Another chapter in my very public life. Transparency, transparency – are we ever really naked? [Sung to tune of “O Tannenbaum”]
Frank H. Jump
Frank Jump Interviewed @ StoryCorps by Sustainable Flatbush's Anne Pope
© Frank H. Jump
Anne Pope: Frank Jump and I have been friends – and sometimes collaborators – since 1988. When I first thought about doing a StoryCorps session, he was the first person I wanted to interview.
- PODCAST: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 – Pope Interviews Jump @ StoryCorps
Everybody’s story matters. Every life counts. Help us reach out to record our history, hopes, and common humanity—and illuminate the true character of this nation. StoryCorps.net
Lilywhite Lies © Frank H. Jump 1987 – (lyrics) aired on WBAI and became theme song for an AIDS Awareness program hosted by James Toms.
PRINT MAG Toots Horn for Fading Ad Blog
Click on the logo above for the full posting. Here’s an excerpt:
Jump’s documentation of Americana is more than just the result of an obsessive-compulsive collector’s impulse. He explains in his blog that he is inspired by the symbolic parallels between objects that outlive their expected life span and stories of human fade-outs. For Jump, a fading ad is an urban testament to survival, the advertising equivalent of a flower growing in a crack of the sidewalk. STEPHANIE HEISE
Photo Blogs of Distinction – Soho Journal features Fading Ad and fellow photobloggers
The Soho Journal “went sightseeing online” and singled out Fading Ad Blog as one of their favorite “engaging, compelling photography blogs.” Looks like John Coakley didn’t have to go far since the other two outstanding photoblogs he featured were in my blogroll. Adrian Kinloch’s Brit in Brooklyn and Chris Adams’ Lonely Pictures were also given rave reviews for their singular and poetic visual perspectives. Coakley went on further to say:
And remember, these sites all have excellent links sections to allow you to spend even more time at work looking at pretty pictures that aren’t porn. Enjoy!
Click on The Soho Journal logo above to read the article. Here are some images from my fellow photobloggers I found compelling.
Chris Adams’ Lonely Pictures
© Chris Adams, Lonely Pictures
Adrian Kinloch’s Brit in Brooklyn
© Adrian Kinloch
These are some of Kinloch’s favorite signs, the first being what Kinloch explains is “a vacuum-formed sign that I like in Park Slope” and the second image, which is one of my favorites- the Gowanus megalith on 3rd and Degraw Street.
Thank you Soho Journal!
Himalayas On New Year's Day with Rosario, Vincenzo & Friends – Tuesday, January 1, 2008
© Frank H. Jump
On New Year’s Day, after flying in from Ft. Lauderdale from a vacation visiting my family, my niece called me up and said, “Hey Uncle Frank, let’s go out tonight!” So we did. We saw a large assemblage of brass and woodwind players with an occasional accordion, electric guitar and homemade zen percussion called Himalayas. Four words described their music and performance: Joyous, polyrhythmic, pandiatonic, cacophony. The quote on the bass drum: An injury to one is an injury to all.
Peace
PS: I guess the secret’s out now, so that is Rosa’s new boyfriend – DJ Mathieu Schreyer in the background. Not quiet comfortable seeing paparazzi shots of her on websites, but it goes with the territory. Rosa is a really smart young woman and I’m sure she can handle the limelight by now. I’m still the proud and sometimes overly concerned Uncle.
