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The seventh and (not the) last for the time being photo of the mini-series, entitled "Courage for creative blurring" Taken with the "Pentacon 1.8/50" and a 0,45x super wide angel lens adapted on Sony E-mount
"Zeitgeist" is a German buzzword in the English language
Klimawandel, Dürre, Versteppung sind die Schlagworte der Zeit. Sollten wir Menschen irgendetwas ändern?
Climate change, drought, desertification are the buzzwords of the day. Should we humans change anything?
The wet fallen leaves stuck to the rocks and unable to be removed suggest a retired man with no job, hobbies or friends, who is completely dependent on his wife and refuses to leave her side. (Wet fallen Leaves: Japanese Buzzword Award 1989 ）
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Examples of Political Jargon: Essential Buzzwords Explained
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The portmanteau neologism of trading globally and marketing with consideration for local customs. Even globalists acknowledge the need for taken into account local cultures. Before those indigenous cultures get subsumed. In a world obsessed by the diversity buzzword it's somewhat ironic that so many high streets no resemble each other no matter where one looks in the western world.
In other news, I recently gave up all fizzy soft drinks (full fat and diet versions) with the result of feeling better and having lost some weight (still a long way to go on that second count).
Of course I recognize feeling better is so subjective. I also recognize that the weight loss may be:
a) uniquely related to this abstinence;
b) principally related to this abstinence;
c) only partially related to this abstinence;
or d) entirely coincidental.
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Attainable or mere buzzword?
At the end of the day after all is said and done, much more would have been said than done.
Much like this shot, it’s all about the correct perspective.
Just as more extract (supplements) does not guarantee better health, more sharpness alone does not make a better lens. It’s all about balance and the trick is actually finding that elusive balance.
It’ll be a while yet before the world swings back to any semblance of equilibrium.
Lisa is a four-year-old "mute" calico, and is very sweet and demure. She was demure before it became a buzzword. She's also on my lap right now.
Located on the corner of Farnsworth and Moran, this community garden was started by Molly Motor waaaay before urban farming was the buzzword of the day as the potential "savior" of Detroit. That entire block is a wonder of urban homesteading and the kind of urban farming I'd personally prefer to see city-wide over corporate owned operations.
16/52- Ever since I was young I'd always dreamed of a house in the woods...
Week 16 of the Project 1/52 challenge and last weekend my second trip gallivanting across the pond to France on the chasing crumbling chateaus tour. Around 15 researched and fresh locations hit with successes around half and a few alarms and both happy and angry landowners/gatekeepers!
Here is an external from a random chateau discovered while on road. Tell-tale signs of a rusty, overgrown gate led us through thick woods to this chateau covered in overgrowth, slowly being consumed by its natural surroundings.
Furthermore a great weekends road trip with new and old faces, adventure, shooting and banter! Here's to many more! : )
A series of nine posts today - I know - it's either feast or famine with me. So I say thank you to all of my flickr friends for your visits, kind comments and lovely little "fave stars".
well, the spring has come again. I don't really understand all the shit that happened this year. There was so much disgusting abeyance, worst in about 5 years, where I just couldn't bring myself to get started on even easy classwork.
The first semester was really disappointing. My classes were overwhelming and I didn't live up to them all as much as I wanted to, except for Imaging Science, which I went nuts over. I made an apartment switch for second semester, which improved my quality of life drastically. I had to do Physics this year, which I should be interested in but it just kills my love of math like no other learning setting. Except for electromagnetic radiation. <3.
A new... element of this year was that all the feels, encounters, and thoughts didn't build up to the sharp, worried pain that they did last year. Nah. This semester I'm genuinely rolling with life and it usually feels grand. I've been getting better about being genuine to people... letting secrets go, acting like what I feel like. I got a Partizan-Summer Gorka E and wore it as my winter jacket - windbreaker, something which I fantasized about doing for years, and it felt great to come out in camouflage without it falling into the tacky-stigma sort of wear that's always kept me from wearing any camo in public. What I'm trying to say is that I'm hiding less and less of myself and it's so relieving to cut the shit with... with nearly everyone I talk to.
