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One of the best things about the new age of media is that anyone can get their message distributed widely and quickly -- as long as it's interesting, they've established good channels to work through, and they're nimble enough to move quickly.<br />
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I've counted the communications arm of the United Methodist Church as a client since the 1990's, and they definitely fit all three criteria. They've been distributing photos via the internet since the days when such a thing was only barely possible.<br />
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Yesterday they asked me to photograph a protest outside the White House in which Methodist bishops and others were arrested while objecting to the Obama administration's immigration policies. Of course my photos were good (goes without saying!), but before I'd even left the White House sidewalk, United Methodist staffers had the photos popping up on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bishop-minerva-g-carcano/president-obama-immigration-_b_4804445.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino+Voices" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a> (photo of bishop being arrested paired with op-ed by bishop), on <a href="http://voxxi.com/2014/02/17/deportations-arrested-white-house/" target="_blank">Voxxi.com</a> (a Latino news site), and that night on <a href="http://on.msnbc.com/M89FkN" target="_blank">Rachel Maddow</a> (extensive use of the stills starting around the six-minute mark). Today the interest continues, with hundreds of views on Flickr and numerous retweets of photos.<br />
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In itself the event was not that big an action. But with the group's ability to distribute text, photos and video quickly, it had a much bigger impact.<br />
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<br />jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-54156676136202514252013-04-03T09:18:00.000-04:002013-04-03T09:20:10.276-04:00When bad weather makes for good video<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/62796114?title=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
When a group of Episcopal bishops organized a public "Way of the Cross" in Washington as a witness against gun violence, they planned a walk down the open, grassy spaces of the National Mall. And they probably hoped for good weather.<br />
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But a week before the event, police told them the Mall was a non-go. The march had to use city streets. As for the weather, it could not have been worse: "mixed precip," alternating between freezing rain and melting snow. (You'd think a group of bishops would have more clout!)<br />
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So there were about four hundred cold, wet people walking down Pennsylvania Avenue huddled under umbrellas and praying at places like the U.S. Justice Department and the Capitol. For those who stuck it out, it was a much more memorable day. For those who saw the photos or videos, it was visually a much more powerful witness.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-69942741759195126202013-03-22T09:50:00.001-04:002013-03-22T09:50:22.945-04:00March: In Like a Lion<br />
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Gun violence. Immigration. The minimum wage. The most interesting video work is coming in this month. So look for some good pieces soon!jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-36952432998433424222013-02-16T09:27:00.000-05:002013-02-16T09:29:53.165-05:00The tipoffThe secretive email came in at about 7:15 on Wednesday morning: "Be at Lafayette park by the White House at 10:30am today." Nothing more. But I knew what it was about.<br />
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The Sierra Club -- perhaps the most credible, and mainstream, environmental group in the U.S. -- was going to break its own 120-year-old rules, for just one day. Its leaders were going to get busted.<br />
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(Why the secrecy, I'm not sure. Other groups do civil disobedience all the time and release the info well in advance. They all, including the Sierra Club, also reach out to the police to let them know what's coming -- you don't want to show up to be arrested and find a shortage of police officers! So, please don't send me early morning emails thinking I'll be intrigued and show up. I was expecting this one!)<br />
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As it happens and is rarely the case for a poor freelancer, this fit just perfectly into my schedule. I was planning on making a video short just a few blocks away, and a few hours earlier.<br />
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This one, on a bishop taking her work to the streets of Washington (in full bishop regalia) turned out to be surprisingly moving. It's gotten a good number of plays, and in checking the stats, I can see why. "Ashes to Go" turns out to be a Facebook hit, with the biggest chunk of its traffic coming from people putting it on Facebook pages.<br />
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Both videos are below.
