Photography as Inspiration – Mira Nair – The Namesake

If it weren’t for photography, I wouldn’t be a flimmaker. Every film I make is fueled by photographs. Sometimes it is a particular image of a photographer, sometimes it is what I have learned by seeing the world through his or her eyes. Either way, photographs have always helped me crystallize the visual style of [...]

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February Rain

This warm rain in winter comes too early, With its breathy bluster promising spring, Like a kiss before its time, wet, heavy With bold promises it cannot keep. Bring Me back February’s quiet waiting, Stilled from time to time to utter silence; The city’s noise hemmed in interlacing Flakes. There will be time for the [...]

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Sonnets for Bilbo

Gandalf to Bilbo After the Council of Elrond My dear Bilbo, you know it must be so; The burden has moved on. It came to you For one purpose alone, for him to go, Full-knowing the darkness he must walk through, To cast it down into the Cracks of Doom. For you it was a [...]

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Sonnets for Frodo

It has been a long while since I have felt inspired to write anything new, which saddens me. The recent photos here do take some inspiration and creativity, yet that work is largely done by the creators (small and capital “C”) of my photographic subjects, and I, largely, merely capture and reflect their work. I [...]

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The Dassler Effect, A Retrospective

Well, this new version of The Dassler Effect has had a more promising start than I could have imagined. And yet its previous incarnation was no slouch either (it still shows up first on Google). Because it was around for longer, it has far more more photos on it than the current blog and there [...]

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Das Archiv

Well, during the transition of catapult magazine from the old to new web site, my contributor page was not working for a while because I had chosen to use a different login name than the byline I use for my photos and articles, but it is up now and I am happy to post it [...]

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“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”

Having just taught a class this morning on the nature of information on the Internet, I should not be surprised to find this, in which some of my sonnets have been put to good use to illustrate a picture. At least the surprise was pleasant, as the photographer seemed to like the sonnets enough to [...]

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Reprint: “Watching Hoosiers in the Himalayas”

My very first blog entry ever, way back on October 14th, 2004, consisted of this poem. I began with it because I think it is my best work in poetry and I wanted to start the blog with a bang. Here it is again for this new iteration of the blog, and because it is [...]

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Upon Watching “God Grew Tired of Us”

A Sonnet for the Lost Boys : A Sonnet for Me There are a thousand ways that lives are lost. The Lost Boys of Sudan have known them all. Parents, brothers, sisters, land; which loss most Crowds the emptiness, and cries out and calls Them homeward? How can I watch this then turn To chronicling [...]

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