Hey all, here is a interview i did with henry rollins, a huge influence on me. Unfortunately, i didnt get a chance to ask more questions. So im a little bit bummed out about how it turned out. Anyway some interesting response’s none the less. I hope you enjoy it. Keep reading!
How are you? And what’s happening over your side of the world?
I just finished a lot of shows in Europe and am about to start a lot of shows in America. I have been travelling all over for several weeks and it’s been very interesting, frustrating and everything else.
You are coming to Australia soon, on your talking tour. Not to give away any secrets, but can you tell me a little about what you might want to talk about?
I will talk about a lot of the places I have been to and things happening in America with our unending bullshit.
What do you think about the Australian Government trying to filter the internet (like China do) in this country and Iran banning Google Gmail. We will have one of the highest level of filtration anywhere in the world?
I must say, I am surprised and very disappointed. I would think that Rudd would have made better decisions than to treat his people like sheep. Truly, Australia is one of the last places you would think this kind of thing would happen. I have been following it all online and the hacker crew are very inspiring.
How do you form your talks? Is there any method to the madness?
Yes, much method. I don’t want to go onstage and waste anyone’s time. I plan out what I want to say and get into it. I think some planning is the right idea; otherwise, things can go sideways.
You seem like a pretty unapologetic man, is there anything you regret saying or doing?
How are you staying fit at the moment? Do you still lift weights?
I have made many mistakes. I would rather take the beating than have regret. I train about 5 days a week with weights and cardio.
Do you listen to much music? Is so what have been listening to lately? Any Australian bands you know and like?
I have a radio show. I am always checking out bands whenever possible. I am listening to a lot of music from a thing called The Nurse With Wound List. A lot of interesting stuff that I have never heard before. I will be getting Kim Salmon’s new album when I get there as well as Rowland Howard’s last one.
My girlfriend talks about the Melbourne hardcore scene in 2002/3 and how much fun it was to go to shows with friends and have a good time. But it’s since changed; people are judged for what they wear, who they know, how long they’ve been “in the scene”, etc. where do you, if at all, think hardcore went wrong?
I think any scene falls prey to that kind of thing. It’s what happens when things get too familiar, the contempt sets in and you start commenting on clothing. I say just go to the show and have a great time, past that, it’s a little too precious to waste time on. Life is short.
As i understand it Ian MacKaye early on dabble in a zine? Did you ever work on or do your own zine?
I don’t know that about Ian. I do my own zine, all my books are nothing but overgrown zines.
Do you ever get nostalgic about early days of hardcore? The confrontation of the music (ideals) and the frontier culture you and the early hardcore bands started? Or just the unknown element to it all?
I have fond memories of the early days of the DC scene. Things were small and you knew that it was happening and it was a great thing to be a part of when being young. Youth is a great thing, knowing that you have so much life ahead of you and that so much is still to come. Holding onto that curiosity is the challenge of adulthood, I think. It has been for me.
Do you feel there is a band, from the early hardcore days, that has slipped under the radar and you feel more people should know about?
That scene has been pretty well documented. I can’t think of any band that is not on some site somewhere.
What piss’s you off lately?
My country’s inability to allow its residents to have a decent health care plan so they don’t have to live in fear of getting sick.
What do you think of Obama’s administration?
I think he walked into a bad situation. I wish he was a lot more forceful. He will never make friends with those who oppose him and he keeps trying. Meanwhile, time is wasting. He put more soldiers into Afghanistan, I don’t like that. I don’t want to be in Iraq anymore, Gitmo either. Things are not moving in the direction I want them to. That’s a lot to do with Democrats not having the spine to get things done. I think Obama could be a four year president.
I just finished watching season 2 of Sons of Anarchy. Which is an awesome show, so congratulations. How was it being a part of that? And was it difficult filming that rape scene?
It was a great thing for me. I had a great time, the cast and crew were great. The rape scene was over quickly thankfully. It was the best time I have ever had in an acting job.
Have you ever questioned your ability to control your own life? And felt helpless? If so when?
I can’t think of a situation in my life where I felt that way. I guess that would be an addiction situation or something? I have had some hard times as we all have but I handled it and am still here.
I can hardly believe I’m still in Virginia. Before I traveled, I had a week’s worth of interviews scheduled. I’ve had at least one interview every day for two weeks (excluding weekends). I was planning on heading home tomorrow, but secured another interview for Monday. I am very grateful for so many wonderful opportunities even though it has been mentally exhausting.
