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Yesterday, Nvidia's CEO announced that the Ice Cream Sandwich (that's Android 4.0 for those of you new to the game) update for the quad-core Asus Transformer Prime would begin rolling out immediately. Sure enough, users started receiving the update, and we managed to snag and host the OTA ourselves (as well as help you prevent it from breaking root). For most, the update brought everything you'd expect from the hot new version of Android: even smoother, snappier performance, sleeker transitions, and various other perks.
We all have apps that we would prefer to keep prying eyes away from - SMS, Email, Facebook, banking applications... the list goes on and on. You can always lock your entire phone down with a pin, password, or pattern lockscreen, but it gets tedious and annoying to have to unlock each time you want to quickly check something.
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In what is undoubtedly one of the coolest mods I've seen in months, developer picard666 has released an interactive Mario lockscreen for MIUI. So awesome, in fact, that words can't properly describe it. Take a look at the "diagram":
The top cloud shows the current time, and the two clouds below show calls and messages (left and right, respectively). To unlock into calls or messages, you take control of Mario and have to make him hit the corresponding coin box - a coin pops out (optionally with the accompanying sound), then your phone launches the appropriate app.
Developer bponury, the mind behind WifiKill and FaceNiff, has created something that looks pretty awesome, if you're the owner of a GSM-enabled HTC Evo 3D. That something is the Slide 2 Wake kernel, which allows you to wake and lock your device by sliding a finger across your Evo 3D's capacitive buttons. The kernel is still in its very early stages, but seems to perform quite well.
While the kernel is only running on one very specific device for now, there is hope for at least a port to the CDMA variant of the 3D, and perhaps other devices with capacitive buttons as well.
Joining the race to replace all of your practical possessions with mobile apps, Lockitron is offering an NFC-based, key-free lock control solution for Android, iPhone, and Blackberry that has the potential for tons of applications, from letting people into your home while on vacation, to simply buzzing in a friend with no effort whatsoever.
Utilizing a system of "mobile keys," Lockitron's system communicates with a small hardware device connected to the user's internet router, which in turn communicates with your doors, either automatically, or through the use of an optional NFC tag that the user would manually slap onto a lock.
There are a number of security applications available for Android, such as WaveSecure and Lookout, which lock down your phone if it is lost or stolen, but few come close to being as secure and robust as Theft Aware 2.0.
We took a look at the application at the end of last year, and were thoroughly impressed by its ability to take advantage of rooted devices, installing itself into the system partition of your phone so that it isn't affected by even a full system wipe.
The ability to locate your expensive bundle of joy, when lost or worse, stolen, is priceless. And arguably more so, is the capability to prevent whoever is using it from accessing your personal data and photos while placing premium rate phone calls to xxx numbers in Eastern Europe.
It's peace of mind that even if your phone is truly gone for good, then the biggest expense you'll incur will be a new handset, and hell, the insurance that you are paying through the nose for, should cover that.
In the world of Android and, specifically, Android power-users, there are a lot of things you can do and a myriad of tools you can do these things with. One of my favorite things in the world is getting several tools I use regularly consolidated into a single package. If you use your device with any kind of regularity, you know that there are several things you like to know, modify, kill, lock, or enable.
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Given my longstanding interest in baseball and an early background in anthropology, it's kind of surprising to me that I missed knowing about the work of George Gmelch until very recently.
I ran across George's books in some random searching having to do with baseball, and happily was able to get an introduction to him through my anthropologist brother. When he was young, George was a baseball player, and a pretty good one. Like so many others, he played for several years in the lower minor leagues, but never made it to the Major Leagues. It's possible he quit too early, but it's also likely that he made the right choice to quit baseball and go back to school (and got his Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara) and then became an accomplished cultural anthropologist, studying tourism, sport cultures, and migration. He has worked among and written about Irish Travellers, English Gypsies, return migrants in Ireland and Newfoundland, commercial fishermen, Alaska natives, and Caribbean villagers and tourism workers, and has taught at several universities.
Given his training as an anthropologist and his unusual background as a minor league baseball player, it made sense that he could study baseball players, perhaps in ways that non-players could never manage. So some 30 years after his playing days ended, George arranged with friends still in the game to spend time with major and minor league players as an observer. Over the course of five years, he interviewed more than 100 players, coaches and managers, and got to experience and document the inner workings and social milieu of modern day baseball as it is lived by its participants.
Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball is nothing like a typical anthropological ethnography. There's a great deal of George's personal story throughout, and it's neither dry nor academic. But the observational techniques and abilities of the trained anthropologist are brought to bear, as George ruminates on the differences between modern players and those of his own era.
It's unusual for us to get an insider's view of the game that gets past the public relations walls that the institution and all its participants have build around it to protect the image of the game. Minor league players, though rarely interested in George's own experience as a player, were always willing to tell him about their experiences, and even normally wary major leaguers were willing to talk to him once he explained that he was a former player doing anthropology, not a reporter looking for an angle.
So if you love baseball, Inside Pitch is a terrific read, and will enrich your understanding of what it is really like to play professional baseball. I was especially taken with the writing about and the interviews with players that illustrated the psychological struggles that players go through. I recently read the excellent RA Dickey memoir, Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball, which is a terrific complement to Inside Pitch, as so much of Dickey's story is about how he managed to conquer his personal demons and harness his inner being to finally become a successful pitcher after years of struggle. Gmelch both give us many quotes of players talking about their mental struggles and writes about these issues perceptively.
Baseball is generally considered a cerebral game because of its complexity and pace. That, and the fact that there are so many games in a very long season, create a very challenging emotional and psychological environment for players. We rarely, if ever, get to see close up what that can mean for them. And because the vast majority of players who play in the minor leagues never make it to the majors or only get there for a brief time, reading about their struggles can change the way you think about the players who do get to the majors and stay there for any length of time. They really do have to be special, lucky and to have developed a solid psyche in order to be able to survive and thrive in such a difficult and fraught environment.
George Gmelch has written eleven books and now teaches at the University of San Francisco, where he co-directs the anthropology program. I've now got an earlier book of his, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People on my reading list as well. Talking to him about his experiences as a player, anthropologist and writer was a terrific pleasure for me. Alert to listeners: we had such a good conversation that I lost track of time, and this is a longer than average podcast at 54 minutes.
