I-T in the Hizz
The sharp-dressed man with the KILLER smile (standing next to House Speaker Tom Craddick) is Irwin Thompson, the DMN’s video editor and one of eight current and former DMN photogs who won the Pulitzer Prize last year for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
He was there to be honored on the House floor with a resolution by Rep. Helen Giddings, D-Dallas. A couple of his winning photos were displayed on easels on the floor, including that awesome shot with parts of cigar boxes tied to the guy’s feet in place of shoes. The words “keep moving” are printed on them, although I-T didn’t see the words on the boxes until he looked more closely at the photos later.
“I didn’t know I had it,” I-T said from the speaker’s podium, as the House members gathered around to check out the shots. “I’d probably still be there shooting it.”
Giddings praised the work of all those stellar photojournalists, saying it “forces us to come face to face with the devastation, the pain and the suffering of this tragedy.”
Then she says: “(Their work) provided very valuable insight and undeniable evidence of what happened in Katrina and Rita in what Karen Brooks described as, and I quote, a mind-blowing, nightmarish place straight out of a science fiction movie.”
(Someone dared me to quote Giddings quoting me. Tomorrow I'm going to try and get her to quote me quoting her quoting me. How’s *that* for post-modern journalism?)
The other seven rockstars: Michael Ainsworth, Melanie Burford, Barbara Davidson, Tom Fox, Brad Loper, Michael Mulvey and Smiley N. Pool.
Studlies, all of them. They'll each be getting their own resolutions if they ever decide to wander down from HQ and visit their brothers and sisters in Austin. HINT.
You can see their work under Breaking News Photography for 2006 here.
To see the whole thing on video (including I-Ts comments from the Speaker’s dais), click here, go to today’s date, and fast-forward until you get to exactly 58 minutes into the broadcast.
For the record, the picture of I-T was taken by someone on the House floor that was not me, nor was it a DMNer. I gave the camera to a nice parliamentary type and he snapped it for us.
Comments
Karen,
I'm loving your blogging style. How do you like being part of the "non-Mainstream Mainstream Media?"
As for you quoting yourself being quoted by someone else, bloggers do that all the time! Don't shy away from that. It just means you are as authoritative as you believe you are! :)
You get extra points when you quote someone else who quotes you quoting yourself actually quoting yourself from an even older post.
(Oh, and if there were a Pulitzer for blogging, it'd be won by a Texan this year. A long list of Texas blogs are up for Koufax awards this year. If you blog about that, I'll quote you, but only if you find another way to quote yourself.)
Posted by: Vince Leibowitz | February 15, 2007 10:58 PM
"How do you like being part of the "non-Mainstream Mainstream Media?"
It's great work if you can get it! :)
Thanks, babe!
Posted by: Brooks | February 16, 2007 10:49 AM