2006
Austin
On Flickr
Enough food pictures. Back to the archives. Shot for the WaPo for a story on Katrina evacuees’ rent subsidies.
June 9, 2008
May 13, 2008
Picher Is Gone
2006
Picher, Oklahoma
On Flickr
Over the weekend a tornado wiped out what was left of the tiny, dying mining town of Picher, Oklahoma. I went there about a year and a half ago to write a story on the federal buyout of the town, which sits in the middle of a Superfund site. I can’t believe things actually got worse for those poor people. Good luck to everyone starting over out there. God knows they deserve it.
For a sense of the completeness of the devastation, see this video or this photo by Anthony Papillion on Flickr, which shows the area around the oddly shaped chat pile in the middle of the photo above, seen closer here.
February 22, 2008
Obama Through the Signs
2007
Austin
On Flickr
Some links from this past week:
1. This essay by Andrew Olmstead, published at Obsidian Wings posthumously after his death in Iraq, is pretty remarkable.
2. I’ve been interning once a week at the Rayko Photo Center since late November. When I got back from Germany I had a new boss named Audrey, and it was only this week that we both figured out we have Flickr accounts. Turns out she has some of the strangest photos I’ve seen online, but in a good way. Check those links out.
3. My friend and former Observer colleague Patrick Michels has a real nice post and photo up on the Observer blog that captures Obama’s connection with Austin.
4. Last week Matthew Yglesias linked to my ‘Obama the Cowboy’ photo, and from there it kind of took off around the internets. A list of places it’s appeared just since Super Tuesday:
‘Viva Obama!’ (at about the 1:33 mark)
It was also linked on quite a few message boards, including MetaFilter, but my favorite was Buffistas.org, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fansite.
February 21, 2008
Obama photo to appear in L.A. exhibit
“Obama the Cowboy”
2007
On Flickr
This photo from Austin last February, which has been popular lately on Flickr and Matthew Yglesias’ blog, will appear in a museum exhibition later this year. More details when I have them. Exciting stuff, either way.