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 […]
The Song “Golden” from Kpop Demon Hunters 1,191,772,887 views Jun 23, 2025 #1 top music video KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical urban fantasy film co-written and directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. The story follows a Kpop girl group, Huntrix, who lead double lives as demon hunters. They face off against a […]
“It’s all there—screentime addiction, the replacement of friends with devices, the phony sycophancy of bots … “The mood of the current moment. Many of us feel just like those abandoned toys.” Ted Gioia ___________________________________ I’ve been following the blogs of Ted Gioia on his Honest Broker substack. (Thanks to Bill from Texas for putting me […]
BEHIND THE SCENES MAKING A HISTORIC FILM One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1975 American psychological comedy-drama film directed by Milos Forman and produed by Saul Zaentz. It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution and Louise […]
