Category Archives: Imaging America

Humza Deas Scales New Heights For “F8 and Be There”

Move over, Margaret Burke-White. There’s room on that girder for a new generation of daredevil photographers who will take any risk to get the shot. Humza Deas started climbing bridges and skyscrapers in New York City for the adrenalin rush and street creds, documenting his feats with selfies of his shoes. Think of him as a new kind of vertical flaneur, soaring rather than strolling, with a rarefied perspective on the street. Instead of Life Magazine, Instagram is his platform. Now he’s beginning to parlay social media fame into a paying gig. Continue reading






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Everybody Needs a Little B-Roll (It’s Good for the Soul)

I admit, in a past life I concocted this kind of PR phantasm… especially guys in lab coats with beakers full of DNA. Shitloads of that. Wish I’d had the brilliant idea to tell it like it is here. And a voice like Dallas McClain’s to pull it off!






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“On the Transmigration of Souls” by John Adams

I seldom look back at images of 9/11. Those tragic events are vivid enough in my memory. If you feel that way, too, then do not watch this photo montage set to an excerpt from John Adams’ haunting composition On The Transmigration of Souls. Listen, instead, to the complete piece in three parts.






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MLK 2010: Redemption Songs From John Coltrane to Johnny Cash

At the core of American music is a legacy of songs that yearn for freedom and redemption. This week’s American Routes presents a rich array of this music in its celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Here are two songs that convey the breath of that legacy, John Coltrane’s Alabama and Bob Marley’s Redemption Songs, sung here by the remarkable pairing of Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer.






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Who Was More Narcotized When Elvis Met Nixon?

[Photo source: Wikipedia] Talk about a pair to draw to! It’s hard to say who was more delusional, who more narcotized, when Elvis met Richard Mihaus Nixon at the White House on December 21, 1970. According to the National Security … Continue reading






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