SoundCloud photos on Flickr

NOTE: All works featured here are completely original creations. None are made with the assistance of any form of AI technology in any fashion whatsoever.

Thresholds in Flux Act III: "The Dance" by A Virtual Memory / Permian Designs

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Released: 10.25.19

Soundcloud:

soundcloud.com/avirtualmemoryofficial/sets/thresholds-in-...

More artwork at: www.permiandesigns.com/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/permiandesigns/

Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/permiandesigns.bsky.social

NOTE: All works featured here are completely original creations. None are made with the assistance of any form of AI technology in any fashion whatsoever.

Just try by you feel me

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Wesseltoft, Bugge & Sidsel Endresen - Try

Keep on looking, you keep on searching,

keep on moving and you get a little further

keep on trusting, you keep on hoping

keep on facing your faith just to keep on growing

Just try, try

Keep on wondering, you keep on asking,

keep on reaching, keep on taking chances

keep on longing, you keep on dreaming,

keep on doing what you do, never give up believing

Just try, try, just try

Maybe your world shakes, you try to hold on,

maybe your heart breaks, just keep on loving,

maybe you’ll find out, it’s meant to be this way,

maybe you learn this, or maybe we’ll learn this

Try, try, just try

Keep embracing each day, keep on yearning,

keep on making mistakes just to keep on learning

keep on giving, you keep on wanting,

keep on fighting, just get up every morning

and

try, try, just try

.

www.facebook.com/runkewitz

Dance of freedom / Özgürlük dansı / Dance de liberté by SYetim

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soundcloud.com/madbluepro/karen-gevorgian-land-of-dreams?...

soundcloud.com/tana-lee-alves ‪#liebe‬ #爱 #愛 #massajady #belimitless massajady.com @southamptonhospitalny ‪#cwcshh thetanster.com‬‪‬ #tanster ‪#art‬ #sleever #love ‪#peace #kunst‬ ‫#الحب‬ ‪#любовь #Puresource‬ ‪#प्यार‬ #letsdothis ‪‬#awakening #adventure by Tanster

fingerstyle guitar by Didi van Frits

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soundcloud.com/dilkadesh by FLRSCNT

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Wichita, le groupe by Yannick

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Nikon D700, 28/2.8 Ais

Sur scène et en studio avec Wichita en image et en écoute ici :

soundcloud.com/wichita-le-groupe/try-the-ghost

Individualist - The Individual [CRMK248; Deep House] by Chibar Records

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Full preview:

soundcloud.com/chibar-records/sets/individualist-the-indi...

Tracks:

Voices 07:26

Free to Fly 06:19

Free to Fly (Busti Remix) 10:40

LC 35172

EAN 4250444796175

Release date 2016-06-06

chibarrecords.de

Feel free to sign up to our newsletter on:

chibarrecords.de/about-us

#deephouse

Girl. by Mitsushiro Nakagawa

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title

Girl.

(Nikon.coolpix.8700. Shot.)

Manhattan. New york. America. 2007. shot ... 4 / 6

(Today's photo. It's probably published. But it was edited again in 2021. It may include unpublished ones.)

Images.

Judie Tzuke · Beverley Craven · Julia Fordham … Temporary

youtu.be/_RzmSwRP-7I

Important Notices.

I will distribute my T-shirt to the world for free.

m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50656401427/in/dateposted-p...

m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50613367691/in/dateposted-p...

最新のお知らせ。

以下の僕のTシャツ。無料配布。

コロナの影響で、運送方法は国によって変わります。

1/25

一人目が決まりました。

それはドイツの人です。

m.flickr.com/photos/ute_kluge/favorites/

僕は心から感謝します。ありがとう。

:)

２０２０年１２月３日。発送しました。

船便です。２ヶ月から３ヶ月を要します。

2/25

二人目はタイの女性です。

youpic.com/photographer/Abbozzo/

僕は彼女へ受け取って欲しいとお願いしました。

:)

２０２０年１２月１０日。発送しました。

船便です。２ヶ月から３ヶ月を要します。

3/25

3人目はメキシコの女性です。

www.facebook.com/OvejaDeSion

彼女はfotologの頃からずっと僕を支えてくれました。

彼女は僕の道案内をしてくれました。

ありがとう。

:)

２０２０年１２月１０日発送しました。

EMSです。たぶん１ヶ月から２ヶ月以内で到着します。

4/25

4人目は、セルビア共和国の女性です。

youpic.com/photographer/IvanaPopov/

２０２０年１２月１４日発送しました。

船便です。たぶん２ヶ月から３ヶ月以内で到着します。

:)

5/25

５人目は、インドネシアの男性です。

www.flickr.com/photos/33836533@N04/

２０２０年１２月２４日。発送しました。

EMSです。たぶん１ヶ月から２ヶ月以内で到着します。

6/25

6人目は、フランスの方です。

youpic.com/image/18158054/ombre-chinoise-by-ce-pe

www.flickr.com/photos/191604817@N04/

２０２１年１月７日。

僕は発送しました。

:)

7/25

7人目も、フランスの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/151630891@N07/

www.flickr.com/people/liveworkcreate/

２０２１年１月７日。

僕は発送しました。

:)

8/25

８人目の方はルーマニアの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/63mr/

2021年１月中に発送します。

:)

