Heidi, Jim Avett’s lovely publicist, told me to make sure that I introduced myself to Jim last night — and I would have anyway, to thank him for his interview, but because she’d said that, I made sure to find him during Reed Mahoney’s opening set. She’d warned me, though, that Jim was gregarious; that…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
worth getting up for: february
Worth getting up for in February: Pam coming to visit; college baseball season starting; pitchers and catchers; overtime Canes wins; solving important world problems at 6 am on a Monday (baseball > hockey); having someone understand why you have to follow one song about Baltimore with Gram Parsons doing “The Streets Of Baltimore”; a whole…
basketball: unc @ duke
shep. and I went to the Carolina/Duke women’s game at Duke on Sunday night, with Ash and Ash’s dad, and it was, as always, fascinating to me. Cameron is always an Experience with a capital e — I have no idea what to make of it, it’s just An Experience. It wasn’t a great game,…
interview: jim avett
I’m delighted today to share an interview with Jim Avett, who is probably best known at this point for being the father of Scotty and Seth Avett, aka the Avett Brothers, but who is, in his own right and for far longer than his boys, a talented and widely respected Americana musician and guitar picker….
american aquarium @ motorco
One of the reasons that I keep shooting American Aquarium, even though I have more photos of them than any one person could need, is to see if I can get a different shot, a new one, every time. It’s not about them. It’s about me. Onward, Soldiers are, as always, a joy to shoot…
baseball: seton hall @ unc, game 2
One. A perfect short sleeve sunny baseball afternoon, and Carolina improves to 6-0, winning 7-1. Everyone on the team, coaches included, is rocking the tall socks this year, and I couldn’t be happier. Full photo set here.
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in february
First, unrelated: couple of weeks ago I shot an interview with Oberhofer for Speakers In Code; it’s up now, and you can read it and see my photos here. And now: two sentence reviews of new albums I listened to in February (and a few in January that missed the cut-off for that edition, but…
the baseball project — vol. 2: high and inside
The Baseball Project — Vol. 2: High And Inside. Out 3/1, Yep Roc Records. Sometimes I’m pretty sure that I’m the only person who loved the Baseball Project’s 2009 release Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails as much as I did; it was in my top 25 for that year. I loved it because…
why college baseball matters
Today is college baseball’s opening day. This is a post that I’ve been trying to write, in a variety of formats, for at least three years now; since the summer of 2008, when I bristled at Red Sox fans bandwagoning on to the Carolina train in the College World Series, calling our I-hate-your-feelings-just-shut-up-and-pitch catcher by…
drive-by truckers — go-go boots
Drive-By Truckers — Go Go Boots. Out 2/15, ATO Records. I am going to get this out of the way first: I do not like this album as much as I liked The Big To-Do; in fact, it isn’t even close. There are tracks I love, and there are things about it that really work…
brand new kind of photography 