pdn and Kodak

Photo District News

pdn legends online - Masters of Photography

PhotoServe - pdn's Portfolios of the Month

pdnedu - Magazine for emerging photographers

Richard Avedon

From Avedon - the Sixties by Richard Avedon.

Photography

Pineridge Reservation, South Dakota by Michelle Vignes




Green Valley, OH by Dan Biferie

Online exhibitions at YourWall.

Dinner reading

FATHER DAUGHTER is a short story by Jim Harrison from the New Yorker.

Bob Dylan - Live 1964

Dylan's October 1964 New York Philharmonic Hall concert is being released today. Details at BobDylan.com. And a live panel discussion of its release from WFUV from the Museum of Radio and Television in New York. Check out expectingrain.com for daily updates on Bob Dylan.
Also, there's a new biography of Woody Guthrie by David Hajdu called Folk Hero reviewed in the New Yorker.



Dylan on the Verge in the NYTimes.

Bob Fox

Bob Fox is a Columbus blues musician and Literature Program Coordinator for the Ohio Arts Council. His new CD is Blues Makes Me Happy.



Ohio Arts Council exhibits at the Riffe Gallery.

Donald McCaig

I read Donald McCaig's border collie novel, Nop's Trials, when I was helping raise sheep on my dad's farm in Athens in the late 1970's. McCaig lives somewhere near Monteray, Virginia in the foothills of the Blueridge. Born in Montana, McCaig has written about the Bozeman Trail, and a Civil War novel based on slave narratives called Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War.

Read about border collies here.



Chapman Road barn near Athens, Ohio.

No Verbs?

Fox News host Shephard Smith deleting verbs for the short attention-spanned.

Alan Lomax Re-issued

Tangle Eye: A New Take on Lomax is a remix of recordings from the Alan Lomax archive which has been acquired by The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The Lomax archive is managed by the Association for Cultural Equity, founded to support, preserve, study, and disseminate folk performance traditions from around the world.



Alan Lomax - 1915-2002: an appreciation by James Hardin.

National Poetry Month

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S.Eliot - The Wasteland



The first days of spring remind me that we need to read more poems. Read about National Poetry Month at The Academy of American Poets and their Online Poetry Classroom. Bill Moyers' Fooling With Words is another good place to start, especially the links listed under Resources, or take a look here for still more Poetry Links.

Mark Twain in Elmira, NY

Today's NYTimes has a piece on the influence of Elmira, New York on Twain's life and fiction - Huck Finn's Birthplace, Along the Mighty Chemung.




Shedding writer's block - on the value of writerly solitude.



Replica of Thoreau's cabin at Walden by Bensonwood timber framers.

Read about Open Building principles.

Athens Dawn to Dusk

45701 Dawn to Dusk by Ohio University's School of Visual Communication.



Photo by Suzanne Marilyn Burkey

Film Studies

General Film Vocabulary; Film editing terminology; NYTimes review of Chicago.

Book Lists

More traditional lists of good books include the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, the ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound, or the College Board's 101 Great Books Recommended for Readers of All Ages and Great Books: The Short List. Also browse the NYTimes Bestseller Lists and the Times Book Review First Chapters. And I really like The Atlantic Magazine's Online Books page.

April is the cruelest month

The first days of spring remind me that we need to read more poems - Bill Moyers' Fooling With Words is a good place to start, especially the links listed under Resources, or take a look here for still more Poetry Links.

Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the 20s

Use primary source documentation from the U.S. Library of Congress American Memory Collection to prove evidence of a theme from The Sun Also Rises or The Great Gatsby in a social, cultural, economic or political event or phenomena of the 1920s. Specifications and dues dates at Turnitin.com. What Are Primary Sources? Artifacts, documents, oral histories, sounds and visuals that comprise a direct personal experience of a time or event. Check out these resources for using primary sources, including a Photo Analysis Guide. Look here for information on How to Cite Electronic Sources. Final draft due 3-22-04 to include: 5-7 primary sources, 7-10 citations, 1250-1500 words and MLA formatting.
Addendum: Your paper should be inquiry-driven and have a specific center of gravity. Your conclusion is more important than your hypothesis. And it would be appropriate to add multi-genre sources of information.

This is what I was reading this morning

The Los Angeles Times, Kevin Kelly, J-Walk Blog, Whole Wheat Radio, reclaimthemedia.org, f-stop images, the Burpee Seed package catalog gallery 1884 - 1893 and photoblogs.org.

Media Literacy

LEARNING FROM PICTURES is the subject of the Fall/Winter, 2002 issue of the Media Literacy Review, associated with the Center for Advanced Technology in Education at the University of Oregon's College of Education. It's a great collection of sites that offer oportunities to view and evaluate photographs, including a link to Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs and the Non-fiction Film. See also the site for San Diego MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS.

Field of Dreams

Creative Voices Online

Listen to the voices of many of the best writers of the English language at Wired for Books and Author Interviews by Don Swaim. Another place to look is the PBS American Masters series, "examining the lives, works, and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists." Here's an example - a great essay about Muddy Waters and an engaging lesson called Following Muddy's Trail.

Digital Library

It strikes me that current media "centers" follow the "old school" factory model of information access and distribution. Check out the California Digital Library or the Berkeley Digital Library from the University of California or the Internet Public Library from the comfort of your own Lazy-boy. Or try the Librarians' Index to the Internet.

Songs Inspired by Literature

Project SIBL of Artists for Literacy compiles Songs Inspired by Literature.

Kerouac and Guthrie

Both Jack Kerouac and Woody Guthrie showed up in the NYTimes today. The Bottle Rockets circa 1995 and today are said to play in Woody's shadow. March 15 Fresh Air features Sam Kashner, author of When I was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School discussing his acquaintance with Allen Ginsberg at the Naropa Institute.

Google Browsing

Google Google, Digital Libraries and E-text Resources

Harlem Renaissance

HARLEM RENAISSANCE - PBS exhibit in San Francisco explores the artistic and cultural legacies of the 1920s and 30s. The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African-American art. Check out Drop Me Off in Harlem and Rhapsodies in Black and Jean Toomer.

Funny Cartoons

One guy's idea of grocery shopping. Another's idea of a good vacation.

Lyle Lovett, the singer and songwriter

Lyle Lovett, the singer and songwriter, from The New Yorker magazine.

On Emerson

Emerson at the Atlantic Magazine and Emerson's association with John Muir at the Sierra Club John Muir Exhibit.

New Stuff

Epiphone Airscreamer electric guitar, the Trailer Park Troubadours and a couple of their hits, Trailer on the Bayou and Pawn Shop of Broken Hearts. And then there's the pawn shop Gibson we saw this afternoon at Uncle Sam's Pawn Shop in Columbus, and the twenty-eight rooms of books at the Book Loft in German Village.