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I watched as several thousand people on the Mall for a gun-control march raised their hands in the direction of the U.S. Capitol during a prayer. Many were carrying signs remembering people who were shot in gun violence. jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-75758083283164521242013-01-22T17:20:00.001-05:002013-01-22T22:28:54.204-05:00A good seat and a nice view<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, not an actual seat. We pretty much had to stand for six hours. Still, it was the first time I've photographed an inaugural from the "South Media Platform." (Four years ago my job was to photograph people on the National Mall, <a href="http://www.jaymallinphotos.com/blog/2009/01/faces-tell-story-ii.html" target="_blank">"The Faces Tell the Story II"</a>, which was a great assignment for the first Obama inaugural.) But even if there were no chairs the view was indeed a good one, and since I was there so early, it included a chance to watch sunrise over the Capitol and the Mall.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-13349136626962725712013-01-01T11:25:00.000-05:002013-01-17T08:50:22.721-05:00Over the cliff and into 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It wasn't a bad way to mark the New Year's, quietly sipping small plastic cups of champagne in the Senate press photographers' gallery as we hunched over our laptops filing photos and the nation tipped over the fiscal cliff. Over in the correspondent's gallery they had beer and pizza.<br />
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By that time of the night there wasn't much left to photograph. But what was surprising for me was that it wasn't my photos of Vice President Joe Biden touting the cliff deal or Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explaining it to Republicans behind not-quite-closed doors that were being used. Instead, what kept popping up was a picture of the Capitol dome I'd shot about 18 hours earlier, in the dawn light. It become the lead in the Washington Post's mobile site, then appeared in the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-fiscal-cliff-deal-emerges-20121231,0,7786205.story" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times</a>, the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/fiscal-grand-canyon-article-1.1233477" target="_blank">New York Daily News</a>, the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/history-lesson-why-did-congress-create-a-national-debt-limit/2013/01/13/21114db8-5db8-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_blog.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>, the <a href="http://photos.denverpost.com/2012/12/31/photos-fiscal-cliff-avoided/#17" target="_blank">Denver Post</a>, the <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/12/31/3757142/fiscal-cliff-monday.html" target="_blank">Charlotte Observer</a>, and other places. Maybe the early bird (or photographer) really does get the worm.<br />
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These Capitol Hill cliff-hangers can fascinate, or anger, the nation, but they also often make for some fun photography. There's something pleasant about spending a weekend or end-of-year holiday on the Hill as the drama unfolds.<br />
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According to today's stories House Speaker John Boehner, seen above headed to the White House, has given up on his divided House and handed the initiative to the Senate. Meanwhile protester Rives Grogan provided an exciting interlude when he began screaming anti-abortion slogans from the Senate visitors' gallery (and this gentleman has the voice to do it). Mr. Grogan's made something of a career of this, disrupting the Senate previously in June and interrupting a pro ballgame in October by running on the field with a sign endorsing Mitt Romney.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-44584503922216793872012-12-22T10:44:00.000-05:002012-12-22T10:44:19.006-05:00NRA Press Conference<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was part of the scene yesterday as the NRA and its executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, held a press conference one week after the mass slayings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Mr. LaPierre's recommendations - more armed people at schools. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-36637412542352860292012-12-22T10:27:00.001-05:002012-12-22T10:27:16.171-05:00What a relief!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Capitol Hill today, two days after the Newtown elementary school shootings.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-16949368085982872872012-12-10T09:22:00.001-05:002012-12-10T09:25:45.061-05:00Doc in a Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Imagine spending a weekend working in intense collaboration with three people you've never met -- including eight straight hours closeted together in a tiny white editing room.<br />
