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June 11, 2006

Color photo awards; New mp3 links; Student blogger slides into newsroom

It's Water Under the Bridge
Judith Orr - USA

The 1st Annual International Color (Photography) Awards nominees are a Sunday morning delight, a wake-up for jaded eyes.

The winners galleries are just a subset, adding a layer of famous "judges' " opinions to uniformly fine work. Main page is junky.

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Carla Maio - Portugal

This one's called cabbage8 in the food gallery on her own site, where you can see the whole group.

Been down: Thanks to readers who emailed concerns about my being sick. Atlanta blogger Jeneane Sessum has the same symptoms and is on the same nasty drugs. In reponse to my whines about side effects, she emails, "...the benefits of breathing and hearing outweigh the after effects of continued unconsciousness."

The unconsciousness is the hardest part, especially when the drug won't allow sleep. (Today, I plan to outwit it: I'm feeling better, and plan to use some of this aritificial energy to tire myself out in the garden.)

Reader Bill Marsland fills in with some music links:

Here is a site featuring Paul Simon Live on BBC2 on 5.25.2006. Some old hits and several songs from the new album....

I sent you an e-mail earlier this week about my “should have know better” blogger HAW offering “Alternative” Beatle tracks. Yesterday he blogged “The Beatles [Alternate] Rubber Soul”. If Steve Smith liked the Hollywood Bowl, he should love this collection. I’ve copied part of the blog below so you can see just what is being offered. One of, if not THE, greatest Beatles albums ever.

Have a great weekend. Hope the antibiotics are working and you’re not just “slip sliding away”

The alternate version includes multiple takes of songs such as "Norwegian Wood" (with differing sitar tracks, occasional double-tracked lead vocals, and varying harmonies, etc.), "I'm looking Through You" (with versions 1-4 offering a much different arrangement than version 5), and "We Can Work It Out" (with a decidedly different musical approach on each of the four versions, all with their own charm) that shed new light on the creative process that ultimately led to the versions we have come to know and love....

I can add a couple, too:

New Counting Crows (co-written w/ Gemma Hayes): "Hazy" from "the upcoming live Counting Crows release New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall (due June 20)" according to I Am Fuel, You Are Friends, which has the backstory.

Merry Clayton: "Sho' Nuff" (B. Preston - J. Greene) is Dan Phillips' ode to Billy Preston at Home of the Groove, and it's a good one for the man to go out on.

It's supposed to work this way: Danielle Ameden, our Parisian blogger among our R.I. Students Abroad, writes,

Bonjour from... Massachusetts :( I wish I were back in Paris.

News! I started an internship at MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass. on Monday, and had a front-page story in Tuesday's paper!

How wild is that?? I honestly thought I'd be shadowing a journalist, learning the ropes, doing nothing major on my first day as an intern, but wham -- the editor gave me the assignment within the first 10 minutes I was there. They hadn't even seen my clips, besides my blog, but had enough faith to put me on the front! I did all the legwork, found my sources, was on the phone, went out and got quotes, wrote it, and sat down with a copyeditor at the end. It was an amazing day. ...

This is so cool -- Danielle did some wonderful reporting on the Paris riots this spring, and it's great to see it led to more opportunities.

When I get back to the newsroom, I'll probably form another group of student bloggers. If you're a Rhode Island college student doing something interesting this summer and would like to blog about it freqquently, email me at the link on the envelope below this post.

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Posted by: Steve Hansen on June 13, 2006 12:37 PM