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Radishes in Suburbia

Roots and Hollers: A Ginseng Documentary

Roots & Hollers is a half-hour documentary film that traces the wild American ginseng trade from the rugged men who dig the elusive root in the mountains of Appalachia to ginseng shops in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

The film explores the challenges diggers face in eking out a living by trading the rare and valuable plant and reveals the unique intersection between Asian and American cultures that dates back to the early 18th Century.

Roots & Hollers is a collaborative project of Patrick Kollman and Thomas Gorman. We are producing it as our Master’s project thesis in the documentary film program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Roots & Hollers will be released in May of 2011.
Check out our Kickstarter page!

Trevor Paglen: “Unhuman”

Artifacts (Spacecraft in Perpetual Geosynchronous Orbit, 35,786 km Above Equator) 2010 C-print

Trevor Paglen is a photographer and geographer interested in landscapes of secrecy created by the US military and intelligence community. Predator drones, reapers, satellites, black sites, and tracking stations appear heavily throughout his body of work; including Torture Taxi, (co-authored with investigative journalist A.C. Thompson), I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me, and Paglen’s most recent book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World.

Paglen’s new exhibition, Unhuman, opens at the Altman Siegel gallery Thursday February 10 and runs through April 2, 2011.

California is a Place

CHINA CARGO. from California is a place. on Vimeo.

3sixty5pics Project

Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

A Picture, A Day, A Year…

That’s the plan and so far I’m sticking to it.  You can follow my progress at 3sixty5pics.tumblr.com

Yes, I’ve gone over to a rival blogging platform but i’ll do my best to cross post the really good ones.

enjoy!

New Minimalism T-Shirts

from archinect

The East Bay at Night

Taken on November 20, 2010

The East Bay in 1924

Bekins City Map of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont, and Surrounding Suburbs, Combined Population 400,000 (1924)

by way of Eric Fischer

Thanks to Emma and David for the pic.

Your Beautiful Eyes

Your Beautiful Eyes by Suren Manvelyan

part of the Behance Network