David George Haskell: The Forest Unseen
February 16, 2013 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
9780143122944 – Penguin – paperback – $16.00 (ebook versions available, hardcover also)
Most of us are not very good at seeing the details in the world that surrounds us. We're in a hurry, we're overloaded with information, and we don't really have the patience for the kind of looking that it takes to absorb and think about that kind of information.
The brilliant geographer, Carl Ortwin Sauer observed this about naturalists:
"Much of what [they] identify and compare lies outside of quantitative analysis. Species are not recognized by measurements but by the judgment of those well experienced in their significant differences. An innate aptitude to register on differences and similarities is joined to a ready curiosity and reflection on the meaning of likeness and unlikeness. There is, I am confident, such a thing as the "morphologic eye," a spontaneous and critical attention to form and pattern. Every good naturalist has it…"
This is a fairly apt description of the work that naturalist David George Haskell undertook before writing The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature. And what a beautiful book it is!
Haskell is a biologist at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He located a small piece of old growth forest nearby (old growth forest typically still exists in relatively tiny pockets in places where the terrain was too difficult for loggers to get into). With a certain nod to Buddhism, Haskell found a one meter by one meter square piece of forest he termed his mandala, and committed to spending a full year in close observation of this tiny sampling of an original and relatively undisturbed ecosystem.
Over the course of that year, he intrepidly sat and watched, and sometimes closely examined with a magnifying glass, what happened in his square meter of land. Each time he visited what ultimately became his meditation place, he recorded what he saw, and then researched and wrote about what had happened during that day. Of course this sounds mundane and almost plodding. And in lesser hands, this would just be a perhaps valiant exercise in close observation,. But it's in the writing and the meditative exploration that Haskell was able to transform his seen experience into magical prose explorations of nature and what it means to us.
Finding a tick on him leads to a discourse on the life cycle of the tick that is worth re-reading several times. Hearing a chickadee in winter leads him to write about the amazing ways that these little birds survive the winter. Finding a golf ball in his sacred space (this may be a piece of wilderness but it's boundaries by a nearby golf course) provides Haskell with the opportunity to explore the meaning of what is the definition of "natural" and the relationship of humans to nature.
David Haskell writes beautifully about nature, but as well, writes brilliantly about the ideas that closely examining the natural world inspire in an intelligent and perceptive human being. You can read this beautiful book simply to learn a great deal about a wide range of creatures and plants that we often take for granted, how an ecosystem works across time and changing seasons, and how in fact any of us could learn more by close observation. You can also read this book simply for the sheer beauty of the writing, and the brilliance of its descriptive passages. Haskell has extended beyond scientific or nature writing with a poetic and spiritual grace and the power of contemplative thought to create something very special and uniquely his own.
This is a book I have been buying frequently to give to friends and family (I am related to two active biologists), and recommend to everyone as one of my favorites. It was a great pleasure to talk to David Haskell about his work. I've been enjoying reading his blog, called Ramble, now on a regular basis, it's a wonderful journey for anyone interested in the natural world and how to see it clearly.
Haskell holds degrees from the University of Oxford (B.A. in Zoology) and from Cornell University (Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). He is Professor of Biology at the University of the South, where he has served both as Chair of Biology and as an Environmental Fellow with the Associated Colleges of the South. He is a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and was granted Elective Membership in the American Ornithologists' Union in recognition of "significant contributions to ornithology." He served on the board of the South Cumberland Regional Land Trust, where he initiated and led the campaign to purchase and protect a portion of Shakerag Hollow, where the The Forest Unseen is set, a forest that E. O. Wilson has called a "cathedral of nature." David Haskell lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he and his wife, Sarah Vance, run a micro-farm (with goat milk soaps available for purchase at Cudzoo Farm's pretty cool website).
Note to listeners – I read this book in its lovely Viking hardcover edition, this interview is being posted in February, 2012; as of the end of March 2012, the paperback edition will be available. The cover here is of the hardcover edition.
Michael Feinstein: The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs
January 13, 2013 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
978-1451645309 – Simon & Schuster – Hardcover - $45 (ebook editions available at lower prices)
Michael Feinstein is doubtless the most active supporter and proponent of the Great American Songbook we have. Aside from his own inspiring performances, he is an incredible impresario of the music he loves and that he loves to share. His "Michael Feinstein's American Songbook" show is on PBS (and past seasons are available on DVD). He performs more than 200 times a year, and records regularly.
Michael has been nominated for five Grammys, most recently in 2009 for The Sinatra Project and his TV special, Michael Feinstein – The Sinatra Legacy, is currently airing on PBS.
He is also the founder of the Feinstein Initiative, that preserves and promotes the Great American Songbook, and serves as Artistic Director of the Palladium Center for the Performing Arts, a $170 million, three-theatre venue in Carmel, Indiana, which opened in January 2011. The theater is home to an annual international Great American Arts festival, diverse live programming and a museum for his rare memorabilia and manuscripts. Starting in 2010, he became the director of the Jazz and Popular Song Series at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 2013, he will replace the late Marvin Hamlisch as the lead conductor of the Pasadena Pops.
His many other credits include scoring the original music for the film Get Bruce and performing on the hits television series "Better With You," "Caroline in the City," "Melrose Place," "Coach," "Cybill" and "7th Heaven."
Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio, where he started playing piano by ear as a 5-year-old. After graduating from high school, he worked in local piano bars for two years, and then moved to Los Angeles when he was 20. The widow of legendary concert pianist-actor Oscar Levant introduced him to Ira Gershwin in July 1977. Feinstein became Gershwin's assistant for six years, deeply influencing his life and setting him on the path that has become his life as a singer, songwriter and promoter of music.
In The Gershwins and Me, Feinstein tells a personal story in which each of the twelve chapters highlights one of the Gershwin classic songs, using them to tell the story of the Gershwin brothers and their family, illuminating their music and incredible creativity, and telling memorable personal stories throughout. In this unusual narrative, Feinstein tells a moving chronicle of his own life with the Gershwins and his vision of how their music inculcates so much of modern American life. It's a wonderful, personal and special book that I very much enjoyed discussing with author Michael Feinstein, whose amazing website demonstrates the incredible breadth of his work in music.
Melanie Hoffert: Prairie Silence: A Memoir
January 2, 2013 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
978-0807044735 – Beacon Press – hardcover - $24.95
(ebook editions available at lower prices)
Melanie Hoffert's Prairie Silence is about growing up on the prairie of North Dakota. The silence she talks about is most often her own, though there are many other kinds of silences in the small town she grew up in. Her story is about growing up gay in a place that seems alien to her, in a family she felt she could reveal her true self to (until much later in her life after she had moved away – her eventual coming out story is just emblematic of the awkwardness that she mostly recognizes now was projected rather than felt).
