Song of Haiti

I think the good multimedia projects stay in your thoughts long after you've viewed them. That's certainly been the case with this one. Hope you enjoy this one from the New York Times.

Dawes TV Debut

Ice Racing

I found this great piece on ice racing in New England from the New York Times in their Lens blog. Great story, it pulled me right in and had me cheering.

The Sandpit

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.

Original Music: composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong.

Please view in HD and full screen for best effect. For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and workflow, please see here: http://bit.ly/aFmaPZ

In An Instant

Lens: From the Archive: Instant but Timeless
Hundreds of photographic works collected by Edwin H. Land of Polaroid are to be auctioned by Sotheby's, Carol Vogel reports.

The Blues

From David Dye's "World Cafe" from WXPN.
Guests: The Swell Season, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irgolva, podcast released 1/4/10. Partial transcript of the interview with Glen Hansard speaking.

..."And when I read the poem, the reoccuring line in the poem is "because the poet makes grief beautiful". And the idea is that by singing, you sing your sorrow into gold. And his whole idea is that when we dig into ourselves, we speak about the sadness and we speak about the stuff that is kinda ugly and dark in ourselves and we speak about the shadow places, that there is and alchemy in the expression. There's an alchemy and it turns into good stuff."
"The idea that you're in a bar and listening to the guy singing in the corner saying "I've lost my girl. I don't know where I'm going to sleep tonight. My job is ending in a week." We're sitting there drinking beer cheering him on because somehow we're connecting with him on a very fundamental level. The blues. For some reason when people express the blues, we enjoy it. And it's about honesty. Because when you are honest that when the transformation can happen. If you're lying and you're just putting pretty words together then, generally speaking, no magic is allowed through."