I only have one more week of being just like this, a facet of personality which won't ever return after my housing - class setup is changed once my year ends. The best note I will leave behind is my recent Rogue One photo. It's almost exactly like Two Last Letters from last year. Each highlighted a hand-painted face which summarized a lot of how I felt in each semester. Two Last Letters captured my feelings from Maggot Brain and the album Echoes, while the Rogue One picture captured my feelings from The Stage and the album Strange Trails. In fact, it was originally going to be named "Hope my wheels don't abandon me now" and the description only the subsequent lyrics of The Stage, but with the other photo turning out so well, the mini-series worked better and I went with "What the Darkness Does" from Lord Huron's Meet Me in the Woods. Truly, there ain't language for the things I feel, but at least I can translate the imagination well into pictures of Lego. Oh god, this description is getting really bad. there there, reader. It's my last year of being a teenager. Maybe I'll become an emotionless twit once I turn 20 and then all the fun angst will dissipate then my life will be the move Office Space and eventually I'll get to have catharsis and smash a printer. ttthhhhhbbbt. I'm so happy with my job for this summer because it's exactly the opposite of that... good god, it's one of the most exciting things I could have dreampt up to do with my education. I was expecting some cubicle (or maybe worse, hipster agile scrum buzzwords) job in software, but nope, planes with cameras. Idk. I'll have just a few days with my complete collection of Lego this summer, then a very limited one, but I'll bring my heavy-duty customization supplies with me and a decent set of bricks. Got so many swords to do. Welp, once more, I'm uploading a huge embarrassing description. dark necessities and all that. I've got good uploads coming when I make it home!
simple shot for today...take care all!
i've been sick since thursday - a bad cold - so i haven't been around. i'm still on the mend so i'll be slow on flickr.
i've also been 'distracted' and have been working on a technical project ( funambol, syncml, motorola q, outlook, thunderbird, sunbird/lightning, ical/ics -- and any other buzzwords that you can think of)...
Craig Kensley -- twitter.com/#!/being_ck -- and me!
Buzzword Bingo Cards
A normal US municipal, wet-barrel fire hydrant is shown. The hydrant offers two 2½-inch (6.35cm) National Hose Thread connections and a 4½-inch (~11.43cm) National Hose Thread connection.
The modern buzzword in public safety is interoperability. The 2½-inch National Hose Thread connections are a United States nationwide standard. There's probably a small number of community water systems that use hose and hydrants with pipe thread or some other non-standard thread. Generally, one could drive a fire engine from Texas to California — or from California to Texas — and your 2½-inch hose should connect to the fire hydrants.
What's the difference between a wet barrel and a dry barrel hydrant? It's just like the name implies: a wet barrel has water inside it at all times. A dry barrel has water only after you turn it on.
Wet barrel:
* Has a valve for each opening or connection.
* Will imitate a geyser if broken off by a collision.
* Has more parts to maintain, (three valves in this case).
* Does not require you to turn off the water to add more hose connections.
* Might freeze in severe cold weather.
Dry barrel:
* Has one valve at the top of the hydrant for all openings or connections.
* Will lay on the ground and get in the way if broken off by a collision.
* Has fewer parts to maintain, (one valve in the base).
* Requires you to turn off the water during a fire to add more hose connections.
* The water below ground would have to freeze to affect the hydrant.
Need to add hose connections during a fire? If you have a dry barrel hydrant, depending on conditions everybody my have to back out of the building until the water is back on.
The fire agency, water company, county, or city water department would make decisions about what kinds of hydrants are used in your neighborhood. In the US, hydrant standards are created by American Water Works Association (AWWA) and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
People shown are practicing laying a five-inch supply line (hose) from a hydrant to a simulated fire scene. In my opinion, when you've done this so many times that you don't have to think about the steps, training is complete.
