It’s a fact too few people know: In 1961 a crippled B-52 dropped two megaton nuclear weapons on the farm community of Faro, North Carolina. I grew up a few miles from where those bombs landed and I always heard rumors about the night Wayne County was n…

Just so you don’t think Viewfinder BLUES has gone all Ken Burns on ya, here’s a modern day screen-grab of a cutting-edge journalist in action. Okay, so it’s just a random snapshot of my friend Eric daydreaming. Maybe he was pondering one of life’s grea…

Just so you don’t think Viewfinder BLUES has gone all Ken Burns on ya, here’s a modern day screen-grab of a cutting-edge journalist in action. Okay, so it’s just a random snapshot of my friend Eric daydreaming. Maybe he was pondering one of life’s grea…

Ever since television  engineers stitched together the first test pattern out of stolen horse blankets, lenslingers like me have been expected to ride side-saddle. Case in point: this extraordinary find by broadcast archivist Amanda Emily. That’s …

Ever since television  engineers stitched together the first test pattern out of stolen horse blankets, lenslingers like me have been expected to ride side-saddle. Case in point: this extraordinary find by broadcast archivist Amanda Emily. That’s …

Hey kids, what do serial killers and TV news photogs have in common? Their wardrobe, of course! That and their habit of driving around with ‘kits’ in the trunk. You know, the kind of thing everyone keeps handy: bleach, jumpsuits, a few tarps.  Hey…

Hey kids, what do serial killers and TV news photogs have in common? Their wardrobe, of course! That and their habit of driving around with ‘kits’ in the trunk. You know, the kind of thing everyone keeps handy: bleach, jumpsuits, a few tarps.  Hey…