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The power of the Quickening is the equivalent to a major electrical storm hitting -- windows explode, lights short circuit, it is almost as if the victorious Immortal is in the center of a lightning storm.
Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. How times have changed since World Environment Day was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. We wonder if they considered then that today climate change and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty.
Climate change is expected to put an estimated 50 million more people at risk of hunger and water stress by 2020. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially during a period of global economic recession, when resources needed to cope with climate change may be reassigned. Agriculture and deforestation account for 30 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. These two sectors can therefore contribute to reducing emissions if agricultural practices are changed.
Poor people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The negative impacts on their crop yields are already being felt and will be increasingly severe. Climate change is likely to affect forest expansion and migration, and exacerbate threats to biodiversity resulting from land use/cover change and population pressure. Marine and coastal ecosystems are likely to be affected by sea level rise and temperature increases. Human health will also be adversely affected. Rising temperatures and rainfall variability had led to more climate-induced diseases and heat stress.
We are homo consumens of the earth and very young specie still trying to understand the mysteries of nature and in our ignorance we have destroyed it. Climate change offers humanity no second chances. Only rich countries can break the deadlock crippling international climate negotiations and prevent the world lurching into climate disaster.
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
What are you looking at? Thermos of macaroni cheese left over from the night before, mango, strawberries, tricolour of peppers, freeze dried apple and SA cranberries.
... E ANCOR MI CHIEDO .....
So close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters
never open myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all this words I don't just say
and nothing else matters
trust I seek and I find in you
every day for a something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
but I know
So close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
but I know
Never open myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all this words I don't just say
and nothing else matters
trust I seek and I find in you
every day for us something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters
Never cared for what they say
never cared for games they play
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
and I know
So close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever thrusting who we are
no nothing else matters
no nothing else matters
Printed matter for sale: postcard prints set. Order here!
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This week, go and get yourself a few prints of your favourite photographs you have taken. If you already have prints of these photographs, find other pictures that you've taken that perhaps family or friends like and get them printed. Share them out hand-to-hand. Post them with letters. Write on the back of them and use them as postcards. Whatever. Just get a generous round of prints done.
When was the last time you got yourself prints of photographs you've taken with your digital camera? Do you get them printed often? If not, why not?
After all, what would you do (and what would your kids, your grand kids and their kids do) if eventually the imaging servers were taken off-line and were to die, with all the digital memories stored on them being lost to digital nothingness? We might not have the negatives or slides of our families taken decades ago, but at least we've got the photo albums, or the box of photographs under the bed or in the cupboard.
For me, I have felt the effect of film versus digital, especially when it comes to prints.
Whenever you went and processed a roll of film, you'd pay for a set of prints as well. Unless you wanted to do your own printing at home (and thus had the equipment to do so), you would rarely ever ask the lab to do a 'dev and no cut'. Every roll of film I shot as a kid with disposable cameras the like all came with a set of prints to keep, deface or share.
With the development and constant improvements to digital technology, not that many people have their photos printed anymore. Even though printing is really cheap these days, it's a case of people not being bothered to upload pictures at a time to a website or having to go to the shop with a CD and sit there to wait for everything to load up to the lab's computer system. With sites like Flickr, earlier imaging hosts like Photobucket, early blogging systems (Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal &c.) and of course e-mail, these have brought about the ability to 'share' without having to get a set of prints done.
I find it hard to have stuff printed now, purely because I have shot so much digitally that I feel I'd be overwhelmed trying to pick out pictures I want printed and put into an album. Even though the 'drag and drop' facilities they have for creating photo books is too much for me sometimes. Nevertheless, I still manage to get quite a lot of stuff printed to send to friends, as well as enlargements once in a blue moon for clients. Then yesterday I fired up Photobox, an excellent quality printing website I have used for years, and for the first time in ages I ordered an enlargement for myself to use as a 'test' print for one of the frames I'd bought from IKEA.
I hooked it up on the wall above the sofa, which has remained blank for years. Levelled it out. Re-adjusted.
I stood back.
I know that it is a photograph that has probably been taken time and time again, but I don't give a monkeys. I felt this warm and fuzzy feeling of achievement. It got me thinking though: When I'd first uploaded the photograph to Aperture, obviously the biggest resolution I would get to fit on my screen would be something along the lines of a 4x6. So to see it on my wall above where I sit as a 12x16 wasn't quite the same – it was better. The resolution of my 5D meant that it was really more suited to enlargements (because when I get 4x6 prints printed, they don't quite seem so good).