"My girl don't go for smokin'
And liquor just make her flinch
Seem she'll go for nothin'
'Cept for my big five inch"
(Apologies to Fred Weismantel and Aerosmith)
Is your "girl" the fire chief?
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An entry for Category 19. Seafaring Is Needed of MocWars, as part of The Misfits team.
The Robotic Exploration submersible was designed for collection of Geological, Ichthyic, Nautical, Abyssal Lacustrine, and Detritus samples. Collecting more buzzwords than samples, this snow-crab inspired design offers a comfortable cabin for a single passenger, equipped with top of the line monitoring equipment. Besides the obvious defense mechanism of ten large pointed legs, this craft is able to completely vanish for fourteen days at a time.
Here's the comeback of my favorite flip-flops.
FLIP-FLOPPIN' -- the buzzword, I guess.
The "Waterdance" texture, I found in the group Totally FREE textures, is from Karrie Amelia. I really enjoyed my first texture blending work. Thanks to you, girls. And also to Dewberry Parfum for the link on the tutorial. Ewa, I, finally, figured out how to do it, after so many unsuccessful attempts.
Back when "aerodynamics" was some buzzword for NASA boys. This Kenworth didn’t need a wind tunnel to move freight coast to coast.
While my other projects are still in development, I decided to showcase my Kenworth K100 with a different photoshoot setup. I added a few modifications to it here and there since its last appearance in my profile. The most prominent is the air lines, with their distinctive coil shape, using a technique by EROL.
What do you think of the model? Let me know in the comments.
The original Northern Powerhouse before it became a buzzword ! Old Town Mill now derelict but one of hundreds of mills scattered around the North.
A semi truck interfered with my original plan for this shot, but its presence ended up making what would otherwise be a pretty boring wedge across a nondescript grade crossing a fairly interesting scene, by creating what looks for all the world like some stock photo (sans logos of course) used in some corporate setting to illustrate #Multimodal #Rail #Freight #Logistics and other #Hashtag #Buzzwords.
Anyway, it's UP 1440 crossing Bradley Road on the far northwest side of Milwaukee with a few cars for the WSOR interchange at Granville.
Bit of a buzzword at the moment is Mask however this is Marske!! 56069 'Wolverhampton Steel Terminal' rolls through with the 6F45 Tees Yd to Skinningrove formed of half a dozen BDAs
The old Wyatt Deck in the UC Davis Arboretum is going to be redeveloped/refurbished (reimagined? That's the buzzword now isn't it) so I went to draw it one last time looking like it does now. It's already fenced off.
“What are all these books doing lying about Sky?” Asked Posh.
“I think we agree then Bertie, this is all nonsense and we should give up.” Said Sky
“Yes, it does seem that way. I can’t see an answer Sky.”
“Hello…I’m here and asking a question everyone.” Said Posh looking indignant.
“Sorry Posh, but Sky and I have just had a big disappointment.”
“I’m sorry. What was the disappointment Bertie?”
“You may remember the picture of the buzzy thing home? Well we didn’t have any visitors and so Sky and I decided to try and find out what the buzzy things were saying when they buzzed around.”
“Bertie, neither of you speak bee and they don’t speak bear so it won’t happen.” Said Posh.
“Ah! There was a plan Posh and it is a cracking plan too.” Added Sky.
Posh looked up to the heavens and groans gently.
“What was the plan then?”
“Elli the pink elephant can read those things called man words and she has a huge book thing called a “dixie story” or something like that which is packed with words.” Said Sky excitedly.
“Dictionary I think you mean, anyway, go on.” Said Posh not feeling optimistic.
“We thought that if we could learn their most popular words, we could then ask them to teach us to speak buzzything. Anyway, we went through these books in front of us that the man has and couldn’t find any words the buzzy things used so we asked Elli to look in his dixie story for the word buzz.”
