. For SOF, this means no stock images, no trite...
- Happened upon a great mag in Bismarck: Russian Life. Profiles on Vaganova method, not Bolshoi, and roofing in Piter.
- Arms full of firewood, kicking off my boots. One got away. Aluminum wall corner is no match for steel toe Red Wings. Doh!
- I forgot how much I enjoyed filming a Benedictine monk talk about manuscripts from Ethiopia, Armenia, + so on: http://tinyurl.com/73qboy.
- Come on, Strib. Don’t turn off the comments on your own bad publicity: http://tinyurl.com/9jzbtz.
- My hometown makes the news on MSNBC: -44 degrees F. Doh!
- This cat’s digging WYPR’s Tapestry of the Times podcast, but only in the wee hours of the morning. Dig it: http://tinyurl.com/978ndc.
Leonard Cohen to Play First American Show in 15... →
- A nostalgic early morning moon greeted me through the clerestory window of the shower. Bathed in moonbeams and shadow.
- In a dark foyer seated on a Knoll bench atop graphite slate w/ a cedar screen at my back, I’m marveling. At what? My damn fine shovel job.
- Doesn’t have it in him to abandon Bella and boys so that he can work on the HMML program and Repossesing Virtue series. Aye.
- So much self-indulgent noise about the death of traditional media + journalism. Shapeshifting is all it is. Just live, damn it.
João Paulo Carvalho :: photography →
Serene work. I particularly like some of his lost shots series.
- Two boys in my bed is special, as long as I’m not trying to getting any sleep. Work productivity is up.
I wrote the intro to Kate’s interview on SOF...
- Everything is pickled, including my …. ……… .
Wise Words from the "Old Ones" of New Mexico
A post I especially enjoyed writing for SOF Observed:
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
There’s a certain amount of serendipity that offers itself to any person who works on SOF. But I have to be open to it, to be able to acknowledge that chance connection or a life lesson is often garnered during a pause rather than while railing to meet a deadline. This is my pause.
While writing an entry on...
WatchMy post on SOF Observed:
Editorial Session: To Script, or To Give Goose Bumps? Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Ideas from an interview and approaches to editing it can change during the production cycle of each show. I might hear something that I relished in the “pre-edit listen” that’s lopped off before the first group listen — which we call the cuts and copy — and wonder what happened.
Most of...
- Reading man articles, and comments, about MPR’s opposition to LRT doesn’t make me feel proud about working for public radio at the moment.
- Peer through a glass door. It’s the clearest way to see your life — and its beauty.
- Sometimes the most profound ideas come from the most humble of people in remote places: http://tinyurl.com/87kbyy. Thank you Robert Coles.
Publicis & Hal Riney →
This is just a very cool implementation — navigate the site by using your webcam and a wave of your hand. It’s primitive yet but can only get better. Groovy that they’re doing it.
- When’s the last time you had a shoe salesman who wasn’t a dude? A cat that can tell you the size of your insole.
- Vasque/Merrell/Sorel/other fancies courted me, but my roots called me back home. Red Wings are my new old lady.
- My deadline is looming and Vimeo is causing me some serious headaches. Why don’t you like Robert Coles, Vimeo ether?