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That's what it was like this past weekend for those of us fortunate to be included in <a href="http://www.stonesoupfilms.org/join-us" target="_blank">Stone Soup Film's "Doc in a Day" project</a>. Stone Soup, a nonprofit that makes films for other nonprofits, fielded five teams of four people each to produce five quick documentaries around D.C. this weekend.<br />
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Our team, Team Five (definitely the best one, incidentally), got lucky with our assignment: <a href="http://www.bloombars.com/" target="_blank">BloomBars</a>, a wonderful performance/exhibition/anything space run by John Chambers in Columbia Heights. With what I have to admit was minimal advance coordination, we first met outside BloomBars on 11th Street around 9:15. By 10 am we were shooting. And when we left the tiny Stone Soup edit suite around 8:30 Sunday night, we'd built a complex project that told BloomBar's story with action, interviews, multiple cameras, graphics, cute babies, time-lapse, and a jammin' soundtrack that sampled live audio by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/baba.d.5" target="_blank">Baba Ras D</a>, an artist in residence.<br />
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It was another proof that the larger concept of "stone soup," of a community coming together to build something from nothing, works. And a reminder that collaboration with good people can be really, really, fun. Kelsey, Faith, Zev and I can't wait to show off our work, to see the other teams' films -- and to work together again.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-4226000183526833792012-11-07T11:10:00.000-05:002012-11-07T11:10:19.927-05:00Go Maryland!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today we're celebrating Marylanders' approval of two ballot measures I filmed PSA's in support of, the Maryland Dream Act and Marriage Equality in Maryland.<br />
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In voting for Marriage Equality, Maryland joined with Maine and probably Washington State in reversing the tide of more than two dozen states that had voted down same-sex marriage at the polls. Similarly with the Dream Act, Maryland became the first state to approve such a law through a popular referendum.<br />
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You can check out the PSA's we filmed <a href="http://youtu.be/D9t8se10-wA" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/49597593" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-63067439322943704502012-10-26T09:36:00.000-04:002012-10-26T09:36:33.608-04:00No. 16 in Wealth, No. 1 in Chocolate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When Forbes came out with its annual report on the richest people in America, it was fun to see a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/gallery/jacqueline-mars" target="_blank">photo by me</a> of wealthy person #16: Jacqueline Mars. In case her name is not immediately familiar, think of this - her grandfather put the 'M' in M&Ms (and Mars candy bars).<br />
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Readers of the list could see that Mrs. Mars is also the wealthiest of 14 billionaires in the DC area, and third richest woman in America. (The two women who topped her on the list also have a familiar surname: Walton, as in Walmart.)<br />
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<br />jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-83249833336911626452012-10-22T13:56:00.001-04:002012-10-25T14:21:40.548-04:00It works<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm uncomfortable seeming to endorse products, but let me say this -- the new iPhone operating system has a nifty "panoramic" mode for the phone's camera, which allows you to take panoramic photos by sort of slowly swinging your phone around.<br />
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It works great.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-29579901867240166012012-10-22T13:41:00.000-04:002012-10-22T13:41:15.160-04:00The Poet in the Anatomy Lab<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's not the sort of place you'd immediately expect to find a poet. But high school students interested in medicine who were touring Howard U's med school found just that when they visited the school's gross anatomy lab (some might call it the cadaver lab) and encountered Prof. Mohammed Ashraf Aziz, one of the instructors.<br />
