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Asian Representations in American Cinema Developed for a Teenage Audience or Why Doesn’t Anyone Look Like Me?
In another life I spent more than a few years writing film reviews and essays of new and old, classic and infamous, good and bad films for various websites and any press outlets that would have me. Recently I had the chance to revisit my old passion when it came time to produce a research...
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I think I might like baseball… gulp!
The last couple of days I’ve been shooting a lot of high school baseball and softball games and I’m afraid I may like baseball now. I always said I didn’t like baseball because it was boring and slow and I hated sitting still and watching grown men spit and scratch and stretch and stand for...
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Feels good to be appriciated, so this is what it’s like
One of my recent posts was referenced in Columbia Journalism Review recently. I don’t really have much to say, except that it feels very good to be name dropped in an article in the premier higher education and professional journalism journal. I’ve been getting a lot of new hits recently as a result and I’m...
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We Believed all along
13 years, way too many coaches to remember (kinda fitting that Nelly is the only one that could put us back on track), too much drama, bad contracts (Mike Dunleavy? Seriously?), one monumentally disappointing first round pick (Joe Smith? Who?), one very atrocious new mascot (WTF is that thing?… No wonder fans prefer the throwback...
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Well, maybe next time…
Thanks for nothing… cold night, hair brained organization (fun crowd however), and no tickets. 13 years! I guess when we’ve got the longest running NBA playoffs drought, no one really knows how to act in the post season. *tear Plan B: 2 p.m. on Ticketmaster, no go. Tickets sold out… that morning… nothing left… online...
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Multimedia Shooter contest winners
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but someone cruel once decided that humans need sleep. If you’re like me you’re always looking for inspiration and one of the places I’ve found it was in looking over the winners of Multimedia Shooter’s first anything-goes contest held last March. There’s a couple of really...
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Light bent on itself?!
According to a report by Scientific America, researchers have developed a method of refracting light back on itself in the opposite direction than how it wants to natural bounce off a surface. What’s this mean, it’s means there’s some crazy stuff going on with the study of light and adjusant to that is the way...
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Kurt
I ran across a blurb that author Kurt Vonnegut had died. I don’t often feel moved enough to feel I have to write about someone, I did it when Ted Koppel left ABC and I did it when Gordan Parks died, but not that often. Kurt holds a special place on my bookshelf. I’ve often...
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A long overdue "yippie!"
With all the commotion in my life the past few months, I virtually forgot all about this post I’ve had in mind for a while. Things within the photojournalism department at San Jose State University are happening, the community is buzzing, the new crop of students are involved, and many of my colleges are getting...
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24 on|24 off :a documentary
“24 on|24 off” is a documentary where I shadowed the firefighters of the C-shift of Engine 2 in San Jose, Ca. My intention was to show the “family” side of life in the firehouse and rather than documenting the fires, which I saw as cliché, I wanted to go deeper into who these people were...
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The hills are cold with the sound of slush
As my friend Daniel Esch said last week, “Dude we’re in beer country.” When I woke up this (Wednesday, thanks blogger spambots… well actually Feb. 28 now, thanks life) morning I expected to see some snow on Mt. Hamilton and the hills behind my house, it wasn’t that unusual for up to an inch of...
