Man vs. Bear – Dave Bess’s new solo album
Public Property lead singer Dave Bess works on his new solo album Man vs. Bear in Iowa City, Iowa. Bess collaborated with Toots Hibbert at Anchor Studios in Kingston Jamacia on the album and spent well over a year working on it. Read More
Perhaps, Gilead; A Musical Response to the work of Marilynne Robinson
This weekend, I shot and edited together this teaser video for a work-in-progress about an original composition for flute, guitar and string quartet by Iowa composer Harvey Sollberger to be performed by Red Cedar Chamber Music. This is an excerpt from the third movement of Perhaps, Gilead, performed by Red Cedar Chamber Music at the Grinnell College’s Bucksbaum Center for the Arts. Shot and edited by Bocce Ball Multimedia with additional... Read More
Some Secret Scenes from The Reluctant Apocalypticist
Dave Zollo at Flat Black Studio
Today I spent part of the afternoon at Flat Black Studios photographing musician Dave Zollo lay down some tracks for an upcoming album. (click any photo to enlarge, click again to advance) #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left:... Read More
Photojournalism
Work from a variety of assignments and projects. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Read More
Portraits
Pictures of people. Click on any image to enlarge and again to advance slide show. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Read More
The (other) Danish Solution; Christiania
Photographs on the way to Mount Everest Basecamp
Photographs from the trek to the basecamp of Mount Everest. #gallery-5 { margin: auto; } #gallery-5 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-5 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-5 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Read More
To Think and Act Anew; Presenting Mister Lincoln
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was 20 years ago that Lance Mack first realized that he bore a striking resemblance to Abraham Lincoln. He was teaching German at the University of Michigan when he had this revelation, and to him the only thing to do was, “to figure out what to do with it.” Follow Lance in this short documentary portrait that explores the intersection of history, family, religion and the ways that these ideas form and shape... Read More
Captain Kirk’s Minus 219th Birthday
In 1984, the city council of Riverside drafted a proclamation that designated their small town as the future birthplace of Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk. Ever since, residents get together to celebrate his birthday and prepare for TrekFest, the town’s biggest party held Read More
