Durham Bulls win in ninth: Walk off
Photo by Ivan Weiss. A little standard reportage of the morning-paper type: Chris Gimenez hit a two-out, three-run homer in the ninth inning last night to break a tie and give the Bulls a 5-2 win over...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Shaved Ice, Behind-the-Scenes
Photo by Ivan Weiss. Waiting for customers at concessions. The post Photo of the Day: Shaved Ice, Behind-the-Scenes appeared first on Bull City Summer.
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Playing Catch
Photo by Ivan Weiss. The next great baseball star? The post Photo of the Day: Playing Catch appeared first on Bull City Summer.
View ArticleHank Willis Thomas and the Season’s Final Home Stand
Hank Willis Thomas at work. Photo by Ivan Weiss. Hank Willis Thomas, Bull City Summer’s final guest artist, was brought in to help document the last home stand of the regular season. Hank is an...
View ArticleBull City (Indian) Summer
Photo by Ivan Weiss. As you may have noticed, it’s hot. Summer took quite a while to get here. It started out dallying as some sort of temperate rainy season, then turned briefly, bracingly autumnal in...
View ArticleCrunching the Numbers with Scoreboard Operator Chris Ivy
Photo by Leah Sobsey. There’s an old saying in baseball, that the game brings out the little kid in grown men. Sayings only get old if they stick around for a while, and they only stick around if...
View ArticleBack in Time, Postscript: The Resistance of Memory
Photo by Ivan Weiss. The day I published my Paris Review Daily piece about the most exciting game I ever saw, two other people who were at that game in September 1984 appeared, as if summoned. Ron...
View ArticlePitchers & Catchers: The Battery, Part One
Durham Bulls catcher Chris Gimenez, his son, and Bulls catcher Jesus Flores. Photo by Ivan Weiss. It’s easy to assume that pitching, which is the originating force of every baseball play, is a one-way...
View ArticleFriction & Discipline: an Epilogue, Part One
Photo by Ivan Weiss. Friction and discipline: the two things you need to tell a good story, documentary or otherwise. You need external friction to cause opposition, tension and sparks, otherwise you...
View ArticleBull City Summer: Camera Obscura
Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark (Teaser) from Ivan Weiss on Vimeo. A video teaser by Ivan Weiss, with camera work by Kate Joyce, featuring Leah Sobsey’s equipment. Bull City Summer...
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