Eliane Elias / “Too Late” from her Time & Again album (2024) Columbus is a great city in many ways but not for the national or international jazz scene. I’ve been bouncing back between my home state of California and Ohio most of my life. I lived in the Bay Area for 15 years and […]

IS GREENLAND PART OF THIS WAR? Northern Lights of Greenland Ponta de Areia / Wayne Shorter ___________________ Today, global technology and the digital media and medium of our time depend more and more on rare earth minerals. Rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metalsor rare earths, and sometimes lanthanoids. Although scandium and yttrium, which do not belong […]

“The End” / The Doors (1979) Introduction music to Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now _______________________________________ As someone who was born and grew up in LA, the above music and image express my feelings now. Apocalyptic. My oldest childhood friend’s family lived in Pacific Palisades. I had many friends from there. Now, many of their […]

AN ENIGMATIC PHOTO TAKEN 12 YEARS AGO IS BROUGHT BACK TO ATTENTION … “Marilyn Through Glass” / Palm Desert, CA 2012 “What’s New” / Linda Rondsttadt ___________________________________ The sun was good the afternoon I drove over to the old area of Palm Desert to take some photos. A haze from the streaks across the sky […]

NEW FILM TECHNOLOGY OF CAMERA MOVEMENT TARGETING A NICHE That Old Black Magic _________________________________ Maybe ten years ago, I bought a cool little filmmaking device. It was an electronic film dolly that could hold the weight of a small camera. It could act like a real (life size) dolly in providing smooth movement through the […]