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Before moving into environmental politics (and the national parks), my research and teaching focused on the political economy of international trade. So, of course I thought of Paul Samuelson's 1948 Factor Price Equalization Theorem when I saw this scene at the Hot Springs Historic District in Big Bend National Park.
The scene also illustrates a common practice studied by economic anthropologists, the silent trade. (Marcel Mauss, "The Gift," is the locus classicus.) A community may leave out gifts for a neighboring community, who will take the gifts and leave gifts of their own. If both sides are happy with the rate of exchange, the gift-giving (or trade) continues.
Here, Mexican artists leave craft goods for American tourists, who pay for the goods by putting money in the can at left. The Department of Homeland Security defines this practice as "smuggling" and may confiscate the items if you purchase them.
And, yes, I'm a lot of fun at parties.
This retro VHS advert from a "Video Store" monthly magazine touts the cult cheesefest "Equalizer 2000" as the next must-have tape for the rental shelves. The film, helmed by the grindhouse yeoman Cirio Santiago, seemed to do brisk rental trade during the VHS era. It pops up occasionally at flea market, but isn't so common now. On the bottom is the sword-sorcery-and-skin epic "Amazons" (1986). The blurb promised "passion and power" plus "magic and myth" for this rarer release.
A glimpse of my teenage rock n roll bedroom, circa 1990. Oh, wait, that math makes me 22 or 23, not a teenager! Ok, this is a few months before I finally moved out of mom and dad's house.
- Realistic STA-2600 Receiver 100w/channel
- Technics SL-Q200 direct drive turntable
- JVC TD-xxx-BK 3 head, auto-revers tape deck (it was top notch!)
- JVC XL-V211 CD player w/remote
- Realistic 312020 10 band graphic equalizer
- Realistic Optimus 900 speakers (on top)
- Realistis Optimus 1000 speakers (on bottom)
It was a good time and I am pretty sure it went to eleven!!
Forgive the obvious title.
Peter Falk as Colombo
Edward Woodwood as The Equalizer
Telly Savalas as Kojak
All by Paul Don Smith & in the Shoreditch area.
Vancouver Skylines - 4 (of 28) - Olympus dSLR E-410 with Zuiko Digital 1:3.5-5.6 14-42mm (4/3 mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II of VMA-214 "Blacksheep" from MCAS Yuma seen at the 2016 MCAS Miramar Air Show held September 23-25, 2016. Note the GAU-12 25mm "Equalizer" cannon pod.
Vancouver Skylines - 15 (of 28) - Olympus dSLR E-410 with Zuiko Digital 1:3.5-5.6 14-42mm (4/3 mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
Town Showed Great Hart! A gritty comeback from 2 nil down midway through the first was started with a Tom Ince goal just before half time. Ridge came out strong in the 2nd and soon saw an equalizer from captain George Melling before a quick brace from Jay Hart put the game to bed. Town got one more through Richie Allen before AFC got a consolation. A great start to the new league with 3 points.
Wren Rovers advanced to the next round with a 4-2 penalty shootout win over tital rivals Longridge Town. The game finished with 10 players on each side and Longridge equalized in the last minute
HOLGA is the ultimate concert photographer's equalizer. As with any professional photography there is a lot of cock and swagger going on, a bit of, "Whose got the biggest lens...?" especially down in the pit, but when shooting with the snub-nosed HOLGA, expect to get looks that suggest more than just banal stock topics over afterdinner drinks with vague allusions to Hello Kitty anal beads and dildos as swizzle sticks. That's right, with HOLGA you can move beyond the quotidian latent faggocy of testosterone-driven lens-envy and into the eternal, the asexual, the plasticine, into HONG KONG manufactured light itself.
Luminance HDR 2.3.1 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk06
Parameters:
Contrast Equalization factor: 0.28
Saturation Factor: 1.1
Detail Factor: 27.7
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PreGamma: 0.45
Greg at work in the T-6, landing at Culpeper Airport in the late evening sun, with a passenger that looks to be trying to clear his ears.
To view a hi-res version and for more information visit my website:Culpeper TRARON
HIFK winger Henri Tamminen celebrating after scoring the 2-2 equalizer tonight against Espoo Blues. HIFK went on to win 3-2 in the end, just like they did yesterday. Two hard-fought wins in two days and all nine points from this weeks three games. Not bad at all.
ESPOO, FINLAND 2016-01-23 Liiga: Blues - HIFK at Metro Areena in Espoo, Finland. (Photo: Riku Laukkanen/R1ku Exposures)
I've wanted to do an Equalizer background for a while, and never managed to pull it off. Finally I created a perfect one. It works well as a desktop due to its simplicity
Full sizedversion at xandesigns.com
Death is a great equalizer. I do not have great memories of everyone i've met in life but some people stood out. They stood out because they were the different ones. Some called them weird, some called them unfortunate and some called them fools. I call them victims of culture based off religious ideologies. The example i will present is a fantastic specimen.