9/25

9人目は日本の方です。16歳です。

www.instagram.com/kai.kawazu/

受賞歴

2017 小国町フォトコンテスト2部門

2018 EPSONmeet up selectionデータ部門優秀賞

2020 熊本高文連前期写真コンテスト優秀賞

Webフォトコンテスト協賛メーカー賞

10/25

10人目は、ブラジルの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/mangelo/

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

:)

11/25

11人目は、アメリカの方です。

youpic.com/photographer/HeathBrunner/

www.flickr.com/photos/181948650@N04/

vmaxrecords.bandcamp.com

soundcloud.com/vmaxrecords

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

:)

12/25

12人目は、日本の方です。

youpic.com/photographer/OsamuTabata/

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

:)

13/25

13人目は、イタリアの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/122700703@N05/

youpic.com/photographer/raffadepa2019/

cacciatoredisogniblog.wordpress.com

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

14/25

14人目は、ロシアの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/183731920@N08/

youpic.com/photographer/Andjey/

２０２１年３月中に発送します。

Mitsu.

youtu.be/D3q3p5edLZA

YOUTUBE、更新しました😃

アップルカー、プレゼンテーション。202３年秋、発表。（僕の妄想です😃）

（動画は思い立ってすぐにテキスト書いてアップしたので棒読みです😅以下のテキストが完成版なので是非お読みください😃）

Apple car, presentation. Announced in the fall of 2023. (It's my delusion 😃)

Please translate the following Japanese into English.

:)

皆さんおはよう。

偶然だが、おととしの今日、私は新型コロナウィルスのワクチンを接種した。

みなさんのなかには、すでに二度目の接種を受けた方もいるだろう。

この新型コロナウィルスは世界に1つの境界線を引いた。

それまでとそれ以降だ。

私たちを取り巻く環境は激変した。

ウィルスに対応するためあらゆる場所に除菌液が設置され、部屋の空気を浄化し、そんな環境が至る所に展開されてきた。

アップルも、これらを認識しつつ、新しいプロジェクトに臨んできた。

新しい価値観を受け入れるためには、新しいスタイルが必要だ。

私たちの周囲もアップデートされなければ、私たちは生き残れないだろう。

アップルは時代を生き残るために、いくつかを提示してきた。

パーソナルコンピューターであるマッキントッシュ。

音楽デバイスであるアイポッド。

携帯電話であるアイフォーン。

そして、今日、アップルはみなさんに伝えたいことがある。

それはもうひとつのサヴァイヴだ。

アップルカー。

アップルは車を再発明する。

これまでの自動車の状態

今までのガソリン車を振り返ってみよう。

ガソリンという化石燃料を使い、ガスを排出する。そして環境を悪化させてきた。

山林は業火に見舞われ、大雨の大洪水に街はさらわれ、乾いた大地が覆い尽くす。

これからもこの状態が続くという事は地球自体の崩壊を招く。

私たちはそれを止めなければならない。少なくとも見直しに取り掛かることが重要だ。

世界的にトップだったトヨタはこれに積極的に取り掛からなかった。

すでに多くの世界で走っているハイブリッドのプリウス。

これは１９９２年に発表されたにも関わらず、新しい車種でさえも未だにハイブリッドのままだ。

発売してからの約３０年もの間、いったい彼らは何を目的としてこの車に固執し、開発してきたのか？

なぜ彼らはこの車種を見直さなかったのか？

現状のハイブリット、プラグインハイブリット。そういった類は結局は化石燃料を使っている。

彼らはこの新しい展開に積極的に臨んできたというが、現状維持という考えを変えなかった。

むしろ現時点においても、それがベストだとさえ言ってるように思えてならない。

私たちはそこで他の会社も見渡してみた。

電気自動車の現在

テスラだ。

皆さんご存知のようにテスラは積極的に環境問題に取り組み、世界規模で大きく発展し貢献してきた。化石燃料を使わない、そして自動運転、洗練されたデザイン。これらは多くの人たちを魅了してきた。

