Jesse Collins, and then some.

Poring over some newsfeeds this morning, I followed a link to the first video to be released from Guantonomo. Without thinking, I stumbled upon a scenario that took my breath away, and after a few frames of watching a weeping 16-year-old, my shaking hand stopped the images.
It hung over me like a damp blanket. I […]

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Joshua Davis in Wired Magazine recounts this incredible saga, High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace.
The drama inherent in trying to save a ship that has nearly capsized in the North Pacific is gripping, mostly because of the exotic cast of characters that populate it. From Captain Rich […]

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A carpenter at the TVA’s new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tennessee.
This photograph is gorgeous. He’s wearing the type of skull bucket that I want to create as the iconographic style for Moxy […]

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If like me, you get a kick out of old photography and ephemera—the thrill of looking through a window into the not-so-distant past—then you’ll share my excitement about the American Library of Congress/Flickr pilot project.
To set the scene, the Library of Congress is the national library of the United States, located in Washington, D.C.; […]

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