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Recording Artists SEAN BEAVAN and JULIETTE BEAVAN, of the Band 8mm, from one of our 'IN THE TUB" Coffee Table Portrait Book shoot (Profits to Breast Cancer Research).
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You, yeah you, the old farts in the Supreme Court who will never have to endure pregnancy, who will never have to give birth, who will never know what it means to be told what you can or can't do with your own body. I'm talking to you. You, who feel my friend should have died delivering a baby who had no chance to live rather than continue her life so that she could become pregnant again and bring her beautiful daughter into this world over a year later, you have no right to decide what goes on in our bodies.
Keep your filthy paws off my uterus. Keep your laws out of my body. For all womankind, I beg of you to let our doctors help us make our medical decisions instead of ruling that a procedure that saved my close friend's life should not be allowed.
Inspired by Sarah, Mac and dogfaceboy's powerful images in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on "partial birth abortion", a procedure that doesn't even exist in medical terminology.
This one was taken in Siena, Italy, on March 2005.
Added to Cream of the Crop as my personal favorite photo
Or one of them, really.
This sign has been on this building in Great Eastern Street Shoreditch for years but seems all the more relevant today
The body's delicate,
but I will endure your lies.
Take heed justly spouse,
the mistress' sweet face,
contriving of lust,
false of heart.
let not the woman
defy the foul fiend
Ned Wood began a life long dream of ranching in 2009, and on Friday, July 24, 2015, he now leads a thriving family business that has endured and will improve the lives of hundreds of his cows, calves and yearlings that graze the approximately 4,000 acres of drought stricken range land in the 6,255 acre East Bay Regional Park District’s Briones Regional Park (www.ebparks.org/parks/briones) in Contra Costa County, CA. In 2013, the drought began to dry a vast majority of the man-made stock ponds for his cattle. The decision to cull some of his cattle was incentive enough to seek new ideas and solutions. He went to the USDA NRCS Service Center in Concord, CA for help and received it from District Conservationist Hilary Phillips. The USDA solution, in collaboration with the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) and Wood, was to tap into a well resource on recently acquired EBRPD property at the edge of the park. The remote location made use of photovoltaic “solar” panels to power well pumps that draw ground water from hundreds of feet below the surface, and pump it to storage tanks and automated watering troughs more than a mile away “The current drought has been hard on the land, hard on the cattle and challenging on the financial health of our family business,” says Ned Wood, on the grass lands of expressing sentiments shared by hundreds of California ranchers. Wood, a rancher in the Bay area just east of San Francisco, has unique local conditions that compound the challenging drought conditions. “Where my family and I ranch in the Bay Area, much of the rangeland has public access and requires the land to be managed differently than private lands,” Wood says. To accommodate this unique intermingling of ranching and public recreating, Wood has developed lines of cattle unlike most in the country. “They have to be well-suited not only for our geographic region but they also need to have the disposition to graze while cohabitating with small children, bicyclists and dogs off-leash.” The drought has forced Wood to make the difficult decision to cull some of these uniquely adapted animals. But there has been one positive adaptation that the drought has facilitated: It was a catalyst to get Wood to visit a local conservation office to see if there was some way to better utilize the rolling land under his care. “I approached USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in 2014 to look at ways to improve the grazing capacity on one of our larger public leases,” said Wood. Rangelands and livestock are healthier when animals are distributed fairly evenly across the landscape with vegetation and grazing animals in balance. Under drought conditions and with the limited numbers of ponds and drainage on the parcel, animals stayed close to the few places with water, stressing those areas while not grazing elsewhere. The result is poorer conditions for the animals and the land. The NRCS, the East Bay Regional Park District and Ned joined efforts to map out the best places to put in small solar-powered wells to allow water to be pumped, stored and distributed across the remote sections of the land. This would even out grazing pressure across the landscape. Hillary Phillips, district conservationist for NRCS in Concord, California, helped Ned sign up for the 2014 drought relief program—funded through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)—to help with the cost of the project. “The new water development provided immediately relief for the areas of the landscape that were getting more intensive grazing pressure due to those locations having the only available water,” Wood says. “In a time when most ranchers (including myself) are dealing with operational uncertainties and hardships due to water shortages, I am actually much more optimistic today. I’ve experienced first-hand what a project like this can achieve.” New drought relief EQIP funding for 2015 has just been made available in California. Farmers and ranchers are encouraged to visit their local NRCS offices to assess opportunities for their land. East Bay Regional Park District, Briones Regional Park (www.ebparks.org/parks/briones) in Contra Costa County, Ca, has 6,255 acres that many animals and birds make their habitat, and forage on the grasslands or find shelter among the oaks and bays. Black-tailed deer, coyotes, squirrels, red-tailed hawks, turkey vultures, and, commercial cattle ranching can be seen throughout the park. The land hosts a wide variety of grasses and wildflowers that benefit grazing cattle and local pollinators. To see more about the wildflowers go to: www.ebparks.org/Assets/files/EBRPD_files/photoguides/EBRP.... The entire park is a watershed that leads to man-made stock ponds for the livestock; Briones Reservoir and San Pablo Reservoir which provides local drinking water San Francisco East Bay Area; and the San Francisco Bay. Additionally, some of the stock ponds are home the endangered California tiger salamander and Ned Wood has been working with East Bay Regional Park District to ensure certain stock ponds are maintained at a sustainable level of cloudy water with high turbidity, livestock activity in the ponds to create the proper mud; and other factors to help this salamander’s breeding habitat.
