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He wore a
Blueberry beret
The kind u find in a second hand store...
Unfortunately, Mr. Blueberry Beret didn't make it into the final compilation. Not sure why, actually.
Still...I like his image.
How this video is not available on YouTube is beyond me.
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Downtown LA 2013 On a smog-encrusted morning late last August, the otherwise innocuous Mount Baldy was abruptly transformed into the most eminent archeological site in the Western Hemisphere. The incidental discovery of a ceramic protrusion from the ground invoked a routine dig from my team and I, which quickly revealed itself to be the most significant excavation of my career.
Embedded just beneath the sprawl of a few Yuccas lay an archaic time capsule; a deliberately implanted and arranged archive of objects – a cryptic codex of exceedingly peculiar artifacts. The most jarring and prophetic of these specimens is a small shield, emblazoned with the ubiquitous corporate logos and industrial scenery of our present era. I was quick to deem the findings a hoax. Rehydroxylation tests, however, deemed the object to be 800 years old.
Of the progenitor’s culture we know very little. Their cosmology is hardly revealed through the obfuscated objects they addressed to us. My credentials compel me to speculate and prescribe narrative to these inscrutable peoples, to elucidate their way of life so that we may confidently add yet another patch to the elaborate quilt of human history. But I remain mystified; we have dug up the whole mountain, and they have left us nothing more.
Planted in a plaster-like substance and buried upright, this totemic post is the only stationary object in the collection. Granted that there are no traces of the Bald Prophet’s settlements, be they sedentary or nomadic, the specific utility of this post is unknown. The pyramidal trinkets attached to the pole are relatively crude in construction. Both their craftsmanship and makeup are starkly simpler than the other artifacts on display, leading us to believe laymen produced them rather than specialized artisans. The pole may therefore be a communal obelisk of sorts, wherein personal terracotta offerings were brought and strung (the original twine has been refurbished). The figurative aspects of the totem – namely the distinctive nose and adjoining mouth, accompanied by the silhouette of an eye, suggests the possible countenance of a human-like deity, rather than the reptilian beasts featured in neighboring pieces.
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Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
Wouldn’t be a 365 project without lunch at Paina Cafe. Then off to Menchies for some froyo. Lastly, some Humane Society fun before work.
TIL: you should never go to the Humane Society with no intention of adopting any of the animals there. Le sigh. Damn you Sarah McLachlan. Damn you.
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View at Artefact Festival, STUK, Leuven, february 2010.
Corrections and Clarifications is a newspaper-in-progress, an edited compilation of daily corrections to international news printed in English-language newspapers. A chronological catalog of repetitive lapses in naming and tanglings of catch-phrases, Corrections and Clarifications hints at a more than incidental relation between news mis-speak and consolidated media interests.
“Purely editorial credit, as always, to those who have provided the material for these pages by having seen fit to correct themselves, or having seen themselves fit to correct others; who have sought in some public way to offer apologies or clarifications-to redeem, reveal, revise, retract or shift, to simultaneously claim, deny, and re-attribute blame and responsibility-for the well-documented efforts to apologize for what is being done and for what has already been done, for continuing attempts to un-say what has been said, un-mean what is meant.
Credit at a variety of levels to those processors, middle managers, and ultimate regulators of public information who take it upon themselves to re-name, re-classify, disguise, de-fuse or be de-briefed; who find clever metaphors to obfuscate, euphemize and mystify; who disseminate information and distribute resources according to political structures to coincide with particular economic interests; who agree to use language and numerous, dubious forms of temporary authority to defend, justify, legitimize, cushion, cover and eventually expose the consequences of actions and the submerged structures behind events.
And ultimately who, regardless of intentions, occasionally reveal something, piece by piece, through slips in language and naming systems. Luckily it is not so easy to dispose of the evidence.“ (Anita Di Bianco)
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001,006, shot of a group of people sitting in an administrative or recreational environment, sitting or standing at a row of tables and chairs. In focus are a man and a woman. Woman wears a dress and has short dark hair. Man has short dark hair and wears a plaid shirt and has a watch on his wrist. People in the background wear semi formal clothing. Man and woman have nametags. Male's nametag reads DON WILLARD. Female's name is obfuscated. 002,004,005,008,009,018, six wide shots of a group of people sitting at tables and chairs, while others stand. All of the group appears to wear semi formal clothing and have plastic cups and plates of food in front of them. Some of them clap their hands. 003, shot of an older woman wearing semi formal clothing looking at scraps of newspaper with various drawings on them. Plates of food, cups and ashtrays litter the tables. Various other people sit around her wearing semi formal and formal attire. 007,010,011, three wide angle shots of a group of people sitting at rows of tables and chairs, staring at a screen with a man's face on it, on a stage along a wall of plaques, a podium, flanked by two flags, one the American flag and another flag. On the wall is a large black board with a series of numbers on it. 012,016,017, three shots of an older woman in a floral pattern dress and wearing a nametag with the name OPAL SKOLNICK on it, holding a plastic cup with ice cubes in it and a plate of food on the table she is sitting at. 013, shot of older man and woman sitting at a table with plastic cups and plates of food on it. They wear nametags that read H.C. STEINMETZ and ESTHER WHITE on them. 014, shot of two men sitting at a table with a pile of papers on it and speaking with one another. One man wears a white shirt and vest and has light hair and a mustache. Man on the right wears a plaid pattern shirt and a nametag that reads DAN FINNIGAN STATE SENATE. 015, blurry photo. 019,020, two shots of a man standing in a possible administrative or recreational environment. Group of people there sit possibly at tables and chairs. A sign on a post reads DEDDELL on it. A trophy case lines the back of the wall. 021, shot of a group of people sitting down, wearing formal clothing and looking at something. Two people in focus is a white woman with short light hair, and African American man with short dark hair and beard, both wearing formal attire.