しかし広く普及はしたものの、皆さんの家のそばにこの車は走ってるだろうか？

答えはノーだ。

なぜ車が走っていないか。

私たちは3時間ほどしっかり考えた。

まぁ、たった3時間だが。

答えは単純だ。

車が高いからだ。高価すぎるのだ。

これはテスラに限らず電気自動車を作っているすべての会社に言えることだ。

とにかく車の値段が高すぎる。

私たちはこれを念頭に置きつつ、車を再発明した。

アップルカーのポイント

アップルカーのポイントは三つだ。

ひとつめ。

価格。

電気自動車が普及しない理由は非常に簡単だ。

価格が高いからだ

なぜ電気自動車が高いのか。それは本体価格の大半を占めるバッテリーの値段が最も高いからだ。

それが大きく占めている。

そこでアップルはリン酸鉄リチウムイオンバッテリーと言う素材を使うことに行き着いた。

これは全個体電池のように高価ではなく安価で、iPhoneのように充電する時間は短く、すぐに使えることを優先させ、かつ、耐久性に優れていると言うポイントがある。

私たちはこの2点を重視した。

車を短時間で充電し、短距離を即、走行可能となることを目指した。

iPhoneやアップルウォッチと同じ結論を反映させたのだ。

現在、電気自動車は長距離を走ることを目標としているが、果たして、きょう、あなたが会社から帰る際に、長距離用のバッテリが必要だろうか？

何百キロも走ることが必要だろうか？

すぐに家に帰り、すぐに充電し、また朝には出勤する。

全個体電池などという長距離が走れる高価なバッテリは、現段階では不要なのだ。

アップルはそう判断した。

次にアップルが目指したポイントの2つ目は安全性だ。

WHOの報告では、年間で世界中の事故死者数は１３５万人に上る。

これは、２４秒にひとりが命を落としている計算になる。

アップルはこの事故を劇的に減らそうと考えた。

Apple Watchを腕に巻いた子供が車の下にいた場合。

iPhone 5Gを持っている人が側道にいたり、信号待ちをしている場合。

彼らを事前に感知し、彼らには接近しないように考えた。

人の居場所を事前に察知することができれば、車は避けられる。

私たちは、車自体が人から離れることを計算した。

3つ目は先進性だ。

これまでの車と言うのは、車に乗るとわかるが、ダッシュボードにはいつもの通風口が口を開けて待っている。

これは見慣れた光景で、もううんざりだ。飽き飽きだ。

私たちはこの風景を大きく前進させる。

フロントガラスにAR機能を搭載し、ナビゲーションで誘う。

また、ダッシュボードには皆さんが持っているiPhoneやiPadを貼り付け、聴いていた音楽をそのまま車内で流せる。

もちろん、望めばそのままエンジンもスタートだ。

ワイパーなんてもう不要だ。水滴なんて風圧で飛ばすした方が美しい。

シートベルトもあなたが座れば自動で閉まる。きつ過ぎず、ゆる過ぎず、あなたは快適な空間を提供されるだろう。

また、ハンドルを握って前を見据えた瞬間にドライバーの健康状態をアップルカーは察知する。

あなたが酔っていたら、車は決して動かない。もう酔っ払い運転の事故は発生しないだろう。

以上の三つがアップルカーのポイントだ。

１　価格

２　安全性

３　先進性

アップルはこれらを重視した。

そして、皆さんが最も気になるのは価格のはずだ。

価格は29,999ドル。

車の予約は来週から。半年後にまずはアメリカから発売する。

それでは実際にアップルカーをお見せしよう。

ティム・クック、自分のApple Watchに顔を寄せて車に呼びかける。

アップルカー登場。

備考。

ここで重要なのは自動運転に触れていないこと。

多分アップルは自動運転には触れず、車をまず普及させることをアピールしてくるはず。

自動運転のアップデートは後回し。

色はのちに5色を展開。

E

Glimmering On Agfa by J. Astra Brinkmann

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soundcloud.com/j-astra-brinkmann/agfa-adamantine

I've been focusing on making music these past few months. I am so grateful for my genuine friends who have supported me so far on this musical extravaganza, but I am also heartbroken over the various visceral disappointments which lead me to write these dreampop tracks in the first place.

Can't wait to move.

Contax T3, Agfa Vista 800

grandson with bues harp - video by Didi van Frits

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my grandson, aged 5. with blues harp - fast audio link if video loads to slow: soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/blues-harmonica-vs-sadness

#926 藍腹夕盼 by John&Fish

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Dear Flickr friends, you are very welcome to hear some of my piano composition .

藍腹鷴．攝於台灣大雪山林道

Swinhoe's Blue Pheasant, taken at DaSyueShan Trail, TAIWAN

[Pg. 15 + 16] by A Virtual Memory / Permian Designs

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Released: 06.01.17

Bandcamp:

avirtualmemory.bandcamp.com/album/item-01-x-becoming-x-be...

Soundcloud:

soundcloud.com/avirtualmemoryofficial/sets/x-becoming-x-b...

More artwork at: www.permiandesigns.com/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/permiandesigns/

Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/permiandesigns.bsky.social

NOTE: All works featured here are completely original creations. None are made with the assistance of any form of AI technology in any fashion whatsoever.

"Item 04: 给医生打电话!" Album Sampler by A Virtual Memory / Permian Designs

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Released: XX.XX.17

Bandcamp:

avirtualmemory.bandcamp.com/album/item-04

Soundcloud:

soundcloud.com/avirtualmemoryofficial/sets/sampler

More artwork at: www.permiandesigns.com/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/permiandesigns/

Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/permiandesigns.bsky.social

NOTE: All works featured here are completely original creations. None are made with the assistance of any form of AI technology in any fashion whatsoever.

Dedicated to Hanna Barbera...Hong Kong Phooey & Spot by ZEEROCK

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soundcloud.com/zee-rock/morning-yawning

Listen to JMAX - For A Minute by JMAX #np on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/jjusmaxx/jmax-for-a-minute by Aaron LENNON

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Happy xmas by mandi

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soundcloud.com/mandi-buckingham/angel-days

[CRMK215] Luke Stanger & Andrew Johnson - Take Me [House] by Chibar Records

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-> soundcloud.com/chibar-records/sets/luke-stanger-andrew-jo...

-> www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFchrZ16SyBgp5GjdzKgdDpXYe...

