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I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
D5100, Minolta Rokkor - PF 55mm/f1.9, macro extension tube, ISO 100, 20s, f/8
Protip: black gadgets are NEVER as clean as you think they are.
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
after 9 years this tat has experienced some grow-in/spread/not sure what it's called. protip: Get thinner lines than you think you want.
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
Noise music and tiki drinks in San Francisco's smallest bar.
Weird!
Protip, order food at WesBurger, than have it brought into The Den.
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
A bi-colour strobist session led to this photo of Ben.
2 softboxes on both sides of subject, each with different colour gel.
This was also done on the night of Nuit Blanche, so this was my artistic contribution to the festival all the way up in Newmarket, On.!
***Protip: Rosco and Lee gel swatchbooks are the perfect size for 90% of camera flashes. A little tape or flip down diffuser will hold them on the unit.***
My IWC Mark XV came back from IWC service in just 10 days (movement needed an overhaul after more than a decade of service). protip: I do not recommend the case polishing.
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
"WE ARE GOING DOWN REPEAT WE ARE GOING DOWN"
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Just tried some red-lightning
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
Protip: If you wish to preserve your masonry, do not disturb strange inter-dimensional creatures from their dinners.
After taking the bus down into Devil's Postpile NM (no cars are allowed unless you're camping or have a boat) we hiked out to the postpile. Of course, hiking to the postpile takes all of 10 minutes so we decided to continue on toward Rainbow Falls--3 miles further up the trail.
Protip: If you want to hike both Rainbow Falls AND the Postpile it is best to start at Red's Meadow OR Rainbow Falls Trailhead (both of which the bus will drop you off at). Hike down to the falls and then take the foot path to the postpile. This will save you the aggravating climb back up to Red's Meadow.
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
PROTIP: Process shots should always be grainy, low-lit snapshots, it makes the finished product seem better.
This is the start of a large series of recycled bookmarks.
Have you ever thought a novel could use a commercial break? Do you feel literature lacks interrupting advertisements?
In association with Keep St Joe Weird we present the NASCAR of bookmarks. (working on Valentine's cards also) Made from salvaged paper, plastic & cardboard adverts.
Moussaka. I should have made many more for all the effort exerted in making one.
Protip: browning large quantities of ground meat in a pan is a waste of time. Lipped baking sheet, aluminum foil, parchment paper, meat, 425 F / 220 C for 15 minutes. Separate by hand before, and chop finely afterwards.
Cat butt on the keyboard.
Protip 1: If you're going to take a picture of a cat butt on your keyboard, make sure the cat's butt actually stays on the keyboard while you get the camera.
Protip 2: If you're going to take a picture of a cat butt on your keyboard, have something on your screen other than Hairy McSpecies' ass, glorious as it is.
Oh, dear.
I've spent the last several days attending protests, mostly to document, and partially to participate. I haven't always embraced the black half of my identity, despite it being the most visible and forward-facing part. But I have struggled with systemic racism, oppression, and specifically systemic issues with police my entire life.
On Friday the 29th, the group of peaceful protesters I was with in Oakland were teargassed and flashbanged. This isn't news, but I was fucking there and documented it between wiping my eyes and moving upwind from gas and away from explosives. For the thousands of peaceful protesters I saw, there were at most 10 individuals tagging (mostly boards), breaking, setting fires. This minority felt categorically different than the rest of the protesters and in no way was representative. This is the album of those photos.
From then on in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Jose, there were zero bad actors at the protests I attended. Completely energizing, excited, and lively, but peaceful and nondestructive. By. The. Thousands.
So take your complicit bullshit out of here if you're trying to legitimize or excuse or divert from police fucking murdering black people by waving around the tiny-ass percentage of people doing property damage. Seriously, what is wrong with y'all??!! The answer is systemic oppression.
The thing I've felt the most is hope. Hope that this will finally mobilize real change. America doesn't vote well (especially for legislators) and the Supreme Court doesn't move quickly enough. These are the primary legal actions for enacting change. So what the fuck are people supposed to do to stop our black brothers and sisters from getting brutally murdered if not this? There isn't another answer.
Read the resource guides people post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, damn, but message me and I'll nonjudgmentally give you some. Go to a protest. Bring a sign. And water. And a towel to wipe the tear gas out of your eyes for when the cops think you need to get brutalized for showing up to stand up to their brutalization (protip: wait until it's dry).
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Watch out for drunken idiots, it's Adidas who sent a boot into my camera, obviously needing to be in a group as he has the balls of a bunny rabbit. I feel when him (or his parents) get hit with a money order for a £400 lens and potentially a £400 camera their jaws will instantly drop in court.
Protip; don't assault the guy who has mugshots of you and is bringing them in on tuesday on both analogue (high quality photo paper) and digital (CD) media to the central police station where I'll be asked to give a full statement. Hopefully they have a mugshot of him already the fecking menace; facial recog software will have him in seconds.