Modern Stand-up Comedy Styles and Influences
A friend of mine has a great potential to be a stand-up comedian. She has a high comedic sensibility and is a natural storyteller. This feature is rare, even among most performers. I created this list as a way to explore some favorite comedians and to try and synthesize our conversation on stand-up comedy styles. Like painters comedians are not 100% a certain style. In fact they follow style very loosely. This list is not a way to pigeon hole them as one trick. All great comedians, like painters, use all of the great tricks.
www.1minutehistory.com/2017/10/modern-comedy-styles-and-i...
"FANGØ" is a defense weapon against surveillance capitalism. Disguised as a mobile phone charger, it operates as a microcontroller that takes control of the smartphone in which it is plugged into. Making random searches and liking random posts on popular social platforms, it aims to deceive data brokers and disrupt the data capturing process.
Photo: Michel Klehm at Werkleitz Festival in 2021
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
home.gamer.com.tw/creationDetail.php?sn=1853153 本次來介紹希爾維里族的魔法少女，莉亞娜，遵循著凡特里教條並充滿正義感的希爾維里—完。她會代替媽媽樹懲罰罪惡之人 (為什麼只有死靈有故事呢，這個原因請參考過去的文章) 首先來介紹魔法少女基本衣著，全身充滿寶石的服裝，高筒的手套與披肩可以掩蓋希爾跟人類不同的地方，靠近脖子的靈魂石是魔力來源，魔力如果不用種子淨化可能會黑化產生嚴重的後果。 法器：魔法少女權杖：魔法少女基礎裝備，沒有這種可愛造型就不能當魔法少女。 聚能器：Anomaly，名為異像，其來源為亞霸頓失落的寶珠(參見此任務)，雖然當時沒有成功取得，但擊敗宅坦後又另外花費稀有的血石碎片與心靈之玉打造完成，珍貴度堪比眼球權杖的法器，擁有淨化不淨狀態的力量(純潔符印)。 神秘手槍：高貴的藍色閃電手槍，價格不斐，可以射出具有魔法力量的子彈。 阿蘇拉雷霆加農砲：和平製造者製品，泛用但品質佳，充滿魔法力量適合近代動不動就要毀天滅地的魔法少女使用。 黑檀鷹堡法杖：便宜的法杖製品，由於法杖使用機會低，所以無法追求更高階的製品，例如Bitfrost等等的製品。不過莉亞娜最後在擊敗宅坦後認知他終究是希爾維里，因此脫去了這身魔法少女的cosplay，回歸應有的姿態。魔法少女實際使用篇裝備：服裝與武器 PTC；精準/韌性/狀態傷害 寶石PVC；力量/活力/狀態傷害 符文：麗莎符文 大劍：火焰符印 權杖：風之符印 聚能器：純潔符印 法杖：大地符印 手槍：戰鬥符印(備註：所有幻影都吃人物屬性，跟廢物爪牙不同) 配點連結 Trait：0/20/15/30/5支配 0：支配雖然可以增加幻影傷害跟減少光加農CD，但是次要特性不怎麼樣，捨棄。 決鬥 20：次要特性一，爆擊增加5秒活力(回春)，CD5秒，意思是整場戰鬥可以不停回耐力，搭配主要特性X.欺騙迴避可以瘋狂製造分身! 再搭配次要特性二幻影爆擊回血以及II.憤怒幻象，幻象(Phantasm)具有怒火，自成一強大的循環，不斷翻滾，敵人不斷疊流血，如果需要跳JP的地方可以改成操縱技能距離增加(900->1200)，使傳送距離加長，配合通道技能，你可以是JP之神。渾沌 15：主要是次要特性一是血量75%獲得10秒恢復(30秒CD)以及特性二恢復時獲得3秒保護(15秒CD)，主要特性是V.衰弱損耗，分身死亡時給予隨機病症，可以自由換成II.陷入瘋狂(-50%墜落傷害)。靈感 30：次要特性一，幻象(Phantasm)有報復狀態，可有可無，重點是二，幻象給予周圍盟友恢復，可以搭配3秒保護造成每15秒就持續有3秒保護的狀態，三是幻象增加15%傷害，其實也不是非常重要。