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Mary Farrell paints her pots
I was testing out my video camera, a Panasonic SDR-S150, and shot this video of one of my favorite potters, Mary Farrell. She was kind enough to be my test subject. Mary and her husband, David, are marking their 30th anniversary of operating Westmoore Pottery in the Westmoore area of northern Moore County, N.C. If…
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Charlie Daniels should be ashamed
The double-murder of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian that occurred in early January in Knoxville was an extremely heinous crime by any definition and has attracted international attention. Unfortunately, it has been adopted by white groups as the poster child of Black on White Hate Crimes. Now it has its own Wikipedia entry. The entry…
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I’ve pulled myself away to write this
The just launched today flickrvision and the earlier twittervision are utterly and endlessly fascinating. You have a real time (or less than a minute ago) sense of the ever-changing teeming ecosystem of the Internet to wax National Geographic. Flipping from one to the other you see messages and photos popping up all around the globe.…