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"Not just a number" interview

by sdulai on Mar 21, 2007 • No Comments

A quasi-update on an earlier post I made about the Not Just a Number series now appearing on the Oakland Tribune… as I do from time to time, I headed over to Ryan Sholin’s blog to check out what nuggets of reflection he’s got in store for me to ponder when lo and behold I...

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The real way how three months salery is made to last forever

by sdulai on Mar 20, 2007 • No Comments

I just saw “Blood Diamond” last night, a great film by the way. It’s Edward Zwick return to the elegant simplicity of “Glory” and departure from the boisterous frivolity of “The Last Samurai.” I’d always hoped Zwick would recapture his talent, a mature director with a steady hand and a pure understanding of the fundamentals,...

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24 on|24 off :a documentary

by sdulai on Mar 16, 2007 • No Comments

“24 on|24 off” is a documentary where I shadowed the firefighters of the C-shift of Engine 2 in San Jose, Ca. My intention was to show the “family” side of life in the firehouse and rather than documenting the fires, which I saw as cliché, I wanted to go deeper into who these people were...

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The hills are cold with the sound of slush

by sdulai on Mar 16, 2007 • No Comments

As my friend Daniel Esch said last week, “Dude we’re in beer country.” When I woke up this (Wednesday, thanks blogger spambots… well actually Feb. 28 now, thanks life) morning I expected to see some snow on Mt. Hamilton and the hills behind my house, it wasn’t that unusual for up to an inch of...

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A bit of overkill no?

by sdulai on Mar 15, 2007 • No Comments

Isn’t this overkill? I guess if you shoot RAW or have one of those cameras that can shoot video to a CF card it makes sense… but something about this scares me. I don’t know if I want all that space at risk of a frailer. I really don’t have much more to say about...

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The story every journalist covers

by sdulai on Mar 9, 2007 • No Comments

So it took nearly two months but it finally happened, I finally got that story that everyone has to cover… gas prices. It’s basically the same story that everyone’s shot a million times, in fact I shared a laugh last night with a friend who covered the same story a week prior at her paper....

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Canon hits the mark a third time

by sdulai on Feb 28, 2007 • No Comments

Canon continues to release new product on a semi-regular schedule, announcing the Mark III last week, a camera which looks to be the new benchmark for the fastest apparatus yet. According to a press release, “The Mark III has a ten megapixel APS-H (1.3x FOV crop) CMOS sensor and can shoot at ten frames per...

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Will it be two in a row for the Rocky Mountain News?

by sdulai on Feb 14, 2007 • No Comments

After winning a Pulitzer prize in 2006 for Final Salute, a brilliant piece that chronicles the travels of Maj. Steve Beck as he travels from family to family informing them that their loved one isn’t coming home from the battle on the other side of the world, the Colorado paper looks poised to do it...

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Yup, once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn. The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt. This month I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a letter. As it’s the end of the year, it felt like the right time to look inward. Plus we spend so much time looking outside of ourselves at the industry/government/tech trends/government that self-reflection becomes that icky no-no that we seldom tackle. I know it’s scary, but come’on, let’s do this thing! Why? Because YOLO? “Write a letter to your younger self.” Dear Me, I’m writing to you from 2013, a little wiser, a little slower and probably still confused about why more people don’t do the right thing, but don’t let that stop you from trying. We’ve always been stubborn. I’m packing for a trip to India right now as I write this– don’t worry, you’re not married and yup, you’ll eventually leave California and actually get to fly in a plane– it’s been a wild couple of days. The last 10 or […]

Posted: December 20th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
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Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt

Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end of 2013, it’s a natural time for reflection and in that spirit I think I’ve come up with what I hope will be an enjoyable and perhaps even cathartic prompt: “What would you write if you could send a letter to your fifteen-year-old self?” For December I would like you all to write a letter to your younger self. You can write about anything, no rules, no apologies. You may like to share with yourself advice, things to look out for, things you wished you did differently, regrets, hopes, what you’ve learned, about your life, choices… or just about anything that is on your mind. Ideally these are deeply personal to you and I hope it’ll be enlightening to others in its universality to the human condition. More often than not, if it’s important to you, it’s important to others. And who knows, maybe you’ll […]

Posted: November 11th, 2013 ˑ 7 Comments
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