Monthly Archive for May, 2009

05/28/2009
  • Beatrice:

    One day I’d like to do a gig where every song we play is a woman’s name. “Simone”, “Jeannine”, “Dolores”, you get the idea. The first (or last) tune would have to be Sam River’s “Beatrice.” Here’s a version by the Jason Parker Quartet:

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05/25/2009
  • Honoring Black World War II Veterans:

    Nice NBC segment about an effort to remember and honor black veterans who served in World War II in segregated units, and whose service has largely been ignored.

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05/12/2009
05/10/2009
  • santa barbara daisies:

    santa barbara daisies
    click photo to enlarge (@flickr.com)
    My 35mm camera has been unused for at least ten years, and i haven’t joined the DSLR age just yet. I miss the smell of darkroom chemicals, dodging, burning in.

    OTOH, I carry a camera everywhere I go. Well, it’s really an iPhone. I think of it as a phone, a hand-held computer. Rarely as a camera. But I came across a portfolio of iPhone photography recently, so I’ll have to focus a bit more. Focus, get it? Oh yeah, can’t really focus the camera. But it can handle a bit of onboard processing.

    So here’s a photo of the daisies currently abloom in my yard. Surreal cool…

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