The bus is part of some jarring American history but it also unexpectedly coughed up some funky modern art. I learned to shoot these naturally occurring abstracts from my colleague Jim Provencher. The patterns, coloration, and presentation are very engaging. But the location of this fractured glazing real piqued my
Just like pornography, you know it when you see it. You might just define it simply as being “off the wall” or as being “quirky odd“. I have been combining funk with the mundane in photo frames for decades. Confronted with shooting something spectacular like the Grand Canyon or the
Don’t Worry Mom, She’s Italian! Timi Yuro missed a golden chance for her career to be really spectacular. She turned down legendary composer Burt Bacharach’s offer to record WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE, in late 1962. She had already charted Number 1 a year earlier
I never made it to City Lights Book Store until the 2011honeymoon of my second marriage. The ethereal lure of San Francisco’s iconic North Beach was then powerful enough to finally coax me there. As I foraged the upstairs nooks, I felt the creative energy of those Beat geniuses
My work magnetically follows decay. The Great American Desert offers up some of the slowest, most spectacular decay in the world. Hard by the Borderline, a near ghost town hides decaying beauty. These brilliant colors fueled by a high noon winter sky offer up dramatic contrasts that could be stolen
Flaunting Free Speech In Berkley Earns Jimmy Pro An Ironic Library Ejection. Mario Savio, in his heyday, might have been highly pissed off. Berkeley, after all, offers up extensive historical DNA that supports free public expression. We landed up in the Public Library on a rainy March afternoon. We had
My Rendezvous With Jane Fonda Didn’t Work Out Jane Fonda arrived at the barricaded gate of Fort Hood, Texas with a small cadre of long haired ex-GIs fresh from a breakfast rally at the Oleo Strut. Barbarella was just beginning to make her mark as a Vietnam War
This wrecked family home is but one surviving casualty of the brutal cartel drug wars around 2010. Gunfire in town streets killed scores of innocent civilians and orphaned many children. The carnage went down on both sides of the Border. Columbus had escaped serous gun play since 1916 when revolutionary
Jimmy Pro wheeled the Jetta rental into the mud puddle pocked parking lot of Mel's Diner. It was supper time and the storm front was breaking up. The low hanging, ink jet black clouds parted. The setting sun was now revealed with its concentrated golden light spotlighting a
Foraging Smelter Town—Finding Super Fund Origins, Tom Rush, and Death. Our Jetta died when we stopped to answer the call of nature. A text to AAA yielded the prospect of a two hour wait for a mechanic. Our luncheon foray to Sunland Park, New Mexico, was placed on temporary
Forensic Foraging : Unlocking The Unseen. Most things, no matter how trite and mundane, have intrinsic beauty or interest when presented in just the proper way. This is the core premise underlying Forensic Foraging, an alternative technique for digital photography. This emerging motif employs the same throwback principles that made color
Solar Eclipse Triggers A Flashback to the Jungle War. My nightmares subsided decades ago. Loud noises and bizarre smells finally stopped putting me into a funky spin. As a social worker, I had a fool for a client but I finally dragged myself out of the Jungle War once and