Wood Worker of Northern Georgia

Dr. J in the woods of North Georgia. Blairsville, Georgia. Thanksgiving 2012.

Dallas's Connection to the United Nations

Peter Stewart reacts to comments while speaking to a well-wisher after Stewart, founder of the Thanks-Giving Square Foundation, was awarded the inaugural "Spirit of the United Nations" award for youth outreach during "The Spirit of the UN" award ceremony at the Church Center of the United Nations in New York, New York on October 22, 2012. Peter Stewart was recognized by the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns during a week at the United Nations in the name of the NGO. (Andy Jacobsohn for The Dallas Morning News)

Rancho Relaxo

Courtney taking in the Rancho Relaxo. Blairsville, Georgia. July Fourth weekend 2012.

Gazes of Unemployment

The unemployed or those unhappy with their current job status queued up to almost 200 job seekers in either direction as they waited to enter a 3-hour job fair. A Renaissance hotel in Iselin, New Jersey, could be the launching point to a new career for one of those waiting to enter the banquet hall. Scattered throughout the corridor was a miscellany of employers from New Jersey Transit and Prudential to financial institutions and technological and vocationally schools. Schools like the Stenotech Career Institute that boasts a 0% unemployment rate in the field of stenography - but before the students make the potential 6-figure salary they have to spend cash they don't have on a 3-year education. The recruitment associate from the school wasn't hesitate to say that she will likely not have a new student come out of this job fair, or fairs like it. The would-be students need income now.

For some it is hard to look when the United States has 8.1% unemployment rate, down from 8.3% the month before in part due to people retiring from a career of looking for their lost jobs back. But at these jobs fairs, looks, stares, and gazes defines the faces of seekers. Eyes are glued to job listings, looking ahead in the lines and stares that size up other job seekers.

At the same time is is irksome to stare back to document the pain of discontent and the waning patience of the displeased workforce. 

Dawn Bark

Chelsea Piers, New York City. August 2012.

Review of Burger King's Bacon Sundae for The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/16/a-bacon-sundae-may-sound-like-a-dream-combo-until-you-try-to-eat-one.html

When all the hype was circling around Burger King's Bacon Sundae I sat down a wrote a piece on my experience with the 'treat' for The Daily Beast.

Memorial Dinosaur

Lawn extinction. Long Island, New York. Memorial Day weekend 2012.

Looking Back at the New Hampshire Republican Primary

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusett, greets the crowd after speaking to an over capacity-audience during a champaign rally hosted by Romney and Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota, at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)


A day before the New Hampshire Primary Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, speaks to a crowd of business leaders and owners during the Nashua Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Series in Nashua, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

A day before the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, with his wife, Callista Gingrich, greets employees of PSNH after making remarks at a town hall meeting in the PSNH offices in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks to the press during activity in the Spin Room following the ABC News Republican Debate on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

A day before the New Hampshire Primary, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, speaks to a crowd of business leaders and owners during the Nashua Chamber Of Commerce Breakfast Series in Nashua, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Press and supporters of Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah, gather outside of a private home before Huntsman was expected to met with supporters during a house party in a Bedford, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah, with his wife, Mary Kaye Huntsman, speaks with the press before meeting with supporters at a house party in a Bedford, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

A day before the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, with his wife, Callista Gingrich, speaks to employees of PSNH during a town hall meeting in the PSNH offices in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, signs a picture of himself for an employee of PSNH after Gingrich spoke to the employees of PSNH during a town hall meeting in the PSNH offices in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

The ballroom of the Radisson Inn where Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, was set to speak to a crowd of business leaders and owners during the Nashua Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Series in Nashua, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Supporters, who choose to remain unidentified, of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney rally on the campus of Saint Anselm College before the start of the ABC News Republican Debate on the campus of Saint Anselm in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Blind Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Arrives in New York City

Under the circumstances that surround blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and the availability of this "media opportunity" the moment was shrouded in its rarity for the media and absolute joy for the dissident and his family as he stepped with one bad foot into the United States.

