Just Looking

by: Eddie C

Sun Nov 21, 2010 at 22:45:51 PM PST

I have a few pleasant photography stories to tell from a week ago. Between the autumn color and the desperation of one last warm weather week, it was a good week for a photo buff. Now don't go busting my bubble by just looking at the photos because you can learn a lot from a photographer. We see things.

Below you will find a Third Rock from the Sun brief encounter during an evening walk in the Village. I have several memories from a lecture I attended on photojournalism. There is a pleasant Veterans Day walk under the George Washington Bridge on the New Jersey side followed by a sunset from the New York side. Then a Friday afternoon walk in Central Park with some music videos I made and all day Saturday there too. There is even a little taste of Florence, Italy.  

Makutano Junction Soap Opera

by: NourishingthePlanet

Fri Jul 23, 2010 at 08:08:52 AM PDT

The last place most of us look to for useful information is television soap operas. But Makutano Junction, a Kenyan-produced soap opera set in the fictional town of the same name is not your average TV drama. Broadcast in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and throughout English-speaking Africa on Digital Satellite Television (DSTV), Makutano Junction doesn't deal with the evil twins, amnesia, and dark family secrets typical of U.S. daytime dramas. Instead, the show's plot lines revolve around more grounded (although not necessarily less dramatic) subjects like access to health care and education, sustainable income-generation, and citizens' rights.

Thoughts about the Walter Cronkite Memorial

by: Eddie C

Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 18:16:36 PM PDT

Yesterday I felt very fortunate to attend a memorial for a man who has so greatly influenced my life, as well as many other Americans. In the print media both The Washington Post and The New York Times offered very good coverage but I was so moved that I feel a need to add something, some of those little stories.

Howard Kurtz claimed that the memorial for Walter Cronkite was "an extravagantly produced ceremony" but the stage was really just a video screen that mostly showed a still of Walter Cronkite and a lectern where many distinguished guest would celebrate a great American life. Perhaps Wynton Marsalis and several musicians walking the aisles in a musical tribute that evoked the feeling of a New Orleans Jazz funeral could come close to lavish production but it was really all about the spoken word.

I have just a few thoughts, photos from the program and some video links about an emotional and joyous event below the fold.    

Department of odd omissions

by: desmoinesdem

Mon Jan 12, 2009 at 23:30:21 PM PST

I wasn't surprised in December when the newspaper omitted the same perspective from its piece on reaction to the news that President-elect Barack Obama was picking Vilsack for the job.

But I find this January 12 Des Moines Register article by Chase Davis quite odd.