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November 18, 2015
the First Night of Khadija.
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Edited in PicMonkey, color tweaks and Twigs, text too.
You have to answer back...lol
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...for the mannequin.
These visualizations show the top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001. Connections between these people & organizations are indicated by lines.
Data is from the newly-released NYTimes Article Search API: developer.nytimes.com
For more information, and source code to access the NYTimes API, visit my blog: blog.blprnt.com
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Like everyone else, I have been horrified by the recent stories about children being held in detention centers at the border. So this graffiti is appropriate. This was on a car at Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas back in March. We really do need to make a change!
While keeping more than six feet from other people, we visited Surrey Bend Regional Park and found these warnings.
Driving through town we spotted this unique bicycle trailer. Literature explains that this is someone’s, likely multiple peoples, campaign to legally house the unhoused. As a person who bicycles I cannot imagine maneuvering this vehicle in any kind of street traffic. As a photographer my intention is merely to document this unique vehicle and approach to homelessness. I do not support or advocate this approach and I am in no way affiliated with this organization.
OH-EM-GEE January. I'm sorry. It's over.
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Not really. I mean, yes January's over but I'm not sad about it! I just chopped some onions and they were vengeful.
One month down, eleven to go!
Like everyone else, I have been horrified by the recent stories about children being held in detention centers at the border. So this strange Statue of Liberty statue is appropriate. This was in a yard near a picnic that our family went to last night. We really do need to make a change!
First image from a small series of personal work. Couture meets current events. Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible.
Hair/MU: Chanell Howard Mitchell
Model: Bobbiette Chinyere
Camera and Lighting Assistance: Aaron Michael Thaddeus www.linkedin.com/in/iamaaronmichael/
A tribute to John Lennon, on the 25th anniversary of his death (December 8, 2005).
C'mon everybody, altogether now: "All we are say-y-ying ... is give peace a chance."
From important public safety announcements to current events, it's all on the wall along Beachcomber.
Just hope the kids don't see the Family Fun Center sign and pester you to take 'em.
Beachcomber Drive
Cypress Gardens
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R
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expose and report the darknet. They live their whole press lives in fear. The German press does. A German court recently sentenced an "activist" on the darkweb. (Here, ZDF Heute -Christian Siebers - "Darknet businessman sentenced".)
What's the problem, America? Has the fear, anxiety, depression, humiliation, degredation, shame, juilt and embarassment become too much for you to handle? Has your federal governments in-/action become too painful, meth cranks?
A smaller but still humongous crowd - reportedly totaling 770,000 people - turned out for the December 17th rally
abe'd for this special occasion...
this was a shot i took for my 365 a few years ago... linked in it was a news article about how China had blocked access to flickr and twitter... well looks like the United States wants to do the same thing in the name of "Copyright Protection" with SOPA/PIPA.
I'm all for copyright protection, but I'm more for free speech... This is the government trying to appease major corporations using heavy handed techinques that are do not effectively solve the problem. if your baby is in the other room crying, you don't go into that room and suffocate the baby... sure, that stops the baby from crying, but at what cost (well, in this scenario you murdered a baby... so that can't be good). at any rate... don't let us turn into them.
old description follows:
China blocks Flickr for Tinanamen Event
in case you missed this today. China blocked access to Flickr and Twitter today in lieu of the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Protests...
so if you are in China right now, you can't see this...
Wow -- I feel bankrupt today, got home without any photo for my project. This is my first post with my new Leica D-Lux 6, a shot from the TV news about (ta-da) gas prices. We seem to worry about this excessively in the USA, and of course, we pay a lot less than most developed countries. In any event, this is day 93 of my 365 Project -- and the start of my learning curve with a new point and shoot.
Some quirky animals promote peace and "encourage" voting on Korea's May 9th snap election day. The progressive candidate Moon Jae-in won handily, thus ending a nearly a decade of conservative rule. With an electorate eager for a whole host of reforms, The new president (there's no transition period) has plenty on his plate already...
With the proliferation of novel coronavirus cases (2019-nCov) -- officially named Covid-19 (Coronavirus disease-19) racism and xenophobia have cropped up in several Asian and European countries as well as the United States and Canada. Restaurants refuse to serve Chinese tourists, people cross the streets to shun Chinese people, refuse to patronize Chinese establishments and in one case a crowd even gathered in front of a hotel to demand its Chinese guests immediately leave and return to China. Such xenophobia and racism are repugnant and unacceptable without exception.
It is because of this and to stand in solidarity with these victims and the Chinese people who are being unjustly discriminated against I created this derivative panoramic image from a photo I purchased from Shutterstock® and switched the 1st and 3rd letters of the city where 2019-nCov (placed over the facemask) originated and flipped the “W” over to spell the word “human” since these people are not a virus as clearly and concisely stated by the #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus (#IamNotAVirus) movement that originated out of France – but are human beings deserving of the same inalienable rights and dignity as every unaffected person. People get sick. Period! Such people deserve the best medical treatment possible and compassion instead of misguided blame andcondemnation. Period! Wuhan:huMan. Let’s never forget that!
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Thousands of supporters of President Trump take part in a Save America rally and march to the Capitol to urge Congress to reject the Electoral College vote that made Joe Biden president
A vuvuzela-tooting demonstrator stands on an temporarily car-free boulevard...the flag (roughly) promotes democracy and sovereignty.
Some colorful protest-art adorns the heart of Kwanghwamun square in central Seoul during the February 18th rally
A music and dance troupe braved frigid temps to entertain participants in the January 14th rally - one of the ongoing protests staged in the downtown area...
