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Woodyfest Community Outreach We’ve writ­ten about Gypsy Twang before, so we’ll keep this short. The Tulsa band appeared at Woodyfest for the sec­ond time in 2019. In addi­tion to their Thursday per­for­mance on the new Bound for Glory stage, the trio donated their tal­ents to one of the festival’s com­mu­nity out­reach shows. Five of Woodyfest’s… Read More …

Today we present can­did images from my first year as a vol­un­teer pho­tog­ra­pher for the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. I was still learn­ing to use my newly-​​acquired Leica dig­i­tal rangefinder cam­era when I shot the 2012 fes­ti­val from the audi­ence. A year later I had shot numer­ous musi­cal per­for­mances and fes­ti­vals, so I was feel­ing much more con­fi­dent as I doc­u­mented the… Read More …

years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I shared only a por­tion of the pho­tos I shot dur­ing the race, rel­e­gat­ing the remain­der to Flickr. Since then Flickr have changed their terms of ser­vice. I’m cur­rently mov­ing many of my pho­tos from the plat­form to this blog. The zom­bie run… Read More …

Five years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I shared only a por­tion of the pho­tos I shot dur­ing the race, rel­e­gat­ing the remain­der to Flickr. Since then Flickr have changed their terms of ser­vice. I’m cur­rently mov­ing many of my pho­tos from the plat­form to this blog. These are… Read More …

Recap: Five years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I shared only a por­tion of the pho­tos I shot dur­ing the race, rel­e­gat­ing the remain­der to Flickr. Since then Flickr have changed their terms of ser­vice. I’m cur­rently mov­ing many of my pho­tos from the plat­form to this blog. For… Read More …

Recap: Five years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I shared only a por­tion of the pho­tos I shot dur­ing the race, rel­e­gat­ing the remain­der to Flickr. Since then Flickr have changed their terms of ser­vice. I’m cur­rently mov­ing many of my pho­tos from the plat­form to this blog. For… Read More …

years ago I pub­lished a story about the 5K zom­bie race in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At the time I shared only a por­tion of the pho­tos I shot dur­ing the race, rel­e­gat­ing the remain­der to Flickr. Since then Flickr have changed their terms of ser­vice. I’m cur­rently mov­ing many of my pho­tos from the plat­form to this blog. For this move,… Read More …

A pair of Oklahoma’s pre­mier song­writ­ers shar­ing a stage should draw a crowd. But if it’s Monday night the week before finals in a uni­ver­sity town, maybe not.

In 1957 a young archi­tect named Herb Greene returned to his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, to teach. Working along­side his for­mer pro­fes­sor mod­ernist Bruce Goff and oth­ers, he helped develop the American School of archi­tec­ture.

My first encounter with the music of My Brightest Diamond was a track on a RED + HOT com­pi­la­tion. During the sum­mer break, my neighbor’s teenage daugh­ter and her friend used to hang out in my liv­ing room and spin CDs on my hi-​fi. One day she brought over Dark Was the Night, the fif­teenth entry in the RED + HOT series.