"Looks f*cking awesome," I thought to myself. I even went to wake up Mike to show him and he was suitably impressed.
I wanted to take a shot of me sitting on the sofa looking proud as anything beneath my work, but I am still in my bedclothes and my hair is a bit of a bird's nest at the moment. ;)
*BUMP* for the spanglemaker's Music366 Collection. No bump needed but as Day100 approaches, what better moment for you to drop by and check one of the best, most unusual and very personal music collections on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/35659605@N00/collections/7215760358....
It also gives me an excuse to play one of my toptunes of all time >>>
Faithless "Music Matters"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIfcLF2jiag
"For all those who stood up and were counted
For all those for whom money was no motive
For all those for whom music was a message
I want to thank you
For making me
A little more sure
A little more wise
And courageous
You told me to look much further
You told me to walk much more
You told me that music matters
And to chase the dogs back from my door
I won't stop here
I won't be still until the sun sets
On us all..
Under the sheets with my radio
Turn down low
So nobody know
It's the late night show
Hopin' to hear 'Hey Joe'
Jimi was my hero
Head blown by Todd R. A wizard a true star
From BAMMALAMMA to TAMLA MO
Curtis Mayfield
to Kurtis Blow
Singing into my pillow
And praying I don't dose
Until my 9 Volt battery goes..
You told me to look much further
You told me to walk much more
You told me that music matters
And to chase the dogs back from my door
I won't stop here
I won't be still until the sun sets
On us all..
You told me to look much further
You told me to walk much more
You told me that music matters
And to chase the dogs back from my door
I won't stop here
I won't be still until the sun sets
On us all..
You told me that music matters..
You told me that music matters..
You told me that music matters..
You told me that music matters.."
Black Lives Matter shuts down Eglinton Ave W and Allen Rd.
#BLMTOshutitdown #justiceforjermainecarby #justiceforandrewloku #blacklivesmatter
Scala eXchange 2018. skillsmatter.com/conferences/10488-scala-exchange-2018. Images copyright www.tellingphotography.com
Scala eXchange 2018. skillsmatter.com/conferences/10488-scala-exchange-2018. Images copyright www.tellingphotography.com
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trust in who we are
And nothing else matters
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never care for what they do
Never care for what they know
But I know
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trust in who we are
And nothing else matters
Never care for what they do
Never care for what they know
But I know
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never care for what they say
Never care for games they play
Never care for what they do
Never care for what they know
And I know
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trust in who we are
No, nothing else matters
(Metallica)
Scala eXchange 2018. skillsmatter.com/conferences/10488-scala-exchange-2018. Images copyright www.tellingphotography.com
Nottingham, June 2020
Forest Recreation Ground
A moving and challenging demonstration. Peaceful but emotional.
#blacklivesmatter
www.itsnicethat.com/news/resources-supporting-black-lives...
Black Lives Matter Silent March, in the rain. Mostly white, almost totally silent, 100% masked.
Seattle, June 12, 2020.
A Black Lives Matter mural on Lyndale Ave in Uptown Minneapolis.
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This image is part of a continuing series following the unrest and events in Minneapolis following the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd.
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 9: Stephanie Ginsberg attends Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation's Second Memories Matter Event at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers on April 9, 2019 in New York. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/PMC)
Flags flying at Black Lives Matter Plaza, with the American flag flying over the White House in the center
BIDEN / HARRIS VICTORY CELEBRATIONS at Black Lives Matter Plaza at 16th and H Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 7 November 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
TEAR DOWN THIS WALL
Follow BLACK LIVES MATTER DC at www.facebook.com/BLMDC/
Elvert Barnes BLACK LIVES MATTER 2020 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/BLM2020
Elvert Barnes COVID-19 Pandemic / Part 3 / Fall 2020 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/CV19Fall2020
Elvert Barnes PRESIDENTAL ELECTION 2020 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/Election2020
Elvert Barnes Saturday, 7 November 2020 BIDEN / HARRIS VICTORY CELEBRATIONS on Day 4 After the Election docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/7November2020
memory-alpha.org/wiki/Red_matter
Commissioned by the Vulcan Science Academy
Constructed at the MIT Hobby Shop.
Materials: Poplar, stainless steel, acrylic, Red matter.