NIGHT MOVES and LIFE FILES

   Everything changes after dark. Streets have a different rhythm. Life takes on a night beat. Mystery looms. 

 

 stocking stuffers for melania

a new fillet knife

the lorena bobbit story

a get out of jail card

stocking stuffer for donald

a muzzle

life moves

     Summer and fall were devoted to organizing decades of work and preparing them for curation at the Indiana Historical Society and the Digital Repository at Bracken Library at Ball State University.

       Digital tapes of now historic episodes of life that were the substance of a life in broadcast journalism. Journalism is called the first draft of history. Melancholy is a companion of sorting through the stuff of a life. 

       Now collections management experts and archivists will handle a body of work and I trust historians, researchers and writers will find trailings of a time and culture and moments that once were important, or so they seemed. History rules when it comes to perspective.

       The bulk of the work has been sent. I have a few files, copy, research, clippings that I tarry over now and soon they too will take wing to find a home with other old stuff, for use again, in the future.

      See you down the trail.

NIGHT MOVES & THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO JON

Noir

    A challenge to photographers, night images have a special appeal. There is a delicate balance to achieve in light value to capture a genuine mood and night shots are full of mood. In the frame above I like the way the light from the street lamp pools while the clouds, house lights and trees hold their own value.

    Night images hold mystery. I was first fascinated with light values in the darkness when I delivered a morning newspaper route in my teens. From a sidewalk or street an illuminated room shines as though a stage.

   Shadow play is fascinating. Capturing an image, offering detail, architecture and shadow is another balancing act. Here we see the multiple textures of the tree, the brick weave, the feature of the fountain, block in the wall and still capture the shadows.

   Night scenes around water offer textured views.

JON THE BEARER

     Pundit, social critic, wit and bright guy Jon Stewart's comments to David Axlerod at the University of Chicago are some of the truest words of the 2016 campaign.

      He told the former Obama political wiz the Democrats and the Obama administration are responsible for what he called the man-baby of Donald Trump. Stewart said their inability to show the American voter an efficient and effective government helped pave the way for what he said was an "ass hole like Donald Trump" whom he also called a demagogue.

     His toughest words for Hillary Clinton have people either ready to take off his head or nodding in approval.

     "What do I think about Hillary Clinton is, you know...I imagine her to be a very bright woman without the courage of her convictions."

      Stewart challenged Clinton to be "authentic" and genuine and to show if "there is a real person underneath."  He said her campaign and communication style reminded him of Magic Johnson's attempt to be a talk show host. It was too much of an act and not real.

       I wonder how many others miss Stewart's nightly presence and the insight of his rapier wit?

       See you down the trail