LC 35172

Released by: Chibar Records

Release/catalogue number: CRMK215

Release date: February 25, 2015

Tracks:

Take Me 07:05

On & On 07:40

Feelin 06:10

#house

Listen to Wont U Be My Superman by Mandi Buckingham on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/LNaQ by mandi

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Listen to Wont U Be My Superman by Mandi Buckingham on #SoundCloud

on.soundcloud.com/LNaQV

VIRGO by Christian Carocca

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soundcloud.com/christiancarocca

♫~I’ll go where the wind takes me no matter if you cry~♫ by Brooks

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soundcloud.com/raquelle-offlclal/raquelle-if-you-cry?in=r...

This picture was so random like it just happened but I like how it came out hehe yeah

also like merry Christmas or whatever you're celebrating I'm literally not feeling festive at all there weren't any dolls I wanted in stores this year X_X

link in description by Chris Ezelle

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soundcloud.com/chris-ezelle/listen-to-my-heartbeat

soundcloud.com/tana-lee-alves ‪#liebe‬ #爱 #愛 #21daymedihealing @exponentialintelligence massajady.com @southamptonhospitalny ‪#cwcshh thetanster.com‬‪‬ #tanster ‪#art‬ #sleever #love ‪#hearts #kunst‬ ‫#الحب‬ ‪#любовь #tanstermobile‬ ‪#प्यार‬ #awakening # by Tanster

New Working Space by Ben Heine

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www.benheine.com | Facebook | Twitter | © Ben Heine

______________________________________________

This is my new studio, where I spend most of my time...

I'm so happy I can play drums again! You can view the

studio animated at this link and in the comments below.

Also, this is my SoundCloud if you'd like to hear my music.

______________________________________________

For more information about my art: info@benheine.com

______________________________________________

Ma nouvelle chanson à propos des tristes événements à Bruxelles, Paris, Istanbul... Difficile de vivre avec de telles cicatrices. Sur Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/29hsoqg Sur Youtube: youtu.be/OHKBU8DIZbg Sur Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/173277396 Video clip d by Ben Heine

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Bono fouroux @ Warf Rat Blues - 9 April, 2017 by Isis Boa Desmoulins

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soundcloud.com/peter-van-zundert-58270379

Visit this location at WHARF RAT BLUES- Where the Blues live 24 hours 7 Days a week in Second Life

BeamWallpaper01 by EK4T3

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soundcloud.com/ekatecollective

soundcloud.com/ek4t32nd

www.youtube.com/channel/UC_O650W8b1mWJSS4h04FInw

ek4t3.bandcamp.com/

www.flickr.com/groups/3217559@N20/

www.facebook.com/ek4t3/

www.facebook.com/hypnosiswaveZine/

plus.google.com/u/0/+EK4T3collective43

McDonaldization by Ben Heine

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NEW: I NOW CREATE MUSIC, JOIN ME ON SOUNDCLOUD!

SHOP: www.icanvas.com/canvas-art-prints/artist/ben-heine

Mad world... This is an older sketch I made in 2007

_______________________________________________

For more information about my art: info@benheine.com

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Globalization of McDonalds

By honors.rit.edu/

A person, group, or nation having great influence or control over others is defined as having power (dictionary.com). In the minds of most it is the political leaders and governments have power over the people. However, many institutions and business corporations we may not think of also hold a lot of the world’s power. Unfortunately, through globalization corporations such as McDonalds are attempting to Americanize the whole world. Human societies across the globe have established progressively closer contacts over many centuries, but recently the pace has dramatically increased. Jet airplanes, cheap telephone service, email, computers, huge oceangoing vessels, instant capital flows, all these have made the world more interdependent than ever. Multinational corporations manufacture products in many countries and sell to consumers around the world. Money, technology and raw materials continually move across national borders. Along with products and finances, ideas and cultures circulate more freely. As a result, laws, economies, and social movements are forming at the international level. Many politicians, academics, and journalists treat these trends as both inevitable and welcomed. But for billions of the world’s people, business-driven globalization means uprooting old ways of life and threatening livelihoods and cultures. The global social justice movement, itself a product of globalization, proposes an alternative path, more responsive to public needs. Intense political disputes will continue over globalization’s meaning and its future direction. (www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/define/index.htm)

The biggest multinational companies are very rich. Of the 100 biggest economies in the world, just over half are companies rather than whole countries. The 200 biggest companies control a quarter of all the world’s trade. These 200 companies have more than half the economic power over four billion people. Multinational companies, like all companies, want to make profits. Their profits will be affected by the level of taxes in a country, how well skilled the workforce is, how easy it is to find sites to build factories, and even how strong a country's currency is. This means governments will think carefully about their economic policies. For example, a multinational may decide to close a factory in one country because it is cheaper to make its products in another. This can mean hundreds or thousands of jobs will be lost. It can mean that countries have a tendency to weaken rules about working conditions in order to attract multinational investment. In less developed countries dependence on multinational companies for investment and jobs is proportionately even greater. In these countries employees often work harder, for less money and in poorer conditions. Because of the importance of the companies, governments in these countries may be less willing to press for better wages and working conditions for their workers.