“They do have a very limited vocabulary Posh, I thought we had a chance.” Added Bertie.
“Bertie, buzz is just a sound; it isn’t them speaking a word.”
“You don’t know that Posh, all words are just sounds.” Replied Bertie.
“Well, Elli checked this book for the meaning in man language and all it said was, “sound made by bees”. I mean they are supposed to be the clever ones and that is the best they can come up with, so we give up ever asking buzzy things to deliver honey straight to us.” Said Sky looking and feeling a touch miffed.
“Sad, but I did warn you it wouldn’t work you may remember. So, what is the plan now?”
“I think we’ll revert to a previous strategy that has proven success.” Said Sky proudly.
“Which is?” Asked Posh.
“We’ll borrow it from your stock.” Said Sky smiling happily. “Oh, and don’t worry we paid Elli for her work and it only cost just one jar of your finest Posh.”
People craft their "public selves" and accompanying opinions to obtain social reward in the form of a positive image and response from their friends on social media. Social issues and critique become buzzwords or clickbait and lose their rebellious force. Memes and slogan's about desperate social issues are used to accumulate cultural capital and social rewards. In this process the public self and the social issues become commodities to achieve a personal reward and a sense of self-esteem, but rarely is any change achieved nor are the conditons associated with the soicial or political issue improved at all. This is the danger of social media slactivism.
#www.public
Back when "aerodynamics" was some buzzword for NASA boys. This Kenworth didn’t need a wind tunnel to move freight coast to coast.
While my other projects are still in development, I decided to showcase my Kenworth K100 with a different photoshoot setup. I added a few modifications to it here and there since its last appearance in my profile. The most prominent is the air lines, with their distinctive coil shape, using a technique by EROL.
What do you think of the model? Let me know in the comments.
Selfie( I am not trying to beat Obama's record)
A selfie is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone. Selfies are often shared on social networking services such as Instagram, Snapchat, and Tumblr. They are often casual, and are typically taken either with a camera held at arm's length or in a mirror.
The term "selfie" was discussed by photographer Jim Krause in 2005, although photos in the selfie genre predate the widespread use of the term. In the early 2000s, before Facebook became the dominant online social network, self-taken photographs were particularly common on MySpace. However, writer Kate Losse recounts that between 2006 and 2009 (when Facebook became more popular than MySpace), the "MySpace pic" (typically "an amateurish, flash-blinded self-portrait, often taken in front of a bathroom mirror") became an indication of bad taste for users of the newer Facebook social network. Early Facebook portraits, in contrast, were usually well-focused and more formal, taken by others from distance. In 2009 in the image hosting and video hosting website Flickr, Flickr users used 'selfies' to describe seemingly endless self-portraits posted by teenage girls. According to Losse, improvements in design—especially the front-facing camera copied by the iPhone 4 (2010) from Korean and Japanese mobile phones, mobile photo apps such as Instagram, and selfie sites such as ItisMee—led to the resurgence of selfies in the early 2010s.
Initially popular with young people, selfies gained wider popularity over time. By the end of 2012, Time magazine considered selfie one of the "top 10 buzzwords" of that year; although selfies had existed long before, it was in 2012 that the term "really hit the big time".According to a 2013 survey, two-thirds of Australian women age 18–35 take selfies—the most common purpose for which is posting on Facebook. A poll commissioned by smartphone and camera maker Samsung found that selfies make up 30% of the photos taken by people aged 18–24.
By 2013, the word "selfie" had become commonplace enough to be monitored for inclusion in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. In November 2013, the word "selfie" was announced as being the "word of the year" by the Oxford English Dictionary, which gave the word itself an Australian origin.
Selfies have also taken beyond the earth. A space selfie is a selfie that is taken in space. This include selfies taken by astronauts, machines and by an indirect method to have self-portrait photograph on earth retaken in space.