I’ve been very fortunate to have been housed by friends in the area. I’ve been living with three girls in their two bedroom apartment for the past two weeks. They were so amazingly hospitable and wonderful, but I felt I couldn’t possibly stay any longer. I had already extended my stay once. So, I’m kind of in limbo, staying at one place, waiting for another to open. I hate feeling like a burden, but so appreciate not having to pay for a hotel.
Interviews have gone very well! Even my informational interviewers have been open and wonderful with sharing advice and contacts in the area. Networking has landed me additional interviews. I’ve had two call back interviews and am waiting to hear results from both of those. A few of my informational interviews have even said, “I’d hire you if I had the work/money.” (Though I’m not sure how much value to put in those comments – it’s easy to say that when you don’t have the work or money…)
I was able to secure one interview through a positing I found on Craigslist.com. I haven’t used Craiglist before this trip – I’ve always thought it to be unreliable. However, I’ve learned many places post on Craiglist because it’s free.
The weather in Virginia has been cold, but I’ve only seen snow two days. There is talk of another crazy storm coming soon, so hopefully I’ll be able to slip out in clear weather and roads on my trip back home. Michigan has been getting a lot of snow this week, so it’s a good thing my trip was extended as this would not have been a good weekend for travel.
Allison and Bryan are covering episode four of the very excellent Solitary 4.0! Not only is there the usual recap, but a totally kick ass interview w/ #5 Mr. Todd Ranck. Not only does he talk about his time in the pod, but also enlightens us to his experiences in his professional game show career. On top of all that he even starts to interview Allison and Bryan!
Part 1 : Episode 4 Recap
Part 2 : Interview with #5 Todd Ranck
Part 3 : Episode 4 Ratings
Today I’m excited to interview Tarie, book reviewer and blogger extraordinaire! Tarie started the blogs Asia in the Heart, World on the mind, as well as Into the Wardrobe. Both blogs focus on multicultural literature for children and young adults, with a generosity of information about Asian writers and illustrators through book reviews and interviews. Tarie is also a staff member for Color Online, a website dedicated to empowering women writers and readers. Tarie is a grad student in Anglo-American Literature, an editor of EFL instructional material, as well as a former (and future) English teacher. She currently lives in the Philippines. Her websites are a living illustration that multicultural books know no borders!
Hi Tarie, thank you for joining us today!
Tarie: Thank you so much for having me, Nathalie. It’s great to be here at Multiculturalism Rocks! =D
Please, further develop the statements implied in the names of your blogs, and tell us what prompted you to start them.
Here is my blog story:
I started Into the Wardrobe in early 2005. Even though it was a personal blog, many of my posts were about children’s and YA books because I started reading a lot of children’s and YA books around that time. (But I didn’t know the kidlitosphere and YA blogosphere even existed!) I named my blog Into the Wardrobe because a book takes us to a different world, just like the magical wardrobe in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe took the Pevensie siblings to Narnia. I love traveling to different worlds by reading books and The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis are some of my favorites.
In late 2007, I received an email from an author in the UK asking if I was interested in reading and reviewing her YA fantasy novel for my blog. I was really bemused. I thought, “How does this author know about me and my blog? Why is she sending me her novel and wow, she cares about what I will think of it???” I said yes to the author because I love fantasy novels for young readers and because reading and reviewing a book for my blog was a new and exciting thing to do.
Then the personal assistant of an author in the US contacted me about reviewing a picture book. A YA fantasy author, also in the US, invited me to be part of her blog tour. I had a lot of fun reviewing books and participating in a blog tour. I also discovered that there was an entire community of people blogging passionately and seriously about children’s and YA books. I discovered blogs like A Fuse #8 Production, Chicken Spaghetti, and Big a Little a and was so inspired by them that I decided to blog passionately and seriously about children’s and YA books too!
In 2008, I started searching for a blog just on Asian children’s and YA books. I couldn’t find one and told myself that I would wait until such a blog was created and fully support it. In 2009, I discovered and was inspired by Color Online and Reading In Color, but there was still no similar blog for Asian children’s and YA books. Of course there are many, many blogs that feature Asian books, authors, and illustrators. But I couldn’t find one that was WHOLLY devoted to Asian children’s and YA books. And I was looking for an international blog. I wanted to read interviews of Filipino and Filipino American children’s book authors. I wanted to read reviews of YA books by Japanese and Japanese Canadian authors. I wanted to see the work of Chinese illustrators from Sydney and Melbourne, not just from Hong Kong and Taipei. I was interested in Indian kid characters in India and Indian kid characters in the UK. I was interested in Persian teen characters in Tehran and Persian teen characters in Paris.
