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This festival is a hoot! #portugal #aveiro 😁 youtu.be/p1J65NAQEcs?...

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Hell yes!

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Ya think? Geez... apnews.com/article/trum...

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I'm pretty sure that I can no longer be shocked by anything Trump or MAGA does. What's got me rattled is all the pre-obeying and knuckling under by people and institutions that could put up a fight, for example a fight for DEI. It's not all Americans, but the world can clearly see who we are now.

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Street scene in #Guarda #Portugal #photography #streetphotography

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Continuing my weblog series about visual style -- a short entry this time about standard visual narrative coverage and what we might do to spice it up. framebyframe.rhetorica.net/2025/02/12/f...

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Pardon me while I engage in a moment of shameless self-promotion. Thank you!

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Seriously Onion. Stay in your lane, and stop covering real news. Sheesh!!!

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This again, but from Substack. open.substack.com/pub/docfilm/...

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Here's a round-up of the current state of my documentary projects for 2025. #documentary #nonfiction #storytelling docfilm.substack.com/p/the-curren...

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I'm one of the experts you call. I have a Ph.D. in rhetoric. That doesn't mean I know it all or that I'm always right. But I do know a lot about it, and my assertions are not simply pulled out of my ass. So, yes, this is a Nazi salute, and he does mean it that way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfY...

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Plus the missed lede, IMO: Specifically saying we are taking back the Panama Canal (!!!???). You shouldn't have to be a boomer to remember (or to have studied) our troubling treatment of Latin America through the years. This was the stuff of banner headlines left largely undiscussed.

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I know many people who won't be watching the inauguration. I get it. But I'm watching. I've got an ocean giving me a bit of emotional protection. I want to be a fully conscious witness to history -- painful as it is.

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I installed Instagram about a month after it was released in October 2010. I published my first photo on the app on 22 November. I am 18 images away from 1,000. #photography #instagram #socialmedia framebyframe.rhetorica.net/2025/01/20/a...

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It's bad. But it's going to get worse because it happened before. Watch "Witness at Tornillo" -- about the fight over separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. #immigration #trump #borderpatrol framebyframe.rhetorica.net/2025/01/16/d...

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A little history, and, perhaps, a little foreshadowing (let's hope not). This documentary I helped produce is just as relevant today as the last time Trump was president. Please watch and pass it along. #border #immigration #trump #refugees www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv...

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Hmmmmm... This seems like a huge stretch, especially considering the thorough and sobering response by AP.

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What's in store for refugees at the border between Mexico and the United States? Check out what happened the last time Trump was in charge -- Witness at Tornillo, a documentary film by Carbon Trace Productions. #refugees #documentary framebyframe.rhetorica.net/2025/01/16/d...

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I'm working on a project that will combine photo & video in four acts based on the seasons. I'm toying with looks for the photos. Here's the style I originally created for my COVID pictures: desaturated but with extra "pop" to bring out a few, muted colors. #portugal #aveiro #streetphotography

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“I apologize for being so naive.” Chilling words. We still do not understand (i.e. an academic sort of way) what social media really means -- its impacts on producers and consumers who otherwise, in a pre-internet world, would not have thought to do such things. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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I sent my last Substack newsletter in June 2021. I just sent an update :-) There's been some activity recently that I'm stacking up to Bluesky. Hmmmm... In any case, I may do some cross posting from Frame by Frame -- my old-fashioned weblog :-) substack.com/@docfilm

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I actually do not mean to be glib or snarky, but seeing as how they've lived up to nothing so far, why will this be any different?

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Been getting pretty sick of the MSM product lately. Let's hope this lives up to the promises.

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The size of your camera, and the presence of a dead cat, says something to people in the streets. #videography #photography #streetphotography #streetvideography #canoncameras #weblog framebyframe.rhetorica.net/2025/01/14/t...

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Another blast from the past... Here's the .rss feed for my Frame by Frame weblog for all the rest of you stuck in the early 2000s :-) framebyframe.rhetorica.net/feed/

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For the third, and I hope last, time I have walked away from TikTok. Two reasons: It's designed to monetize outrage. I don't want to feed that. And, more importantly, it's too freaking difficult to do well. I'm saving my efforts, instead, for my documentary films and photography. #tiktok

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Ha! I like to write headlines that over-sell :-) Is that the same as clickbait? Anyway, be one of the three people who read my Frame by Frame weblog -- about visual nonfiction storytelling :-) #documentary #documentaryfilmmaking #blogging framebyframe.rhetorica.net/2025/01/12/h...

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LOL... Needed that 🤣🤣🤣

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I'm in Lisboa to film an important protest (and right-wing counter-protest). Depending, I may post updates. Otherwise, watch for a wrap-up. #portugal #lisbon #racism #immigration www.publico.pt/2025/01/10/s...

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Seriously, the only reason I'm linking my recent post from Frame by Frame is so you might actually check it out -- it being the whole weblog. I know, I know. Blogs are sooooo 2004. Let's consider brining back the weblog AND promoting Bluesky. #blogging framebyframe.rhetorica.net/2025/01/10/z...

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Something to do while we wait: Consider some predictions. #documentary #documentaryshort #liveactionshort variety.com/lists/2025-o...

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Important budgeting and scheduling materials for 2025 from the International Documentary Association.

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These things can be interesting, but I think it requires an independent filmmaker looking to tell a compelling story and not a streaming service looking for just anything to fill its list.

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Hmmmm... seems to me a big part of the problem is that people want to watch. How does that happen? The "entertainment" itself is just part of a larger... what? Maybe we've always been this way. Even Shakespeare is full of dick and fart jokes. #documentary #culture www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/a...

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Here's a photography list for Bluesky. You know it's good because I'm on it 😉 bsky.app/profile/flak... #photography

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I seriously find myself nostalgic for the early days of blogging, circa 1998 to 2008. I published two successful ones back then: Rhetorica (press/politics) and Carbon Trace (bicycling). My new weblog is Frame by Frame at framebyframe.rhetorica.net

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Some of my friends are quitting Facebook cuz reasons. I'm cool with that. But I'm not ready for that yet. I do my best to control my feed. And I only use it to post personal stuff (i.e. what's happening in my life) for family and friends. Here on Bluesky you get my "professional" self.

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