In January 2014, during the Sochi Winter Olympics, a "Selfie Olympics" meme was popular on Twitter, where users took self-portraits in unusual situations. The spread of the meme took place with the usage of the hashtags,#selfiegame, and #selfieolympics.
A selfie orchestrated by 86th Academy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres during the 2 March 2014 broadcast is the most retweeted image ever. DeGeneres said she wanted to homage Meryl Streep's record 18 Oscar nominations by setting a new record with her, and invited other Oscar celebrities to join them. The resulting photo of twelve celebrities broke the previous retweet record within forty minutes, and was retweeted over 1.8 million times in the first hour. By the end of the ceremony it had been retweeted over 2 million times, less than 24 hours later, it had been retweeted over 2.8 million times. As of 18 March 2014, it has been retweeted 3,400,395 times. It beat the previous record, 778,801, which was held by Barack Obama, following his victory in the 2012 presidential election.
In April 2014, the advertising agency iStrategyLabs produced a two-way mirror capable of automatically posting selfies to Twitter, using facial recognition software.
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Lots Of Edge, Perimeter, & Cloud Security And GSD X2 X2 (German Shepherd Dogs, Great Security Devices) - IMRAN™
Talk about the latest cloud tech topics in one fun selfie. I am on the Edge, Computing the new drone landing's location. Massive white cloud storage (of rainwater) is a backdrop to the home page.
Kennedy and K2, parts of the multi-factor security at my blessed White House, are caught in a random candid drone picture. They almost look like they are professional models posing.
Kennedy is standing alert, as "the first line of defense against the scum of the universe" (Men In Black, LOL) -- although this shot caught him with his eyes mid-blink. Maybe he thinks the drone will flash him to erase his memory like Tommy Lee Jones' character does in the MIB movies.
I love how German Shepherds in particular understand the concept of threat signals, security incidents, safety thresholds, and boundary curves. Notice how Kennedy's paws are just inside the driveway, without being on the road. No firewall needed. K2 is taking the Security 360 365 x 24/7 view, watching in the opposite direction for suspicious activity. I will not mention what dogs do to "logs".
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"UNDER THE SEA" ?????
SPONGEBOB ... and ... SPONGEKOCSY!!
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BLYTHE-A-DAY
A flickr Group
AUGUST 2020
DAY 8: "UNDER THE SEA"
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Photo Credits (for inquiring minds!):
TITLE: "WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE ... UNDER THE SEA?" ... is from the lyrics of the show's THEME SONG !
BACKDROP: Painted posterboard by ME! (JUST for this scene ... I googled "SpongeBob" of course, and tried to get the colours the same.) Added the little "crazy daisy flowers" with overlays.
PINEAPPLE and other TIKI-TYPE 'HOUSE': Printed them out on my printer, and glued them to cardboard.
SAND: My actual carpet in this rental home is SAND colour!!
SPONGEBOB: A keychain.
SHELLS & SEA-GLASS PEBBLES: I found these in my garage; so pleased with myself! hahaha
KOCSY KENNEDY: She is an Amethyst Doll Custom from Hungary (circa 2014).
Her barrettes: Hot-glue-gun "sea glass" pebbles onto regular kid barrettes.
Spongebob t-shirt: Mattel issue for "SpongeBob Barbie".
Skirt: Mattel issue for "SENIOR PROM" for Midge.
BUBBLES/ UNDERWATER: PNG overlays (yes, I used picMonkey ... aaarrrrrggghhhhh)
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Proof of concept for a cloaking effect that may or may not be used for the Proxy series. I could probably do a whole lot more to make this better; figure out how to use masking layers, add a little more warp and perspective...a whole bunch of other photoshop buzzwords...but this is all I could do with the knowledge I currently have.
Any photoshop peeps, I'm open to hearing tips and suggestions.
Back when "aerodynamics" was some buzzword for NASA boys. This Kenworth didn’t need a wind tunnel to move freight coast to coast.
