Several months ago I was in a coffee shop catching up with one of A Life’s Work’s cinematographers, Wolfgang Held. I snapped this photo of this painting — I put it on my computer’s desktop. I looked at it everyday. I … Continued
Not surprisingly, I like cameras. Here’s a photo of me from a time before I can remember. Maybe it has something to do this: That’s a charm bracelet that used to dangle from my mother’s wrist and one of my … Continued
Bob Marovich, writer, creator of The Black Gospel blog, host of “Gospel Memories” Radio Show on WLUW Chicago, and friend of A Life’s Work has graciously allowed me to poach a list of gospel Christmas songs he compiled for TBGB. Thanks, Bob. If … Continued
Thanks to everyone who had anything to do with A Life’s Work and my other cinematic and/or literary endeavors in 2013. If you’re not thanked here, it’s very possible you were thanked in 2012, or 2011, or 2010, or 2009. Barbara … Continued
… that this time of year you get mail from all sorts of organizations asking you to make donations? It’s a tax thing. I think the reasoning is you, the recipient of that pleading email or letter, are flush with … Continued
Today’s guest post is by William Swearson. I met Will when cinematographer Tom Harting and I were following Jill Tarter around the Allen Telescope Array in the summer of 2008. I chose the dates we filmed because Jill would be … Continued
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help … Continued
I met essayist Randon Billings Noble at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. As I remember it, all of our conversations were either about music (she studied classical violin and plays piano) or “nonfiction.” That’s how it is at … Continued
In a post last month (Nothing Lasts Forever) I reported that a film I made a million years, Tango Octogenario, was suddenly no longer online. I saw it as proof that even in the digital realm, despite all our efforts, … Continued
I’ve been listening to WFMU, an eclectic radio station broadcast out of Jersey City, NJ, for many, many years. Two shows have been especially influential. The first, when I was in my early twenties, were broadcasts of Alan Watts lectures. … Continued