Over the weekend, Rosie and I went to Cranberry Pond in Sunderland at sundown to photograph the stars. That didn’t go so well, but we had a good time using a flashlight and a long exposure setting to make light art (she’s better at it than me).

The chorus of peep [...]]]>

Over the weekend, Rosie and I went to Cranberry Pond in Sunderland at sundown to photograph the stars. That didn’t go so well, but we had a good time using a flashlight and a long exposure setting to make light art (she’s better at it than me).

The chorus of peep frogs was something else, too.

Most photogs and cameramen avoid getting the other guys in the shot like it’s some kind of sin to acknowledge the presence of other outlets an an event. Me, I always like to grab a meta media moment. Wish that wire wasn’t in the Congressman’s face, though.

In other news, I guess [...]]]>

Most photogs and cameramen avoid getting the other guys in the shot like it’s some kind of sin to acknowledge the presence of other outlets an an event. Me, I always like to grab a meta media moment. Wish that wire wasn’t in the Congressman’s face, though.

In other news, I guess it’s officially election season.

Now check this out: I was old enough to know that I couldn’t eat the mud pies, and I knew I couldn’t turn the stove on, but I distinctly remember thinking, “Oh, I’ll solve those problems later.”

— Afi from Ohio, answering my question about a making a mess for [...]]]>

Now check this out: I was old enough to know that I couldn’t eat the mud pies, and I knew I couldn’t turn the stove on, but I distinctly remember thinking, “Oh, I’ll solve those problems later.”

— Afi from Ohio,
answering my question about a making a mess
for Longshot Radio.

I hope I never cease being amazed by the innate human capacity for telling stories.

I started on Wednesday by adding a question to our [...]]]> Longshot Radio — the collaborative radio project that brings together ace producers with schmucks like me and contributors the world over — returned this week to make stories about creativity and failure in and around the 99 Percent conference in New York.

I started on Wednesday by adding a question to our playlist, for folks all over to answer. It went: Tell me about a time you created a mess so big that you couldn’t clean it up yourself.

Two people answered it, including a woman from Ohio:

And one of the founders of Reddit!

I asked the question, but a crack team of radio producers edited the final pieces, which sound really great.

On Thursday, I showed up at the Times Center and got to work editing, helping Longshot producer Alex Goldmark piece together the sound he collected for his patented word games:

Finally, in the home stretch, I produced a piece featuring these answers to one of our Story Booth Chain questions:

Find more fantastic ready-made radio on the Longshot Radio tumblr.

I spent today at the 99 percent conference (no relation to Occupy Wall Street) making radio stories focused on creativity and failure with the fine folks from Radiolab and Longshot Radio (more on that later!).

One pleasant surprise was being asked to take part in a Tintype portraiture [...]]]>

I spent today at the 99 percent conference (no relation to Occupy Wall Street) making radio stories focused on creativity and failure with the fine folks from Radiolab and Longshot Radio (more on that later!).

One pleasant surprise was being asked to take part in a Tintype portraiture project by Photobooth Studios. This photo was shot on a 19th-century-style camera and developed onto a 4×5 sheet of metal. The images have a haunting, timeless feel that is just hard to describe.

Follow along with the sound coming out of the conference on our blog.

New Jersey’s governor helps a kid play hooky. From today’s town hall in Garfield.

“He was walking away from the scene and it was unknown to me what was going to happen,” he said Wednesday. “The situation needed to end then and there.”

Spent two days in a municipal courtroom for a very messy, very complicated story.

There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American.

— Jill Lepore, The New Yorker.

For the record, I don’t [...]]]>

There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American.

— Jill Lepore, The New Yorker.

For the record, I don’t own a gun, but I’ve been known to shoot shotguns at Thunder Mountain with my friends.