Now living in Minneapolis, Hoffert feels the need to return home to her family farm, to work with her farmer father and brother, reconnect to her mother, and to better understand the place she came from. Interacting for a solid period of time with family, friends and neighbors gives the book its narrative, and places her in the complicated nexus of self, place and other.
Prairie Silence is a warm, sometimes surprising memoir that combines an internal voice with a clear eyed reflection of the northern plains we often call the "heartland," whose residents often and perhaps ironically, have terrible challenges connecting with their own hearts and souls, and thus are unable to sympathize with the hearts of others, especially those who don't share their own values. But as she learns more about the people she left behind, Hoffert does find connections, and real ones, with many of those to whom she could not trust to reveal herself.
Hoffert's prose is plainspoken and clear, just as she was in her interview with me about this strong debut work of nonfiction. A warm and loving memoir I highly recommend and an excellent introduction to a fine new writer.
Melanie has an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University, and her work has appeared in several literary journals. She received the 2005 Creative Nonfiction Award from the Baltimore Review and the 2010 Creative Nonfiction Award from New Millennium Writings. Since 2008 she has worked for Teach For America as managing director of TFANet, the online social-networking hub for their corps members and alumni.
Author website here.
"Sometimes at dusk, when the world is purple, I go searching for elements of a small town in the city. I usually walk down alleys, where yellow light spills from the back of houses onto piles of dusty red bricks and onto old lumber; where forgotten white Christmas lights crawl like vines over many of the fences; where junk cars sit as if in a museum; and recycling bins display the ingredients of meals consumed weeks ago. In alleys people do not have a need to present a manicured life and I feel closer to the neighbors I will never know. In these alleys, where the roads are narrow and life is presented as it is lived—messy and whimsical—I see glimpses of what I left behind."
Luis J. Rodriguez: It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
December 13, 2012 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
978-1-416584162 – Touchstone – Hardcover – $24.99 (978-1-416584179, paperback $15.99; ebook editions available at lower prices)
This is flat out a stunning book. Luis tells his life story pulling no punches, avoiding no pain, either that he has given to others or that others gave to him. Years ago, when I read his first memoir Always Running (some pieces of which are repeated or retold here), I knew that he was a great storyteller. His poetry is crystal-like, full of shards of emotion and insight.
Rodriguez is a powerful writer. His prose flows like a river and carries you along with Luis, as he makes terrible mistakes, strives to become better, to understand who he is in a terrible, painful and challenging world. He grew up in California, child of immigrants, always struggling, and early on in life, unlike anyone else in his family, was drawn into the gang life, engaged in all sorts of crime, did drugs, was violent, full of rage and sorrow. But he was always a reader, always smart enough, emotionally engaged enough, to want more, to be engaged, to struggle. In It Calls You Back, Rodriguez documents everything, how he became a writer, politically engaged, an activist working with gangs, a lover, husband and father, whose own son makes the dramatic and terrible mistake that changes his life forever, despite everything Luis thought he had done to help his son escape La Vida Loca (the crazy life) of the gangs.
It has taken years for Rodriguez to become who he is today, but his past life is always with him, always running inside his heart and soul. His life's work is all about engagement, transformation, and social change. I admire what he has done to turn his experiences into such powerful action. Reading this book is as transformative for the reader as it was for the author. I hope my conversation with Luis will help illuminate and amplify the story he has to tell.
Visit the author's website here and that of his independent Tia Chucha Press, learning and cultural center here.
Ellen Cassedy: We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust
October 23, 2012 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
978-0803230125 – University of Nebraska Press – Paperback – $19.95 (ebook versions available at variable lower prices)
Finding this book was a happy accident for me. Much of my own family is from Lithuania and I have long been interested in the history and culture of the Jewish community prior to World War II. I've read a number of books by Jews who survived the Holocaust in Lithuania – terrible stories of suffering and loss. But Ellen Cassedy's story resonated even more deeply for me. She went to Lithuania to study Yiddish as part of her quest to connect to her Jewish roots on her mother's side and to explore the country and culture of her family's birth.
She also needed to learn some of the secrets of her Holocaust survivor Uncle's past, and as she explored and connected to Jews and gentiles alike, her experiences in modern Lithuania changed her perspective and understanding of the complex connections between people, their history, and their present. Much of what she believed was true about Lithuania as well as her family's experience in the terrible war years was upended by what she learned and the people she met and interacted with there.
Cassedy's story should be meaningful not just for Jews seeking to understand their European roots. Through her eyes, we learn a lot about her hard work in trying to master the complexity of the beautiful and difficult Yiddish language. She spends time with old people, young people, survivors, witnesses, goes through old Lithuanian and Russian archives, interviews city and country folk, including an old man who wants to "speak to a Jew" before he dies and learns a great deal about the issues that confront a country that was taken over by both Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. In the end, her journey transforms her, and in this memoir she allows us to travel with her through a difficult and rewarding emotional and physical landscape. I truly enjoyed this book and talking to Ellen about it was a pleasure. And I learned some new Yiddish words and expressions too!
Her own website is well worth a visit – nice video of Lithuania and more about her other work.
Lois Banner: Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox
September 13, 2012 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
978-1608195312 – Bloomsbury USA – Hardcover – $30.00 (ebook editions available, prices vary)
Marilyn Monroe was one of the great icons of mid-century America. I grew up while she was in her prime in the late fifties and the early sixties, and the power of her image and beauty was available even to me as a pre-pubescent youth. Her cultural appeal was remarkable. But the complexity of her persona was equally powerful, and certainly enabled her incredible charisma and appeal.
Her marriages to the equally iconic Joe DiMaggio and the brilliant playwright Arthur Miller, and rumors of her romantic liaisons to many other well known public figures added to the mythological elements of her story. And her undeniable skill as a comic actress and amazing on screen sexuality were unmatched by any other actor of her time. That she died relatively young, and in mysterious and controversial circumstances only added to the ongoing fascination with her life that continues a half century later.