So I started Asia in the Heart, World on the Mind in 2009 because I wanted to celebrate, share, and promote Asian children’s and YA books, authors, and illustrators from around the world. I love my Asian heritage and Asian cultures and I love children’s and YA books. My second blog allows me to combine those loves.
I started Asia in the Heart, World on the Mind because it was needed.
If a Djinn were to appear and tell you he would grant any wish regarding Asia in the heart, World on the Mind and Into the Wardrobe, what would you ask? (note: this is a twisted way to ask you what you wish to accomplish through your blogs, lol)
I would wish that both my blogs would inform, entertain, and inspire readers. And I would wish (I get more than one wish, right? =D) that Asia in the Heart, World on the Mind would become an invaluable resource and help the development and visibility of Asian children’s and YA books around the world.
May your wishes be granted, though if you ask me you’re well on your way to experience them. As a member of Color Online, what are your functions?
For Color Online, I can contribute any reviews of books by women writers of color and interviews of women writers of color. The books can be for children, teens, or adults, but I try to focus on books for children.
This is a strange question, but I need to ask. In America multicultural books are not considered mainstream. Is this the case in Asia, meaning from your experience would a teen in the Philippines easily pick up a MG or YA book with characters from a culture other than his? Hispanic for example ?
A young reader in the Philippines would easily pick up a book from another country, especially books from the U.S., the U.K., and Japan! I think that in some ways Filipinos are open to other cultures. This is partly because of our history (we have been under the Spanish, American, and Japanese governments), partly because of the Filipino diaspora, and partly because geographically the Philippines is at a global crossroad.
Now the problem is that a young reader in the Philippines would not easily pick up a book from his own country. This is mostly because there aren’t a lot of Philippine books to choose from. Philippine picture books are going strong, but there aren’t a lot of Philippine middle grade and YA books – yet. We’re working on it! =D
I look forward to MG and YA Filipino books! What is the latest book that made you cry?
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. It is just so beautiful, moving, enlightening, and inspiring.
And laugh?
The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer.
I knock on your door one evening, in the middle of a life crisis, an unprecedented emergency: I have nothing to read! Without skipping a beat, you slap a book in my hand. What’s its title? (And why that one)
Ha! If you knock on my door, that means you are in the Philippines. I would give you Naku, Nakuu, Nakuuu! written by Nanoy Rafael and illustrated by Sergio Bumatay III. You’d have to spent the night of course. Naku, Nakuu, Nakuuu! is a touching story about a boy who is about to become a big brother. We would oooh and aaah over the playful and surreal illustrations. I would explain to you the Filipino words and details in the illustrations. And we’d eat all the dried mangoes and durian candy in the refrigerator!
I am so coming to visit you, now! Which Filipino children’s book author would you recommend?
Candy Gourlay! She has a fresh voice and a wonderful combination of Filipino humor and British dry wit. Everyone should watch out for her debut novel for young readers, Tall Story. Tall Story is set in the Philippines and in the U.K. It’s out in the U.K. and in the Philippines this year, and next year in the U.S. Note from MR: Amazon.com lists the release date of Tall Story as May 27, 2010, so the book might be available online at that date as well.
And regarding a Filipino picture book?
Check out Naku, Nakuu, Nakuuu! written by Nanoy Rafael and illustrated by Sergio Bumatay III.
Favorite Asian MG and YA?
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. Note from MR: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is the winner of the Newbery Honor. Don’t miss a chance to read it!
Tarie, thank you so much for your time and for sharing your knowledge with us. I look forward to your reviews and author/illustrator interviews on your blog. Thank you for highlighting multicultural books and their authors!
Nathalie, thank you for making multicultural children’s books so much fun through your blog!
For more information about Tarie and her blogs, visit
o Asia in the heart, World on my Mind
o Into the Wardrobe
o Tarie’s Review Policy
o Color Online
o Follow Tarie on Twitter
o To contact Tarie: asiaintheheart@yahoo.com
Paul D. Van Hoy II, an MFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology, is a professional photographer who won the Grand Prize in the Microsoft Future Pro Photographer Competition in 2007. A wedding photography specialist, he co-founded Wedding Photography Workshop, a web portal where he shares his expertise in the field of wedding photography to new and veteran photographers for them to improve their businesses.
