Creativity, photography, energy
PhotoSensitive I’ve been a little MIA in posting recently, instead often using Twitter to share things of interest. I’ve also started a new job, working a couple days a week for PhotoSensitive. The non-profit Canadian photo collective has embarked on a new project, Energy, and I’m helping to get students involved in a mini version of [...]
Animated poetry, creative collaboration
Anticipating How To Be Alone will soon make a MediaStorm or Multimedia Shooter must-watch list. For now, it’s on mine. (Via NFB on Facebook.) Poem and performance by Tanya Davis, film (animation, photography and editing) by Andrea Dorfman. Walter Forsyth is the producer.
Seven from the week
Seven things I read/watched/noticed/thought about this week: Soul of Athens, the fourth-annual project by grad students in Ohio University’s School of Communications, launched Expression, the first of five sections featuring multimedia and still photography about the people of Athens, Ohio. The next one, Passage, launches June 15. Expression’s main piece is Banks of the Ohio. [...]
Some days you need a pep talk from Ira Glass
I can’t remember when I first watched this, but then Della Rollins, whom I met in a grant-writing workshop, reminded me of it over coffee a month or two ago. Ira Glass on Storytelling is divided into four clips. To see them all in order, start here. I’m partial to #2, on looking for stories, [...]
Project boxes
Last December, photographer Tim Gruber wrote a post on the system he uses to organize himself, or has tried to implement – the project/idea box, inspired by choreographer Twyla Tharp’s use of, as described in her book The Creative Habit, which he quotes. My friend Henry turned me on to Twyla’s book a couple years ago, and, [...]
Notebooks + relaunched blog
First, there was a piece in the Globe and Mail under the headline “Dear Diary: an endangered species in the age of Twitter.” Then I came across Amy Baskin’s article in the May issue of More in which she analyzed her life-long relationship with her journals, stored in a plastic bin in her basement labelled “Amy’s [...]
The Course
It’s been a while since my last post, largely because the end of November and early December was a busy time, with final assignments and an intense multimedia course in Toronto the weekend of December 5 to 8. I went into “The Course” with a strong idea for a story, only to have the subjects [...]
Always an editor
It’s funny how going back to school for photojournalism has made me realize how much I like editing. But editing is no longer about ledes, copy, headlines, decks and cutlines, as per my life on the desk at the Star and on Starweek, and, several years before, at the Globe. For the past couple of weeks we [...]
Like the Energizer bunny, but with a camera
Today we had a 7:30 a.m. call, arriving at St. Mary’s Rec Centre in the Bronx around 9 to shoot a dance group Mary Ellen has photographed before. Lots of releases from the previous shoot to co-ordinate with new releases for the USA Network, which was filming Mary Ellen as she took pictures, which meant [...]