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"Some people say beauty is only skin-deep," said Dr. Aziz, lecturing his rapt audience as they gathered around one of the tables. "But I say no, the human body is even more beautiful the deeper you go."<br />
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Or how about this: "Don't tell your beloved 'I love you from the bottom of my heart.' Say 'I love you from the bottom of my left ventricle,'" the part of the heart of that receives fresh oxygenated blood.<br />
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And to Prof. Aziz, this suggests a way to dump a soon-to-be-ex as well: "Say 'I love you from the bottom of my right ventricle.'" That's the heart chamber that pumps out used, deoxygenated blood.<br />
<br />jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-53011464605214615942012-05-09T12:19:00.002-04:002012-10-31T19:37:38.071-04:00Contrast<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7K1uwWU5WMXf5z2FMmZiKPCWWgIElDrq1YeEqds9j3t8d-ycxAI71IbEPofV_9BNH2WBKisfsrVmMXdFMHo380U6SK7slcNGuV8hIJjQUdW_-TpbzRLDhoWnYw0oZ_Rg3DLY7etXrZI/s1600/arlington.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="392" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740569222321129394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7K1uwWU5WMXf5z2FMmZiKPCWWgIElDrq1YeEqds9j3t8d-ycxAI71IbEPofV_9BNH2WBKisfsrVmMXdFMHo380U6SK7slcNGuV8hIJjQUdW_-TpbzRLDhoWnYw0oZ_Rg3DLY7etXrZI/s400/arlington.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 392px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } </style><br />
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This morning one of the shoots I'm editing is of a wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery. Groups ranging from veterans organizations to visiting middle-schoolers take part in these ceremonies, which are part of the 24-hour vigil at the Tomb of the Unknowns. (Visiting heads of state do this too.)<br />
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While I've photographed many of these — and the ceremony is always impressive — yesterday's was unusual. The group laying the wreath included former Army Sgt. Eric Edmundson of New Bern, N.C., who was severely injured by an IED in Iran.<br />
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Sgt. Edmundson now uses a wheelchair to get around, and a voice computer to speak to his wife and children. He was of the same rank and service as the guard sergeant who helped him during the ceremony. Going through the photos and seeing the two men together — one badly injured, the other whose smallest move showed the precision and perfection of his training, both wearing the same uniform — really brought home the cost of war and the sacrifices of those like Sgt. Edmundson who have served.</div>
jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-88385478831327389582012-04-30T11:51:00.003-04:002012-10-31T19:38:48.264-04:00Out of the Art<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHM2n9vuLXXVFE4WCMttYK17Z8zHE4yejfHtxiD4jvQN5OBZrwsQLhPRQE7jwVxrhKUIJAmhUrR4oGfKXlZDBjueR37cs96tyc4rIitu5yqqTyJhWeIm7uUdIIV5ZCRG6iMZbM9qbUmE/s1600/nmwa_DSC0748.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737222112823156994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHM2n9vuLXXVFE4WCMttYK17Z8zHE4yejfHtxiD4jvQN5OBZrwsQLhPRQE7jwVxrhKUIJAmhUrR4oGfKXlZDBjueR37cs96tyc4rIitu5yqqTyJhWeIm7uUdIIV5ZCRG6iMZbM9qbUmE/s400/nmwa_DSC0748.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 271px;" width="271" /></a>The National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrated their 25th anniversary over the weekend. Seeing the gowns on some of the guests, it seemed as if some of these women had stepped from the paintings on the walls to join the celebration.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-65681585324430158182012-04-20T11:07:00.000-04:002012-04-20T11:07:08.316-04:00I Hate ♡ PowerPoint<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Time was I hated Power Point.<br />
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Not because there are too many dull PowerPoint presentations with tiny print no one can read, though there are. But because once someone says "PowerPoint" at a meeting, the lights are turned down so low you can barely see.<br />
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But that was back in the days of film and early digital cameras. My current camera can take a clear, seemingly bright picture in conditions so dark they leave most of us squinting.