When you live in a Brahmin community you are never short of women named "Saroja" around you. Its one of those famous brahmin names along with "Baby". Chinna Saroja (Chinna means Little in tamil) was a famous character from my childhood days. She and her husband were a unique couple. I guess i think his name was Kutti Raman (Kutti means small in tamil) but i really don't remember it that well. Her husband was the silent one like teller in the Penn and Teller show. Chinna saroja ran the show pretty much and her husband nodded, always.
Chinna Saroja and her Husband were distant relatives. They were quite rich, or rather used to be. They had it all. You can imagine them to be one of the differently rich landlord Brahmin family types. They had business, they had acres of land, farms and pretty much everything going for them in life with the exception of children. They did everything they could in this world to have children. Every doctor money could buy and every type of medication.
Of course, they did perform every pooja for all the hindu gods in the text books and off the text books. I say off the text books because a nun and a father in the lourdes church conned them and made some money claiming jesus was a hindu god and he could help with child birth. So did a gentleman from the venus mosque claim some islamic fairy to be lord ayyappans daughter and made a quick buck. My grandfather put an end to these things with the help of a few other people and of course the cops and i will reserve that incident for another very long blog post. Nevertheless, they had no children.
Saroja and her husband adopted. I really love it now to think of the fact that they were liberal enough to go to an orphanage and adopt a random child. Folks from my community / family pestered them to adopt a "Brahmin" child so that i is not subject to the thought processes of a "non brahmin" child. Many a poor family had even tried to sell them a child one could not raise due to poverty. Nevertheless, they adopted a "non brahmin" child, not one but five. The children were happy. Of course they adopted into the ways of a brahmin family system as well. They were vegetarians, spoke the brahmin accent of tamil and one could hardly recognize them if not told.
Once the children grew up they returned the favour. They drugged their parents and made them write off all the property they had to these five adopted children. With mother-loads of money in their wallet the children split and fled in different directions except one. He lived in the same house as their parents brought them up. This son was the kindest of all. He did not throw the parents on the streets like one would expect. He made them household servants instead. They did all the cooking, washing and cleaning and in return were fed 3 square meals a day, without any pay or benefits.
Saroja reminds me not because of her painful state of life but because how she made merry for everyone by making fun of herself. Every year during Golu, she would go around homes in town visiting the Golu setup. As customary as it is, she would sing. Everyone loved it, not because she was fantastic a singer but she was horrible a singer yet nothing or no one stopped her. I explicitly remember the same song she sang year after year. It went something like...
"Gundu Saroja, Baby Saroja, Kulla Saroja, Chinna Saroja"
Those were the chorus lines. It basically meant "Fatty Saroja, Childlike Saroja, Short Saroja, Small Saroja", it was a tamil song. Her own composition, apparently. You cannot forget that face because it resembled exactly like that of this Chettichi doll in this image. Unlike today's women even in their late 60's, back then women did not shave, they did not use lazer or wax their lips, skin etc., Turmeric was the only option used on the face to prevent hair growth. The yellow of turmeric made her mild mustache stand out blond and it would look so funny we kids exploded into laughter the moment we saw her. All the kids would gather around in my house from our street when she comes over for Golu.
She would take the small amount of money, the blouse bit (clothing to stitch a blouse) and the fruits and other things that were given when you visit ones house for Golu. Saroja lived her life for Golu, if you asked me. She had her moments, and it was clearly meant for those famous lines of her multi-platinum hit number sung at Golu, every year.
She passed away one fine day in sleep. Her husband was even more broke when she was no more. He came one fine day and said he was starving and his daughter in law feeds him no more. My aunt and my mother used to take pity on him and feed him lunch everyday. He would sit at the verandah and eat food out of a banana leaf. The hunger of a man 80 odd year old man who has not eaten for a whole day will show. I felt bad for him.
One fine day he came and he presented a neat "Pallanguzhi" instrument made of teak wood. It was a famous game back then before ludo and trump cards defeated old board games. He wanted to sell it and my aunt brought it for Rs. 20 from him. That was the last we saw of him. A few days later we heard he died during sleep on the pavements, right outside his house. Thaththa (Grandpa) went to the burial ground and offered his "vaaykkarisi" (dropping grains of rice on the dead persons mouth before setting on fire) before he was cremated.
I don't believe in celebrating religious festivals or practices. I somehow was reminded of Chinna Saroja looking at the doll in my house Golu today. I think i will change my mind and make an exception. I will celebrate Saroja, her husband and their life history. I hope there are other people who remember them today. I really hope..
Canon EOS 400D with the Canon EF 50MM F/1.4 USM. Manual, F/11.0 at 1/500th of a Second, ISO100. Canon Speedlite 430EX fired, E-TTL with Omni Bounce diffuser.
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Re-opening soon. A quick rundown of the history here… Old red's raided: www.mtdemocrat.com/news/board-of-equalization-chp-raid-po...
Old Red's pics: www.galenfrysinger.com/california_placerville.htm
Old Red's new ownership website: poorreds.com/
Owners arrested, employees left high and dry: www.mtdemocrat.com/news/no-7-poor-reds-owners-arrested-ic...
HOME OF THE GOLDEN CADILLAC!
