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Scala eXchange 2016, Thursday, 8th - Friday, 9th December at Business Design Centre, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7432-scala-exchange-2016#pro.... Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Black Lives Matter protest Katie Palvich outside Mitchell Hall on September 21st, 2015. Kirk Smith/The Review
The milk-white, glacial-flour-laden Matter Vispa (or Gornera) River carries meltwater from the Gorner Glacier. It is channelized where it flows through the town of Zermatt.
Matter is a process. Even the most inert piece of iron 56 or hydrogen gas just lying around is active. The electron wavefunctions form complex clouds around the nuclei, vibrating in response to the thermal motion of the atoms. Even at absolute zero the uncertainty principle makes matter dance. The nuclei are themselves just as active; dense wave functions where triads of quarks exchange gluons and other force carriers all the time. Interfere with the process and the atom breaks up.
The matter process is propagating forward in time. It is like the periodic configurations in Conway's Game of Life. We are privilegied to live in an universe where relatively stable matter can exist, able to store information for eons (or picoseconds), to channel energy and forces, to interact in complex ways that enables the formation of complex forms.
The stillness of matter is just like the stillness of vaccuum an illusion. Something perfectly static and unchanging would not be visible to our senses, would not impringe on our world. That is why the relative stability of matter is so amazing - it is almost unchanging, but not too much.
Mrs. Bush announces the Bush Institute education initiative "Middle School Matters" at Houston's Stovall Middle.
Southern Cemetery is a large municipal cemetery in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, three miles south of the city centre, which opened in 1879 and is owned and administered by Manchester City Council. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and second largest in Europe.
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Man was matter, that was Snowden`s secret.
Drop him out the window and he`ll fall.
Set fire to him and he`ll burn.
Bury him and he`ll rot like other kinds of garbage.
The spirit gone, man is garbage.
That was Snowden`s secret.
Ripeness was all.
I`m cold, Snowden said. I`m cold.
There, there, said Yossarian.
There, there.
A tribute to Joseph Heller.
Text reads "BLACK LIVES MATTER #SOLIDARITY" on a background of rainbow colours.
One of a series of photographs by Paul Lantz of posters left behind after the Black Lives Matter march in Belleville on 7 June 2020.
Donated by Paul Lantz in October 2020.
The idea of this work appears in my mind when my brain was melting and evaporating under the strong sun of South India. Being there for the 5th time suddenly i caught myself thinking about changes, which have taken place in such wild and distant from civilization regions. Later i`ve heard locals talking about abnormal heat and lack of rains during recent monsoon. This also reminded me the man from Kashmir, complained about the cold snaps in the Northern India, while we drank chai on the street of Delhi. Later i remembered how we were lucky to enjoy the coldest winter in Florida ever, during the mural project in Gainesville, expecting to warm up after cold NYC. So now im sure that climate change is a fact.
MURALS THAT MATTER: ACTIVISM THROUGH PUBLIC ART at National Building Museum West Lawn along 5th between F and G Street, NW, Washington DC on Friday afternoon, 18 September 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Elvert Barnes BLACK LIVES MATTER ART at elvertbarnes.com/BLMArt
Elvert Barnes PUBLIC ART 2020 at elvertbarnes.com/PublicArt2020
Elvert Barnes Friday, 18 September 2020 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/18September2020
The phone rang.
It tickled my sadness, it pushed away my thoughts, it welcomed anxiety.
Does it matter how I look like?
You don't need to draw me a face, I don't want one.
A cushion, used sheet wrapped around...a hat, well that's new!
No face.
Is it me? Is it you?
It's just her.
West Germans and citizens of other Western countries could generally visit East Germany, often after applying for a visa at an East German embassy several weeks in advance. Visas for day trips restricted to East Berlin were issued without previous application in a simplified procedure at the border crossing. However, East German authorities could refuse entry permits without stating a reason. In the 1980s, visitors from the western part of the city who wanted to visit the eastern part had to exchange at least DM 25 into East German currency at the poor exchange rate of 1:1. It was forbidden to export East German currency from the East, but money not spent could be left at the border for possible future visits. Tourists crossing from the west had to also pay for a visa, which cost DM 5; West Berliners did not have to pay this.
West Berliners initially could not visit East Berlin or East Germany at all - all crossing points were closed to them between 26 August 1961 and 17 December 1963. In 1963, negotiations between East and West resulted in a limited possibility for visits during the Christmas season that year (Passierscheinregelung). Similar, very limited arrangements were made in 1964, 1965 and 1966.
In 1971, with the Four Power Agreement on Berlin, agreements were reached that allowed West Berliners to apply for visas to enter East Berlin and East Germany regularly, comparable to the regulations already in force for West Germans. However, East German authorities could still refuse entry permits.
