3rd Countess of Salisbury Lacock Abbey / Founded in 1229 by Ela, Countess of Salisbury – A Nunnery of the Augustinian Order _______________ (Note: Scroll to bottom and tap play Medieval music before reading) At age 9, her uncle had her kidnapped and locked in a foreign fortress to steal her inheritance. A knight found […]
Miles Davis / In A Silent Way _________________________ It was the early year of Covid and Steph and I had been living in New Albany, Ohio for five years since moving back here from California. Both of us had been bouncing back and forth between Ohio and California all our lives. I had just purchased […]
Video for Cecile Savant’s Oh Snap! (2025) “I can totally relate to these lyrics. I heard this on the local radio and put this on my huge YouTube playlist, haven’t heard this in a couple months. I’m studying math right now, cramming two weeks into 24 hrs. This came on the shuffle, and my mouth […]
My DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone / April 2020 / The Beginning of Covid “and those two small sensors on the front of the drone: like two small black eyes” Red Clay / Freddie Hubbard _________________________________ So good to get the Mavic up and running again. But hard not to compare this “toy” revival to […]
Early Morning, East of Versailles, Ohio / Photo by Richard Yost – Editing by John Fraim Reborn / Colin Stetson (From the movie Hereditary) _____________________________ John Fraim What could be more iconic than American railroad tracks. The tracks above fade into the eastern horizon. Towards Columbus, Ohio where my friend Rich took this photo while […]
A Revolution in New Media? We’re All Hollywood Stars … Or at least, decent cinematographers. Beautiful 4K Video Instantly In A Silent Way / Miles Davis _________________________ One of my grand memories is my Los Angeles childhood is my father taking movies of our family at all those special events of a year. He had […]
Joni Mitchell at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival / Both Sides Now “I’ve looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It’s life’s illusions I recallI really don’t know life at all.” Roberta Joan Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of […]
Carly Simon and Harry Conick, Jr. / I Have Dreamed Gorgeous pieces of music come back into our lives through many ways. In this case, it was my habit of listening to late night radio of Coast to Coast AM. Here, the bumper music for a segment a few nights ago I had to track […]
Miles Davis / In A Silent Way Photo by Richard Yost/Editing by John Fraim _______________________________ John Fraim The normal winters in Columbus, Ohio are usually tame creatures without much animation to them. Columbus is rated high on the chart of cloudy days a year. Meaning, days that have all the drama to them of “being […]