And when you're shooting a long two-day scientific conference in Chicago, that makes all the difference.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-32902127256861163922012-03-07T09:21:00.002-05:002012-03-07T09:27:09.459-05:00A Dream Come True<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="221" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/34918726?title=0&byline=1&portrait=0&autoplay=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe>"It was hell, really. It was hard to hold a job before the union came." That's how Annie Henry, a certified instrument processor at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, remembers what life was like for workers at the hospital. Another worker, William Watkins, recalls in "A Dream Come True" that there were employees who'd been with the hospital for 20 years but never got a raise, simply because their supervisors didn't like them.<br />
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That changed in 1968, with the help of Coretta Scott King. Just weeks after her husband was assassinated while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Mrs. King urged union Local 1199 to continue Dr. King's work by organizing hospital workers around the nation. According to 1199 members still working at Hopkins today and interviewed in this documentary, Mrs. King's visit changed everything, leading them to a successful organizing drive and a better relationship with their employer.<br />
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Laura Pugh, a cook with 41 years' experience, sums up the difference this way: "It is incredible to be able to sit down with [hospital] big bosses, vice presidents, presidents, no matter who it is … and talk, and get things settled."jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-22787099040531279172012-03-06T14:33:00.000-05:002012-03-06T16:55:52.033-05:00Get a Car<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="221" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37566785?portrait=0&autoplay=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe><br />
Does "transportation" include things like sidewalks and crosswalks, bike lanes, and mass transit? Or is "real" surface transportation pretty much limited to cars and highways?<br /><br />
That was the question Congress was struggling with as the House and Senate proposed new multi-year transportation bills for the nation. Only the proposals weren't transportation bills — they were highway bills, with a bit of railroad thrown in. And they would have marked a departure from previous laws passed under both Democrats and Republicans, laws that included Safe Routes to Schools and funding to make sure pedestrians, cyclists and others can use the country's roads and bridges too.<br /><br />
The gaps in those proposals led to this video, a look at what the new laws would ignore and why alternatives are important. It initially appeared on two blogs in DC, <a href="http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/13881/breakfast-links-and-video-much-to-scrutinize/comp/13883/" target="_blank">GreaterGreaterWashington</a> and <a href="http://www.tbd.com/blogs/tbd-on-foot/2012/02/the-grim-stakes-in-our-federal-transportation-bill-video--14647.html" target="_blank">TBDOnFoot</a>, and was quickly picked up by blogs and websites around the country, both national ones like <a href="http://dc.streetsblog.org/2012/02/29/congress-to-america-get-a-car/" target="_blank">Streetsblog</a> (<a href="http://dc.streetsblog.org/2012/02/29/congress-to-america-get-a-car/" target="_blank">"Congress to America: Get a Car"</a>) and many local sites, from <a href="http://thegreatermarin.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/mid-week-links-3/" target="_blank">Marin County</a> to <a href="http://www.saltcycle.com/2012/03/congress-to-america-get-car.html" target="_blank">Salt Lake City</a> to <a href="http://walkbikejersey.blogspot.com/2012/03/whats-at-stake-with-federal-transport.html" target="_blank">New Jersey</a>.<br /><br />
Not that we can claim credit, but by the end of the week the House bill was a shambles which the House leadership was scrambling to replace, while the Senate bill had accepted a bipartisan amendment to restore funding for such projects. That amendment was thanks in part to Maryland's own Sen. Ben Cardin — whom we happened to be photographing at the end of the week as he spent time "helping out" workers at Prince George's Hospital, below.<br /><br />
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A group of protesters concerned about the <a href="http://dirtyenergymoney.com/view.php" target="_blank">amount of money members of Congress receive from oil commpanies</a> dressed in ref's shirts and threw down "penalty flags" outside Capitol Hill, visually a nice effect.<br />