After tracking Chen Guangcheng's movements for the last month, the visual media had finally gained an opportunity to document the man that captivated much of the media's attention since his escape from home confinement. Now instead of editors having to work with the few handout images from the United States Embassy in Beijing and glimpses of him being wheeled through a hospital, the media had finally gained almost open access to record his arrival on the campus of New York University in Manhattan on Saturday. Now he begins his new life in Greenwich Village.


Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng gestures with his wife, Yuan Weijing, beside him before making remarks to the media upon arriving on the campus of New York University on May 19, 2012 in New York, New York. China allowed the activist to leave a hospital in Beijing and board a plane for the US, a move that could signal the end of a diplomatic standoff between the two countries. (Andy Jacobsohn/Getty Images)


Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng steps out of a van with his wife, Yuan Weijing, beside him before making remarks to the media. (Andy Jacobsohn/Getty Images)


Through a translator, blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng makes remarks to the media, while standing beside NYU professor Jemore Cohen. (Andy Jacobsohn/Getty Images)


The injured foot of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng stands next to a group of recorders while Chen makes remarks to the media. (Andy Jacobsohn/Getty Images)


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While being taken away Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng yells back at a women screaming at him after Chen made remarks to the media upon arriving on the campus of New York University. (Andy Jacobsohn/Getty Images)


Media and escorts of Chen Guangcheng surrounds him while being taken away as he yells back at a women screaming at him after making remarks to the media upon arriving on the campus of New York University. (Andy Jacobsohn/Getty Images)


A father and daughter walk through the area of New York University where Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng made remarks to the media upon arriving in the United States. (Andy Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

Rangel, Candidates Running for Office in New York's New 13th Congressional District

Clyde Williams, former National Political Director of the Democratic National Committee, catches up on e-mails in his newly-opened campaign headquarters in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York, New York. Williams is running for the New York's new 13th Congressional District, formally the 15th district, against Adriano Espaillat and incumbent Charlie Rangel. Residents in the district will vote for their representative in the democratic primary on June 26, 2012. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)


New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat campaigns on the corner of 110th street and Lexington Avenue in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York, New York. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)


Representative Charlie Rangel (center) makes comments during a press conference Rangel held at Frederick Douglass Circle in New York, New York. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)


A supporter of representative Charlie Rangel stands among a crowd while Rangel holds a press conference at Frederick Douglass Circle in New York, New York.  (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)


Clyde Williams, former National Political Director of the Democratic National Committee, speaks with canvassers in his newly-opened campaign headquarters in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York, New York. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)


New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat campaigns on the corner of 110th street and Lexington Avenue in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York, New York. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Representative Charlie Rangel reacts after comments from a campaign aide while Rangel holds a press conference at Frederick Douglass Circle in New York, New York. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat speaks to a prospective supporter while campaigning on the corner of 110th street and Lexington Avenue in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York, New York. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Clyde Williams, former National Political Director of the Democratic National Committee, speaks to supporters, prospective supporters and campaign staff while making comments during a house party held for the candidate in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York, New York. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

A pedestrian passes a flyer of New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat sticking to a phone booth while Espaillat campaigns nearby on the corner of 110th street and Lexington Avenue in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York, New York. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Clyde Williams, former National Political Director of the Democratic National Committee, speaks to supporters, prospective supporters and campaign staff while making comments during a house party held for the candidate in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York, New York. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Representative Charlie Rangel waves to supporters after holding a press conference at Frederick Douglass Circle in New York, New York. Rangel was elected to the 15th district in 1970. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

American Airlines Laborers Picket in Manhattan

A picketer prays during a demonstration by members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Transportation Workers Union outside of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District in New York City on April 23, 2012. American Airline workers of both organizations were picketing due to American Airlines' management decision to review its collective bargaining agreement at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)


An observer takes a photo of picketers during a demonstration by members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Transportation Workers Union outside of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District in New York City on April 23, 2012. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)


Picketers shout during a demonstration by members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Transportation Workers Union outside of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District in New York City on April 23, 2012. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)