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he freaks my crap out a little bit. old circus wagon at the state fair of texas. back when clowns skirted decency.
20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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'Decency in speech and conduct is the key to being a successful spiritual candidate.' - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
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The contrast of this early summer scene to what images and reporting from Ukraine's cities beat down by explosives night and day and then once occupied by piratical uniformed Russian troops could not be from dramatic. In this scene the constitutional rights, in addition to universal declaration of human rights to exist, all can be visualized. But where city services and infrastructure is destroyed and mass graves turn up in neighborhoods of small towns and big cities where the Russians have lain their greedy hands, little or no human decency survives.
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Queens Of The Stone Age, Innsbruck, Austria
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VISIT TO NOKIA AND SITRA. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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Mute on, please ignore jitter.
I hoped to catch a quick minute zoomed in further. I always stay still and silent while recording, and I watch the scene with my eyes with glances at the timer on the camera, so it is very rare when I add a sound or motion to the video except at the ends when I have to touch the camera.
Once again, the peace of the morning is interrupted by my neighbor's dog. I can't help wondering what manner of poor parenting leads to a child with sociopathic tendencies toward the people that live around them. That lack of empathy toward neighbors also makes me wonder about how difficult a life this person's selfishness will make.
There is a lack of simple basic decency. Behavior like that always backfires on people, so it isn't a great leap to realize that life will be difficult for them.
Anyway... moving along... it's a beautiful clear day out there and I can't wait to get going...
I AM AN ELEPHANT - Stu Bykofsky
I was not born for your amusement any more than you were born for mine.
If you see me in the zoo, and especially in the circus, which arrived here yesterday, I am not there willingly.
I was kidnapped and carried far, far away from my home and my family. I might have been an adult, but was more likely a baby when captured. Some "brave" hunter might have killed my mother - who could be dangerous - and sold me to a zoo or circus as an orphan.
Elephants have large families, as you may know, each headed by a female. When a female is born into the family herd, she never leaves.
Closely and happily, we travel together, eat together, play together, rest together. For elephants, every herd is a "village" in which the baby is cared for by its mother, and her sisters, and her mother. Being connected to family is as much a part of our being as our floppy ears. It harms us to be separated from our family. Can you understand that?
Do you think I cannot feel loneliness and despair?
As you may know, we elephants grieve for our dead. We mourn for our family. Being disconnected from our family is like death for us.
That is what we suffer when we are captured, and kidnapped, and sold.
I am an elephant.
I know you love seeing me, in the circus or in the zoo.
I know some of you feel that, "It isn't a circus without elephants," or, "It isn't a zoo without elephants."
You are thinking about yourself - what you want, what you like.
Please think about me.
I am an elephant.
Do you think I was born to be chained to a stake, when my spirit cries to cross vast savannas? Do you think I was made to be pushed into cramped circus railway cars, to be hauled around the country like furniture?
I perform for eight minutes for your pleasure, then spend endless hours in misery.
Some zoos try hard to accommodate my physical and psychological needs, but few succeed.
My first need is spiritual and that was crushed when they stole me from my family in Africa.
In Africa, my numbers are dwindling as poachers slaughter my kind for a few pounds of ivory.
Imagine killing a majestic, five-ton animal for scraps of ivory. Does that offend your sense of decency?
And yet you don't think twice about the slow death of imprisoning me in a barren cage.
You believe letting your children get close to a captive elephant will make them appreciate me. Must that come at my expense? Can't they learn from videos, DVDs and Web casts, without my suffering?
Can't you teach them about the dignity of living animals by leaving us alone?
When you and your children see me do a circus "trick," you are delighted.
You don't ask yourself, "How did they make that elephant stand on his head?" I never stand on my head in the wild.
Was it positive reinforcement, as Ringling says? Was it through abuse, as undercover videos have shown?
I am an elephant.
My second need is for physical stimulation, by walking. My long legs are built to move. I walk a dozen or more miles a day, when I am free to.
No circus, and few zoos, give me what I need.
And still I hear you want to see me in a zoo, you want to see me perform circus "tricks."