For more about how Ned Wood beat the heat with USDA see www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ca/home/?cid=NRC...
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Walking through the cross fire heart
Feeling heavy and hopeless. Wonderin' how I ever
Will see through this darkness.
Every drop of blood can be so beautiful,
And I sure was bleedin' the drops by the bucketful.
I have the strength to endure and all the love so pure.
I have the strength to endure because... because...
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plastic 52, week 32. click the link and turn it up!
Along with the rest of humanity, I witnessed with shock, then horror, and then deep sadness as the citizens of Japan had to and continues to endure one of the most significant examples of the Mother Nature ever displayed. Her power was at a magnitude that almost defied belief as the world watched or worse yet had to actually experience first-hand how she treated mankind and its creations like they were simply toys in a sandbox.
As my eyes and mind were glued to the TV and Internet in a vain attempt to grasp the magnitude of the loss and disruption of humanity in Japan, my overwhelming feeling was clear. It was a profound sense of SADNESS for all those in Japan who suffered and continues to suffer as a direct result of Mother Nature's wrath. There was no anger - how could anyone be angry at Mother Nature? It was an act of God that simply must be accepted.
BUT in the days immediately after the devastation, a new, growing, and potentially more devastating subsequent disaster began to unfold. Unlike the first two disasters brought on by Mother Natures, this disaster was one created by Man. This was a disaster that was setup years and even decades prior to Mother Nature pulling the trigger on this disaster. This was the nuclear disaster that unfolded at the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi plant. All of us around the world know this hard to pronounce name now as it joins "3 Mile Island" and "Chernobyl".
Also, unlike the twin disasters brought on by Mother Nature's which instilled SADNESS, this nuclear disaster brought up deep levels of ANGER that grew almost each hour that I listened / watched how the Japanese Government and moreso TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) seemed to spend more time each day trying to cover-up, hide, and deceive Japanese citizens and even the world than they did in doing everything in their power to prevent a nuclear crisis. Each day as world experts stood helplessly on the sidelines - knowing full well how bad the situation likely was - TEPCO and the Japanese Government continued to fumble to first save their investment and then to eventually get this nuclear monster wrestled down why speaking with FORK TONGUES each day on they were on top of it. Yet each day their story got worse and worse.
As we all now know (for the most part), it was a cover-up that failed. Not only failed, but because of their historic culture of cover-ups and incompetence on managing a Nuclear operations in Japan, TEPCO and the Japanese Government put their own fellow citizens and even the world in greater danger by not being transparent with the world until it was too late and/or to obvious to hide from the public.
It should also be noted that these Nuclear FORK TONGUES did not start wagging after the disaster this year. Their deceptions to the public has been going on for decades. From when the plants were designed and built in a location that already placed these plants in a potentially dangerous situation that anyone with common sense would say was a stupid location for Nuclear plant - the most active earthquake zone in the world and right along the ocean shoreline nearly at sea-level (not at a higher elevation). Even at that, their "failsafe" protections were far from failsafe (as has now been clearly proven) - backup power supplies right at the same elevation and location as the plant?? And for convenience - their spent rods pools in the same location as the main reactor. But... "Fork Tongues" assured the Japanese public that these plants were safe in the location and condition they were in. Why? Likely to save money - this from a company that I heard had generated about $18US Billion in profit last year? That would have bought a lot of upgraded and retrofitted plants to ensure the safety of the world. Now we all pay!
So.... this artwork is a symbol of my deep anger at those authorities of TEPCO, the Japanese Government, and even all those others around the world that are authorities of the Nuclear industry who dismiss the monumental dangers they are responsible to contain - all in the name of PROFITS.
This work is a 3D mixed media art illustrates the Japanese National symbol resting like a pearl in the Oyster of this bed of lies, deceit, and snake-like fork tongues. The sick greenish/brown colored textures of these fork tongues wrap around Japan's symbol and as a result of the lies... the sickness begins to infest the bottom of this symbol. This 3D designed model (using Sculptris to shape, texture, color) was then photographed and placed over a couple backdrop textures from the amazing PAREEERICA as well as one of my private personal textures.
CREDITS & PERMISSION:
FORK TONGUE 3D Art - a design I created using the Sculptris 3D tool (shaped and textured and painted)
PAREEERICA texture - Green Grunge Cement: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/4953809120/
PAREEERICA texture - FireWalker: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3861893046/
Toysoldier Thor
Great Eastern Street - London
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The poet Dugald Moore (1805-1841) looks out across Glasgow from the Necropolis. His poem on the Clyde describes how the river will outlast the city.
When the porch and stately arch,
Which now so proudly perch
O'er thy billows, on their march
To the sea,
Are but ashes...
The cross is over the Entrance to St. Olaf Lutheran church, near Odin, MN. The post card, Postmarked, Nov. 24, 1909, is from a collection inherited several years ago.