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I wouldn’t be a hockey fan (or photographer) if I hadn’t first been a football fan so this isn’t that off-topic.  Hopefully it will be repeated on a near weekly basis as Alabama rolls its way to its 13th national championship.  For now – 2-0.  I do wish if Saban were going to play almost everyone that he had put in Morgan Olgivie, Major Ogilvie’s (think cutoff jersey and Sugar Bowl victory) son, but perhaps Saban somehow knew that ESPN360 had crapped out on me and I was having to listen to the radio broadcast and he is saving Ogilvie’s debut for when I can watch it :-).  (Yes, I am a bit psycho, but not dangerously so.)   And for the record, McElroy wasn’t hurt – just the score allowed Saban to put Darrah and Jackson in AND postgame on the radio Saban seemed to be saying that McElroy is a better QB than that future serial killer John Parker Wilson was.  Woo Hoo!

Alabama does provide free computer wallpaper including this shot of Bryant Denny with 92,138 in attendance at a SPRING game – http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/alab/graphics/wallpaper/dennystadium-wallpaper-1024×768.jpg (they are going to make renovations that will put capacity over 100k).

Personally, as much as I love the Tide, my computer wallpaper will stay this – http://hockeyphotography.com/blog/2009/07/a-filler-post-but-you-have-to-love-the-image/ - until I can replace it with a shot of Matt Price or teammate doing the same thing in Detroit.

Casey Jones, the Union Scab written by Joe Hill.

Here’s a bit of Pete Seeger’s recording:

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“…Casey Jones went scabbing on the angels,
Just like he did to workers on the S. P. line.

Well the angels got together, they said it wasn’t fair
that Casey Jones to go around a-scabbing everywhere.
The Angel Union No. 23 they sure were there,
And they promptly fired Casey down the Golden Stair.

Casey Jones went to Hell a-flying;
Casey Jones, the Devil said, “Oh fine;
Casey Jones, get busy shoveling sulfur
That’s what you get for scabbing on the S.P. Line.”

Remember:  Friends don’t let friends cross picket lines.

And a bit of non-labor editorializing – The New York “Labor Day parade” is on September 12 NOT on Labor Day.  It’s been like that for quite a few years as the NYC Central Labor Council (I’ll keep that bit of editorializing to myself) gave up on competing with the West Indian Day parade in Brooklyn.   This is a big part of the reason I’m against a holiday related to September 11.   Holidays become vacation time; time to party with little thought to the reason for the holiday.  Aside from HBO running Band of Brothers marathons, how many people really honor those who died in service on Memorial Day vs. those who see it as pool/beach opening day?  Veterans Day may at least have less party competition, but that doesn’t mean many spend their time honoring those who served.     Not being  a holiday ensures more remembrance of what happened on September 11.

Can’t remember how I came across this, but thought it was beautiful (give it a minute or so).   He has several more videos on the Vimeo site, but this was the first one I saw and still my favorite.

White Box from makoto yabuki on Vimeo.

Production : TANGRAM co. ltd.

Director : Makoto Yabuki

Camera : Masashi Sasaki

Music : Takaya Murakami

PDN Pulse highlighted the end of Mary Morris Lawrence’s obituary which made me want to find out more about her “…In lieu of flowers, Mary would ask you to join the League of Women Voters, shop at Farmer Joes, write a letter to the editor, or break a glass ceiling!” 

Check out some of these links for more information about one of, if not the, first female photographers for the Associated Press:

Obituary – included an inspiring list of activities she had taken part in this, her 95th year.  

The San Francisco Chronicle also had an article on Morris Lawrence which included a photo of her from her days with the AP.

Oakland Tribune 2007 interview (note – link is to article, but not on Tribune’s site)

Oakland Tribune article re: death.  I liked this bit “…In his 1938 book, “Get That Picture!” cameraman A.J. Ezickson described her as a hard worker and a cunning “scout,” gaining access with her small RolleiFlex camera to? scenes her less enterprising colleagues (the same ones who made “sly jibes” about Morris Lawrence) were barred from by using her wits but never “feminine wiles.”…”

Found some of her images online – hopefully the usage was with her consent – Ronpendorf.com and then click next at the bottom – on the first page, I particularly like the first two images; the Orson Welles photo mentioned in one of the above links appears on page 2, the shot of Eleanor Roosevelt on page 3 adds to my wish for captions as it is not self-explanatory, Ingrid Bergman at the bottom of page 4 looks so different from the somewhat dour image in my head.

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I’ll just keep adding more links at the bottom of this post as I find them:

More info on her first marriage to photographer Ralph Steiner from a friend’s daughter Liza Cowan

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