His work has been featured in numerous high-profile publications including Brides and Bridal Magazine, Wedding Style, PDN, Digital Photo Pro, and Professional Photographer, just to name a few, and has worked for several well-known clients such as Forbes, Fossil Inc., Food & Wine Magazine, and Adidas. Paul was very kind to discuss with me about his entry in the competition, his work and his thought on some issues on photography. Starting with his winning entry Apocalypse.
I’m curious if that is rain or a spray of water from something else. What was happening when this photo was made?
The photo ‘apocalyptic summer’ was an image made in Rochester near the end of summer in 2006. While driving around in the city I observed a group of young children playing in a fire hydrant. Initially, I was ambivalent about pursuing a subject matter that has been so heavily exploited by others, so I challenged myself to represent this scene in a way that replaced cliche with intrigue.
Instead of contributing to the continuation of this subject’s sentimental posterity, I, chose to subtract and isolate the subject from its context/environment and make my image at an awkward moment of digression. The retreating gesture of the child combined with the sublime beauty and chaos of a scene abstracted by its stillness portends or implies rather, a consequential peril and undermines the playfulness otherwise, classically, associated with photographs of children playing in the rain or beneath the misty canopy of a geysering fire hydrant.
Do you still remember your first interaction with a camera?
I grew up poor. I was a free lunch kid and part of the ‘Coat-A-Kid’ program that provided low-income families with clothes for the winter months. Weekends were usually spent with my mother, scouting out rummage sales and sifting through other’s orphaned possessions. My first camera was the Polaroid One-Step. I was six years old at the time, and discovered the camera near the bottom of an antique latch-trunk filled with old issues of TIME magazine and vintage cookbooks. Rarely did my mother splurge on items that weren’t rudimentary, i.e. clothes, shoes, school supplies. It was a memorable occasion marked by exception; one that stayed with me for sentimental and nostalgic reasons but now one that stands distinct as a pivotal point in the development of who I am today. We couldn’t afford film for the camera, so I was content with just framing scenes and subjects and activating the flash.
Tell us how you established your first photography business when you were only 16.
I wasn’t like most other children who wanted to be presidents, police officers, or super heroes; I wanted to be a photographer. I started working at the age of 13. I mowed lawns, bussed tables at a local diner, and did telemarketing for the Indiana State Police Alliance on the weekends; by the time I was 16 I had saved a substantial amount of money. Some people chance their money in the stock market or gamble it away at a casino, I chose to bet on myself. I bought a Nikon F5, an assortment of 2.8 lenses, a portable lighting kit, and a few ad spots in a few regional bridal magazines. My age was a bit of an impediment; as it called into question my experience and competency. However, the challenges it presented me with only hastened the rate at which I excelled and outperformed my competitors. In order to win the favor of brides I had to be better than the best, and that’s precisely where I put all of my focus and energy. That ethic and awareness has never left me.
Running your own wedding photography business, what do you find most challenging about being in this industry?
Being a professional wedding photographer is more than just a full time job; it is, essentially, a lifestyle. Our job description encompasses many roles, from being our own business’s CEO, Marketing and Advertising Specialist, Accountant, Public Relations Officer, Consultant, Customer Service Rep, Art Director, Graphic Designer, Digital Archivist, Webmaster, to Shipping Clerk. For anyone seeking to have a career in professional wedding photography, they better be ready to sweat and bleed for it because this is a highly competitive industry. The biggest challenge is not only getting to the top – it’s being able to maintain that position once you get there.
When doing photojournalism and I suppose wedding photography as well, do you prefer your subjects to be posed or unposed?
I’m a subscriber to Judith Butler’s ideas on ‘performativity’; the concept that we are all performing the conventions of ‘reality’ i.e. gender, race, class, etc. at all times – so philosophically speaking there is no difference to me between a posed and an unposed subject. Unless you’ve mastered the art of invisibility – subjects are always camera conscious and subsequently self-aware. However, to more directly answer your question, I prefer making images of my subjects that appear to be unposed or ‘candid’.
How has the PPA membership from the award’s prize enhanced your career?
I was actually a member long before winning the Microsoft award, and have absolutely nothing but great things to say about the PPA – anyone who is even the slightest bit interested in professional photography stands to benefit tremendously from the wealth of resources the PPA offers.
A lot of your gallery images have reduced saturation. What part does color (or lack thereof) play in an image’s emotional appeal or artistic expression?
