by dave petraglia | Mar 24, 2014 | PERSONALITIES |
(First published in Thought Catalog February 27, 2014) Now we know what it took to be Phillip Seymour Hoffman. His life. We examine a celebrity entertainer’s death. These are deaths like no other. They are, after all, playing parts. It’s said great actors ‘put...
by dave petraglia | Mar 1, 2014 | Photography |
(First published in eFiction India, March 2014 Issue) Abandoned, at a former naval shipyard in Green Cove Springs, Florida. Late fall afternoon. Bracketed, layered, shadows and highlights tone-mapped.
by dave petraglia | Nov 29, 2013 | CULTURE |
An employee motivational meeting was held recently in the lunchroom of a national home improvement supplies retailer. Here’s part of the store manager’s address, secretly recorded on one employee’s phone: Manager: “I’ve had some feedback from corporate about our...
by dave petraglia | Jul 30, 2013 | SPACE |
ISON, party on. Since time began, mankind has sought to explain the events of the cosmos. Comets were feared at first as evidence of an evil animus, then gained acceptance as one of the more benign interventions of extraterrestrial bodies as humans stitched these...
by dave petraglia | Aug 4, 2013 | TELEVISION |
In Renovation Raiders, HGTV’s newest show, a crew of high-power remodelers does over a room from top to bottom in the time that the homeowners are out to dinner. How-to television producers know all to well that construction is, well, dull. Like the cooking shows...
