A little NYC History…
So while looking at a new apartment; need more natural light!!. Saw one today, and on the hallway wall, this left-over from a very Earth-unconcious era. In the old days apartments just burned their trash, plane and simple. You’d throw your garbage down the shoot and into a whirlwind of flame. Now, only the brick [...]
In the Trees
So… I spent a lot of time today looking very foolish with my camera in a tree. Self-portraits from POVTREE.
Practice makes Purty
Two weeks ago it was a radical transition back to motion-picture, but on a cinema-video scale (the 5D Mk II with even a crappy mic, handled properly and photogenically, is an unprecedented creative tool), and I began to feel like the cheater to his true love — longing, guilt and a LONG time spent regaining [...]
Mandy Stadtmiller Goes to Brunch
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The Things They Carried: A Photo Essay
www.popularmechanics.com: Early in the morning of January 13th, news cameras began to roll, capturing the magnitude of the January 12th earthquake in Haiti. Little did the public know, nearly half a day earlier, senior military leadership was already huddled in an upstairs meeting room at US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), on the phone with the US [...]
Why Sean Penn Doesn’t Care About CRITICS; VIDEO and Slideshow
Sean Penn has every reason to be pissed at his critics. When I talked to him in Haiti (I was embedded with the 1st-73rd Airborne Cav, 2 Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne out at FOB Grey, in an abandoned country club – story and images here) he was tired, sweaty, in the middle of juggling several satellite phone calls as he tried to get generators down to the disaster response team down the hill. His camp was sprawling; two entire tennis courts. His room and board in Haiti? A tent, smaller than most families take to go camping. The rest of the space on the courts was reserved for humanitarian supplies he’d had flown in and was working with the Army to distribute.
PUBLISHED: Ospreys Get their Humanitarian test in Haiti
My third story for Popular Mechanics — this one on the much maligned, but very, very cool, MV-22 Osprey at work in Haiti, is up at PopularMechanics.com. USS Bataan, HAITI — An MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft launches from the flight deck of the Bataan during Operation Unified Response. The relief effort in Haiti is the [...]
PUBLISHED: Flagship in a Box
My next piece for Popular Mechanics is up! Read on to learn how the military is developing command and control units to replace to all-important flagship of yore. Lashed to the USS Bataan’s crowded hangar deck, a group of four sea containers provides complete command and control access for a commanding Naval officer. It also gives [...]