In poor countries vast areas of land are used for cash crops or for cattle ranching, or to grow grain to feed animals to be eaten in the West. This is at the expense of local food needs. McDonald's continually promote meat products, encouraging people to eat meat more often, which waste more and more food resources. According to the London Green Peace Group some 'Third World' countries, where most children are undernourished, are actually exporting their staple crops as animal feed to fatten the cattle being into burgers in the 'First World'. Millions of acres of the best farmland in poor countries are being used for United State’s benefit by means of tea, coffee, and tobacco, while people there are starving. McDonald's is directly involved in this economic imperialism, which keeps 7 million tons of grain fed to livestock produces only 1 million tons of meat and by-products. On a plant-based diet and with land shared fairly, almost every region could be self-sufficient in food (www.animalfrontline.nl/macdonalds-eng.php). McDonalds not only effects the economic position of people in foreign countries, but it also affects American ranches and McDonald’s employees economically.

McDonald's comes in, saying that the brand will bring many jobs. Beef producers, flourishing for years, now have McDonald's as their only market. In 1968, McDonald’s bought ground beef from 175 local suppliers. A few years later, seeking to achieve greater product uniformity as it expanded, McDonalds reduced the number of beef suppliers to five. In the United States many ranchers now argue that few large corporations have gained stranglehold on the market using unfair tactics to drive down the price of cattle (Schlosser, 134). The four major meatpacking companies now control about 20 percent of the live cattle in the US through “captive supplies” cattle that are either maintained in company owned feedlots or purchased in advance. When cattle prices start to rise, the large meatpackers can flood the market with their own captive supplies driving prices back down. The suicide rate among ranchers and farmers in the United States is now about three times higher than the national average. A 1996 USDA investigation of concentration in the beef industry found that many ranchers were afraid to testify against the large meatpacking companies, fearing retaliation and “economic ruin.” When Mike Callicrate, a cattleman from St. Francis Kansas, decided to speak out against corporate behavior before the USDA committee, the large meatpackers promptly stopped bidding on his cattle (Schlosser, 143)

Outside the United States, Jamaicans not allowed to use cancer-causing agents in their burgers. McDonald's imports the beef from a country or free zone where cancer can legally go into the food. Therefore Jamaican beef producers have no market, and cannot export so the business dies. People line up at McDonald's for cancer, driven by global advertising. No native farming, no native products, nothing left but McDonald's.

According to George Ritzer, “The fundamental problem with McDonaldisation is that it's other people in the system structuring our lives for us, rather than us structuring our lives for ourselves…You don't want a creative person at the counter - that's why they are scripted. You don't want a creative hamburger cook - you want somebody who simply follows routines or follows scripts. No, you take all creativity out of work and turn it into a series of routine procedures that are imposed by some external force. That's the reason why it's dehumanizing... it turns human beings into human robots"

Not surprisingly staff turnover at McDonald's is high, making it virtually impossible to unionize and fight for a better deal, which suits McDonald's who have always been opposed to Unions. A recent survey of workers in burger-restaurants found that 80% said they needed union help over pay and conditions. McDonald's have a policy of preventing unionization by getting rid of pro-union workers. So far this has succeeded everywhere in the world except Sweden, and in Dublin after a long struggle Green Pease Group). In February of 1997 workers at a McDonald’s in St Hubert, Canada, applied to join the Teamsters union. More than three quarter of the crewmembers signed union cards, hoping to create the only unionized McDonalds in North America. Tom and mike Cappelli closed the McDonalds just weeks before the union was certified. This was not the first time this happened, during the early 1970s workers in Lansing Michigan were organizing a union. All the crewmembers were fired and the restaurant was shut down, a new McDonalds was build down the block and the unionizing workers were not rehired (Schlosser, 77)

As a global and national economic power, McDonalds negatively affects the lives of people in foreign countries as well as people in the United States. Because multinational companies want trade across the world to be free from restrictions as much as possible they are likely to use their influence with the World Trade Organization to get restrictions on manufacturing and trade reduced to a minimum. Is McDonalds so powerful that nothing can restrain the terror it forces upon the world’s people?

Globalization is political in the sense that the dominant powers insist on the adoption of certain versions of their policies and values for example, the adoption of liberal democracy and opening up of economies. This meant national states increasingly restructuring their position and their responsibilities in relation to both the global capitalism and to the local economies and societies. This tendency towards homogenization of politics seeks to form a world government with singular security, army, and judiciary branches with most of its important institutions located in the west. Globalization in this sense is referred to as hegemonisation (www.sidamaconcern.com/articles/globalisation.html).

Behind the smiling face of Ronald McDonald lurks a self-important and singularly determined multi-national corporation that wields serious power over national governments. McDonalds doesn't only convert its influence into political clout. It uses its dollars and donations to target the most vulnerable people in society. Ronald McDonald has a proven policy of suing the ass off of you or your employer, if you, as they put it, "tell lies about the company". McDonalds has even threatened to sue perfectly credible media institutions such as the BBC and the Guardian. This indicates that they are trying to stop the expression of free speech, a civil liberty, at least insofar as it affects their commercial operations. The list of media organizations that have been suppressed or pulped is growing (www.i-resign.com/uk/workinglife/viewarticle_33.asp).

