I don't know if this man was actually laid off someplace, but that was the mood as he walked his box of odds and ends down to the commuter train.

I blurred and rendered this photo a little softer (and perhaps more anonymous) for… Read full post »

How important is it to partition our lives? It's typical to have more than one social context in modern life.  This is why dumping all of my posting presense into Twitter, for example, would not work. (And why Twitter itself gives the option for back-channel one-to-one messages.) This week… Read full post »

The most famous of the original Salon.com user blogs is about to become a movie. A real movie, as in a major motion picture. Nora Ephron as director/screenwriter. Meryl Streep as Julia Child, Amy Adams as blogger Julie Powell, and not to forget the husbands, Stanley Tucci as Paul Child… Read full post »

Recently I returned from a wonderful, heart-warming, musically and culturally rich trip to New Orleans... and what am I posting in my flickrstream? Photos of empty buildings in the Lower Ninth Ward, a place that was once a poor African American neighborhood with… Read full post »

The night after Thanksgiving, Steve and I went to City Hall for the walk to the Castro District for the Harvey Milk 30th Anniversary Memorial march.

The entire tribute was moving, and at the end of the evening one of the young activists working on the event played… Read full post »

I figured this out from context, yipee! 

http://open.salon.com/showcontent.php?tag_id=18773

I want to play.  Here's mine-- is this enough resolution?  (maybe  didn't get it all from the context!)

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Walked though Union Square S.F. just as the lights were finished on the big tree

 (originally uploaded by me  on flickr as fotogail.)

Have a good holiday everybody!   

I'm not big on celebrating Christmas, but I sure love the lights… Read full post »

At emotional and intellectually rich times like these, I crave  context and honest feelings,  two of the things I love Open's sister-community,  The WELL for.  I was moved by stories we told each other last night and this morning. 

We cried.  Starting midstream,  w… Read full post »

A 30 second impressonof early voting, Sunday in San Francisco.  There is only one early vote location, City Hall.  About 300 people were in line outside the building, maybe another 100 in line inside in the hallways, at about 4:00 pm. The wait at the time… Read full post »

" Here is a photo I thought you might appreciate that I took yesterday in suburban Cincinnati while going door-to-door for the Obama campaign. All the Obama signs in the neighborhood had been stolen.  -- Jayson Wechter"

The large handmade sign says: You can steal our… Read full post »

The mighty hunter hides in the bush and contemplates pouncing.

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After i read this post i thought about how the limitless white expanse of the post box invites confession. Perhaps the poster is alone, late, setting off bravely like a cross country skiier into that white space.

It calls for epiphanies and revelations.

The idea that this is… Read full post »

Scoop Nisker, a radio commentator, author and performer, said it for years: "If you don't like the news, go out and make some news of your own." The Media Conference on The WELL cites it in its banner.

Being alive and active in the world is one thing,… Read full post »

It was in the huge grab-bag book pile, with all the multiple review copies that are shipped to Salon.  The book reviewers already had their copy.  I saw her name. Janelle was at Salon when I came aboard. I remember when she interviewed me about the AOL volunteer moderator lawsuit for… Read full post »

"Walking through the wind shadow." Very short, very simple, minimal ambient sound -- speakers not needed. (c) by me, shot with my Canon still camera, lightly edited via iMovie, uploaded to Flickr, then grabbed embed code for here.  Nothing, almost.

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(c) me

...you gonna linger here for five dollars or best offer?
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So the big April revolution was short videos for Flickr. There was a lot of controversy from photo purists at first, but...

A little art form appears to be finding its place. Tiny video clips where motion is almost like texture or… Read full post »

and those handset stickers are so naive -- the whole hivemind communications network is "tapped" doncha know!

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The arid American west is an ancient canvas for messages.

This one, someplace over Eastern California or Western Arizona (flying from San Diego to Albuquerque), could be designed to bring the big shiny ships in. Or maybe the roadmakers had an inkling that someday… Read full post »

Many avid Flickr users also have external photographer's blogs to showcase their work with other color scheme or layouts, with shopping carts for selling their work. Photo fans may want to applaud a favorite photographer with a small token of fiscal esteem rather than purchase a print, something th… Read full post »

Dear Mr. Elected Official,

Some of us -- presumably more than half of us -- voted you into office. You convinced enough of us to put you there as a public servant, subject to the same rules we follow. Remember? 

Even those of us who did… Read full post »

OK, no HBO. So it goes. Meanwhile, the Wires in my life have to do with an obscure flickr group where artists from varous countries make photographs with wire patterns in them. Oh those camera-wielding fools.  Here's one I submitted to the group:

"hi… Read full post »