May 24, 2016
Let’s rewind to the end of the last century. Back then, you’d find user-generated content in home videos or on community access TV. And the quality was…um…why don’t we say it was local-in-the-extreme. Sometimes you might discover a...
Feb 3, 2014
Whenever I pick up a copy of the New Yorker, the first thing I do is flip through the magazine from beginning to end to read the cartoons. All of them. Then I go back and reread the most memorable ones again. Why? Because New Yorker cartoons are as close to...
Dec 17, 2013
There are some ideas you just know will fly (or twirl). And when I hear about one of those, I always get excited imagining the possibilities. And then, if it’s really a standout idea, I get a twinge of envy, too – as in: I wish I’d thought of...
Nov 8, 2013
The photo in this post was taken at the Toronto Reference Library, arguably one of the city’s biggest repositories of words. As you can see, they’ve done their share of refocusing because when you enter, you’re greeted by banks of computers, not...
Nov 5, 2013
I hope Paul M Bowers doesn’t mind. I’ve decided to use a photo of mine for the second in his three-part series on visual storytelling. I figure if my visual mentor can provide me with words, the least I can do is reciprocate with an image. Paul is a San...
