Essays
The “small view” is the “big view”
For the past year or so I have been working on a project looking at crime, poverty and life in between it all in Baltimore. For the last few months I have been sort of wondering, trying to figure out the next part of the story I want to focus on and I have been [...]
Just Passing Through….
Airports…. what a facinating place, thousands of faces from all over the world passing through a single port, shooting people out in little tubes, depositing them all across the globe. A community of people in transit, stopping for brief moments between flights at the various watering holes or an empty row of seats to nap. [...]
Arbitrary Happenings?
This weeks post is a continuation with a current project, I have two I am working on at the moment, both very closely related to each other. Happenings in my life sometimes seem arbitrary to each other but when I step back I see they are always connected. I have come to believe that these are the [...]
On Que
For the past few weeks I have been spending some time with the guys at On Que Records, a local hip-hop label in here in Baltimore. I am working on a story about them and as the work develops I will post it here on the blog, giving you small cuts from my edit. In this take [...]
Change Agent:
To continue with the theme from the last post of moving ahead I put together a small essay from Monday’s MLK Day parade here in Baltimore. It was my first MLK Day parade and my first parade in Baltimore. It was evident the hope and dreams of Martin Luther King are alive and strong. The [...]