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Muser Reading at {open}

brianna — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:48:24 +0000

It’s SCBWI weekend in LA, and a bunch of Musers are in town so we’re meeting up at Sé Reed’s fabulous shop for a night of readings and fun. Come join us! Monday night at 7pm at {open} on 4th St in Long Beach.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Reviews of New Food

brianna — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:30:42 +0000

I ate a lot of gas station taquitos last summer. Here’s my confession at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. They were insistent that I be specific about location so Crestline gets a shout-out, as does Crestline’s 7-11.

Another Creative Commons Round-Up

brianna — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:25:05 +0000

Wonderful use of one of my photos of the Wood family farm in Missouri for an article entitled:

“Did Missouri Agricultural Conference Forget About Small Farmers?”

“Spice Melange:Dill” made me hungry

“Grow an Urban Garden” re-uses my photo of my mojito stash -

and two of my photos are currently illustrating two different eHow articles: “How to Plant a Chokecherry Tree”

and “How to Describe the Growth Process of a Plant Seed”

and Dian Reed’s 2009 wrap-up “Best of Tea” uses a photo of the first display tea I ever tried (I’ve since enjoyed many more):

also, Camille of the Svelte Gourmand finally tried kale (well, back in August)

Mortal Lessons & Ties That Bind

brianna — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:45:06 +0000

David Liban contacted me last year about using a few of my family photos for his documentary “Mortal Lessons”

“We are all going to die, yet we spend most of our life avoiding this fact, as if to mention death will bring it upon us sooner. Then when death strikes, we are devastated, in part because we are unprepared. And yet, some of life’s most valuable lessons are best learned in the face of death. This is the story of two extraordinary women facing their mortality head on as they battle lung cancer.”

And Aileen Roberts contacted me not to use a photo, but to use a caption from one of my photos in the same family series for her project about cancer, “Ties That Bind“:

“The day after the haircutting party was chemo, and after chemo we went wig shopping. Naturally, I bought a styrofoam head of my very own. I wanted 2, but I didn’t have enough room in my bag. This is Clio. Mom found me listening to Mozart and drinking red wine from a jam jar while I was painting her face. Mom just turned around and left the room. “

Creative Commons

brianna — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:09:55 +0000

I like to document my life in photos, as do we all, and I keep my dailies licensed for easy re-use under a Creative Commons license. This has some great side-effects – my photos show up in the coolest AND weirdest places:

The Guardian Gardening Blog has used a couple of my indoor gardening photos:

Em & Lo’s Love and Sex advice column hilariously (and quite appropriately) used one of the photos I took during my elopement trip to San Francisco:

And I don’t know who this is, but they liked one of my harvest photos enough to re-use it: