Not clear why Polaroid photographs work so well with haiku-like notes, but pictures like this one raise a question…why did I ever recycle my SX-70? scarlet fields., originally uploaded by anna☆morosini. when the sun setson dark silhouettescollapse into dream From a fascinating project/circumnavigation of the Sea of Norway called Fourlines. The blog about it isContinue reading “Photographic haiku”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Why did Valero invest $5 million in Prop 23?
As part of a story I wrote a couple of weeks back on Prop 23, I looked briefly at the story from the perspective of Valero, the Texas oil company that has poured millions — five million, to be precise — into the initiative, which is intended to gut AB 32, California's Global Warming SolutionsContinue reading “Why did Valero invest $5 million in Prop 23?”
A journo’s complaint about websites
Joel Achenbach is touring college campuses with his daugher, and, no doubt, embarrassing her horribly. Here he rants memorably against a certain irritating habit of spokespeople: …journalism [is] a field in which every query directed to a potential source draws the response, "You should look at our Web site." Many a time I have toContinue reading “A journo’s complaint about websites”
Global warming: Americans don’t like to think about it
Why have I been spending so much time on culture and not climate lately? Because not only is the news discouraging, it seems American's can't handle the truth. Take a look at this recent on-line poll from Scientific American. Yes, on-line polls are driven by the self-selecting and so untrustworthy. But as a snapshot ofContinue reading “Global warming: Americans don’t like to think about it”
Every song you’ve always wanted to hear covered (here)
Searching for a reliable guide to Neil Young covers, I stumble upon a wildly popular site that tracks all rock covers ever: Cover Me. For music fans, this is not to be missed. Are you unconvinced? You want an example? Okay, how about a wonderful Wilco cover of a great song by Neil Young inContinue reading “Every song you’ve always wanted to hear covered (here)”
Buffalo Springfield again — after forty-two years
This has to be some sort of rock and roll record: Forty-two years after breaking up in acrimony and bitterness, the band known as Buffalo Springfield reunited for Neil Young's annual Bridge School Concert in Mountain View, this weekend. They headlined the seven-hour, eight-band concert, and, remarkably, lived up to the billing, outshining excellent perfsContinue reading “Buffalo Springfield again — after forty-two years”
The truth about Prop 23: get it now!
Before it's too late (latest polls look bad for the prop). My story in the VC Reporter: The money quote, from Fran Pavley, who authored AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, the legislation signed into law in California in 2006: “It’s not just that these oil companies are trying to protect their bottom line,”Continue reading “The truth about Prop 23: get it now!”
How we see the world today — through the windshield
Does this look like a photograph? It's not…it's a painting by Gregory Thielker, who this year completed a series of phenomenally accomplished from-the-front-seat paintings called Under the unminding sky. Thielker writes: These paintings beame a way to explore how driving in weather shifts and changes the views outside the car as well how the drivingContinue reading “How we see the world today — through the windshield”
Yosemite in fall, by a true lover of the park
A lovely set of photographs of the great park, from LA Timesman Mark Boster. In this one, on the cover of the Travel section yesterday, he features the park's best-known tree, a giant elm, in full fall color. Makes me think: What am I doing at home, when I could be seeing this?
Climate karma: Texas to catch hell
According to the EPA, Texas emits a far higher volume of greenhouse gases than any other state — more than 676 million tons a year. For the sake of context, that's more than many entire regions put together; more than twice as much as Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Utah combined, for instance. CaliforniaContinue reading “Climate karma: Texas to catch hell”
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