FeelingElephants

Here's the story behind my blog's title.

My Photos are Famous!

Ok, I was Googling myself, I admit it. Sometimes I find nice things! A photo I took at my inauguration conference was noticed by the Special Libraries Association a few months ago and they requested to use it on their magazine cover because Mr Powell is speaking at their conference. Hooray! I love it when [...]

PunditKitchen As New Media

When I was at the UPIC (University Presidential Inauguration Conference) I attended their panel on the media. There were a number of prominent (and not so prominent) journalists on that panel. Other than that they all believed that blogging is not journalism, it is just re-fried print-news, I did not get much out of that [...]

Colin Powell at UPIC–interesting, a little bland

Originally uploaded by jdickins_photo

For weeks before attending the over-hyped and under-producing University Presidential Inaugural Conference, I told people I was going to see Colin Powell–oh, and that inauguration thing as well. Ever since reading It Doesn’t Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf in middle school, where he [...]

“With hope and virtue let us brave once more the icy currents…”–Obama’s Presidential Speech

IMGP0493

Originally uploaded by jdickins_photo

Since the inauguration, I can’t seem to let go of DC. I’ve been reading Politico’s gossip column, Shenanigans. I’ve been to DC to visit a certain someone. I’ve been reading the New York Times–more than usual, and specifically following DC news.

It’s getting bad–good thing I might be spending the [...]

My Photo is on the Front Page of the Tartan!

I am so excited! One of my photos was used as the front cover image for The Tartan. See screen-shot above. The Tartan has been CMU’s primary newspaper since 1906. They kindly let me use one of their beautiful cameras when I told them I was going to the inauguration. Another one of my [...]