Angela Merkel expressing her regret a few years hence, if Cop15 climate talks fail. Altered images of world leaders greet arrivals at Copenhagen airport. (Created by Greenpeace and tcktcktck.)
Trawling for stories from Portland to Peru, tracking champion liars, wild-haired botanists and little-known playwrights of sure genius. That's my lot as a freelance writer, and I can't think of a better job to have.
If you need some words but don't know where to start, give me a shout at nancy AT writeronboard DOT com.
Changemakers
Amazon Gold
What do jaguars, deceitful orchids and a passionate botanist in Peru have to do with saving the planet? Follow TCU grad students and experts from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas into the rainforest and find out.
Slaying Kitchen Dragons Cooking on indoor wood stoves kills 1.6 million people (mainly women) per year. Professor Tracy Dietz and students build ovens in Guanajuato, Mexico, so that families can cook without fear.
Exo-planets Where Are You? Florida Tech alumna Pam Marcum helps NASA spend $600 million dollars on Kepler, the space-based telescope to launch in March.
Continent-Straddling Exhibitionist Lars Uwe Bleher, U of O professor of digital design media, moonlights in his native Germany for the likes of Mercedes-Benz and Deutsche Telekom.
Wally Shawn...in Texas? Who's this in a paisley bathrobe onstage? TCU alum and artistic director of Tongue and Groove Theater in Austin, aka "Mr. Frivolous," the only character wearing clothes in Shawn's banned play, A Thought in Three Parts.
Master Liar Mama always said that lying never pays. She hadn't run across Sheila Stark Phillips, obviously. This little lady from Sugarland has made a career out of it.
Dance, Dance, Dance Set the whole world spinning: backstage with choreographers, dancers and the Diva of Downtown at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York.
CAMERAS, KUNST AND CRAFT
European Eye Philippe Vandenbroeck's take on the capital cities of the EU.
Light Celebration Veteran pinhole photographer Willie Anne Wright and her haunting 30 year retrospective.
The Collector Brooks Johnson and the history of photography at The Chrysler Museum.
Photography Speaks Nobi, Philippe & Marko: Former Karl Marx Stadt hosts international show.
F/Stop Leipzig First Photo Fest in Germany's art city draws 140 artists from nine countries.
What does it mean to be a woman? It seems we've been whittled down to just one dimension, if you believe the "wim-ages" that bombard us from prime time to Times Square. Thanks to Avenue Arts Studio Gallery owner Kelly Mattox and four VCU alumnae for expanding the narrative. In these fresh takes by Barbara Ames, Anne Savedge, Marsha Polier and Willie Anne Wright, we meet women who haunt and holler, nourish and inspire, dazzle and dare. Here's to the wondrous women in the photographs--and to the equally wondrous women who made their pictures. Rock on, ladies.