This place was definitely a favorite and was home to a unique mixed drink - a lot of people don't know it, but mixed drinks and cocktails were an art celebrated across the United States 100 years ago, a scene as big and vibrant as micro-brewery beer today: blogs.sacbee.com/dining/archives/2011/10/golden-cadillac....
New owner's demolition and reconstruction web site with q&a: poorreds.com/uncategorized/democonstruction-has-begun/
LEGO Technic MOC Arctic Equalizer. Eurobricks [TC6] contest model. It’s a mix of huge bulldozer, ice-breaker and… road-roller!
Dimensions: 77cm x 38cm x 55cm. Weight: 6.9kg.
RC functions (total six motors):
- Left and right tracks, two pairs of XL-motors;
- Three-channel distribution gearbox (two-speed gearbox for tracks and one more switching additional function), one M-motor;
- Additional function, one M-motor.
Video: youtu.be/54cH94GGT6A
A prison is made of ice
It melts in the spring
A castle is made of clay
It crumbles in time
Welcome to time
The great equalizer of all things.
Yoko Ono ‘09
The Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation is proud to host the solo exhibition,
Yoko Ono’s “ANTON’S MEMORY,” by an artist who on 6th June will be presented with the Golden Lion for Career Achievement at the Venice Biennale.
Ono, known since the first half of the 1960s – a conceptual artist and one of the founders of Fluxus, as well as an avant-garde performer – has created an exhibition that sets out to provide a vast “fresco” of her artistic practices.
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The title of the show, ANTON’S MEMORY, reflects “a woman’s life we see only through her son’s eyes – his faded memory.” as Yoko Ono herself says.
The exhibition has been designed especially for the rooms of Palazzetto Tito and is a series of new installations that incorporate some earlier works as points of reference. It includes films, sound compositions, sculptures, and drawings, as well as a number of interactive installations. There will also be elements to do with the corporeal and the sense of touch: for example, Ono’s sculpture “touch me III,” containing fragments of the female body, as if crammed into a simple chest of drawers. At the centre of the display, two filmed versions of her 1964 performance work “Cut Piece,” from 1965 and 2003, will be shown. In this work, the artist lets the public cut away parts of her clothing little by little. In the first version Yoko Ono is thirty-two years old, and in the second version she is seventy, giving a sense of the marks left on us by the passing of time. Military helmets from the Second World War with pieces of sky inside; the film of a woman desperately attempting to free herself from her bra (a metaphor for women’s liberation); an insistent coughing sound; tables, pens and paper for whoever wants to write their own thoughts and leave a trace of them; the book of recipes for artistic actions, “Grapefruit” (1964), left lying around like a generative element for all the rest; tables for playing all-white chess in peace and quiet, in the main chamber of a Venetian chamber between lancet windows opening onto nature or closed with coloured glass… all this and much more, along with a moving soundtrack, will complete the exhibition, punctuated also by the hand of the artist, who will write new pieces directly on the walls.
The entire exposition in the rooms of Palazzetto Tito will constitute a unitary whole evoking “ANTON’S MEMORY”; something that may be looked on as a codified memory, i.e. the story of an adult son rethinking through the existential vicissitudes of his mother through symbols and objects.
In the words of the curator of the project, Nora Halpern: “ANTON’S MEMORY reflects Yoko Ono’s ideas of universal inter-connectedness and the temporal realm that we all inhabit. Through her installation at the Palazzetto Tito, as well as related works throughout Venice, Yoko Ono seeks to evoke memories that are simultaneously overtly personal yet evocative of collective desire and a communal connection.” An artist’s book, Other Rooms, will be published on the occasion of “ANTON’S MEMORY,” serving as a lasting extension of the exhibition. There will also be a brochure with texts by the curator Nora Halpern as well as Angela Vettese, President of the Foundation.
About the artist
Born in 1933 in Tokyo, Yoko Ono was one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art, and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. In 1952 she was among the first women in Japan to study philosophy. In the mid ‘50s she moved to New York, where she took part in the vibrant artistic scene which included the composer John Cage and artists of the likes of La Monte Young, among others. And it was with Young that in 1960 Yoko Ono set up a series of concerts and events in her loft near Canal Street, which were frequented not only by young artists and musicians like Jasper Johns, George Maciunas (who went on to found the Fluxus movement), and Robert Rauschenberg, but also icons of the art world like Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim and Isamu Noguchi. From the beginning of her career right up to the present day, the works of Yoko Ono have never stopped influencing generation after generation of artists. Her commitment to peace, which continued together with her husband John Lennon, has never ceased, not even after his death.
On the occasion of the 53rd Biennial of Visual Arts, Yoko Ono will be presented with the Golden Lion for Career Achievement.
Derived from the chassis of a civilian heavy hauler, the Equalizer matches its menacing looks with a battery of bombardment weaponry. Able to linger in battle for extended periods of time due to its reinforced plating, the Equalizer delivers punishing volleys against capital ships while also remaining a competent anti-frigate platform.
Music of the youth, magic of beats, energetic of dancing, full of colors, dynamics, joint direction and passion. The pieces of the pattern are different and similar on each other in the same time, and the entire line is reminding of an equalizer. Enjoy the energy, music is the answer!
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