February 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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The Voice of America (Russian Service) put together a few nice bits about my Belarus work and upcoming Waiting Room photo book. The reporter came to my FotoweekDC talk a few weeks ago, the video segment is from that. The interview was by email, it’s published in Russian only, so see below for the English version I gave them. They also ran a set of select pics on their photo blog. I have no...
Let’s be thankful for hopes and dreams, and the chance to wake up each day and act on them.
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Grant writing workshop
If you ever take a workshop in how to get more and better grants, Donald’s is the one. He is that rare photographer who has managed to live and pursue projects for many years primarily on grants. More info at donaldweber.tumblr.com.
donaldweber:
Dates are now confirmed for New York, November 17 & Washington, DC, November 19.
Stay posted at this website to register and pay via...
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“… above all what you bring in your mind to the scene is what makes your picture. If you don’t read, if you don’t have discussions with enlightened friends, you do not get there. There is a saying about seeing: Only a few people can see but most people don’t even look. And that says a lot to me. You can only see if you have something in your mind to bring to the picture. The camera is just...
October 2011
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Nice writeup of our upcoming Dot Dash gig with ex-Stranglers frontman - with Blondie’s Clem Burke on drums, no less! Friday October 21st at Montgomery College (where I took Photography 101 so many years ago).
A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed: D.C.’s Dot Dash To Open For Stranglers’ Hugh Cornwell
Hugh Cornwell
September 2011
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Washington City Paper has a nice bit in their One Track Mind column about my band Dot Dash. Our CD, Spark>Flame>Ember>Ash, is available in hard-copy from Canadian indie label The Beautiful Music or you can download on iTunes. Cover photo by yours truly.
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Nuit Blanche DC →
Art All Night DC this Saturday, should be cool and worth supporting. From their PR: “With this inaugural festival Washington DC joins a global network of Nuit Blanche all-night arts events, that started in Paris in 2002”
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Crandall - Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Raonuill ‘son of Raonull’
August 2011
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WatchWell, for those waiting for something new from Sigur Ros, this is an intriguing if fairly stingy teaser. Innit?
July 2011
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Strangers, friends, and tribes →
Devoting most of my summer break to the hard prep work for self-publishing The Waiting Room (working title for my book of Belarus photos). Saw this good bit about the shifting sands out there in publishing land.
June 2011
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Since I started teaching in 2008, I haven’t really had a true summer break. Various family matters have always seemed to take over right on cue. I actually finished the week before last, but last week my daughter had not yet started summer camp. So today I mark as the first real day of summer. Meaning hours each day - actual blocks of time - to rest, think, have coffee, read, and of course...
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Watch‘Leaving Newark’ is a lo-fi BW short I made recently on the way to NY. Small file, but the Max Richter piece paired really well with it I think, see if you agree.
May 2011
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Coming home tonight through Columbia Heights with the car windows down, nice night, it suddenly smelled powerfully of Eastern Europe outside. That slightly sweet burning-coal smell that anyone who’s spent time over there knows well. Not a DC smell at all, it definitely was not just a barbeque somewhere.
It’s amazing how evocative an odor can be. Put me right back in early 1990s Prague...
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April 2011
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Watch[Originally posted on my District Citizen Cycling blog]
My friend Mike sent me this video of James Howard Kunstler’s TED talk from 2004. If you don’t know Kunstler it’s a great intro. If you’re already a fan, you’ll remember why. A few brilliant laugh out loud lines, woven into his trademark deconstruction of the American Way. At least, our Way of building places and...
March 2011
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Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams are coming true. At least, one of the darker segments of his 1990 magical realism film is turning out to be depressingly prophetic, albeit with a volcano in the role of awesome destructive power of nature, standing in for the earthquake/tsunami. Mount Fuji in Red depicts the mad panic and bleak aftermath of the eruption, which triggers a series of nuclear plant...
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February 2011
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Super excited, today I learned that seven (!) of my photo students won awards from the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. Including one girl who was awarded for her great portfolio (most are for single images). The AYAW Scholastic Awards are very prestigious and have helped launch young artists for decades. Past winners have included Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon as teenagers.
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What are the film, music, and book experiences that you most connected with in the last year? Not that came out in 2010 necessarily, but that you saw/heard/read in the last year. Work that not only entertained but somehow elevated to essential creative nourishment/inspiration, maybe even infused into your own work somehow.
Ok, mine:
Film - The Road (in a tie with Secret of Kells)
The Road,...
January 2011
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Here’s an interesting and somewhat provocative interview with Francis Ford Coppola:
Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration
Interesting:
[…] he admits that the early “Godfather” fame pulled him off course from his dream of writing and directing personal stories. Like Bergman, Coppola wanted to wake up and make movies based on his dreams and nightmares.
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Nice little online review from Ear Candy Mag:
Dot Dash,”Dot Dash” (Edition 59 Records)
Promising debut from this band of seasoned DC players. There’s jangle pop here, but also a darker edge to the songwriting that will take the listener in different directions.
Lead singer Terry Banks (ex-Tree Fort Angst) has a subtle touch with lyrics that support the music interplay well. The...
December 2010
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WatchHere’s a year-end sampler of basement demos from my band Dot Dash. We recorded these over a few different quick sessions with our friend Eric Tischler, so some are from many months ago, Color and the Sound and Alright Alright are pretty new. These are not meant as finished products, more like a working-out and/or chronicling of our material as we go. Though a few tracks were released as a...
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Just saw this, there’s a new Moomins movie coming out, Moomins and the Comet Chase. It’s stop-motion animation, compiled and reworked from Polish TV productions of the late 70s. Complete with Bjork’s unusual and charmingly awkward theme song (“Co-met! Dam-mit!’).
The trailer looks interesting, though certainly a different vibe from my mental imagery of Moomins, which...
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Faith, Hope, and Love →
Nice mention of yours truly over on Copenhagen Cycle Chic, the mother and muse of many a bike blog. He does a quick riff on my blog post about one of my favorite films from many years ago, Twist and Shout (aka Tro, Håb & Kærlighed in Danish, or ‘Faith, Hope and Love’).
Bill over at District Citizen Cycling, a DC bicycle blog, has dug up this clip from a Danish film directed by...
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Photo Stories by Bill Crandall
I’m happy to announce my new book, created with my young daughter in mind.
Photo Stories is a unique concept, photo ‘fairy tales’ for children (4+) as well as adults.
The book is comprised of fifteen ‘photo stories’ - each a single, documentary, black-and-white photograph, with an accompanying short story that combines the...
November 2010
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“Do good, enough that god wants to keep you around. But not so much that the...”
– BC