Arts

Hungry For Change

I’m a life-long carb-o-holic. As a child, our house usually had home-baked cakes, cookies or pies hanging around. Homemade ice cream was a summer staple. I have always measured the holidays by what candy was my favorite for that [...]

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NEWS!

by Alexandra Wallace

There’s a reason last year that I decided to take on the challenge of making a photograph each day – it motivates you to keep practicing your craft, whether you feel like it or not in the moment. This year, with the [fifty two weeks.] project I’ve taken some photos I’m pretty happy with, but [...]

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The Photograph

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

This picture arrived in my email box the other day. When I saw it, I was struck by the emotions it conveyed. In writing this I thought about the numerous ways I could attempt to offer you the profundity I find in the photograph. However, each time I would look back at the shot, I [...]

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People I’ve Met Along The Way: Stan Kenton

by John W Strobel III

Some the earliest recollections of my childhood are of watching my dad play the banjo, saxophone and drums. He and my mother were children of the 1920’s Flapper Era but, both being musicians, they adapted to swing and the syncopated jazz big band sounds of the early thirties and forties. My dad settled on drums [...]

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Bald is Beautiful

by Shoot 4 Change

A group of American women got together with the idea of redefining the concept of beauty. Men can be blond, brown, red, white and… bald. Why not women? I photographed them in New York as they were that day and I collected their stories too. Some of them have alopecia, some have been through chemotherapy, others [...]

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The Music of Trees

by Moments Count

From Michelle Werts for American Forests As covered in the autumn issue of American Forests, tree rings tell compelling stories. Far from just revealing a tree’s age, they record natural events like volcano eruptions, the history of civilizations like the Roman and Aztec Empires and other moments in time. And, now, they make music. Yes, [...]

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Digital Afterlife

by Moments Count

From Robert A MacDonald for The Sun: Peggy was dying. She had battled cancer for years, but at the age of 45 she was losing her fight. A wife and stay-at-home mother of three children in Ventura, Peggy had caught the online bug and couldn’t stop writing about what was happening to her and the [...]

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Did David Attenborough Behave Unethically?

by Chris Palmer

Earlier this month, the Daily Mirror in Great Britain revealed that famed zoologist David Attenborough, for his 7-part television series Frozen Planet, filmed polar bears in a zoo while leading viewers to believe that the animals were filmed in the subzero Arctic wilderness. The Daily Mirror scoop led to negative publicity for the BBC, including [...]

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Red Tails – the film even George Lucas almost couldn’t make

by Thomas Norman DeWolf

George Lucas, producer director of some of the most profitable films in Hollywood history (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc), has been working on Red Tails, an action-packed, special effects-laden World War II movie for 23 years. He paid for it himself. He figured a studio would eventually come in and pay for distribution and publicity. [...]

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Why I want to be Autumn De Wilde when I grow up

by Alexandra Wallace

For the majority of early childhood, I knew who I wanted to be when I grew up: Snow White, of course. I had planned my future of adulthood to take place in an idyllic cottage, spending my afternoons singing in the middle of a forest while little birds landed on my hand. Writing it out, [...]

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