“You and your puncture wounds,” MJ said as she prepared to do a little surgery. MJ is, as we’ve stated before, lovely and talented, but also eminently practical and resourceful, a kind of female McGyver. Or perhaps Norm Abram. “The right tool for the job,” she said as she packed off for the pharmacy to …
ZIPAQUIRÁ, Colombia, March 20. The things we do for faith. Deep in the silver mines of Potosi, Bolivia, where men labor more than ten hours a day and some still drill holes for dynamite charges without power tools, the miners have made an image of the devil out of clay. And they give the devil …
The lovely and talented MJ discovered this the other day and sent it my way. In the future, to invoke Andy Warhol, everyone will have their own iProduct.
I’ll have some stories on my final days here in Colombia, but I thought I’d share some photos from the past few days, in Cartagena, Santa Marta and Zipaquirá.
Greetings from Taganga, a little fishing village turned backpacker hangout, on the Atlantic coast of northern Colombia. We stopped here for a night en route to the Tayrona National Park. Last night and this morning, I hung out on the beach and enjoyed the scenery. Here are a few images to share.
It rained our first day here, so MJ and I did mostly indoor stuff like museums, but also found my bank’s ATM, and booked some later excursions. Here are some images from the collection of works by Fernando Botero, Colombia’s most famous artist. You’ve likely seen his chubby sculptures or paintings, which show up …
Why would you ask grown adults to toss a stuffed penguin back and forth for several minutes? Especially in the hallway at a professional conference? Well, it’s my goofy little way to teach video journalists the craft of shooting sequences of shots, at various angles and focal lengths, and then edit on the action. Here’s …
I’m in Hershey, Pennsylvania, co-teaching a workshop in video journalism for multimedia producer/reporters working for newspapers in the northeast. We’re at the famous Hershey Lodge, where desk clerks give you a chocolate bar at check-in, the gift shop is filled with items like chocolate soap and cans of syrup, and there are bowls of Hershey’s …
“I think there’s something about America that makes people crazy.” That’s what Alaa said as he scanned the headlines of the New York Times: “Gunman slays 6 at N. Illinois University.” And “Attacks on the Homeless Rise, With Youths Mostly to Blame” “What else would make people do things like that?” he asked. Every culture …