All roads lead to Missouri…

A couple of weeks ago I found out that I was selected for the 63^rd Missouri Photo Workshop. After the initial shock wore off, I gathered my self and began to plan. Pre-production. Always the first step. Budgeting, logistics, contacts, leads, resources…budgets…it never ends… I have to remember; “Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”

So this is my chance (It could be my only one). Either way it will be an adventure worth the risk and certainly the rewards. Spending a week amongst the best and brightest photographers in the country is a dream come true. I cant wait to meet my teammates.

The 63^rd Missouri photoworkshop will be held in Clinton, Missouri. The staff that will be hosting are the best in the business. Team 63, sounds like a lucky number. Then again luck is where opportunity and preparation meet.

So this is it. Here I am. On the edge of the bench, waiting for my chance to get on the field and show the team I can hack it. Just put me in the game…

Craigslist Foundation non-profit bootcamp 2011

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Career Ladders Project – Green Automotive Technology focus group

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The Career Ladders Project and ASCCA host automotive industry professionals & educators to discuss green transportation, more info:
https://sites.google.com/site/greentransportationcommp/home

Tim Hetherington has died…

I got an email this morning. It read:

“Sad News, I just got word that two amazing photographers, one a dear friend, were killed in Libya today photographing. Tim Hetherington, who came out to the school a few years ago to talk in the Library and to my class, He did still images and and did an amazing documentary Restrepo on the war in Afghanistan and the other photographer was Chris Hondros of Getty. so, so sad.”

I sat shocked for a while.

I never met Tim or Chris, but I did know their work. Tim’s work was introduced to me while I was interning at Fotovision. He donated prints to our collect…I was fortunate enough to be able to study his photographs while working. Chris’s name I admit I did not recognize. Then I saw the image from Iraq of a little girl covered in her parents blood. I remembered it. It had shocked me. It shocked me again when I realized it was his. I am sadden that I didnt know more of Chris’s work. I do now.

Below is a link film the Tim put up on his vimeo site…it is hauntingly powerful. The upside down sequences, they are how we really see things…our mind turns them right side up and makes sense of them…Tim put them upside down again…

Warning this is graphic to say the least…

Career Ladders Project – Hands Across California

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The Career Ladders Project participated in the Hand Across California rally at Laney College in Oakland, California. For more information please visit:
http://www.handsacrosscalifornia.org/

Career Ladders Project – Northern California LINKS3, Contextualized Teaching & Learning

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The Career Ladders Project works in partnership with California Community Colleges state-wide to provide educational and career advancement opportunities for Californians. We foster these opportunities through research, policy initiatives and strategic assistance to colleges and their workforce development partners.

The Career Ladders Project pursues policy initiatives and provides strategic and technical assistance to colleges and their workforce partners in building regional career pathway and bridge programs.

LINKS 3 highlighted contextualized learning strategies that benefit all students and help them successfully complete coursework. Participants also learned how these high-leverage strategies can increase the number of students completing certificates and degrees, particularly in career-technical programs.

Career Ladders Project – CCCAOE spring 2011 conference

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