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Led by author and climate activist Bill McKibben, they also stopped by the headquarters of the American Petroleum Institute. To get there, the group rode the Metro, of course. (Personally, I and another photographer <a href="http://www.jaymallinphotos.com/blog/2008/12/fuel-efficient-low-emissions.html" target="_blank">rode our bikes</a>.)jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-8619591363607957102012-01-30T10:55:00.004-05:002012-01-30T11:00:55.493-05:00Far ahead of the news cycle<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9FbbDCkk6rTUea7a6Y1SMQSMtsDgSXIV0V8wLdtnLpK4mPA55KI-xuq0VpYRWeXcGG8zhyphenhyphenn_7iYC-U5q7cqeeh4IUmJitdD3svTJmeNU_b7tRWsQwhm9up1mk9ZmSAGAw9J93-ZvjII/s1600/boehner-kantor-DSC1968.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9FbbDCkk6rTUea7a6Y1SMQSMtsDgSXIV0V8wLdtnLpK4mPA55KI-xuq0VpYRWeXcGG8zhyphenhyphenn_7iYC-U5q7cqeeh4IUmJitdD3svTJmeNU_b7tRWsQwhm9up1mk9ZmSAGAw9J93-ZvjII/s400/boehner-kantor-DSC1968.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703455042027019890" /></a><br />House Speaker John Boehner (whom I photographed here that day with Majority Leader Mickey Cantor) denounced President Obama's State of the Union speech as "pathetic." Maybe that's not unusual for a House speaker commenting on a speech by a president from the other party, especially in an election year.<br /><br />On the other hand, Boehner passed this judgement two days <span style="font-style:italic;">before</span> the president's actual speech. And people on Capitol Hill wonder why they're perceived as partisan and grid-locked.....jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-55350599520490490922012-01-17T14:49:00.005-05:002012-01-17T15:06:51.635-05:00Watch out!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGWYgPo5h7HtFvJFGxk5Si9v7opYVaNxxBejRMn4dl_nx-JQiZdjNqjq-YLv19GJWarhKmiGOG00fJ-eUf5qU0mTy5_K9-UPoaKMHDYzsu8QtDVpNTHDZY27fx-SwNnkm7UM1Z1Q1JZk8/s1600/blind+09+_DSC1047.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 347px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGWYgPo5h7HtFvJFGxk5Si9v7opYVaNxxBejRMn4dl_nx-JQiZdjNqjq-YLv19GJWarhKmiGOG00fJ-eUf5qU0mTy5_K9-UPoaKMHDYzsu8QtDVpNTHDZY27fx-SwNnkm7UM1Z1Q1JZk8/s400/blind+09+_DSC1047.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698693591232110338" border="0" /></a><br />I've been lucky enough to shoot in a lot of manufacturing facilities, which can make really interesting photos. One thing you have to be careful for, though — these places are dangerous. At an aluminum plant, for instance, you can't see any difference between molten and solid aluminum, so the only safe thing to do is <span style="font-style:italic;">don't touch anything!</span><br /><br />That's why I was so surprised when I went to a plant last week where workers cut material for military uniforms. I asked one of the workers to show me his machine. He walked over, ran his hands over the controls, gestured inside to where the blades were.<br /><br />"Watch out!" I wanted to shout. You see, aside from the inherent danger of these machines, this worker was blind. Yes — this was at <a href="http://bism.org/">Blind Industries and Services of Maryland</a>.<br /><br />But it didn't matter. As I watched that worker and others do their jobs so I could decide whom to photograph, it became obvious I couldn't tell the sighted people on the floor from the legally blind. They all seemed equally comfortable, and effective, in an environment that for me was a little dangerous.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5686884709744778188.post-66584519501340566872011-12-12T09:28:00.003-05:002011-12-12T09:35:48.952-05:00The Barf Option<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXeOJEwxGLt9tZg3mfl7FAdWRLH79WOzDxS-7qcOyJoj6GFWTUqDUcql0OrGnhZ_br9Th-MfFXuj3qURfWp3hIS7ehYH5EndqG1Hz7fa5qOadSrhAYwajTg9ZIDwOKHNABw5lp6q_SKw/s1600/corzine+blog+_DSC9884.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXeOJEwxGLt9tZg3mfl7FAdWRLH79WOzDxS-7qcOyJoj6GFWTUqDUcql0OrGnhZ_br9Th-MfFXuj3qURfWp3hIS7ehYH5EndqG1Hz7fa5qOadSrhAYwajTg9ZIDwOKHNABw5lp6q_SKw/s400/corzine+blog+_DSC9884.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685249238917071506" /></a><br />When former senator Jon Corzine appeared before the House Ag committee last week to talk about how his company, MF Global, had "disappeared" perhaps $1.2 billion of its customers' money, he had little to offer about what happened. But one congressman asked what exactly Corzine had done on the night of Oct. 30 when he discovered the money was missing. "Did you call the police, or run into the bathroom and throw up?" the congressman suggested.<br /><br />Corzine offered a reasoned, careful answer about trying to account for the cash. After he finished, his questioner commented: "I'd have gone into the bathroom and thrown up."<br /><br />Me too.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240050767774052678noreply@blogger.com0