Marilyn biographies (and exploitive tell-alls) abound. But no biographer has done what feminist scholar Lois Banner has done in Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox. This is a complex and in-depth examination of a complex and challenging subject. Through exhaustive research and access to previously unavailable sources, Banner tells the story of Marilyn's life in incredible (and never boring) detail, begins=ning at the outset of Marilyn's difficult life and through to her sad and tragic death at age 36. We learn a tremendous amount about Marilyn, as a person, an actress, a thoughtful and well read intellectual, a star with a created narrative, a lover of men and of women, and in many ways a proto-feminist figure.
Reading this book, I found myself thinking about the distinctions in human nature that enables some of us to use personal challenges to grow and to create ourselves into powerful beings, while others simply suffer. But most of all, the sheer loneliness and pain of being that beset Marilyn are overwhelming to contemplate. Reading Banner's recounting of her final weeks and days is an incredibly painful experience. And it was eye-opening for me to understand that the circumstances of her death are likely not as most of us have believed, a suicide.
This is really a powerful story, and one that I recommend to readers who may not have felt themselves interested in the details of Marilyn Monroe's life. This is a serious biography about a serious and important life, and one that is well deserving of the powerful telling Banner has given to Marilyn. You can learn more at the author's website. I really enjoyed talking to Ms. Banner and wished we had more time available to talk together about this book.
Atina Diffley: Turn Here, Sweet Corn
August 16, 2012 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works – 978-0816677719 – University of Minnesota Press – Hardcover – $24.95 (ebook versions available)
As I write this, it's August, 2012, and sweet corn is beginning to be abundant here in Connecticut, where I live. This is my favorite season, and my favorite summer vegetable too. When I discovered this wonderful book, I picked it up immediately, and began to read it voraciously. I really like this book, and corn is, of course, an evocation of much more for the author and her readers. Atina Diffley has a great story to tell, and she tells it well in this lovely, powerful, evocative book.
Atina's story is literally grounded by her connection to the earth and to living in community. As she tells us, she has always wanted to farm. As she has worked with the land to grow food, she has learned how farming is a synthesis of land and people. Wherever she is, along with her farmer husband, Martin, she is a sensitized and active member of her the ecosystem, paying close attention to the living world around her. It's a great lesson for a world that seems alienated from the natural world. Atina tells us about how she came to being a local organic farmer, a story of farming within close range of the Minneapolis/St. Paul urb for more than thirty years. It's been an incredible struggle, but also, an incredible success, as she shows how a conscious connection between farm and city, between farmer and the food system can create healthy systems that last. There are many practical lessons as well as inspiration, beauty, and sustenance here for anyone interested in building a new food system in America.
And in addition to a brilliant and beautiful story of land and living, Atina also tells the incredible story of the battle she and Martin led against the Koch brothers pipeline across Minnesota. It's more or less mind boggling to imagine what they went through, and inspiring to see that it is possible for intelligent and organized opposition to powerful corporate forces can in fact be victorious – right over might.
This is a great book and one I am very happy to recommend to friends, family and colleagues. Talking to Atina about her book was a great pleasure for me, and I hope our conversation will be illustrative of how wonderful this book is. And thanks to the courageous and intelligent University of Minnesota Press for publishing this terrific memoir (a terrific publisher!). Having sold the farm to the food cooperatives that supported it for so many years, Atina is now an organic consultant and public speaker on farming and food issues. Her website is here. We had a great interview in which we covered a wide range of subjects related to her book and to the important issues she raises about our connection to the land, to food, to the reason why organic farming is so important, and to the meaning of food to our lives.
Robin Gaby Fisher: The Woman Who Wasn't There
July 25, 2012 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
978-1451652086 – Touchstone – Hardcover – $26 (ebook edition available at lower prices)
You really need to know the subtitle of this book to get the full impact – The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception. It is an incredible story, about a woman who became one of the leaders of the 9/11 survivors movement, who then turned out to be a complete fraud. How she managed to convince so many people of a story that was so much a part of our public experience (and so much a part of the terrible private experiences of other survivors and family members) is what makes this book compelling.
Journalist Robin Gaby Fisher wrote this book with Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr., a documentary film-maker who was very close to the main character of the book and who was part of the story itself.
Tania Head told a dramatic and heart stopping story of survival from an upper floor of the World Trade Center, and quickly rose to a position as leader at an early stage in the development of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network. She became a prominent public figure helping to establish the group, gave a public face to the survivors' group, and was deeply emotionally involved in the lives of hundreds of people. Until her story unraveled and the truth became known.
It is a tricky thing for a writer to maintain the reader's interest when the end of her story is already known – Fisher handles this problem successfully by painting an engrossing and detailed picture of Tania Head and all the people around her, and by keeping us waiting for the important details of how her story actually came apart. And while it is impossible for anyone to truly know and understand Tania, who will not speak publicly about anything at all, Fisher paints a deft portrait of a complex psychological being, who joins a long list of famous public frauds who have taken on personae that did not factually belong to them but whose beings were poured into their fantasies in service of deeply felt emotional needs.
It's also hard not to wonder about the human need for heroes and leaders, which these sorts of confidence men and women prey on. This could happen to any of us, and perhaps especially when we are ourselves emotionally vulnerable and desperate for someone to show us the better side of the human spirit. In many ways, this story illuminates more about the nature of human suffering and stress than it could ever help us to understand the perpetrator of the fraud itself. It's a very rewarding book to read and my discussion with Robin Gaby Fisher about the book will illuminate some of the important issues raised in her book.
Robin Gaby Fisher is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and a member of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team at the Newark Star-Ledger. She teaches Journalism at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
Bill Bradley: We Can All Do Better
July 4, 2012 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
978-1593157296 – Vanguard Press – Hardcover – $24.99 (ebook versions available at lower prices)
Bill Bradley is one of my favorite contemporary politicians. I felt badly for all of us when he left the national political scene and then went to work in investment banking. Much like another politician I admire, Mario Cuomo, he is smart, well versed in a wide range of subjects, able to communicate complicated ideas without dumbing them down, and above all, he is passionately a humanist, who clearly likes people, and loves what America could and should be, as a leader on the world stage.
While I certainly do not agree with all of his ideas, what he has to say is well worth paying attention to, especially since he is so intelligent, and his arguments are so well reasoned, grounded in ideas and carefully constructed (how novel!) Moreover, he represents what the current political discourse so desperately needs, namely leadership that does not trivialize, demonize or mock those with whom one disagrees.
