I’m a photographer. I go through periods where I shoot a lot and fallow periods where I don’t. I started out shooting film with a cheap Nikon and an even cheaper lens in the mid 80s. Later, in the mid 90's when I was a bit burnt out, I got a cheap point and shoot yashica T4 and shot hundreds of rolls of color...
Ever since the advent of photography the captured image has played a significant role in both our cultural and social spheres. As the process of image making evolves, so does our relationship to images. We are now at a point in the technological advancement of cameras that it’s almost difficult to make “bad images”. With half the planet walking around...
[caption id="attachment_24281" align="aligncenter" width="1432"] a shot out of the window of 224 Ave B- the building I moved into that was heavily featured in Ken Schles' "Invisible City"[/caption] One of the major rules of filmaking is “show, don’t tell”. We are visual people by nature and when we hear facts they stick on one level, but they don’t affect us as...
I have been on an Instagram bender. In the last week and a half, I have posted about 300 images, and I am happy with pretty much all of them. I got a new phone in September and was introduced to Instagram a couple of days later by Ruddy, another parent at my kids’ school. He happens to be one...
I imagine that I am starting to drive my friends crazy by constantly talking about how profoundly frames shape our thinking. This morning my friend Kevin shared an Onion article that hilariously illustrates ways in which unexamined racism shaped our cultural viewpoint 50 years ago. However, at the same time if one steps around the corner and looks at that...
This morning before school, I was talking with some other parents about a funeral for an 8 year old 4th grader that’s taking place tonight. He died in a fire last week. I spend a lot of time at the school, and know a lot of kids by sight but not name. I think it’s pheromones, but when kids see...
A year and a half ago, as Occupy Wall Street was just starting to take off after some crazy police brutality, I stood outside of a re-naming ceremony for the New Jersey Nets. A couple of hundred press people had dutifully shown up at this press event to hear the exciting news that the team would now be called...
My father casts a shifting shadow. It has been 7 years since he was hit by a car; and his influence on my thoughts and actions continues to evolve. My oldest daughter was still three years old when he died, and my youngest was in utero, 3 months from birth. I think about him as a father, my father, as...
I think a lot about the unconscious frames that we view the world through. In fact I would even say that my frame is a “frame skeptical frame”, which tends to slow me down quite a bit. However, most people ignore the frames and just “go with the flow”, because asking questions can be difficult. Two articles I saw today...
I am 43 years old. I came of age at a time when photographers developed their own film and, for the most part, printed their own pictures. There were no digital cameras and the internet was not the internet. It is almost hard to remember a time when people weren't instagramming pictures of every meal to 10,000 followers, but 20...
Pause for a moment and think about how you think about healthcare. Do you trust doctors in white coats more than doctors who dress more casually. When you hear the word "alternative practitioner," do you think of quacks or healers? Do you think about how your emotions affect your health? For the most part, we go through life without paying attention...
As of Monday, October 8th, 2012 at least 8 people in the United States have died, and another 105 were struck with meningitis, after receiving an epidural steroid injection intended to treat chronic back pain. The tragic aspect is not simply that these people have died, but instead that the data that exists concerning steroid injections shows that they don't...