You want to see me because you love me, you say.
If you love me, don't do this to me.
I am an elephant.
20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini and Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland welcoming the guests for the Session of the Committee of Ministers.
The Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held at Finlandia Hall on 17 May 2019, will mark the end of Finland’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. At the meeting, Finland will hand over the Presidency to France. More than 30 ministers from the member States of the Council of Europe will attend the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Timo Soini.
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Photo: Kimmo Räisänen / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini and Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland welcoming the guests for the Session of the Committee of Ministers.
The Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held at Finlandia Hall on 17 May 2019, will mark the end of Finland’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. At the meeting, Finland will hand over the Presidency to France. More than 30 ministers from the member States of the Council of Europe will attend the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Timo Soini.
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Photo: Kimmo Räisänen / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
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The "Have You No Decency" quote, here directed at Trump, is a complicated joke. The line is the most famous exchange from Senator Joe McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt hearings. McCarthy's lawyer and adviser was famously Roy Cohn. Years later, when Trump and his father were sued for housing discrimination by the New York Attorney General, they hired Roy Cohn as their lawyer--and Cohn, who bragged of being a mob lawyer, became a bit of a role model for Trump. (This is why Trump is always tweeting Witch Hunt! Witch Hunt!) The joke here, is that Roy Cohn, at first the lawyer for the world's most infamous commie-hater, later became the lawyer for the world's most notorious Putin-lover. McCarthy was eventually censured by the Senate, and Cohn near the end of his life was debarred. Trump will finally get to meet with his admired Putin, in Helsinki on July 16.
20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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Vector Arena, Auckland, NZ
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Jimmy Carter (born 1924)
When Americans elected Jimmy Carter in 1976, they were voting for a positive change in executive leadership. Burdened by escalating costs of living and tired of recent scandal-ridden politics, they saw Carter as a fresh new face who would make, in his words, government “as good as the American people.” A born-again Christian, Carter touted his human decency to heal the divisions of post-Vietnam American society while also promising to fix the economy. Stemming high inflation, however, proved to be harder than he had predicted. Nor could he do much to ease the ongoing energy crisis, instigated by the cartel of oil producing nations, and characterized by a shortage of gas for consumers at the pumps and high costs for home heating oil. In 1978, Carter successfully brokered a landmark peace accord between Egypt and Israel, but the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, spurred by the U.S. support of the unpopular Shah of Iran, crippled the last year of his administration. He lost a reelection bid to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
In this portrait by Robert Templeton, Carter is shown standing in the oval office, as it was during his tenure. The donkey statuette on his desk was a gift from the Democratic National Committee.
•Artist: Robert Templeton (1929-1991)
•Oil on canvas, 1980
•Partial gift of the 1977 Inauguration Committee
New Mexican Newspaper article on LANL use under his administration:
www.santafenewmexican.com/SantaFeNorthernNM/Obama-touts-L...
Obama's flickr photostream:
www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/
Check out Cocobama for a chuckle:
www.flickr.com/photos/marcosanchez/2412683016/?addedcomme...
Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year
On a walk around the Addington Cemetery with a wonderful Flickr friend. February 13, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
There is so much damaged in the cemetery because of the earthquake we have had. It is such a pity as I don' think it will ever be fully repaired.
The Addington Cemetery was established in 1858 when the Scottish Presbyterians of St Andrew’s Church purchased land for a cemetery in Selwyn Street. Although not the first cemetery in Christchurch, Addington was in fact the first “public” cemetery, “being open to all persons of any religious community” and allowing the performance of any religious service “not contrary to public decency”.
The first burial took place on the 10th of November 1858. The cemetery has several persons of note buried within its grounds including activist Kate Sheppard, Christchurch Mayor Tommy Taylor and members of the pioneer family, the Deans.
For More Info:http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/addington-cemetery/
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A single Green sandpiper remained on Restharrow Scrape this morning but it did have the decency to come within range.
As I mentioned on the previously submitted Snipe shots, there is a distinct lack of feather detail, I need to find similar shots from my old camera to make a true comparison, but my feeling - and that of many reviews, the SX60 doesn't give the quality of image that its predecessor did.