Bradley believes deeply in the power of citizens to make change, and dispensing with so much of what goes for political discourse these days, in We Can All Do Better Bradley makes a strong case for why America cannot continue on its current deeply divided, politically gridlocked, and ineffectual political, social and foreign policy paths.
Bradley first reviews the current "state of the nation." He makes clear that, contrary to right wing pronouncements, government is not the cause of our problems. He rightly points out the damaging and dangerous role of money and politics, talks cogently about why and how our existing foreign policy, electoral, and economic paths will lead to a dismal future for America, and sets forth clearly and coherently what needs to be done to for us to make changes for the better.
As the book title says, "we can all do better." Rather than blaming and scapegoating (groups of other citizens, the other political party, or just government itself) or as so many do, simply ignoring what we don't like, and disengaging from the political process, Bradley continually and powerfully makes his case we can all—elected officials and private citizens alike—do a better job together. Bradley is a great voice for uniting rather than dividing, for working together, and for allowing ourselves to see more clearly who we are – and can be – as citizens and participants in the modern world.
Bill Bradley, born and raised in Missouri, was a star basketball player at Princeton, a Rhodes scholar, and then had a Hall of Fame career in the NBA. He was a three term senator from New Jersey, and ran for president in 2000. We Can All Do Better is his sixth book. He's been involved in investment banking and serves as a corporate director for a number of companies. He hosts a radio show called American Voices on Sirius/XM satellite radio.
("For 40 years, I've traveled around America listening to the stories Americans tell about their lives. I was always moved, and so I wanted to create a show where you can hear some of them too." – Sen. Bill Bradley)
It was a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to speak to Senator Bradley about We Can All Do Better for Writerscast. You can learn more about the book at Sen Bradley's website.


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In a sign that he is thoroughly enjoying his time away from WWE, Undertaker was spotted with his wife Michelle McCool at a college football game featuring the Texas Longhorns. The former world heavyweight champion even took the time to pose for pictures with fans, something that he did not do frequently when he was an active performer. Undertaker was also spotted recently at a high school football game.
October 19, 2014
Anyone that has watched WWE routinely over the last year has heard the audience chanting for CM Punk, who walked away from the company due to backstage heat with management. Those chants are especially loud whenever AJ Lee, his real life wife, is in the ring. During recently live events, Paige has decided to turn the tables around on the fans by actually responding to the chants. She reminds the audience that it is actually AJ in the ring and not Punk.
October 15, 2014
Over the last couple of weeks, Tommy Dreamer has been teasing a surprise at his upcoming House of Hardcore show, which will take place on November 15 at the ECW Arena. During a recent interview with PWInsider, the former world heavyweight champion revealed that the surprise is an appearance by Beulah McGillicutty, his wife. She will accompany him to the ring.
October 5, 2014
Knowing the right people is still an asset in the professional wrestling industry. During a recent interview, Matt Hardy revealed that there have been ongoing negotiations between TNA and his wife, Reby Sky. She worked a one night only pay per view for the company, and there was mutual interest back then. With Hardy back in TNA, her chances of being signed have improved tremendously.
September 21, 2014
During a recent interview, Petey Williams provided some answers for his fans who are wondering why he opted for retirement at such a young age. The former TNA star revealed that he opted to walk away because he saw a lot of his peers being injured, and he did not want to be in a wheelchair. Williams also mentioned that he was going to work in law enforcement, joining his wife, who happens to be a police officer.
August 24, 2014
"I've been really quiet since the passing of my husband and the father of my girls. Someone sent me what Mr Bollea had to say in video interview with Grantland yesterday and I would just like to ask him to stop. He is the only person in the WWE Universe who did not give a call or send a card. My girls asked why he didn't check on us like everyone else and I explained simply there isn't a camera at our mailbox or in the house when we receive our calls. I would ask respectfully Mr Bollea, for you to understand my girls hurt and just let some time pass before you say anything more." - wife of the Ultimate Warrior to Hulk Hogan
August 15, 2014
While she is not doing a practice match with Brie Bella before Summerslam 2014, Stephanie McMahon is actually putting in a lot of hours training with Triple H. The couple routinely work out together, so it makes sense for him to put in some ring time with his wife. The match is not expected to last very long, and a surprise ending is still being planned.
August 15, 2014
In the past, Kevin Nash has been pretty adamant about not wanting to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. He's even gone as far as to instruct his wife to decline the offer if he were to pass away. It seems like Nash is now softening his stance. He recently stated that he would refuse to be inducted as Diesel, but he did not mention anything about going in under his real name.
August 11, 2014
Chris Jericho and Fozzy performed a concert at the world famous Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood last night. He was not the only WWE performer in the building. Miz and his wife Maryse Ouellet, a former diva, were in attendance as guests of Jericho. The concert was just a one time thing, and Jericho is expected to be back on the road with WWE soon.
July 25, 2014
Showing that some friendships extend beyond the business, Undertaker and his wife Michelle McCool recently attended a comedy show featuring Mick Foley. The longtime WWE couple wanted to show support for their old friend. The two of them even went backstage to catch up with Foley for a bit. Several wrestlers in the industry, including CM Punk recently, have made the effort to go watch Foley tell jokes.
July 14, 2014
While a lot of fans have high hopes of his return due to the fact that his wife recently made her comeback, there is close to no chance that CM Punk will be coming back to WWE. AJ Lee coming back doesn't have an effect on his decision to remain away from the company. Punk is supportive of AJ on her decision to continue her career in WWE, but he's going to stay away because he does not like the way the company treated him over the last year.
July 8, 2014
While she still has every intention of being a stay at home mother and wife, Michelle McCool decided to get out of the house on Monday. She made a visit to the WWE Performance Center. No word yet on why she was there this time around, but she has been known to drop in and help do a little training with the developmental divas. Her appearances always spark rumors of a return to WWE, so don't be surprised if the chatter increases over the next few days.
June 24, 2014
Earlier in the week, it was revealed that Jim Ross had to spend a night in the hospital, as the former WWE commentator had a bit of a health scare and his wife wanted to be safer than sorry. Ross revealed that a couple of people contacted him at the hospital to check up on him. Jerry Lawler and Steve Austin were two of them. The other was Vince McMahon, which was a little bit surprising as there have been rumors floating around for the last year that there is some backstage heat between the two.
June 10, 2014
While it sounds like just a precautionary thing, Jim Ross spent the night in the hospital recently. He complained to his wife that he was not feeling well, so she made the former WWE commentator visit with doctors. Ross stated that his unnamed symptoms took place shortly after he returned from a trip to Las Vegas.
