The Return of a Dead Toy

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 […]

Where We Heading?

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 […]

The DJI Pocket Three

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 at 80

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 […]

I Have Dreamed

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 […]

The Winds of Columbus

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 […]