Excited Mental State's commentary on Mayor Rob Ford's decision to forgo Toronto's Pride festivities in favour of kicking back at his family cottage.
Hariri Display at Martyr's Square in Beirut. I spent a few weeks in Beirut just after Hariri was killed. It was a difficult time to be in Lebanon but also one of the most revealing trips I've ever made (in terms of middle-east politics, culture, and war).
I spent several nights at the square watching the thousands of mourners who had camped out there all week (and for several weeks more) singing songs and chanting.
A 'pop-up' protester by a curbside planter holds up a folding placard featuring US president Barack Obama (remember him?) and Japanese prime minster Shinzo Abe overlooking the impeached Korean prez and her Rasputin-esque confidante Choi Soon-Shil. The other panel carries a snarky take on a controversial state-sponsored history book program.
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Edited in PicMonkey, 5 x 7crop & color tweaks. I first shot it, then
the Police cruiser showed up, got him going too [last in comment].
The line of flowers and candles that marks the area where so many were killed on the hill leading into Independence Square, Kiev, Ukraine.
These visualizations show the top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001. Connections between these people & organizations are indicated by lines.
Data is from the newly-released NYTimes Article Search API: developer.nytimes.com
For more information, and source code to access the NYTimes API, visit my blog: blog.blprnt.com
Archival-quality giclée prints of individual years are available at blprnt.etsy.com
Built with Processing v1.0 - www.processing.org
Retired NYPD Officer Bill Pepitone hosted a rally in Times Square with guest speaker Robert F Kennedy to denounce COVID-19 vaccines and mask requirements. Pepitone, while not representing a major political party, is a NYC Mayoral candidate.
These visualizations show the top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001. Connections between these people & organizations are indicated by lines.
Data is from the newly-released NYTimes Article Search API: developer.nytimes.com
For more information, and source code to access the NYTimes API, visit my blog: blog.blprnt.com
Archival-quality giclée prints of individual years are available at blprnt.etsy.com
Built with Processing v1.0 - www.processing.org
Still exhilarated from last week's landmark Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, the St. Pete Pride Parade was in full celebration yesterday, despite the frequent downpours of rain during the event. I was only able to shoot a few photos, as I ran for cover during the intermittent storms. The annual event drew about 125,000 spectators.
Pentax 6x7 MLU w/ Takumar 105mm f/2.4 lens
f/8 @ 1/250s
Kodak Tri-X 400
D-76 1+1 (11 mins)
Epson V550 Film Scanner
A choo-choo features a cat saying "I too want to vote" - the more progressive Moon Jae-in was voted in on May 9th snap election and took office immediately.
Well, not really. There are sharks in the water, but they don't play Pokémon Go, so you're pretty safe.
But you definitely should watch where you're going while driving, and pay attention while walking.
Beachcomber Drive
Cypress Gardens
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R
For more info about the dioramas, check out the FAQ: 1stPix FAQ
(Not all the coffee in the world can make this seem real.)
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8.3 x 11.7 in.; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Canson Imagine.
On Friday Burma began to go dark. After days of the largest street protests since 1988, the ruling military junta cracked down, confronting and firing on civilians, reportedly sealing thousands of monks inside their monasteries. Lines of communication into the country were apparently being cut, with Internet cafes closed and web sites shut down, leaving Burmese exile groups and reporters starving for information.
But while the junta can control the street, the monasteries and even the web, they can't control the sky. On Friday the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), working with Burmese groups, released a new analysis of high-resolution satellite images that pinpointed evidence of human rights violations in the eastern Burma. For the first time in Burma, scientists were able to use orbital satellites to confirm on-the-ground reports of burned villages and forced relocations of civilians by the military. The technique has already been used to document human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and Darfur, but in Burma, a closed country that often seems like a modern-day version of Orwell's 1984, it's almost like turning Big Brother against itself. "We are sending a message to the military junta that we are watching from the sky," said Aung Din, policy director for the U.S. Campaign for Burma.
Here's how it works: AAAS researcher Lars Bromley took field descriptions from Burmese groups of more than 70 incidents of human rights violations that took place between mid-2006 and early 2007 in the Burma's eastern Karen State, where a rebellion against the government has been simmering for over 50 years. Those reports included mortar attacks against civilians and forced marches, as the military fought to establish total control over the area. But while the junta's brutality is well known, confirming individual reports inside Burma has always been difficult, thanks in part to the dense jungle that covers much of the country. "In Darfur, if a village is wiped out you can see traces of it for years to come," said Bromley, the director of the AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights project. "In Burma the vegetation will grow over in a year or so."
AAAS took the incident reports and combed over commercially available satellite images of around 2,000 sq. km of the country, searching for before and after pictures that would visually confirm what the human rights groups were telling them. The satellites can see objects as small as 60 cm across, and in 31 out of 70 attempts, researchers were able find physical evidence — village houses that had disappeared, the sudden appearance of military camps — that corresponded with the reports. "As these attacks take place, there's often denial from the military government," says Bromley. "If you can put together an image of the aftermath of an attack, it discredits that denial."
With the Burmese junta trying to shut the country down tight, such long-range observation is more important than ever. Bromley told reporters that the AAAS had ordered up new images from Burma's major cities, Rangoon and Mandalay, over the past few days, as the military cracked down on protests and that they expect to analyze the new data soon. "We've been cut off from Burma, so we're trying to monitor the situation through the satellites," said Aung.
The question now is what effect these pictures will have. Aung and his fellow exiles hope that the satellite evidence will help persuade China and Russia to stop blocking United Nations Security Council action against the junta. It's a long shot, but with a military cordon drawing around Burma, every scrap of data will help.