"If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema." Serge Daney

Up Front NW
By Gary Ferrington

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Carl Sandburg Published/Written 1913

Last month I wrote about the power of images to stimulate world wide charitable giving in a time of crisis. Now, the "Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories" of 2004, has been released by the international humanitarian medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This report highlights the lack of media attention paid to unrelenting crises throughout the world. Though these crises are not as dramatic as a tsunami, they are never-the-less as important and in need of our charitable goodness.

In This issue:

Feature Article: Revisit a Photo Assignment first discussed in the September, 2004. The goal then and now was to see what images could be discovered within the constraints of a small playground. The season and angle of the sun have changed and new images can be found with the eye and camera.

Random Links: There was a time when radio was more than a commercial extension of the music industry or a chatter box of zealots. Radio was both an entertainment and informational medium.
    Today, there is a quiet renaissance in radio as the Internet makes it possible to listen to the best of independent audio production.

Site Visit: We are all familiar with the bells, whistles, and other sounds that our computers make as acoustical signals for various stages of daily operation. This month's site visit you'll experience a musical composition created from the sounds used by the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Lighter Side: PBS and KCTS have created an interactive site that provides a history of video games. It includes an interactive timeline of video game history and Flash-enabled specials on the impact of gaming.

On The Desktop: The conceptual age and the emergence of creative industries.

Comments From Readers:

"I've been using a demo version of a program called NoteTaker recently. It's really versatile, easy to use, and there's nothing else like it. It lets you incorporate text outlines, QuickTime movies, pictures, sounds, images, web links, and pretty much anything you can drag and drop into a fully customizable document. It's pretty slick. I thought you might like to know it's out there, if you haven't already heard of it." KL Eugene.

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