In 1986, the London Green Peace group published a leaflet titled, "What's wrong with McDonalds". When the leaflet came to their attention, McDonalds demanded they retract the leaflet and its allegations or face court with the obvious possibility of a huge costs, they were denied legal aid, incurred by facing some of the top legal players money can buy. Two individuals from the group, Dave Morris, a postman, and Helen Steel, a gardener, felt they had no choice but to face McDonalds in court. On the 28th June 1994 the libel trial began in London and ended up becoming the longest ever seen in a British court. It's now known as the "McLibel" trial. The defendant's legal costs of £35,000 were met by generous donations by members of the public. On the 19th June 1997 McDonalds were awarded damages of £90,000 for certain items in the leaflet concerning the health implications of eating at a McDonalds restaurant and its role in Third World starvation and environmental damage, which remained 'not proven'. The Judge agreed that "McDonalds advertisements, promotions and booklets have pretended to a positive nutritional benefit which McDonald's food did not match" and that the firm "paid its workers low wages, thereby helping to depress wages for workers in the catering trade".

The current government is happy to let McDonalds participate in the education of the country's schoolchildren. In 1998, David Blunkett and Steven Byers, Ministers of State for education and industry, permitted the corporation to be a partner in the North Somerset Education action zone. In 1999, the National Year of Reading Received support in the form of branded lunchboxes. During the McLibel trial Dave Morris, claimed in court that the firm sees schoolchildren as the next generation of cheap labor as well as consumers. In summing up, the judge agreed that McDonalds influence on the young was remarkable, commenting that the fast food chain targets "susceptible young children to bring in custom, both their own and that of their parents".

McDonalds is so politically powerful that it can sue anyone and get away with it even if the information that they are suing over is true. Just because the information in the London Green Peace Group leaflet wasn’t proven true doesn’t mean it couldn’t be proven true. But the little people can never be correct when going up against the huge capital of the McDonalds Corporation.

Globalization also impacts cultures. It tends to promote homogeneity towards western and American values and influences. In this sense, some see globalization as westernization or even Americanization. They cite, among others, instances of expansion of coca cola, McDonalds, and the rock-and-roll music relayed by adverts, radio, and global satellite television. Such expansion, they argue, happens at the expense of local cultures that are the sources of diversities.

George Ritzer say, “I think that McDonald's has a profound effect on the way people do a lot of things I mean it leads people to want everything fast, to have, you know, a limited attention span so that kind of thing spills over onto, let's say, television viewing or newspaper reading, and so you have a short attention span, you want everything fast, so you don't have patience to read the New York Times and so you read McPaper, you read USA today. You don't have patience to watch a lengthy newscast on a particular issue so you watch CNN News and their little news McNugget kinds of things so it creates a kind of mindset, which seeks the same kind of thing in one setting after another. I see it in education where you have, in a sense, a generation of students who've been raised in a McDonaldised society, they want things fast, they want idealic nuggets from Professors, they don't want sort of slow build up of ideas, you gotta keep them amused, you gotta come in with the Ronald McDonald costume and quip a series of brilliant theoretical points or else they're going to turn you off” (www.mcspotlight.org/people/interviews/ritzer_george.html).

According to George Ritzer in other countries when going into a McDonalds, it's not just that you are buying a product, but you are buying into a system. In the 1940s there was a big flap in France over what was called a Coca Colonization. The French were very upset about the coming of Coca Cola to France. They felt it threatened the French wine industry and French way of life. But that was just the influx of an American product. Now, with McDonalds, we have the influx of an American way of life, which is to trivialize eating, to make it something that is fast, make it something that's to get done and over with. But it's striking to me that the last time I was in Paris the Parisians appeared to have embraced this kind of fast food phenomenon. You have developments of fast food croissanteries where this model French way of life and the croissanterie has been reduced to fast food. French bread is more and more treated on a fast basis rather than lots of local bakeries baking their own distinctive kind, so if the French succumb to this in the realm of food there is little that is safe from the expansion of this process.

Within this world, however, McDonalds has sufficient influence to actually change established dietary practices across whole regions. For example, according to "Behind the Arches", a book authorized by McDonalds in 1987, McDonalds in Japan faced a fundamental challenge of establishing beef as a common food. Their president Den Fujita stated “the reason Japanese people are so short and have yellow skins is because they have eaten nothing but fish and rice for two thousand years, if we eat McDonalds hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years we will become taller, our skin become white and our hair blonde.” McDonalds also changed eating habits in Australia, Peter Ritchie, at the time McDonalds Australian president has stated he attributes “that change to the influence McDonalds has on children.” "Behind the Arches" concludes that rather than adapt to local tastes and preferences, “McDonalds’ foreign partners made major changes in marketing in order to sell the American system. Indeed, McDonalds is prepared to support such means as are necessary to sell the American system, the company supplies symbolic practical support and important ideological support to the military imperialism necessary for the onward march of mono-culture. For example, they provided food to US troops as a token of support for the genocide about to be perpetrated against the people of Iraq. (www.mwr.org.uk/justanother.htm)

McDonalds told Scottish sandwich bar owner, Mary Blair, that her shop in Fenny Stratford near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, can no longer go by the name McMunchies because McDonald's is the registered user of the 'Mc' prefix, it emerged yesterday. Mrs. Blair, a 36 year-old Scot, who does not sell burgers or chips, said she chose the name because she liked the word "munchies" and wanted to add a taste of Scotland. The sign bears a Scottish thistle and a St Andrew's flag. But in a statement to Mrs. Blair's solicitors, said if someone, "either deliberately or unintentionally," used their trademark, they were “in effect using something that does not belong to them." The company that has quietly set about taking over the world ensuring that there is not a high street which does not feature its red and white sign and its golden arches, also the property of McDonald's, now wants to take over Britain's heritage. Telling the Scots that they cannot use the prefix Mc is like someone registering the name Singh and then ban its use in India. Where do they think Mc originated, Illinois? McDonald's say that the "unauthorized" use of the 'Mc' prefix may confuse the public." (www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/ind_24sep96.html)

