Busted in Jena. My path crossed the Jena Six by chance. The BBC broadcast a documentary called “Race Hate in Louisiana” in May 2007. When I watched a copy of it in June, I was dumbfounded. I quit my job a week early, packed the car with my cameras, and drove to Jena.
posted by chunking express on Jan 12, 2008 - 47 comments

JPG, an online/offline photo magazine "for photographers like us who fall somewhere in between the strict definitions of 'amateur' and 'professional,'" launches today. The impresario of JPG is Derek Powazek, the author of Design for Community, who has a long history of building interesting Web-based community sites, including the personal-storytelling site Fray.com (currently on hiatus). The co-founder of JPG, Powazek's wife Heather Champ, created the haunting Mirror Project.
posted by digaman on Sep 18, 2006 - 24 comments

Warning: this is possibly the worst story ever told. Ever wanted to know what it's like to have a beef tapeworm? (Fun fact: they're the kind that fills your whole intestinal tract!) A storyteller on The Fray helpfully clues us in to the experience of living with, and eventually destroying, his li'l parasite buddy. Don't read it if you don't want to wish for death at the end. (Blessedly, there are no photographs, though there are some toon-like illustrations.) Via Boing Boing.
posted by logovisual on May 7, 2004 - 40 comments

Happy birthday.
posted by solistrato on Sep 22, 2000 - 4 comments

Derek put some photos from the Fray Day online, and is working on getting the audio together. In the meantime, enjoy a picture of me at the festivities (I'm the guy walking towards the left in between the two people looking at the small house). My favorite image and memory from the Fray Day is this, the caption says it all.
posted by mathowie on Oct 17, 1999 - 1 comment

Fray's Gregory Alkaitis-Carafelli has a really elegant site that I feel should inspire anyone.
posted by tdecius on Sep 29, 1999 - 0 comments

I just got back from the Fray Day party (I believe the whole thing will be archived in mp3 format) and there was this guy that played some short videos that were brilliant. His site was called Ingredientx.com, go there now and download all the videos, they're hilarious.
posted by mathowie on Sep 19, 1999 - 2 comments