We revere black and white images as being more voracious medium than color since the first photographs made were monochromatic. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the Pete Turner’s work strikes me as dishonest or inauthentic in any way. However, black and white possesses a poignancy that harkens to a history of contrived actualization. Simply put, photography has unequivocally determined and defined us and our ‘reality’ – this began not with color imagery, but with black and white.
Personally, I was never really interested in color. I dream in black in white, which I found out isn’t all that rare or unusual. Black and white, resolves the distraction that color creates for me. I am most interested in shape and form and black and white allows me to meditate on these basic, but yet defining attributes.
If there is a common theme or message among your photographs, what would be it?
Making images is a very peculiar thing. As image-makers we re-present something already present in the world. We don’t take (as in taking photographs) we replace and re-present what already is. What we do is completely irrational when you stop to think about it. I consider myself an existentialist whose intentionality as an artist is fraught with contradiction. I hold firmly to the belief that man creates his own purpose and that meaning is owed entirely to construction —it is an arbitrary advent of consciousness.
The contradiction begins with having any intention/s if, in fact, it is my belief that all intellectual contributions are, in fact, equally arbitrary and meaningless. This is not an attempt to obfuscate my motives or evade the apprehension of my audience. I find myself equally perplexed and confined within the shrinking space of my own incredulity.
I am beset with beliefs that undermine my artistic passions and impulses. I attempt to make sense while all the while I am mocking sense-making. I use a constructed system of language and meaning to apprehend an existence that is entirely owed to construction. The cycle of contradiction is endless. My work for example, is never conceived for the purpose of telling my audience anything at all. The intention of my work is not to wipe away obscurity but to contribute to it.
What new and upcoming technologies in photography (e.g. camera equipment, digital workflow, etc) excite you the most?
I absolutely love digital photography, as it allows me to capture images almost as quickly as I can discern or conjure them. I’m obsessive and carnivorous when it comes to image consumption and image conceptualization; every word, sound, taste, color, scent, and remembrance exists as an image to me – without images I would be unable to speak or ascertain meaning at all. Image is my consciousness.
The new technologies that are most exciting and impressive to me are the advancements camera manufactures are making with image sensors and the incredible reduction in noise at expanded ISO’s. With acceptable ISO’s reaching 102,400, we’re suddenly seeing an aesthetic within photography that more closely resembles how the human eye sees.
Do you still work with film nowadays? Anything about film photography that you miss with digital?
I used to be a staunch formalist who mixed my own chemistry and slaved in the darkroom until my pupils practically popped – there was no question about it, I was totally enraptured with film. It’s been seven years now since I last exposed a piece of film, and I hadn’t even thought about film until I read this question. I can’t say that I’m sentimental about film, not one bit.
Have you considered exploring other forms of art medium like videography?
Before I completely turned myself over to photography I was an illustrator, I loved to draw. However, I couldn’t create images as quickly as they came to me so I switched to photography to satisfy my need for instant gratification. I love motion picture – I own over 2k movie titles and watch at least one movie every day. I can’t stand television however. Movies provide a lot of inspiration for many of the still images I make, but I’m not at all interested in making films. My memories, attachments, and association are all embedded in frozen moments of time, not linear motion. Even while I’m watching a film, I make photographs of what’s moving in front of me.
Do you think documentary photography and fine art photography are mutually exclusive?
No, to me there is absolutely no difference – every photograph ‘documents’ and I have yet to behold a photograph that possesses any scintilla of objectivity.
The discipline of photojournalism is a process of indoctrination. The photojournalist, if formally educated, is taught to believe that news can be reported without bias, as ‘objectivity’ and detachment are the photojournalist’s core values. Subjectivity is entirely antithetical to the aims of the photojournalist, because, for the photojournalist, news is not subjective nor should it be. Those who are fundamentalists and purists vehemently believe that a single photograph or series of photographs can represent the objective and unadulterated truth.
However, since the advent of digital photography, the genre of photojournalism has been in crisis, as the role of the photojournalist has been co-opted by every civilian in possession of a camera phone and an alert sense of interest. Digital photography has, no doubt, revolutionized the way we see, record, and report news, but it has also helped further blur the lines of distinction between, art, advertising, editorial photography, photojournalism, and even the pedestrian photograph.
I have many dear friends who work as photojournalists and, for a brief stint, I worked as a photojournalist as well. I certainly took great pleasure in challenging my friends and colleagues about their beliefs, but reserved, for my own beliefs, a degree of scrutiny from which they were spared. I have always been, and still remain, most critical of my own ideas and beliefs, which accounts for my fascination with photographers who fail or refuse to question their beliefs with regard to their medium.