East Berliners and East Germans could not, at first, travel to West Berlin or West Germany at all. This regulation remained in force essentially until the fall of the wall, but over the years several exceptions to these rules were introduced, the most significant being:
Elderly pensioners could travel to the West starting in 1965
Visits of relatives for important family matters
People who had to travel to the West for professional reasons (for example, artists, truck drivers, musicians, writers, etc.)
However, each visit had to be applied for individually and approval was never guaranteed. In addition, even if travel was approved, GDR travellers could exchange only a very small amount of East German Marks into Deutsche Marks (DM), thus limiting the financial resources available for them to travel to the West. This led to the West German practice of granting a small amount of DM annually (Begrüßungsgeld, or welcome money) to GDR citizens visiting West Germany and West Berlin to help alleviate this situation.
Citizens of other East European countries were in general subject to the same prohibition of visiting Western countries as East Germans, though the applicable exception (if any) varied from country to country.
Allied military personnel and civilian officials of the Allied forces could enter and exit East Berlin without submitting to East German passport controls, purchasing a visa or being required to exchange money. Likewise, Soviet military patrols could enter and exit West Berlin. This was a requirement of the post-war Four Powers Agreements. A particular area of concern for the Western Allies involved official dealings with East German authorities when crossing the border, since Allied policy did not recognize the authority of the GDR to regulate Allied military traffic to and from West Berlin, as well as the Allied presence within Greater Berlin, including entry into, exit from, and presence within East Berlin.
The Allies held that only the Soviet Union, and not the GDR, had authority to regulate Allied personnel in such cases. For this reason, elaborate procedures were established to prevent inadvertent recognition of East German authority when engaged in travel through the GDR and when in East Berlin. Special rules applied to travel by Western Allied military personnel assigned to the Military Liaison Missions accredited to the commander of Soviet forces in East Germany, located in Potsdam.
Allied personnel were restricted by policy when travelling by land to the following routes:
Transit between West Germany and West Berlin
Road: the Helmstedt-Berlin autobahn (A2) (Checkpoints Alpha and Bravo respectively). Soviet military personnel manned these checkpoints and processed Allied personnel for travel between the two points. Military personnel were required to be in uniform when traveling in this manner.
Rail: Western Allied military personnel and civilian officials of the Allied forces were forbidden to use commercial train service between West Germany and West Berlin, because of GDR passport and customs controls when using them. Instead, the Allied forces operated a series of official (duty) trains that traveled between their respective duty stations in West Germany and West Berlin. When transiting the GDR, the trains would follow the route between Helmstedt and Griebnitzsee, just outside of West Berlin. In addition to persons traveling on official business, authorized personnel could also use the duty trains for personal travel on a space-available basis. The trains traveled only at night, and as with transit by car, Soviet military personnel handled the processing of duty train travelers.
Entry into and exit from East Berlin
Checkpoint Charlie (as a pedestrian or riding in a vehicle)
As with military personnel, special procedures applied to travel by diplomatic personnel of the Western Allies accredited to their respective embassies in the GDR. This was intended to prevent inadvertent recognition of East German authority when crossing between East and West Berlin, which could jeopardize the overall Allied position governing the freedom of movement by Allied forces personnel within all Berlin.
Ordinary citizens of the Western Allied powers, not formally affiliated with the Allied forces, were authorized to use all designated transit routes through East Germany to and from West Berlin. Regarding travel to East Berlin, such persons could also use the Friedrichstraße train station to enter and exit the city, in addition to Checkpoint Charlie. In these instances, such travelers, unlike Allied personnel, had to submit to East German border controls
My book DARK MATTERS is now available for purchase. Yay.
It's a mix of my photos of men and writing that I've done throughout the years.
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Black Lives Matter protest Katie Palvich outside Mitchell Hall on September 21st, 2015. Kirk Smith/The Review
One of a series of photographs by Paul Lantz of posters left behind after the Black Lives Matter march in Belleville on 7 June 2020.
Donated by Paul Lantz in October 2020.
These ones were shot with CAnon 5D and Pentax 55mm SMC takumar which was attached to the Canon with an Adapter. The 55mm now focuses up to 20cm with a fantastic Bokeh, still apperture seems to be fixed at its maximum...
Cameras are CAnon A1 and Pentax 67. The A1 with a Paragon 28mm the Pentax 67 with the ¨small lense¨, the 105, the 55mm is just massive!
One of a series of photographs by Paul Lantz of posters left behind after the Black Lives Matter march in Belleville on 7 June 2020.
Donated by Paul Lantz in October 2020.
Text reads "Say Her Name BREONNA TAYLOR Rest in Power".
One of a series of photographs by Paul Lantz of posters left behind after the Black Lives Matter march in Belleville on 7 June 2020.
Donated by Paul Lantz in October 2020.
Along with antimatter, and dark matter we've recently discovered the existence of doesn't matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever.