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The Backlight: "Goodbye Friend, you'll hear from me again. FM 95 on your drive home."
I wrote this song after a music producer I was working with told me that all I had was passion and a big heart, but not enough true talent to make it in music....
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I'm so hungry, if I was a lion...
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The Backlight: I honestly think I've had this quote in my head for years...when i came up with it, I was quite pleased with myself. It's kind of gross to imagine eating your community. But I guess if you're that hungry, it might make sense sometimes.
The Backlight: We used to live in a tiny, one-bedroom place by the Ferry Building in the Financial District. It was more of a "pied-a-terre" than a home, but whenever I was there, I loved waking up every morning and going on the balcony to watch the...
The Backlight: Part of a series chronicling the slow-brew coffee culture in San Francisco.
The Backlight: This is Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti. His left foot had to be amputated after he was injured by a bomb blast while on assignment in Afghanistan.
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The Backlight: About a year ago, doctors finally figured out the reason I had spent the preceding six months with crippling and painful swelling in my left foot. But instead of giving me hope that I’d get better, the diagnosis brought me to a...
The Backlight: Made this right after I heard I got into Stanford last year. It is on the top of Camelback Mountain in my hometown of Phoenix, AZ.
The Backlight: A while ago, I started noticing something called "HDR imaging" becoming more popular on photo sites like Flickr. I wasn't sure what this type of imaging was, but I was stunned by the dramatic and clear rendering of scenes that it...
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San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge, California Sunsets, Photohunts, Photography, HDR Photography, Learning New Things
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Idou, ho kosmos ēgerthē!
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The Backlight: For me, Easter is a miniature version of a universal narrative--something is good, something is broken, something is restored--not destroyed but redeemed in such a way that the original goodness is not just recovered but paradoxically...
The Backlight: my housemate Cedric loves taking pictures of people jumping. One hungover sunday, we went to the beach near our house with friends who were visiting and were inspired to start taking jumping photos. Soon we had created a mission, to...
The Backlight: www.sunbeamfoundation.org
After my friend Sara passed away from cancer at the age of 21, everything changed for me...She inspired me to launch a music career, and perhaps more importantly, to want to use any proceeds from my music to...
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The Backlight: My Mom, Iva Silverman, was first diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 3 and passed away when I was 16. She was an amazing woman and mother -- with a warmth, strength, spirit, compassion, and wisdom that shaped my life and has been my...
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