Detroit: A Reluctant Renaissance

Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under Detroit, Photography, Misc. | Leave a Comment

“Hey dear…where shall we go on vacation?”
“Honeybun, how about Detroit?”
It is not exactly my typical project, but I am working under a grant on a Ken Burns-style documentary on how homeless people, addicts and others who slipped through the cracks, have taken back their lives. What better place to do this than Detroit, which itself […]

NanoBeat: What Would Kerouac Think?

Posted on June 19, 2007 - Filed Under California, Culture, Tech & Science, Video, Misc. | Leave a Comment

When I was much younger than now, my image of a beatnik was the bongo-playing Maynard G. Krebs, a 1950s TV sitcom character who went apoplectic at the mere utterance of the word “work.” To my parents, beatniks were lazy, laughable bums who didn’t understand that life was all about battling crabgrass […]