Links
Fine people and their work.
Of
course, some of them are friends and family.
Michael
and Maureen Banner, the best silversmiths, and I'm not just saying that because they're
also my sister and brother-in-law.
Jennifer
Miller is
a wonderful landscape and portrait painter in North Carolina. Also a wonderful
friend.
This is a painting she did that was a departure from her plein aire work. She went to her friends' homes and chose a spot that seemed to tell something about who they were. This one is our kitchen. The bagel, tattered sponge, red kettle, that's a good portrait of who we are. But, um, what's the story with all those knives?
Ann Ropp, painter. "Body of Water" series watercolor on paper. She is just so good. And a true friend in East Tennessee.
Snowdome Mania My friend Miriam Bein has one of the biggest snow-dome collections in the world. She likes plastic.
Medline Plus from the NIH. The most reliable medical information about everything sick.
Photo of the gross-out tongue
from Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia
Chicagoans
in hell This is the best Chicago joke and
has everything in it I love about my home town. Oh, except the hot dogs.
Picture of Patricia Arnow by the 'el' on Sheffield Ave. Steve Giles took this when in Chicago at In
These Times in 1997.
Chowhound : Message boards report the results of the restless search for hyper-deliciousness, and street food counts. Find passion and addresses when it comesto the best pickles or papusas, kim chee or cannoli.
Books for Readers Looking for good reading? West Virginia/New Jersey Writer Meredith Sue Willis—and her friends—find and discuss books—mostly novels—new and old.
Sreenath
Sreenivasan, tech guru and media junkie Good
computer advice, and check out the tips page for reliable sites for researching
almost anything. He believes in websites for journalists and got me started doing this one.
Photo from WABC-TV
Roppo's Bed & Breakfast Ann Ropp's brother runs a rogue B&B in Carthage, Ill. Check it out but don't check in.
Gotham Gazette is the excellent online New York City policy journal. I used to cover the waterfront for them.
Grand Street News, a monthly magazine about the Lower East Side. I've written and taken pictures for them. At right is a cover I did for them at a Chinese New Year's parade.
The Lo-Down is a friendly, informative blog about the Lower East Side of New York. They put up a picture of the day, and sometimes it'll be one of mine.
Recent photos I've been posting on the photo-sharing website, Flickr with the screen name “Patja.” Click on the flickr symbol below or any of the pictures in it, and you'll find photos of New York City, friends, family and strangers, trips to West Virginia, North Carolina, Nuremberg, Mexico, and a special set featuring a life-size red plastic rabbit who particularly likes sculpture.
www.flickr.com
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Labor Unions
Social Service Employees Union, SSEU Local 371 of DC37 (AFSCME). I take pictures for this New York City union that does some of the hardest jobs imaginable. They take care of poor, homeless, and other at-risk people. They publish a newsletter, The Unionist and online photo albums of their events.
The 24,000 people of Teamsters Local 237 work at many kinds of jobs all over the city, among them, clerks and maintenance workers in the Housing Authority. I take photos at some of their celebrations for Latino Heritage, Italian Heritage, Puerto Rican Day Parade (one of the best parades ever), and other events. Here are some of their photo albums.
The 200,000 New York teachers who are members of the United Federations of Teachers (UFT--which is part of the national American Federation of Teachers) are under fire by city, state and federal government. Here is a link to their online photo albums, some of which I shot.
The Professional Staff Congress represents faculty and staff of City University of New York. Their newspaper, The Clarion, for whom I sometimes shoot, covers their hard work on behalf of the 20,000 members and the students on campuses all over the city.
The Communications Workers of America, Local 1180, represents some 8,000 city workers at agencies all over the city. I take pictures for their paper, the Communiqué.
The Chief-Leader is the newspaper that covers municipal unions in New York in depth. Independent media don't report much about labor, but city workers are the entire subject of this publications that has been around since 1897.
Edna Arnow, my mother, is a retired studio potter. She worked in Chicago from the 1950s through the '70s. Now her stoneware is called mid-century modern. My sister scanned some photos of the art fairs and pottery (all taken by our dad, Robert Arnow), and I made a couple of web pages with them.
Hariette and Harold Arnow, my aunt and uncle, were writers who met working on the Works Progress Administration Writer's Project in Cincinnati. They dreamed of getting through the Depression as subsistance farmers in Harriette's home area of Eastern Kentucky, writing in their spare time. What dreamers. Today their farm by Lake Cumberland, which has come to me, is overgrown with trees, and the house has collapsed. Here are some pictures.
Marcella Arnow, my first cousin, was born in Kentucky, reared in Michigan, and went to the London School of Economics. She lived in Brooklyn for a long time (and instilled inme an appreciation of New York). She later had a good life in Winchester, England. She died Feb. 14, 2010. Since many of her family and friends are scattered around, I put up some web pages about her funeral. Here is the link.
Le and Julian Williams, my aunt and uncle, were unsung artists in San Francisco. Their kids have mounted their work in a website, and they had a show for them at Fort Mason in San Francisco in August 2006. I've also posted my pictures of that show—and family and friends who attended. |
Le Williams and one of her pieces. |
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Terry J. Allen is a friend and a kick-ass journalist in Vermont. She writes a column for In These Times and reports for VTDigger, among others. Really good photographer, too.
Susan Forste is a New York City web designer and video maker and a marvelous person.
I've always loved the style of illustration of my cousin Antonia Manda. It seems she remembers the colors of California, where she grew up, but she lives in Portland making glowing art even in the rain.