Brooklyn Desk Creative – Oregon Days

Yep, just made a successful real-time, real-weather flight in the Super Cub from Bend via route 97 to K-Falls (particularly gray) where i took on some extra fuel, then beat the gathering clouds over the hump to Ashland. The flight between Klamath Falls and Ashland is in stark contrast to the drive. The flight is [...]

After my chilly Steens trip i decided to see what that part of Oregon looks like in X-Plane, so I loaded up my Piper Super Cub and headed southwest from Ashland Muni. After about one and a half hours i arrived over Roaring Springs Ranch and turned north toward Frenchglen. Once approximately over Frenchglen, i [...]

The urge to travel got the better of me this week. I elected to do a commando raid on Steens Mountain… a large ridge in south central Oregon. Steens rises over 9,000 feet above the Alvord Dessert and is notoriously difficult to visit at many points during the year. The ridge is a cloud-catcher bringing [...]

In many ways Crater Lake is the Niagara Falls of Oregon. Undeniably striking, one can visit a hundred times and the first glimpse from the rim drive still evokes a sense of awe. This old-school one-trick-pony National Park remains a favorite destination. A high point of this latest trip was the look of happy surprise [...]

I took some photos at a reading by an SOU prof this evening on the occasion of the publication of New Jersey Noir. A question of “what is ‘noir’?” was asked. For a myriad number of reasons i feel particularly able to answer that question.