June 7, 2014
"In some ways, I've been doing it behind the scenes for years. Vince McMahon used to say to me, 'When are you going to stop playing around and come do some real work?' Once I had kids and was looking to be home more and getting a little older, I saw it was time to make that transition. Vince sort of baited me in, saying, 'Why don't you come in to the office once or twice a week on your off days?' And the next thing I know it's, 'I need you to take over this department and come off the road full time.' Vince likes to call me to wrestle in case of emergency. I'm a character they can pull in here and there. But honestly, the less I do it at this point, the better. Even wrestling once or twice a year is hard, and I have to prepare for it as if I'm Floyd Mayweather preparing for a boxing match. It's a commitment, and trying to do that with a full-time job and a wife and kids is very time-consuming." - Triple H discusses his new role in WWE
June 1, 2014
Since he has been spending quite a bit of time on airplanes nowadays, AJ Styles has been working on his autobiography. The reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion and his wife have been editing some of the content that features his early years in the professional wrestling business. No word yet on when the book will be released.
May 30, 2014
According to Star Magazine, David Otunga is preparing for a full time return to WWE in the near future. They did a feature where his wife, Jennifer Hudson, was upset with the decision because she does not want her husband to be away from the family for extended periods of time, which is something required of WWE performers. No word yet on when Otunga will return to television, but it is expected to be very soon.
May 29, 2014
Expect to see Big Show taking some time off from WWE in the near future, as he has been signed to play a role in an upcoming movie called Vendetta, a joint project between WWE Studios and Lionsgate. The film is about a man who commits a crime in order to be sent to prison, so that he can avenge the death of his wife by going after the prisoner who killed her.
May 23, 2014
Last night, TNA did a special one night only pay per view that featured their Knockouts and various female performers from the independent wrestling circuit. One of the more recognizable girls utilized on the event was none other than Reby Sky, the real life wife of Matt Hardy. Some feel that this may open the door for Reby to eventually join TNA.
May 11, 2014
Some more bad news for Bobby Heenan, as he suffered a broken shoulder while trying to get out of bed. The legendary WWE commentator and his wife was in Las Vegas, visiting family and attending a wedding. However, due to the incident, Heenan was forced to miss the special event. He has also battled cancer and suffered a broken back not too long ago.
April 30, 2014
In regards to the release of ODB from TNA, reports are surfacing that the two sides are leaving on good terms. She was not released because of backstage heat or anything. In fact, her contract had expired, and management opted not to renew her deal at this time. The belief is that the two sides could come to an agreement down the line, but nothing is expected to happen until TNA can secure a new television deal.
August 29, 2014
It looks like TNA and ODB have parted ways. The former Knockouts champion has just been moved from the official roster to the alumni section. She has not been very active with the company over the last couple of months. ODB has also been working as a bartender. The belief is that the split was amicable, and she could be utilized at various live events if needed.
August 21, 2014
The TNA Knockouts website has undergone a bit of a makeover, with the company making some modifications to the layout and adding some new performers. A quick glance at the site shows that TNA now has nine Knockouts on the roster. Some new pictures of ODB, Christy Hemme, Velvet Sky, Taryn Terrell, Gail Kim, Santana Garrett, Angelina Love, Madison Rayne and Brooke Tessmacher have been uploaded.
May 31, 2014
In an interesting and comical move, Rockstar Spud worked the TNA Knockouts only pay per view over the weekend. The event was designed to showcase the contracted female performers against females performers from the independent wrestling circuit. Spud worked near the top of the card in a match against ODB, which he lost, of course.
May 11, 2014
A picture of TNA Knockouts hanging out together after a bikini photo shoot. Pictured are Brooke Tessmacher, Taryn Terrell, Gail Kim and ODB.
May 7, 2014
A picture of TNA Knockout ODB in a black bikini while crawling on the beach on all fours.
April 26, 2014
A picture of ODB in a maid costume. The TNA Knockout is also holding up some sausages that she is cooking up on the grill.
April 14, 2014
A video from Impact Wrestling of a fatal four way match, where Angelina Love defeated ODB, Santana Garrett and Gail Kim to become the new number one contender for Madison Rayne and the TNA Knockouts Championship.
April 13, 2014
TNA has been promoting a Battle of the Knockouts for the upcoming episode of Impact Wrestling. It's a six woman tag team match featuring newcomer Alpha Female, LeiD Tapa and Gail Kim on one team, while the other team is comprised of Madison Rayne, Velvet Sky and ODB. It is designed to promote the feud between Madison and Gail.
March 4, 2014
A rather interesting match took place at a TNA live event in Tennessee over the weekend. In order to fire up the audience for a backstage passes giveaway, Rockstar Spud played the antagonist by trying to prevent it from happening. ODB came out to challenge him to a match. She was victorious, so that enabled her to give away the free prize to fans.
March 2, 2014
On Impact Wrestling last night, Madison Rayne made her return to TNA, where the former Knockouts Champion saved ODB from an attack by Gail Kim and Lei'D Tapa. Rayne had taken some time away from the company to have a child.
December 13, 2013
There has been some confusion with fans about the relationship between Eric Young and ODB. While their characters recently got married on screen for TNA, they are simply just friends in real life.
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#56 - Womens Study Major (11/20/2014) [-]
First bong storie.
Blow on bong water shoots out stem hamhhaa 42o mayn
#52 - darksideofthebeast (11/20/2014) [-]
First bong story
>Buy weed, dank kush 420 type weed, not reggie miller-curbside-cabbage-backyard-boogey type shit.
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First bong rip story;
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>Smoking at stonerbro's house for the first time with some buddies from school
>Stonerbro busts out this homemade grav bong and everybody starts ripping it
>It gets to me and up until this point I had smoker maybe three or four times prior
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#25 - baitdoesnttalkback (08/26/2014) [-]
all skaters smoke pot so its a reference to getting stoned. but theres also a myth of girls who get rocks thrown at them for misbehaving. so it was kind of a pun
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That's clever as shit
#30 - Womens Study Major (08/26/2014) [-]
A myth? No, that's not a myth, that's an ancient form of execution/mob killing and is actually prevalent in some Islamic nations, used primarily against women.
#31 - baitdoesnttalkback (08/26/2014) [-]
nah theres no records of it actually happening. just conjecture
#33 - kimilsung (08/26/2014) [-]
And now you tell me.
