http://timmatsui.com Tim Matsui Photography : Storytelling Multimedia from Seattle-Based Documentary, Photojournalism, Corporate, NGO, and Multimedia Photographer Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:59:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'll be in Seattle on the weekend of March 13/14 to see the family and give a talk as part of a lecture series "The Price of Life" on human trafficking at the Seattle Public Library. Come down to the Microsoft Auditorium in the Central Library at 2pm on Sunday, March ... http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/03/giving-a-lecture-at-seattle-public-library-march-14/ To briefly live in the City means I'm on a budget in the City; I'm not eating out much, I'm not shopping for recreation, and I'm unlikely to spend a lot of time in bars or going to events...unless they're photo-industry related and therefore deemed important. And working at Mediastorm ... http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/03/nyc-fuerza-bruta-going-out-on-the-town/ This Friday, March 5, check out the Photo Center Northwest on the southern end of Capitol Hill near Seattle U. They've got a great gallery space and, even better, work from the top 50 winners of Critical Mass. And, yes, I do have a print in the show; the Inupiat ... http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/03/exposed-critical-mass-2009-winners-showing-in-seattle-at-photocenter-northwest/ Apparently I'd been to the American Museum of Natural History as a child. At least, that's what my Grandma told me on the phone last night. I don't recall a lot from early childhood, which makes me wonder what T will remember about his childhood. He's six now and, while at ... http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/03/nyc-american-museum-of-natural-history/ Lu and I caught a red eye flight and were bumping down through turbulence over JFK before we knew it. A cab ride in morning traffic with an ancient cabbie with gnarled hands. Rain was mixed with snow; they were forecasting another winter storm, 6-14 inches over the weekend. A ... http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/02/nyc-first-steps-for-the-next-three-months-with-mediastorm/ It's that time of year again: World Press publishes the results of its 2010 photo competition. Here you will see some of the best photojournalism from 2009. This is powerful, and sometimes graphic, work. Yes, I entered. No, I didn't win. Maybe next year. Click on the image: http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/02/world-press-photo-awards-2010/ Who would have thought President Regan's Strategic Defense Initiative would really have a practical application? Yes, there are missile defense systems that seem to work, but shooting nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles out of the sky with a laser? As a kid in the 80's, I liked looking at the diagrams and ... http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/02/star-wars-and-killing-malarial-mosquitos/ It was somewhere back in the 1990's, probably on some gray, wet Seattle day, when I picked up a back issue of Climbing Magazine and read about Mugs Stump and his unfortunate death in Alaska. I was a retail climbing shop lackey, an apathetic employee of Feathered Friends steadily making ... http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/02/alpinism-and-the-2010-mugs-stump-award/ The adventure of this trip was to experience the Brazil Lu calls home. This trip wasn't about work; though stories abound, my purpose was to meet the parents, the brothers, the aunts, the cousins...extended family is big in Brazil...and learn a little Portuguese and some cooking tips. I began in ... http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/02/brazil-the-windshield-series/ The New York Times mentioned this in an article today; a little poking around on the web found a couple more articles on the arrest of the 10 Americans, mostly from Idaho, who are part of the Idaho-based Christian group New Life Children’s Refuge. Haiti is well known for the exploitation ... http://timmatsui.com/blog/2010/01/10-american-arrested-in-haiti-alleged-child-trafficking/