I meant to post this a while ago… anyway, here it is. In the summer of 2014 I was honored with an invitation to speak at the Flash Forward Festival hosted by the Magenta Foundation. Here is the full video of my talk: An Idiot Makes A Move: How I Learned To Love My Accountant […]
It’s been a while since I last wrote about Franklin Park in Boston, but the weather has been so cold and miserable that I haven’t had any chance to wander in the Park and find new things to rant about. So I thought I’d share a few old photographs I found in my online meanderings […]
After an amazing Thanksgiving dinner with my wife and some friends, I woke up feeling the need to burn some calories. Of course, I wandered over to Franklin Park for a few hours. The air was cold but the sun was out, casting that harsh New England winter light that makes the leafless trees and […]
Click here to see the new Franklin Park: Then & Now page. Last weekend over brunch, my friend Colin asked if I had any plans to use all my Franklin Park photo archives to create a visual Park history. He reminded me that I had been going around making videos that recreated vintage photographs, and […]
A few weeks ago, my wife and I took a great trip up the west coast. We started in San Francisco with a few days of tourism (history nerds + Golden Gate Park = awesome) and then took the train to Seattle. If you ever get the chance to take the Coast Starlight I highly recommend […]
This past week, my wife and I spent some time exploring the Olympic National Park in Washington state. It was amazing! The Pacific Northwest coast is beautiful, and the Hoh Rain Forest is stunning. Below is a selection of photos I took on the trip. If you get a chance to go to the Olympic […]
Recently I shot a short video which involved about 20 interviews. I do a lot of interviews for my work, and I’m consistently frustrated by the fact that people never look at the camera. Now, I know that most people are intimidated by cameras, but as a filmmaker it is necessary that they address “the […]
This past weekend, my wife and I took a walk in the Forest Hills Cemetery. Spring is in the air, flowers are on the trees, and I recently went back to iPhone and have been abusing my Hipstamatic app. Please forgive me. The cemetery pre-dates Franklin Park and sits adjacent to it, on the opposite […]
This autumn, I spent a huge amount of time scanning all the negative sheets that my wife and I have shot over the years, to make an archive and also to re-visit old work. It took me the better part of a month (thank you sabbatical!) to get the hundreds of sheets scanned, and […]
It’s not as if starting a new project gets any easier for me over time. Sure, I’ve been publishing online at Big Red & Shiny since 2004, and before that in front of a printing press at SAIC churning out pages with ink. Now I tell stories as documentary narratives, and fill the time with […]