lost and found photos podcast

The beach

I've posted a few autobiographical audio pieces since I started this blog/podcast (what is this?).   Here is another one.  At the beginning of the summer I posted a recording of me telling my kids (and their response) how I dropped a camera in the ocean.  This is a very short recording of one of our last beach explorations.  And I have to say that this recording, years and years from now, might be / will be more precious than any photograph I've taken of my children.   Audio is so underestimated as a medium for documenting family.  Go online and check out Jay Allison's Lost and Found Sound.   

Also David Frohlich's Audiophotography should be read by all interested in photography and / or audio. HERE is a direct link to Amazon and the introduction of his book.  I love it.  "Your own house probably has its own distinctive sounds that will change according to the context in which they are heard."  Frohlich also talks about the sounds of the ocean and children playing.  I think David Frohlich would like this recording.

   

David's Subway Story

My friend David told me this story about a ride on a New York subway and an overhead conversation about meat.  When David told me this story we were in a car on the way to my house.  When we got back home I asked him to tell the story again so I could record it. He did.  I've played this story many times for my students.  Each time I think of different ways it could be used in a classroom.  There is much more going on here than meat. 

Also, if you listen to David's story, you should also check out the magazine Meat Paper.  Sasha Wizansky (the creator and editor of Meat Paper) and I met at my cousin's wedding in SF (we were both helping to photograph it). Sasha lives in SF.  At the wedding, we started talking and found out that she is good friends with Kim Indresano, a photographer who lives right up the street from us in Salem, MA.  Kim and I trade family photography sessions every year. Our kids play together.  I've also assisted Kim on photo shoots. She rocks.  See her photograpraphy HERE.

En Foco

When I talked to Lola Flash at SPE last March she gave a great plug for En Foco.  I cut the En Foco part out of conversation to play on its own.  For some reason I never posted it.  I'm posting it now.  You can hear my conversation with Lola Flash HERE.  You can hear my conversation with Miriam Romais HERE.   I'm going to PhotoExpo in New York (October) Hope to see En Foco (all of En Foco) there.  I goal is to make 20 recordings over the 3 days I'm there. 

Photo by Miriam Romais with cell phone! 

Jason Wells: Photographing the Bellagio

Jason was in charge of a team of photographers documenting the building of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.  He talks about his experience in this short conversation.  It's a great story.  I recorded this conversation in Montana.  Hear the other recording from that trip HERE.   

portrait of jason, bozeman, mt by me.

Photos on a cake

I recently interviewed Amy Terry about her use of photographs on cakes.   I asked Amy to make a cake for my parents anniversary and my father's birthday (the same day) with one of the handful of photographs from their wedding day.  The image to the left is the .jpg I emailed her.  The rest of the images .  . . the cake.   

A Listening Party for Nature in Wired Magazine

Read Article HERE.
"Scientists use many techniques to study natural habitats, but they rarely listen to nature."

My recording of bugs in Georgia.

Photobooth.net

If you haven't visited photobooth.net you should. Anything and everything about the photobooth.  They recently linked to my interview with (photoboooth) artist Daniel Minnick. Thanks photobooth.net.