While my other projects are still in development, I decided to showcase my Kenworth K100 with a different photoshoot setup. I added a few modifications to it here and there since its last appearance in my profile. The most prominent is the air lines, with their distinctive coil shape, using a technique by EROL.
What do you think of the model? Let me know in the comments.
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NINE NINETEEN: "MY NAME IS NINE!! I CHOOSE TO SHINE !!!!!"
EMERSON ELISE: "SISTER!! Don't you think this photoshoot went a bit overboard??
"Flickr friends will need SUNGLASSES just to look at our entry today ...
"... and QUIT SHOUTING your newest trendy motivational buzzword mantras so early in the morning ...
" ...you KNOW I 'm not even awake yet !! "
NINE: "Sounds like *someone* needs to hear TOMORROW'S mantra ... right now ! ...
"DON'T WORRY ... BE HAPPY" !!!
EMERSON: "UGH ... I'M GOING BACK TO BED ... please release me from this dress IMMEDIATELY !!!"
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A flickr group
JULY 202
DAY 25: "TWO-HEADED GIRL"
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This photo has a bit of a backstory: VINTAGE DOLL dress given to me by my friend, Karin. We were at a Craft Faire-type show, which featured some booths with vintage dolly items. The dress was in pretty bad shape, and we shared our love for restoring vintage, forgotten, damaged, neglected dolly pieces ... so she entrusted the dress to me!
Wondering if ANY Vintage Dolly Specialists out there would venture a GUESS ... What vintage dolly did this dress come with ????
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On May 1, 1987, in the days before corporate buzzwords like "job briefing," the crew on Conrail Local WHWC02 is simply discussing what needs to be done and how to do it. Oh heavens! They are having a "job briefing" and don't even know it. They are working the Exxon Plastics facility in Minersville, PA.
I could wax lyrical for ages about how cool the Olympic Park is in Stratford. I'm fortunate to live just round the corner and am amazed at how the place has been repurposed into a beautiful and welcoming open space for the public, quite different in many ways to the layout that was here during the actual Games, while still retaining some of the original buildings and facilities used during the Games (most of which are now open for public use). Every time i walk through here i'm reminded of how awesome the mood was in the country back in the summer of 2012. I was fortunate at the time to get tickets for some of the events and feel equally fortunate now to be close enough to be able to access the Park in its new state. Having worked nearby during the period before 2012 when they were building all the venues and seeing this space arise from what was a very grim and forlorn area to become what it is now, i think this is a real UK success story...and there haven't been too many of those lately. The whole venture, and the 'legacy' (crappy buzzword, sorry!) it's left for this area is something for Britain to be proud of in my opinion.
That said, it's difficult to take photos of this area that haven't already been seen a million times...this is just a glimpse with (from left to right) the Aquatic Centre, Canary Wharf off in the distance, the horrible Orbit, and the Olympic stadium on the right, and reminds me of the view i first saw when i walked into the Park in 2012 in awe, jostling with the many thousands of other people that were there too.
If you can get down here, you definitely should (and hopefully do a better job of documenting it than me!)...particularly before it gets overrun with West Ham fans!
Let's hope also that this area doesn't go the same way as the Olympic Park in Athens (2004) which is sadly already a dilapidated mess:
www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2014/aug/13/abandoned-a...
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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.
Mama teaching Pumpkin, "The Art of the Deal".
Rocky has positioned himself off to the left as
the two girls zero in on him.
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This hotel was built in the 20's when Auburn was a center of the production of the fancy cars Jazz age.-Duesenburgs, Auburns, Cords. It hosts the largest antique car aution in the world. My coffee shop sits across the street and I watch people come and go. It is now a flop house, or a shooting gallery for people with addictions and de facto homeless shelter given the lack of affordable housing and no homeless shelter within 40 miles. It has not been renovated since the 1940's. People pay 100 dollars a week. One often sees families and down on their luck people carrying what they own in and out.
