How too many words defeat the purpose

Apr 12

Have you ever had someone explain something to you — and you’re grasping it… and then they keep babbling on and on and you lose that little thread of understanding and just end up confused? Well, I have. Years of it, in fact. It was called “high school.” I was reminded of that era by part of an email I just got from Kodak: When will I...

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Photo fun (-ia)

Apr 11

Photo fun (-ia)

Found a cool new website that takes your photos, apply effects, and inserts them into various scenes. Fun stuff – in fact, the site’s name is PhotoFunia. Check out a few of my favorite photographic creations – starting with an old shot of me and my big sister that looks like it’s in an antique book, and including putting one of my boys on a...

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Trent Reznor digs Digg (oh, but he don’t know She)

Apr 07

Trent Reznor digs Digg (oh, but he don’t know She)

Just posted over on SheKnows.com about Trent Reznor’s new video interview that went live today. This is exactly the sort of video I’d love love love to make! (With Trent, definitely — but with any/all of my interviews, really.) And on that topic, I included a little message for the man at the end of the piece, ’cause I know he’s such an...

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Family photo treasure trove

Apr 06

Family photo treasure trove

Over the past few years, I’ve been trying to scan in as many old family photos as possible — “old” meaning simply those before my own personal digital camera era. I knew I had some photos dating back to the 20s, but was surprised to find a few even older… from the mid- to late-19th century! Here’s one I found — and I love...

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Quinn and the Fibonacci ducks?

Apr 02

Quinn and the Fibonacci ducks?

Someone was kind enough to have sent me a really interesting and kind of amazing theory on this photo of my son Quinn – a pic that showed early on how his mind worked a little differently (eventually diagnosed as autism): Here’s part of her note (actually sent to me as a comment on this site): My primary research interest is autism and so I had of course...

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