McDonald's also affects culture in promoting their food as 'nutritious', but the reality is that it is junk food. It is high in fat, sugar and salt, and low in fiber and vitamins. A diet of this type is linked with a greater risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. Their food also contains many chemical additives, some of which may cause ill health, and hyperactivity in children. Meat is also the cause of the majority of food poisoning incidents. In 1991 McDonald's were responsible for an outbreak of food poisoning in the UK, in which people suffered serious kidney failure. With modern intensive farming methods, other diseases, linked to chemical residues or unnatural practices have also become a danger to people too.

As a global power McDonalds has negatively affected the world’s people economically, politically, and culturally. Criticism of McDonald's has come from a huge number of people and organizations over a wide range of issues. In the mid-1980's, London Greenpeace drew together many of those strands of criticism and called for an annual World Day of Action against McDonald's. This takes place every year on 16th October, with pickets and demonstrations all over the world. McDonald's, who spend a fortune every year on advertising, are trying to silence worldwide criticism by threatening legal action against those who speak out. Many have been forced to back down because they lacked the money to fight a case. Protests against the $30 billion a year fast-food giant continue to grow. It's vital to stand up to intimidation and to defend free speech. (www.animalfrontline.nl/macdonalds-eng.php) “Nobody in the United States is forced to buy fast food. The first step toward meaningful change is by far the easiest which is to stop buying it. They executives who run the fast food industry are not bad mean. They are business mean. They will sell free-range, organic, grass fed hamburgers is you demand it. They will sell whatever makes a profit” (Schlosser 269)

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References:

www.animalfrontline.nl/macdonalds-eng.php

www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/ind_24sep96.html

www.mwr.org.uk/justanother.htm

www.mcspotlight.org/people/interviews/ritzer_george.html

www.sidamaconcern.com/articles/globalisation.html

www.i-resign.com/uk/workinglife/viewarticle_33.asp

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www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/define/index.htm

Schlosser, Eric. "Fast Food Nation". Haroer Collins Publishers, 2002.

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"Subtropic Collective Album Art for '2 Spliff Shorty: Pragma' Digital Release" by A Virtual Memory / Permian Designs

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You Can't Heal A Wound by Saying It's Not There. by Jared Tyler

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But in dark times when we close our eyes

It’s a nightmare,

it’s a nightmare.

And when the sun don’t shine we lose our minds.

But I swear, we can get there. -Bea Miller

Healing doesnt mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.

We are not weak.

and it's about damn time we change the Stigma surrounding addiction.

This is a B&W version of a photo that will be in my 2016 Senior Thesis Show titled "Impressions".

I have so many awesome photo ideas for the new year. I've decided that once I'm done with my Stigma show I will moving in a completely different direction with my work. NO MORE SAD ARTWORK, I've nailed sad on the head with my photography because I was sad. I'm finally in the right headspace and I've realized I want to make people feel good when they see my portfolio. I want my work to be an example of what can happen with a simple change in attitude. Every day I feel more and more inspired to show everyone how beautiful they really are, and to love themselves the way they should. I've lived far to long focusing on everything that was wrong with me and I began to not care about myself anymore. I'm turning the page now. I'm happy? and that's something that I never thought I would say. I want to show you that there is green grass on the other side of the mountain. That there's actually a light at the end of the tunnel but you have to keep going to be able to see it. Believe me, it's real, and it's brilliant. There's hope for you always you just can't give up on it, and I want my art to be living proof of that. I am proof of it.

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The Weekly Flickr - Ben Heine by Ben Heine

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In case you missed it, you can find my interview for "The Weekly Flickr" here below and on the following sites:

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Photographer literally draws life into his photos

In this edition of The Weekly Flickr, we profile Belgian artist and photographer Ben Heine. To call Ben Heine’s photography “cool” or even “eye-catching” is a bit of an understatement. His images are mesmerizing. Ben’s Pencil Vs Camera series perfectly blends illustrations in surprising but clever juxtapositions.

Ben Heine has created a form of art that is truly all his own. Einstein once said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Ben Heine is using art to show that if you can see it and believe it, there are no bounds to creativity!

“In my work, I’m really trying to interact with the viewer,” the Belgian artist tells The Weekly Flickr in the accompanying video. “I want to make them laugh or smile, and if I can, surprise people so that he or she doesn’t understand how it’s made. I’m having so much fun and I want them to feel the same.”

“Pencil Vs Camera” mixes drawing and photography, imagination and reality through illusion and surrealism. Ben says the idea was the result of a long graphic exploration and the evolution of his artistic ability.

“The initial idea happened randomly while I was writing a letter in 2010,” Ben explains. “When I held the letter up to put it inside an envelope, I noticed the paper was transparent enough that I could see my television in the background. I suddenly saw two images working together: the words on the paper and the action of the television. It was surreal, and I instantly thought I could do something creative with this.”