The town (population 13K) has decided, or rather the people who are still living off old money, to turn the town into a 1920's Disneyland simulacrum. There are many very beautiful large houses built during the roarin' 20's. To create this simulacrum the town has very strict zoning laws. The most disturbing is the restriction of multi-family housing to a two block area. Low wage workers live in small towns that have been gutted of businesses and schools.
It is hard not to see Auburn as a Harbinger or the returned of the repressed in Trump's America. I think it would be safe to say that Trump won 80% plus of the 2016 vote.
Money has been dumped into gentrification and fancy joints to eat and drink. Because of cost and overt dissuastion the non-affluent are not welcome. Regular bars and places have been displaced in the name of gentrification which further segregates people.
Another very divisive issue is religion. The town has been taken over by mega-churches which teach the prosperity gospel and whose model is that of business. Local reality agencies regularly advertise churches that "went out of business". These are bought by upstart religious evangelical born again Christians who want their market share or by larger churches which open franchises. The two coffee shops are recreational and organizational spaces for these churches. It is interesting to listen to meetings of marketing committtees discussing books discussing how to market your church to improve market share. They use all the buzzwords of corporations.
This competition and religious clanishness leads to people only talking to people they know and often who go to their mega-church. I have went for coffee at this coffee shop for over a year and on average 15 hours a week. I have had a handful of short conversations with people. I am not one of them and I don't quite look like them even though I am white.
This is related to an interesting phenomenon associated with my picture taking. In the last year, within a 15 mile radius, I have been confronted by men wearing MAGA hats and 9mm handguns in their crotch ask "What Ya Doing?". Cops are often called and I am harassed at least one third of the time I go out to shoot. Farmers are afraid I am a g'ment man enforcing near non-existant environmental laws concerning mega/maga farms. Indiana has a law that you can't take pictures of agricultural properties even if standing on public property-such as a road. Indiana has no state wide Democratic elected officials and this county hasn't had a Democrat elected in I am guessing well over 50 years...maybe much longer.
The other group of people who hassle and intimidate me seem to be working class or poor people who having been whipped into a racist ferver but lack minorities to harass have to go to extreme measures to find an "Other". So if I am taking art pictures I must be weird, liberal, gay or a pedophile as a surrogate for latinos, blacks and gays. People yell insults or just call the police. I have had warning shots fired from 200 yards when I was shooting in the opposite from the house. I have been instructed to raise my hands and been frisked by cops because I was taking pictures of reflections on water puddles and trees.
Unfortunely it is too easy to see this as not only a microcosm of Trump's America but the canary in the coal mine.
Tucked into an alley just off Sacramento Street in San Francisco’s historic Chinatown, Hang Ah Tea Room holds a remarkable distinction: it’s widely recognized as the first dim sum restaurant in the United States. Founded in 1920, this unassuming storefront carries more than a century of culinary and cultural history. In this photograph, the iconic red signage proudly announces its status—“First Dim Sum House in USA”—a declaration backed by both heritage and nostalgia.
Hang Ah’s faded neon, handwritten signage, and vintage red brick façade evoke a time when this corner of Chinatown served as both sanctuary and gathering place for newly arrived Chinese immigrants. It’s a rare gem that has persisted through waves of change—wars, social upheaval, urban renewal, and the COVID-19 pandemic—by serving baskets of steamed dumplings and pots of jasmine tea with consistency and care. Walking past its narrow doorway and under its worn green awning is like stepping into a living memory.
Despite its modest appearance, Hang Ah is a San Francisco institution. Long before dim sum became a culinary buzzword across America, this was where families came on Sundays for shrimp har gow and pork siu mai. Veterans of World War II dined here. Generations of Chinese American kids learned to love turnip cakes at its tables. And tourists, decades before Yelp or TikTok, were ushered in by word-of-mouth and the scent of fresh buns wafting down the alley.
