Clay McBride’s Wild Ride

“Beautiful, beautiful! … Show me some love! … Chin up a little bit … Perfect, perfect … Fire woman! You’re a fire woman.”

Clay McBride’s rapid-fire words were punctuated by the pops and cranks of his camera and lighting equipment. Crouched behind his 4×5 view camera, the 40-year-old lensman, who over the past 15 Read More

Science Proves Metallica’s Crapitude

Almost immediately after Metallica released its much anticipated ninth studio album, Death Magnetic a couple weeks back, complaints began popping up all over fan forums that it was too loud, too compressed, too tinny—too lacking in dynamic range. The kids even scored a sympathetic ear from the album’s own mastering engineer, Ted Jensen. “Suffice it Read More