i took this photo when i was in new orleans in the middle of may 2006.

for the past week or so we’ve been doing a lot of work at nytimes.com getting content ready for the one year anniversary of hurricane katrina. it’s been really interesting work and i’ve gotten to see some amazing photos from the stories. the sunday new york times magazine cover piece was a photo essay on the children affected by the hurricane. i worked with a photo producer to put together the online counterpart, Children of the Storm.

today my roommate and i took place in a little art. this guy was submitting portraits for a gallery. the theme was “uncomfortable.” therefore he took portraits of all of us hangin upside down. it was a trip. this is not the portrait he took, ryan took this with my camera. i had a great day today.

yesterday my friend and former boss rich beckman as well as my peer jay heinz were interviewed on WUNC north carolina public radio. the topic was our recent documentary multimedia website Chasing Crusoe. it’s a good listen and it was a fantastic trip.

click on the WUNC link to listen to the interview or download it here

there is nothing but love in my circle

as seen from the lower west side on a very pleasant eve.

props to L.A. for editing my posts and calling to attention my east/west confusion

this is a really really interesting article published in the LA Times about joe francis, the creator of the ‘girls gone wild’ phenomenon. he comes off as a huge boner…

Six weeks after that night outside Chicago, when I call Francis on his cellphone and ask him about the incident, he says he doesn’t remember Szyszka and that he didn’t have sex with anyone that night. He seems to lose control, repeatedly referring to me by a crude word for female genitalia. “If you print that, I will [expletive] sue the [expletive] out of you. If you print that, baby, you just put the nail in your own coffin,” he tells me. “You are a [expletive expletive]. You decided to blast me . . . You are a [expletive] bitch . . . I will get my last laugh on you. I will get you.” He then refers me to Burke, his lawyer.

i do – however – have a random connection to this dude. when i was studying abroad, there was a girl who was studying with us who was a model. she was fairly attractive. anyhow, she was dating the then less-well-known joe francis (although he was still well-known). he would fly her out for valentine’s day and shit like that. it was que ridiculo. it was not surprising when shortly after the program ended we heard that her relationship with joe had also ended… due to, of all things… infidelity.

he is a really classy guy. and you won’t believe what somebody did to him when they broke into his house…. oh man… it involves paris hilton, bondage and a vibrator. and believe me, it’s classy too.