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If there's one 19-year-old I know that likes to act like a rich old dude, it's my friend Spencer. He comes home everyday to a glass of Scotch on the rocks and hangs out in a robe in his home movie theatre...a very beautiful room. So this isn't too much of an embellishment besides the etch&sketch.
Explored #79 on March 19th, 2009
Strobist:
*flash into 43" umbrella camera left, gelled 1/2 CTO
*flash bounced off ceiling in wall in the back to raise the presence of the practical, gelled 1/4 CTO
We went on a photo shoot today for fun.. and it sure was!!
AlienBee 800 thru a large octabox to the left.
title inspired from the band. :)
I've been in need of a good logo for some time now and my good bud, Bryan Brinkman, hooked it up. He's been getting a lot more into graphic design work and is definitely progressing with it very quickly. Check out his blog as well.
This may not even be the final version but I do dig this one a lot :D
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Memorial Monument For KKK Grand Wizard Planned In Alabama
August 24, 2012
In Selma, Alabama, a monument to the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan is under construction on public land.
The statue of Confederate General Nathan Forrest -- infamous for being the first Grand Wizard of the Klan and for massacring black Union soldiers at the Civil War battle of Fort Pillow -- even has the blessing of the Selma City Council.
Selma is home to some of the most important events of the Civil Rights Movement -- including "Bloody Sunday," a date in 1965 where 600 activists, fighting for African-American voting rights, were attacked by state and local police.
Unless the city council stops it, a "bigger and better than ever" monument will be constructed to honor Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Malika Sanders-Fortier, a community leader in Selma who has launched a petition against the monument, says she was outraged upon hearing the news. A proud resident, familiar with the city's place in history, she thinks that monument celebrates violent racism, intolerance and has no place there.
She continues, "Monuments celebrating violent racism and intolerance have no place in this country, let alone in a city like Selma, where the families of those attacked by the Klan still live."
A group called Friends of Forrest, who built the original monument, and is planning to add to it, laying concrete for a new foundation, adding a new bust of the KKK founder, enclose the monument in a wrought iron gate, and add night lighting.
"The Friends of Forrest, a Confederate organization, co-founded by Cecil Williamson and Patricia Godwin, are behind the building of the monument. "[Friends of Forrest] have been raising money for years for a permanent monument to Forrest by selling a packet of information that was originally published by the KKK right after the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March. They call the packet, Truth Uncensored; it attacks the Voting Rights Movement," the organization says on their website.
Hank Sanders, an Alabama State Senator representing Selma County, is challenging the building of a Monument to General Nathan Bedford Forrest, pointing to the negatives of the historic general's past.
"Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the richest slave dealers in the South," said Sanders. "Under General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s leadership, Black soldiers who had surrendered were murdered in cold blood at Fort Pillow, Tennessee during the Civil War. After the Civil War, General Nathan Bedford Forrest took leadership of the Klan, becoming its first Grand Wizard, and built it into a national force that terrorized Black people across this country for decades. There is already a monument to Forrest at Live Oak Cemetery. We do not need a bigger monument of Forrest in Selma, the symbol for voting rights and freedom all over the world."
Selma, Ala., council stops work on statue of Confederate general, early KKK leader
September 26, 2012
Council members in an Alabama city voted Tuesday to stop a group's work on a new monument honoring a Confederate general who was an early leader in the Ku Klux Klan.
The Selma City Council voted 4-0 with two members abstaining to stop all work on the monument to Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest until the courts decide whether the city or a Confederate heritage group owns the cemetery property where the monument would be rebuilt.
The vote came after a group of protesters marched to City Hall. Demonstrations by civil rights groups about 10 years ago led to the relocation of a Forrest monument from outside a city building near downtown to a section of a city cemetery honoring Confederate war dead. But Forrest's bust was removed and apparently stolen from atop a 7-foot granite memorial earlier this year, and efforts to rebuild it have drawn protests and calls by civil rights activists not to replace it.
Detractors say Forrest traded black people like cattle, massacred black Union soldiers and joined the early Ku Klux Klan. His defenders dispute much of that and counter with stories that depict him as a protector of slave families and defender of the weak who resigned from the KKK.
A member of the group Friends of Forrest, Pat Godwin, said she feels the protests have been an effort to obscure the police investigation of the disappearance of the bust. "It's all smoke and mirrors to divert attention from the issue of the theft of the bust," Godwin said.
The council had earlier indicated it would allow people to speak on the issue at the Tuesday work session, but would not vote on the racially sensitive issue. Council members changed their mind after activist Rose Toure, a leader of the protests, and other speakers urged the council to vote. Council member Bennie Ruth Crenshaw moved that the council order all work on the monument stopped after city attorney Jimmy Nunn said he had not been able to locate a deed to the Confederate section of the cemetery.
Heres a custom skate deck I did for Stoked Mentoring's Stoked Sessions LA.Done up in classic Abe Jr.custom style. Gold and Black metallic flake hotrod auto paint and eurathayne clear coat. 1 of 1
Stoked Sessions LA - April 19
The Grind Art & Print Gallery
12222 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Tickets are: $10
Stuffed patty [50% beef 50% bacon], melted muenster, watercress, GC house thousands & guac, bacon fat sauteed portobello & caramelized shallots, fried egg & topped w/ more bacon.
Buy 2 get a free Buddy Band...they work.
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NY Yankees hat, baller shades, bluetooth and MB keys.
Red background is a red wall we have in our house. Natural light.
Heres the top of a custom skate deck I did for Stoked Mentoring's Stoked Sessions LA.Done up in classic Abe Jr.custom style. Gold and Black metallic flake hotrod auto paint and eurathayne clear coat. 1 of 1
Stoked Sessions LA - April 19
The Grind Art & Print Gallery
12222 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Tickets are: $10
#CashmereOpenHouse @JayCasteel from @ballerstatus picked up a pair of @Skullcandy Skullcrushers and other goodies
Ballin' out here w/ @efrancisco_10 & @ezpass3 #BASKETBALLNEVERSTOPS #buckets #ballerstatus
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Shooting Workout w/ @nasheat13 ...Done #HILLTOPPERHEAT #hilltopperheatnation #gabe3x #ilovethisgame #hardworkbeatstalent #alldayeveryday #ballerstatus #ballordie #buckets #nodaysoff #eatsleepbreathebasketball #hardworkpaysoff
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