#34 - baitdoesnttalkback (08/26/2014) [-]
not availble in my region. nice try troll
#36 - baitdoesnttalkback (08/26/2014) [-]
not clicking your virus links. i already know what i know.
#39 - baitdoesnttalkback (08/26/2014) [-]
first of all just the fact i made you link a video would mean im no a bad troll
2ndly dont hate me because you couldnt find a ACTUAL video and had to resort to virus links
#41 - baitdoesnttalkback (08/26/2014) [-]
takes less than 30 seconds to find stoned videos on youtube pussy. fuck you bitch www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxt4PqrHmOY
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"enough marijuana"
I like the way you think, brother
#17 - funmanigro (08/26/2014) [-]
> usually applied on women in islamic countries.
#14 - Womens Study Major (08/26/2014) [-]
It was also practised during the middle ages quite often during "witch hunts"
#28 - jabsgreywarden (08/26/2014) [-]
Biblical times as well.
#26 - Womens Study Major (08/26/2014) [-]
Good thing it's not the middle ages then.
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I won't thumb you down because you sound like a whiny bitch.
I will thumb you down for being wrong, though.
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muslim girls, anon is implying they will be stoned not the blaze it kind
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1. Why did you add me?
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You have to understand my position here. I get a lot of users who add me and don't reply back cause they are either trolls or just lifeless. So I kinda need to run a background check on everyone. One bad apple spoiled the bunch. Sorry about this..
1. Why did you add me?
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You have to understand my position here. I get a lot of users who add me and don't reply back cause they are either trolls or just lifeless. So I kinda need to run a background check on everyone. One bad apple spoiled the bunch. Sorry about this..
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Almost everyone I know are telling me SA2 is so much better. Nobody likes the classics like Sonic 1-3 and K? LOL I guess I'm the only one then. Well, based on your details, I give you a 3/3 thumbs up so welcome to my mysterious world.
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The biggest reason why SA2 is so awesome is because its where Shadow got his start and everybody knows it. Shadow is a bad ass, but the idea of a light and dark story is pretty awesome, and the LAST story is insane. But the earliest I've played is the first Sonic Adventure, not counting the remake of Sonic and Knuckles for XBA. But SA2 is by far my favorite. Its my childhood wrapped in a present.


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I'm reading and extraordinary book titled "The Circle Makers" by Mark Batterson. I promise that if you go and buy it and start reading it, you will be captivated by the deep truths that are contained within it's pages! It's a book about the prayer life of a prophet of Israel a hundred years before the birth of Christ. It will give you new insight into the power and meaning of prayer. It is so powerful that after only one evening of reading it has moved me to rethink my ministry, and my approach to serving Him.
I can't encourage you strongly enough to check out this book. It has forever changed my mission statement.
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You know what they say about free advice, "If you didn't pay nothin' for it…. that's what it's worth!" O.K. so what kind of free advice am I planning to offer today? I just read a few very interesting articles on Thom Hogan's, "By Thom" site. I like Thom, he seems, to me, to be an honest, thoughtful, and very informed, (he is a technical genius, by-the-way), great writer, he's also brought me hours of endless fun watching some of my old friends at Nikon pull their hair out! Not everything he writes always made them happy!!! So, as I was saying, I've been doing a lot of thinking which is always very dangerous, and I've come up with a list of things I would like to recommend to the leaders of the photo industry. I did use to work in it, and I don't know very much, but I know a few things. So let's get started;
For SONY: You're a big company and you have a lot resources, try making something that really works and try to not change it in the first 6 weeks! O.K. that's a little harsh, but Sony has a tendency to come up with a concept and keep changing it so that about the time you think you really like it, it's gone. In fairness Sony is sorta new to the photo industry (still cameras, that is) compared to the rest of the folks that have been doing it for many, many decades. They will catch on, and when they do, everyone else will have an 8o0 pound Gorilla to deal with in the room. Not the case with our next maker!
For LEICA: You sure make beautiful, well made cameras and lenses. Your glass is fantastic, and the build quality of your cameras is second to none, so are your prices…. I can't really make any recommendations, you're committed to making incredible products, no matter what it costs and you have customers that are willing to pay what you have to charge. Honestly, if I could afford your products I know I would own some of them! I would suggest that you make a less expensive line, but that would just be wrong!
For Canon: I certainly worked hard on the other side of the fence from you so I know how good your products are. If I still could carry a heavy camera and bag of lenses, I'm not so sure that one of my kits wouldn't be a 5D Mark III. Even though I worked for Nikon, I saw a lot work from that camera and I can't fault it, and for video it really is kicking! I had a lot of great friends at Nikon, still do, I hope, but a lot of the Canon reps were good friends too! Canon is the best thing that ever happened to Nikon, and visa versa! We, the consumer have a lot of great products because they compete so hard to beat one another!
For NIKON: For many years Nikon ruled the roost. they actually owned over 80% of all pro markets for a lot of years. Canon made some major changes to their designs and the war was on! Nikon has always been known for their tough build quality, incredible Nikkor glass, and in recent years the best best portable lighting system out there. Now a little spanking, if Nikon had determined to built the ultimate mirror-less, serious, pro type camera, (like Fuji did), they would, I'm sure, have built something mighty spectacular, but they didn't, and that's why I'm shooting the X System. I still believe you could! I think Nikon has a heritage in the industry that is second to none, I hope they continue to grow that well deserved reputation, I know they can. Will they?
For OLYMPUS: You guys have always had a special place in my heart. I think you've always made wonderful products and lately are outdoing yourselves, hang in there. Keep making those great bodies and lenses! I know times are tough, but I believe you make something the photo world needs. If that was not enough you've got Ray Acevedo!
For PANASONIC: My friend Rob Sheppard loves his GH-3 and from the work I'm seeing it is pretty cool! I got to see the new GH-4 at a recent event in Florida and the video is stellar. Panasonic is working a portion of the market that is teeming with enthusiastic users. Thanks to a very solid lens line you're sitting on a winner!
For EVERYONE ELSE: Have fun!
