Mar 302012
Last week, over a beautiful Italian dinner in a La Jolla restaurant, my girlfriend paused while raising her wine glass and said something along the lines of, “when the hell did you work with babies?” This sparked a long storytelling session in which I tried my best to recall most of my strange adult life. This conversation has been broached in the past, although I’ve never felt a close enough [...]
Mar 272012
In chronological order, this is what the last six weeks of my life would look like if I spoke only in photographs and video:
Feb 162012
Watch, I’ll do four months real fast-like: October 2011 Rufo came to visit, saw a last-minute-finish to a story I had worked long and hard on. It involved following around a guy named Matthew Akins, who at 22 years old, was already fed up by local law enforcement, and decided to do something about it. The story is here, the photos here and the video here. The end of October [...]
Sep 262011
by BBC News 26 September 2011 Last updated at 07:31 ET A few million virtual monkeys are close to re-creating the complete works of Shakespeare by randomly mashing keys on virtual typewriters. A running total of how well they are doing shows that the re-creation is 99.990% complete. The first single work to be completed was the poem A Lover’s Complaint. Set up by US programmer Jesse Anderson the project co-ordinates the [...]
Sep 222011
Apr 182011
THUNK. THUNK. I stood frozen in the middle of the room. The vacuous eye sockets of the skull adorning the eight-foot long pirate flag on the ceiling leered down at me, unsympathetic, while Zee and Joele stood by the bed, helpless. THUNK. THUNK. Steffan was raging against the plywood door with a cinderblock, trying his hardest to get inside. He was hell-bent on killing me. THUNK. I was 1,100 miles [...]