“The very next day I made Pencil Vs Camera #1,” Ben says. “It wasn’t very creative, but it was the beginning of this new concept. Since then, it’s evolved into more and more complex drawings, and it’s always changing into something bigger and better.”

The process behind the series is very simple. Ben draws a picture by hand and then takes the photo of the drawing at a specific location. His hand is almost always visible in the image to represent the connection between viewer, artist and artwork. In “Pencil Vs Camera”, Ben generally focuses on architecture, portraits and animals. Among many others, the main themes he approaches are love, freedom and friendship.

“The drawing has to be nice, and the location where I’m taking the photo has to be interesting,” Ben says. “When I edit my photo, like every photographer, I’m always adjusting. Since these are raw images, I’m adjusting the light, the colors, the contrast – everything (see some photo editing examples here). In some cases, I even adjust the composition because I want the final image to be perfect!” An admitted perfectionist, he uses perspective to create unexpected images that are open to interpretation, going back to the drawing board and readjusting if necessary.

“Love, freedom and friendship are the main things I’m trying to express in my art because they are a reflection of what I love the most in life,” Ben says. “I’ve made many photos showing duos … either two people or two animals in love or in a friendly situation with each other. It’s a beautiful feeling.”

“One of my favorite images shows a lion jumping out of the image ,” Ben says. “I took this photo in Tunisia and drew a ferocious lion jumping and appearing. The picture is unfinished, because I mainly wanted to attract the attention of the viewer on the lion’s roar. I liked the powerful effect of this image – you know the lion’s screaming and shouting. For me, graphic art can sometimes be dull, but this image is powerful.”

There is also a lot of illusion and surrealism depicted in Ben’s art. Throughout his career he’s been influenced by famous artists like René Magritte . Ben says he likes to play with shapes, geometrics and create illusions with tricky objects and perspectives. The reactions Ben’s received from his series has been extremely positive.

“I started posting my pictures on Flickr in 2006, and since then, the feedback from other members has helped me to improve my work,” Ben admits. “I really strive to create a new form of art. For me, it’s very important to be innovative and do something different. I’m having fun only because I’m trying to surpass myself daily. I want people to see I’ve given my utmost best in each of my images.”

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The Tree of Transformation is a 20ft tall interactive musical tree. It takes the form of a twisting steel pipe tree trunk sprouting from a full-size upright piano. Three main limbs branch out to form a canopy and support nine steelpans with a four octave range. When the keys of the piano are pressed, solenoids are actuated to strike the pans in the correct location to play the corresponding note. Because some notes overlap between pans, there are a total of 99 solenoids but only 48 notes, which means that some notes will have multiple pans being struck resulting in a rich, complex sound, much like a steelpan orchestra.

As you approach the piece at night, you will only see the piano by way of a piano lamp which illuminates the keyboard, and a piano bench which sits in front of the piano inviting you to play. When a note is played, each striker also has a high intensity white led light that flashes, lighting up the branches and pans in a sequence following the notes being played.

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Dream on 😍 Time to jump into that TARDIS? A beautiful pair of BRCW Type 2 Class 26s steaming away at Inverness on a Far North service to Thurso / Wick ***NOW HEAR THEM ON SOUNDCLOUD*** 😎:) by Chris (The Mighty Hood 😎)

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Latest news! I've just had about 1,000 of my negatives from the 1980s professionally scanned - so here is a random choice from the archives, with many, many months worth of quality uploads to come - Happy Days 😍 :)

Now LIVE on Sound & Vision on SoundCloud - more memories from a mis-spent youth 😎

During the 1980s, whilst travelling around the British Rail network, I made a number of tape recordings to capture the railway scene of the time, many from the front window, some from the platform, using my trusty ghetto-blaster - and now these recordings can finally be heard :)

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The fine art of bashing - steam-heat memories from the 1980s With steam-heat soon coming to an end, I made the trip north to see what I could sample. Here we see a 'lucky strike' with a gorgeous pair of steam' heat BRCW Type 2 Class 26s (26038 + 26041) at the head of a Far North service to Wick & Thurso 😍 :) Note the headlight fitted for Highland duties. As Colin Partington has mentioned on my accompanying photo of the pair, the Class 26s (including 26038) usually had twin headlights fitted, for working on the Far North ans Kyle lines, and these have been plated over on 26038.

'A day in the life' - log book update:

25 Mar 1985 - 26038 + 26041 on 2K09 11.45 Inverness - Wick / Thurso

Departed Inverness 11.45

And the bad news... I was on my way home after a long weekend based at Kyle of Lochalsh - on arrival at Inverness behind 37260 'Radio Highland" I was greeted by this amazing sight! All the Highland services had switched from Class 26s to steam-heat Class 37s by this time, and I was duly gob-smacked. Sadly, I had to make a connection (my train seen on the far platform) and I had no time even for a Dingwall or even Muir of Ord move! For me, it was 47464 on the 12.21 Inverness - Edinburgh for a Tram home to London 😬

And... Sound & Vision is also on YouTube, with a selection of Modern Age 21st century short iPhone videos of both railway traction and aviation, with the occasional bus thrown in 😀

Visit my YouTube channel @TransportMemories here: www.youtube.com/@TransportMemories/videos

Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration - the image a tad grainy due to the film stock used which I think was Kodak ASA 200 print film.

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Goodbye ♥ by Nhật Đan

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