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spent on the road covering
sporting events and he would
like to keep it that way.
“I wish I could do the
photography stuff, but if it
was 9 to 5, I might get burned
out on it,” Manning said.
Manning has always had
an eye for sports photography,
dating back to his childhood
when he collected sports
cards.
To ensure he gets the
picture he set out to capture,
Manning doesn’t go by the
old adage “less is more.”
At the Arkansas Derby,
Manning took close to 300
pictures, and close to 150 of
the actual race in which the
picture of American Pharoah
was chosen.
But, shooting in bulk is
something Manning has
always done when covering
an event, especially the ones
at his alma mater.
“I enjoy giving back to the
community that has helped
me,” Manning said. “It’s been
a fun, wild ride. I’ve really Braxton Allen (from left), Andrew Edwards and Lucas Aaron, all members of the Diamond State Trucking Leopards
team in the Major League division of the Malvern youth Little League take time to relax during a set of games at the
enjoyed it.”
Sykes Complex on Tuesday, May 5. (Photo by Eric Moore)
Take me out to the ball game
Manning
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the same generic thing over
and over again.”
Even after he was told that
one of his pictures was being
used by Sports Illustrated, it
took a little while for it to sink
in for Manning.
“It’s been a lifetime goal,
I’ve been keeping up with
them for years,” Manning
said. “It’s pretty surreal. It’s
something that a small-town
guy like myself thought
wouldn’t happen. I’ve been
very blessed with family
support. Everyone has always
encouraged me to be better.”
As much as he likes taking
pictures and traveling from
place to place, it’s not the sort
of thing he is looking to do
full-time.
His day job is at Save-aBundle in Benton, which is
part of FedEx Freight, where
he has worked since 2001 as a
forklift operator.
Much of his spare time is
Geena Davis launches Arkansas
film fest for women, diversity
LOS ANGELES (AP)
— With help from a slew
of corporate sponsors,
Geena Davis and filmmakers focused on women and
diversity have taken over
Bentonville, Arkansas, a
city of 40,000 best known
as Wal-Mart's home base.
While it's not the first
film festival to specialize
in diversity, Davis said it's
the only film competition
to promise theatrical releases for winning entries.
"It's unheard of in the
world, actually," the Oscarwinner said in a telephone
interview before opening
the festival Tuesday. "It's
the only festival offering
distribution across theatrical, digital and on TV and
on DVD. ... That's just part
of our push to show how
commercial diverse films
can be."
About 75 films will be
screened over the four-day
festival, which will also include panel discussions and
a celebratory "A League of
Their Own" baseball game,
featuring appearances by
Rosie O'Donnell and two
original members of the
All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Davis plans to expand
the festival beyond Bentonville to include educational outreach and events
throughout the year. Founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in
2007, the actress plans to
bring the research amassed
by her organization to film
schools and colleges around
the country.
"It's very important to
educate the next genera-
tion of content creators before they even start their
professional careers," she
said. "Once it's brought to
(filmmakers')
attention,
once they hear the numbers, they're just stunned
and horrified... how much
gender bias there is and
lack of diversity."
For example, research
funded by Davis' institute
and conducted by the University of Southern California found that women —
who constitute more than
half of the U.S. population
— typically comprise just
17 percent of on-screen
crowd scenes.
"That is one of the most
shocking things when people hear it," Davis said.
"And one of the things very
often they'll say is, 'Let's
just change that immedi-
Artists who put Ed
Snowden bust on NYC
monument are ticketed
ately.'"
A favorite catch-phrase
of the Geena Davis Institute is "If she can see it, she
can be it."
"In pretty much every
sector of society, female
leadership has stalled out
in about the same range —
interestingly, also around
17 percent," Davis said.
"It's going to take a long
time no matter how hard
we work. We can't snap our
fingers and tomorrow Congress is 50 percent women.
"But the one area of
gross imbalance that can
be changed overnight is
on screen, because they
very next movie somebody
makes can be gender balanced."
NEW YORK (AP) — The
mystery artists who put a
bust of Edward Snowden on
a Revolutionary War memorial have been ticketed but
not criminally charged, and
the city has given back their
confiscated statue, their lawyer said Wednesday.
The
4-foot-tall,
100-pound likeness of the exiled National Security Agency secret-leaker appeared
last month on a monument
in Brooklyn's Fort Greene
Park. Parks officials ordered
it removed within hours, and
police investigated the unauthorized artistic statement.
The inquiry ended with
two activist artists getting
$50 summonses for being
in a park after hours, a noncriminal violation, said attorney Ronald Kuby, who
wouldn't identify the two.
Authorities haven't released
their names.
"We're extremely grateful
that the city has reconfirmed
its commitment to the arts,
even those that are unusual
and offbeat," Kuby said.
He said the artists collected
the statue from authorities
Wednesday.
The police department
didn't immediately respond
to inquiries about the matter.
Snowden is living in exile in Russia after divulging
the secret U.S. government
collection of phone records,
among other intelligence
gathering. The fiberglassreinforced cement rendering of his face was affixed
to a monument that honors
American captives who died
on British prison ships during the Revolutionary War.
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