Year: 2012

What does it mean to live a good life? If you were being dragged 300-yards underwater toward a rocky shoreline known as “the boneyard” would you be able to answer that? It’s a question we don’t typically associate with surfing, but for Jay Moriarity, a 16-year-old big-wave surfer out of Santa Cruz and his mentor...

The photo of the naked, frost-encrusted doll disturbed me only slightly less than the photo of the man-made, primary-colored “Salvation Mountain.” The former seemed like something out of really creepy movie involving homicidal, demon-possessed children or a post-apocalyptic wasteland. That’s cool. I can work with that. The latter was a lopsided advertisement aimed at the...

Taylor Swift’s fourth album, “Red,” which debuted on Oct. 22, launched her growing pop image. Gone is the innocent, folksy style of “Tim McGraw” and “Fifteen.” Her new album leans away from the traditional country genre toward catchy tunes with repetitive lyrics –– and yet I liked it. With each album Taylor Swift continues to...

Nov. 1 marks the start of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). From outer space to the depths of the sea, from small-town America to a medieval castle, Hillsdale student’s imaginations can trek all over the world in 50,000 words or more. “You can write about something historical, futuristic, imaginative, places you have been, places you...

What are your thoughts on digital cameras vs. film? I started using a digital camera fairly soon after they came out on the mass market.  It’s interesting to work with and nice for publications. You could get a photo to a magazine in an hour.  I thought that I would still be shooting in film...