Welcome

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Welcome to my new site. I’ve switched over to the Thesis Theme with the latest WordPress install. Decided to do a whole new install – easier than trying to navigate upgrading to MySQL 5.0 in 1and1. Some day soon I’ll create a technical page about this site to talk about the infrastructure, themes, plug ins [...]

Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined Steven Pinkerton Viking 2011 This book by Steven Pinker (The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate) is truly a tome. I’ve been reduced to actually having to buy a copy – I’m racking up library fines as I write,  there’s a long waiting list for this through [...]

Portland Genocide Awareness Coalition

Recently I realized that I should pull together what I could from a ad hoc grass roots group I worked with in 2006-2009 called the Portland Genocide Awareness Coalition. the group did a week of events for Genocide Awareness for several years, and put together and sponsored a number of other events throughout that time. [...]

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Guy Kawasaki on powerpoint

Just ran across a video by Guy Kawasaki on presentations. Haven’t heard about Kawasaki in years! He was one of the originals behind Macintosh in the 1980′s. Not quite up to Edward Tufte’s work, but a short and pithy guide to power-point style presentations. From before 2006 – but still very relevant. .

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Westville

Sleepy Historic Westville - guy sleeping at the wheel of a horse drawn carriage

A guy I was interviewing in Lumpkin, Georgia, told be about “Old Town”, just down the road. Since w Lumpkin seemed like the end of the road, I was a little skeptical. But I took a break from Occupy Interviews and Immigration Detention Centers, and headed south. I found Westville, literally just outside of town. [...]

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Into the Abyss

Death Row and executions in the great state of Texas. Werner Herzog becomes a neutral observer, and a sad story slowly unfolds through his interviewees.  One of the best movies I’ve seen this year. A very fair treatment of a very difficult subject – A man on death row, a week from his execution, and [...]

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Tall Ships in Rainer

Lady Washington under sail on Columbia River

Some times on May Day I join the masses in the streets. Other times I escape the city, and wind up doing things like watching Tall Ships sail on the Columbia. Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain were visiting Rainier Oregon. I “missed” their mock canon battle, but enjoyed a sunny, quiet day watching the [...]

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Must-See Videos

I’m starting a new category of videos I run across on the internet (and some I see locally) that I feel are “must sees”. Where I can embed them directly in the post, I will do so. Else I will link to either an online version, or to a place  you can find out more [...]

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UNHATE

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A Must-See edgy  video from an advertising campaign from United Colors of Benetton inviting the leaders and citizens of the world to combat the “culture of hatred” and creating the UNHATE Foundation. I have to admit, I never heard of United Color before, but and surprised and happy to see their advertising campaign and Foundation. This is the kind of stuff I [...]

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Recipe for Post DSLR HD production

Came across an article from Digital Content Producer today that looks real helpful. Haven’t had a chance to review it – but I think it gives a straight forward recipe for editing footage from DLRs, including my T2i. Hope to play with this soon –

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World Memory Project

I learned about the World Memory Project from a video report by Athena Jones on  CNN . I was intrigued, to put it lightly. One of the existential themes  in my life as been “genocide”. Another theme is media and stories. (Trans-media – is what they call it now… ). And a third theme is my belief [...]

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