What We Loved This Week: Walker Evans, Obama Fever and Blame Ringo

Travel Blog  •  World Hum  •  02.20.09 | 5:16 PM ET

Pam Mandel
This is a super short radio documentary, but wow, I could almost smell the smoke. Rabbit Hunters—an audio snapshot in blazing sugar cane fields—is by Michael Ozug and it’s on Sound Portraits.

Sophia Dembling
I just knew Walker Evans and I had something in common. Postcards! I can’t wait to get back to New York to see Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—especially the “bank of postcards that offer plunging views down the middle of scores of American Main Streets, an almost scary tribute to the country’s can-do spirit, can-doing again and again.” For now, I’ll make do with the slideshow.

Rob Verger
Cold Spring, New York. My girlfriend and I took a day trip up there, and man, was it good to get out of New York City. We lingered by the Hudson’s shore in Foundry Dock Park, photographing the river ice, which we could hear creaking in the moving water.

cold spring new york

Valerie Conners
Hanging out with a New York City subway station flower vendor. I filmed 62-year-old Jose Carrolla at the 42nd street subway station. Watching his slice of life was oddly captivating: shaving thorns off roses, clipping stems and gathering bouquets together. We even got to joke around with his “buddies” who I later discovered were undercover cops when they casually spun around and arrested a passerby.

Jim Benning
I loved Beth Harpaz’s story about seeing the Northern Lights with her 10-year-old son, hoping to extend his childhood a few moments longer. Having just experienced the first two years of my daughter’s life whiz by, I was really touched.

Frank Bures
I loved, in an odd way, this new atlas of vanishing languages.

Eva Holland
Watching from afar as my hometown caught Obama Fever during the President’s first official visit to the Canadian capital. I lost count of the friends whose Facebook statuses announced they were ditching work to try to catch a glimpse of him (“I think I saw his sleeve!”), and the Canadian papers filled with predictions and advice for both leaders. I especially enjoyed the semi-serious tips in this article, Obama’s helpful guide to Canada.

Joanna Kakissis
I succumbed this week to lolcats and this photo, which reminded me of an argument a couple of years ago with a Greek man who believed male street cats in Athens shouldn’t be neutered because they would “embrace their inner drag queen.” As if that’s a bad thing.

Michael Yessis
This Blame Ringo video—a time-lapse view of Abbey Road, chronicling the tourists on the iconic crosswalk:

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2 Comments for What We Loved This Week: Walker Evans, Obama Fever and Blame Ringo

Pam Mandel 02.20.09 | 8:02 PM ET

That Blame Ringo tune has transformed my mental state into that of a perfect Friday afternoon. I’m a sucker for a good pop song. Thank you.

Michael Yessis 02.21.09 | 3:48 PM ET

glad you like it Pam. I’ll have to watch/listen again. I was so focused on the images, I didn’t give the tune a good listen.

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