The signage alone tells a story: carefully brushed Chinese characters beneath English slogans proclaiming its age and authenticity, all spelled out on glowing whiteboard and weathered wood. Lanterns hang overhead, evoking a festive spirit even on quiet weekday mornings. The muted red of the walls, the decorative green vents near the sidewalk, and the time-worn tile detail all blend into a textured palette that feels distinctly Chinatown.
Hang Ah isn’t flashy. It doesn’t try to be trendy. Instead, it honors tradition while gently adapting. Inside, the menu has evolved slightly to accommodate dietary changes and modern tastes, but the soul of the place remains untouched. Diners still sit elbow-to-elbow, pouring tea and sharing plates, the way it’s always been.
This photo is more than a snapshot of a restaurant—it’s a portrait of resilience, authenticity, and community pride. For those who love San Francisco’s Chinatown not only for its aesthetics but also for its cultural gravity, Hang Ah Tea Room is a beacon. As new waves of restaurants come and go, Hang Ah remains, steaming dumplings since 1920 and feeding the soul of a neighborhood that has given so much to the city it helped build.
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When people run in circles.
Remember back when global warming was the buzzword in every circle? Remember the famous advertisement where the frog was sitting in a pot of water and the temperature slowly rises to a boil, eventually killing the frog? If you don't remember, watch it here.
Anyway, I haven't heard much about global warming lately. Most likely because our American economy has flat lined. Lately I have been hearing a lot more about people worrying about losing their homes, losing their jobs, losing their livelihoods. I have been hearing about outrageous taxes (federal, local, school, sales, death, etc etc etc - everything is fucking taxed in America), rising medical costs, rising retirement costs (Social Security is doomed), rising housing costs, rising fuel costs, rising food costs. And all of this on top of the highest unemployment rate in seventy years.
Basically what I hear, and not just from the mass media but from people I know, the word on the street - is that America is dying. Thinking back to that frog, then looking back over the past decades you have to wonder if that frog analogy isn't better suited to our economy? It's not the temperature that is getting too hot, it's the cost of life that is becoming unbearable. It's getting to the point that all of us, the entire American way of life is committing mass suicide. It can no longer be maintained.
We now have ineffective bureaucracies that manage numerous other ineffectual bureaucracies, and we have taxes out the ass to pay the salaries of the ineffectual paper pushers. We have record numbers collecting unemployment, while each month we have record numbers filing to collect - wheres the breaking point?
What it all comes down to is that our entire social system is becoming unhinged - the poor are feeling it, the middle class are definitely feeling it and god forbid but the wealthy are feeling it too. We all feel it - whether you are threatened with job loss, show up to work with a pink slip in your cubicle (like more and more of my friends are), you can't put food on the table, can't pay for day care, can't buy gas for the car - whatever it might be in your life or those around you - you undoubtedly have felt it in one way or another.
Now I often get a bad rap. I am technically not registered for either political party, but I most definitely lean conservative/republican. What I have said above - well it transcends both parties and politics in general. There is no one person to blame, no one party. There is just us.
I blame an entire generation of Americans for our current state. The generation that coddled the American spirit, but at the same time sold out all of our industry and professional jobs to overseas - leaving in it's wake places like those pictured above. A generation of Americans that worried about themselves, and their selves paramount above all others - failing to see that yes, those preceding did practice self-reliance but what made America great was that they were willing to sacrifice and put their own wants, needs and bottom lines aside for the betterment of America as a whole. Of course it wasn't perfect and this might all be the idealist ramblings of a know-nothing, but I just get this feeling...
I get this feeling that currently their is a movement a foot, based in political zealotry from both sides of the aisle, both waving the American flag and thumping the constitution, one armed with God and the other godless - while the real problems of this country go unaddressed and leaving us all teetering at the precipice.
And I think were going to fall.
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W Hotel, Downtown - Austin, TX
Taken this past weekend at the W Hotel in Austin. This is the staircase that leads to the new Austin City Limits studio.
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