These images are cropped, but not cropped to enlarge, just to remove large areas of background. They are 1/4 of the original image, still giving a 2300x1712 image which is then shrunk to ~1800x1333 for Flickr.
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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini and Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland welcoming the guests for the Session of the Committee of Ministers.
The Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held at Finlandia Hall on 17 May 2019, will mark the end of Finland’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. At the meeting, Finland will hand over the Presidency to France. More than 30 ministers from the member States of the Council of Europe will attend the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Timo Soini.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs provides photo material for media representatives, participants and organisers of the meeting. Please feel free to use the photos, considering the following restrictions: Not for commercial purposes nor reselling. When publishing the pictures, the name of the photographer and organization shall be mentioned as the source. No picture manipulation is permitted. The holder of the picture rights and/or the organisation shall at all times retain the copyright to the picture. When publishing the pictures, the publisher shall ensure the legality of the context where the pictures are used, obtain the permissions and consents required for their publication, and observe the generally established practices and decency. The publisher shall ensure that publication of the pictures does not insult anyone’s privacy or dignity.
Photo: Kimmo Räisänen / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Kari Buhl is an aristocrat who embodies the ideal of decency, modesty, intelligence, and immense sensitivity to the feelings of others.
Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year
On a walk around the Addington Cemetery with a wonderful Flickr friend. February 13, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
There is so much damaged in the cemetery because of the earthquake we have had. It is such a pity as I don' think it will ever be fully repaired.
The Addington Cemetery was established in 1858 when the Scottish Presbyterians of St Andrew’s Church purchased land for a cemetery in Selwyn Street. Although not the first cemetery in Christchurch, Addington was in fact the first “public” cemetery, “being open to all persons of any religious community” and allowing the performance of any religious service “not contrary to public decency”.
The first burial took place on the 10th of November 1858. The cemetery has several persons of note buried within its grounds including activist Kate Sheppard, Christchurch Mayor Tommy Taylor and members of the pioneer family, the Deans.
For More Info:http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/addington-cemetery/
"The image of a Syrian child's lifeless body washed up on the shores of a Turkish beach this week brought the world to its knees. His name was Aylan Kurdi, and he was just three years old.
The sad reality is that Aylan was one among millions of desperate people forced to flee from war and persecution. The world is facing a global refugee crisis on a scale we've not seen since WWII, but Australia - our lucky country of a fair go for all - is not doing enough. We can do better to help these people.
We need to do better."
light the dark, adelaide, south australia
#lightthedark
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini and Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland welcoming the guests for the Session of the Committee of Ministers.
The Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held at Finlandia Hall on 17 May 2019, will mark the end of Finland’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. At the meeting, Finland will hand over the Presidency to France. More than 30 ministers from the member States of the Council of Europe will attend the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Timo Soini.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs provides photo material for media representatives, participants and organisers of the meeting. Please feel free to use the photos, considering the following restrictions: Not for commercial purposes nor reselling. When publishing the pictures, the name of the photographer and organization shall be mentioned as the source. No picture manipulation is permitted. The holder of the picture rights and/or the organisation shall at all times retain the copyright to the picture. When publishing the pictures, the publisher shall ensure the legality of the context where the pictures are used, obtain the permissions and consents required for their publication, and observe the generally established practices and decency. The publisher shall ensure that publication of the pictures does not insult anyone’s privacy or dignity.
Photo: Kimmo Räisänen / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
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still on my week off work, it's drawing rapidly to an end now. Didn't feel like going anywhere today, so went into the garden... and found this little fella. He'd the decency to wait until i clicked the shutter, then he promptly flew off.
Introducing: Treazon
Tuberose stems unveil toxic wintergreen; narcotic blossoms stare at death across the street.
Nightfall. Window screens.
Treazon is tuberose at its darkest and most dangerous moment – right after dark.
From than on, the seemingly innocent little white flowers’ aroma is so intoxicating,
that young ladies were prohibited from walking through tuberose fields, from fear that
their decency will be betrayed, and their innocence defeated by lust.
