Guitars make great weapons

This puppy is too good to pass up. It combines some of my favorite things — rage, humor, guitars and viral video — to fight back against the corporate impassivity of United Airlines.

A world made of people: The new Prius spot

The sheer wonderfulness of the world created for the new Prius “Harmony” commercial is astonishing. With television advertisers fighting an uphill battle for our attention as we TiVo past their expensive promotions, its things like this that will stop viewers in their tracks. How can you not slow to do see what’s going on here [...]

Pete Seeger and Friends

I get a lot of photographers’ promotional emails. And I mean a lot. So when one of them breaks through the clutter – and my tendency to glance and delete — it seems worth sharing.
C. Taylor Crothers was lucky enough to shoot Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden. Man, would I have [...]

Altered Aussie reality

Keith Loutit won’t let people embed his videos in their blogs. I understand, but it’s worth the extra click-through to see this lovely little stop-motion film, Bathtub IV.
It looks like he shot live action as stop-motion, using tilt shift selective focus to make it look like a tiny miniature. It’s the opposite of how you’d [...]

Live Concerts from NPR

Sometimes, you just gotta tell the world about something cool. Did you know you can download podcasts of live performances by people like Tom Waits, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, Neko Case, Doc Watson…the list is amazing. These are long (Waits’ goes on for over two hours) and free.
Here’s the iTunes link. Go get ‘em!