Like I said you paid nothin',
the pilgrim
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I got a chance to try out a new camera back pack from Guru Gear when in Florida and it is a very interesting and different animal. The Guru Gear Uinta 30L is a medium size back pack made of extremely high end materials, that are also very light weight. What makes it unique compared to the hundreds of other backpacks is that it is hollow and comes with "modules" that can be customized to hold whatever gear you are planning to carry. The bag will hold two modules and they come in two sizes a medium and small. The modules can hold lenses, bodies, flashes, and accessories. Now here is the cool part, let's say you are going out to hike and maybe take a few images, you could put the small module in with a body and just a couple of lenses and have the rest of the bag open for your lunch, a rain jacket and a polar fleece if it gets cool! This is a well thought out bag that has a great frame, and hold anywhere from a few items to an enormous amount of gear! It can be set up to open the interior section from the front or the back and has several spacious outer pockets. It also has a wonderful accessory for carrying your tripod, that really works, unlike some others I've tried. Bottom line is would I buy it? Yes, if I needed to carry a great deal of gear, comfortably and securely! Through the years I've used bags from Domke, Lowpro, Think Tank, and Guru Gear, they all are great in their own way. Domke is a throw back bag, old school, made of older materials, but built to really last and their shoulder bags are still among the best I've ever used. Lowepro makes the most variety of bags and is a good place to look if your needs are very specific, if you need something very specific, they probably have it! Think Tank builds stuff that are as tough as well, a "tank". I've found them to be nearly indestructible and very well designed! Guru Gear came onto the scene making very good bags, well thought out, made of quality materials and once again cleverly designed, and the new Uinta 30L is a winner.
Don't miss this!!! The Nashville Event is really coming together with some incredible guests. In addition to Jim Begley, Nick Coury, of course, Ricky Skaggs, and I, we will be joined by the the fantastic Pete Collins of KelbyOne, super pastor, and great guy, Scotty Smith, and my dear buddy, brother, and killer shooter Vinny Colucci!!! This event will be limited to only a dozen students with this many leaders!!!! This will be a wonderful event and we still have 5 spots available.
Another super thing I'm loving about the Fuji X System.
While Fuji is working hard to bring a great series of lenses to the table, as of today, they still don't have a long (200mm focal length) Macro lens, or a fast long conventional lens. Because I love to shoot long lenses and Fuji doesn't have any, I've found a great alternative!! The Fuji system allows using manual focus lenses from any other camera systems via inexpensive lens adapters. I happen to own a very large collection of classic, legendary sharp Nikkor glass and because the new Fuji X-T1 has a very novel, and extremely effective manual focusing system that allows very precise focusing, it works great!!! So if your subject is not moving, and very few of mine are, the X-T1 works great on these lenses. I'm currently using three lenses the most, the 200mm Micro Nikkor, the 300mm f 4.5 IF-ED, and the 400mm f 3.5 IF-ED. Keep in mind because of the 1.5 factor of the APS-C size sensor they are a 300mm Micro, 450mm and 600 mm all at their original f stops!!! That makes the 400mm a 600mm f 3.5!!!! Imagine a 600mm f 3.5!!!!! Does it work? Check these out, and decide for yourself. ….and keep in mind I'm really not a bird shooter! Of course you'll know that pretty soon!
The youngsters X-T1 400mm f 3.5
Here's lookin' at you Babe' X-T1, 400mm f 3.5
Sleeping off a big meal…. Fuji X-T1, 400mm f 3.5
Long day for Mom, XT-1, 400mm f 3.5
Fellow shooter. Fuji X-T1, 400mm f 3.5
Dew Drops on grass – Great Smokies - XE-2 Nikkor 200mm Micro
Drops on leaves – Great Smokies – Nikkor 200mm Micro on Fuji X-E2
Stink bug, Great Smokies – Fuji X-E2 Nikkor 200mm Micro Nikkor
So, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Isn't this fun!
the pilgrim
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I admit it, teaching is my favorite thing about photography! David Wilson was the winner of the KelbyOne Day with Bill Fortney at Old Car City, (really?????!!!. that is called being a winner????!!!!) Well, anyway we had a great time, David was a very nice guy and we had fun kicking the tires and lighting the fires around OCC, no, we didn't really start any fires, but we did have fun! I showed David some of my favorite subjects, and he found some good ones himself. Below is a sampli8ngh of his work for you to enjoy!
David was kind enough to write about his time with me in Old Car City;
On Friday, I was fortunate enough to be shooting with Bill Fortney at Old Car City (OCC) as well as being tutored by him. The sky started out overcast and threatening rain making cool, soft light for cars sitting in the open. Bill pointed out some of the good shots and told why he liked those shots. Bill used his Fuji system to easily show what he was seeing and explain the concepts and how they applied to the subjects. When I tried to get something different by getting a little different angle or I shot something that was quite different, Bill was encouraging the experimentation and tried a couple of the ideas. For some shots, the experimenting produced interesting results.
Leaving the front area of OCC, we took the paths through cars and trees. (I say cars but there are a number of small trucks in Old Car City as well.) You can easily be overwhelmed by so many photo opportunities. Here, Bill helped keep me focused on the good opportunities as we made our way to the Oil Can Truck and a low wall of stacked tires. Later in the day, Bill allowed me to wander off to find some good shots. Shortly, Bill caught up with me. We shared the ideas and shots we had found. While I was working the fender ornament on a '59 Chevy Parkwood, Bill saw an interesting image presented by the open doors on the Parkwood. We finished the day with Bill sending me out to find some interesting images.
At midday, we downloaded our images to laptops and looked through them. Bill showed me his workflow for many of his blog images. The few minutes he spent working on a couple of images for the blog was a great bonus. I knew a little about the tools like Photoshop and the plug-ins. Bill showed me how to quickly and effectively use those tools to spice up some images. I've try to apply what I learned to a few of the Old Car City images I took with Bill and gave him to include with this post. (I have a bunch of images still to work on.)
Shooting with Bill was great. I learned huge amount about how to see subjects I have not shot before, I learned a bit about efficient workflow, I learned about Old Car City, and I got to know Bill. It was fun to get to know Bill the photographer and educator and Bill the person.
I really love shooting with other folks and getting to see how they see they world, it re invigorates my own joy of being a shooter! Retiring from Nikon has given me more time to go out an share my work, my philosophy and most importantly, my faith! It has been a great journey, I hope I get to do it a little longer!
I will be at the Louisville Photographic Society meeting Wednesday night in Louisville at Outdoor Photo Gear. @ 13305 Magisterial Dr. Louisville, KY 40223
Evidence? Another great guy we met at Old Car City, Jim Erickson!
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