Top notes:
Aniseed, Cinnamon, Wintergreen, Sweet Birch, Cassis
Heart notes: Tuberose Absolute, Orange Blossom, Orris Root
Base notes: Benzoin, Vanillla, Massoia Bark, African Stone Tincture
Those pesky aliens, up to their old shenanigans.
On the last night of the year there was a series of explosions in Edmonton's downtown core. The aliens claimed that they were experimenting with hydrogen propulsion engines, but police suspect a meth lab explosion.
The other day one of the aliens, an obvious user, told me that his rocket was out of fuel and he needed to borrow $40 to fill it up. He promised he'd e-transfer me the money once he got to his home planet. I told him to fuck himself, then gasped in horror when he did.
I asked William S. Burroughs if my story, in particular the last sentence, was beyond the pale of decency. He said that it was, then leaned in and eyed me quizzically.
5 seconds, f/8, ISO100
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20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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Marquis De Sade
1740-1814
“Salacious,Sardonic, Sadistic”
Born a rich nobleman, Marquis being his title rather than his birth name, De Sade gradually became a decadent libertine among the French society of Louis XVI. A liberally educated iconoclast, he wrote prose and verse, and specialized in testing the limits of decency, breaking tabboos and shocking the aristocracy, often with sordid details drawn from real life. He was thought to have committed much of the perversions and debauchery he had written about. He was incarcerated in an asylum shortly before the French Revolution. After a decade of feverish creativity, he willingly gave up writing and lived his remaining years in uneventful calm.
Size: 24"x36"
Medium: Acrylic and print on distressed wood with gold molding.
This artwork is part of Bear and Bird Gallery's "Le Iconique: Terribly Odd Solo Show" in Lauderhill, Florida. Exhibition runs April 24 - June 12, 2010, for more information visit our website www.bearandbird.com
Jimmy Carter (born 1924)
When Americans elected Jimmy Carter in 1976, they were voting for a positive change in executive leadership. Burdened by escalating costs of living and tired of recent scandal-ridden politics, they saw Carter as a fresh new face who would make, in his words, government “as good as the American people.” A born-again Christian, Carter touted his human decency to heal the divisions of post-Vietnam American society while also promising to fix the economy. Stemming high inflation, however, proved to be harder than he had predicted. Nor could he do much to ease the ongoing energy crisis, instigated by the cartel of oil producing nations, and characterized by a shortage of gas for consumers at the pumps and high costs for home heating oil. In 1978, Carter successfully brokered a landmark peace accord between Egypt and Israel, but the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, spurred by the U.S. support of the unpopular Shah of Iran, crippled the last year of his administration. He lost a reelection bid to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
In this portrait by Robert Templeton, Carter is shown standing in the oval office, as it was during his tenure. The donkey statuette on his desk was a gift from the Democratic National Committee.
•Artist: Robert Templeton (1929-1991)
•Oil on canvas, 1980
•Partial gift of the 1977 Inauguration Committee
20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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It is hard to know how to do justice to the photos and subjects from Angola Prison. So, I wont even really try. Originally, Details Magazine was going to run my article about intra-prison boxing out there but things changed for a variety of reasons and I am still looking for an appropriate forum for the story. So, if anyone has any contacts at Time or the New Yorker, hook a brother up. I shot a ton of photos on Wednesday night and all I can really say about it is that my original feelings about Angola are even more jumbled and complex. Spending the better part of 4 hours in a room with 300 murderers and rapists who are, none-the-less, living human beings deserving respect and decency of some kind, is a draining experience. Every time I have visited Angola to interview prisoners or to photograph something I can’t shake the feeling that I have been given a yard pass in hell. Those guys have all done horrible things, no denying that, but they are truly just passing time until their death. If “life with out the possibility of parole” is not the definition of an Existentialist sort of hell then I can’t imagine what is; the whole experience puts the finality of the human experience into bold and stark terms. I probably just need to play with some puppies or something comparably uplifting.
This shot was taken with a Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens at ISO 800. This is moment after the bout was called, as you can tell. Taken on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.