One particular conversation I’ll share with you took place between a co-worker and myself while hovering over a light table at a daily paper in central Illinois. I said to my workmate, “If the objective of photojournalism is to tell the absolute ‘truth’… then why do we make images with cameras that observe and record monocularly?
I mean after all… (unless you’re a Cyclops) don’t most of us see the world with two eyes?” Additionally, I said, “We should stop shooting monochromatic film, unless our readership is predominantly color blind. And, oh yeah, we should probably sell our wide angles and telephotos and shoot exclusively with 60mm lenses?” (the focal length that most closely resembles the human perspective). The list could go on and on, but you get the point…
As successful as you are now, what is the next level that you are aiming to achieve?
I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately. Last year I signed a publishing agreement with Amherst Media and will be releasing my first book on wedding photography this fall. Additionally, my close friend, and now business partner, Brady Dillsworth, and I have just recently launched a free online resource and sharing community catering specifically to wedding photographers. Wedding Photography Workshop (WPW) www.weddingphotographyworkshop.com was created with the needs and interests of aspiring professional wedding photographers in mind. It is, in my opinion, the most comprehensive and relevant online resource for those new to or already established in this profession.
Beyond my professional endeavors, I would like to get back to what I love most, creating art. Graduate school was a cruel tease; two years of immersion and total freedom and privilege to play with pictures and words day in and day out. Well, now I’ve got to pay the tab, so that means putting all of my energy and present focus on commercial work and abandoning ‘art’ for the time being. Ideally, I would love to have a career as an artist, but the reality of that hasn’t yet and may never be realized. The reality is that people would rather buy my wedding photographs rather than my art.
End of interview
Thanks Paul for sharing your thoughts and your time here! I’m sure readers will appreciate the story about your winning photography and the photography knowledge you have shared here.
Paul’s story - his other works
Coney Island Alchemist
This may sound funny coming from me, but…
this image, for me, is very spiritual… It’s as if the woman in the paper-bag colored coat is summonsing a celestial force – an inversion of the genie in the bottle myth, if you will. To me, she is not the product of theories; ‘big bang’ or biology.
Rather, she is the punctum of all creation…and with each gesture of her arm outstretched, birds and boardwalk pour from her wind rippled cuff. I like to imagine that her bag possesses magical powers, not unlike mary-poppins when she pulled the most inconceivable items from her purse.
And, like a weight used to keep important papers from scattering in a wind, her stance and gate are solid and absolute. To her right, further down on the boardwalk, a once patriotically painted trash receptacle stands faded and anchored in the illusion of this accidental allegory. This image reminds me that god (the god concept) is real, but no less a construct than man himself.
the view
I suppose with the parking lot photo (which was shot through the glass window of my hotel room) I was confronting the symmetry and banality of a life without a view – the constancy of yellow lines indicating the ‘parked’ status of something stationary… I was full of
fear and sorrow, self-loathing and loss. To me, the photo was about construction and complacency – about the way we build walls…
Unremarkable walls, walls that could easily be destroyed or scaled, and how we literally park ourselves outside of those walls (most, for the entirety of our lives) gazing at obstruction as if it were a scenic view or vista, some sight to behold, something sublime. But, the only thing sublime in the view is the lack thereof, the imposition of our own confinement, self-incarceration…
You can learn more about Paul at Wedding Photography Workshop.
The land mark Smart Studios is closing here in Madison. Wendy Schneider is under way with her project highlighting the journey of the iconic studio and it’s historic musical contributions here in Madison.
The good sister wishes Ms Schneider all the energy and insight in putting this profoundly important documentary together.
For the benefit of new readers, I posted the following in 2008. They may be helpful if you are preparing questions to ask a company during an interview.
Today I’m excited to interview Tarie, book reviewer and blogger extraordinaire! Tarie started the blogs Asia in the Heart, World on the mind, as well as Into the Wardrobe. Both blogs focus on multicultural literature for children and young adults, with a generosity of information about Asian writers and illustrators through book reviews and interviews. Tarie is also a staff member for Color Online, a website dedicated to empowering women writers and readers. Tarie is a grad student in Anglo-American Literature, an editor of EFL instructional material, as well as a former (and future) English teacher. She currently lives in the Philippines. Her websites are a living illustration that multicultural books know no borders!
Which Filipino children’s book author would you recommend?
The land mark Smart Studios is closing here in Madison. Wendy Schneider is under way with her project highlighting the journey of the iconic studio and it’s historic musical contributions here in Madison.