Adventures of Isabel

This mural, on 24th St in San Francisco’s Mission district, is one I’ve often noticed and liked. Painted by the group Homey (Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth) it unfolds across 117 feet of concrete, showing people challenging the barriers –cultural, societal and physical — that oppress and divide them. But I never really [...]

I went to the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival this afternoon. It was a nice escape from the daily routine, but the whole affair had an “end of the Roman Empire” vibe I found a little hard to shake.

Scenes from the Pumpkin Pie eating contest.

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
Human bone in Bataan camp by Nikko Dizon LIMAY, BATAAN—Braving rains, a fact-finding team Tuesday dug up a yellow rubber slipper, a laced shirt and burned fragments of what they suspected was a human [...]

My multimedia slideshow on the Jack London Aquatic Center’s crew team for Oakland youth is now up at OaklandNorth.net.
More to come…

Multi-media collage I built (using other people’s photos and reporting — it was a mostly successful collaborative excercise). It doesn’t fit too well in this column, so click on the box at the lower right (with the arrows) to view full screen.
Vuvox is my new favorite toy.

UPDATE: You can view a slideshow of the pictures below. But you’ll still have to actually visit the set to read the text.Back in June, when I first started taking pictures of the rice crisis in Mindanao, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with them. Since, for the moment, the [...]

After days spent immersed in the arcane minutiae of municipal bond markets, it was nice to take a short day assignment that basically involved hanging out with kids in a neighborhood park.
(Of course, I do still have to write the bond piece.)