主要特性有多種選擇，但主要以魅惑技能-20%CD以及延長2秒為主，再來可以選治療清除一個狀態或是聚能器強化，聚能器一旦強化，將成為非常有用的遠程殺手，如需要也可以選復活盟友時製造回饋防護罩。幻象5：點5點就讓你所有有關幻影製造的技能-20%CD，便宜又大碗。 武器技能使用光加農(大劍)：這個武器的好處在於分身攻擊速度快，容易造成流血，幻象傷害也高並造成殘廢，還有擊退，2技拿來疊強力，保命時可以把這個武器換成法杖。法杖：完全防禦型武器，不用對這個武器的傷害力有一丁點期待，但是他的超短傳送，混沌風暴(隨機BUFF，有神盾)附帶暈眩，混沌+傳送有渾沌護甲，自帶渾沌護甲技能(獲得保護)等，他本身就是一個超強防禦法器，例如COF撐過200秒時就是一個超有用的武器，但是如果在追求DPS的場合，可以換成別的比較划算。權杖：權杖是個半防禦型武器，主要是2技CD 9秒的格黨以及快速製造分身與困惑，但是他在傷害製造上不算優良。手槍：一槍制伏3個敵人就是手槍的優勢，幻影槍手搭配各種魅惑技能(回饋、空空力場或渾沌風暴)可以用來快速製造困惑。聚能器：集結暴力防禦與控制的武器，三個願望一次滿足，聚能器4時間簾幕技能有非常複雜的功能，別看他只是單純一條線，那條線通時具有迅捷，殘廢，拉人，反射投射物四種功能，有人可以這樣一技4吃的嗎…。5號的幻影守衛是高傷害的AOE攻擊同時也能反射投射物，聚能器在魔法少女手中是非常變態的武器。治療技能：乙太盛宴是你唯一的選擇。意志真言：去除兩個病，可用2次。(真言類似自我暗示的魔法，暫時強化自身)各類真言咒語恢復真言：健康、活力、恢復! (補血) "Health. Vigor. Recovery."疼痛真言：疼痛、煎熬、痛!(傷害) "Agony.Torment. Pain!"分心真言：混淆、迷失、困惑!(暈眩) "Obfuscate. Disorient. Confuse."意志真言：不壞、堅定、解決! (解病) "Unbroken. Unshaken.Resolve."專注真言：石頭！不要失去專注力 (穩定) ”Stone! Don’t less concentration”回饋：強化後專門拿來彈各類遠程敵人，時間久，CD短，但是對於大型敵人如地蟲或狗王因為身高太高防護罩在底下無法反彈，但是躲在底下是有用的，因此復活放回饋是有效技能，這時可以把技能改成專注真言。啟示紋章：每10秒給一個Boon，賭博用技能，抽到恢復有機會開保護，抽到保護或神盾就賺到，抽到迅捷或活力也不錯，抽到復仇怒火強力就只能…。菁英技能：平常帶大範圍隱形，與麗莎符文搭配CD最短，極高保命效果，除非你確定很安全再帶時間扭曲，雖然這招是所有精英技效益最高的招式。結論：魔法少女是一個變化多端的職業，最適合用來對抗遠距離敵人，特別是本職業同時具有盜賊的隱形，守護的反射以及更優於死靈爪牙的幻影，是一種全方位技能，雖然不是輸出最高的攻擊手，但是在隊伍中的組成是至關緊要的。 魔法少女莉亞娜~射穿你的心~ 0.< 啾咪~ 来自http://dd.mu/19q3=h
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
Sitting at my desk this afternoon, I tried to figure out what kind of photo to make of myself for my Nikon Digital SLR Challenge entry. What to do... What to do... Sooo, I put the camera on the desk & pointed it up slightly to get this. I cropped it a little after running it through Topaz Adjust 3 times, on 3 layers, for luminosity adjustment. I like what it did. Anyway, I don't have time to spend on another self portrait so this will have to do.
[edit – 7 March]: I’ve had some inquiry regarding how to pronounce the title of this little photo. So, in an effort to enhance lucidification & obfuscate ignoritude, here is a guide in the style of John Cleese’s edification for Callard and Bowser:
PHO: As in “fe fi FO fum, I smell chocolate and want to have some.”
TOG: As in TOGgle. Either it is, or it isn’t. But in this case it most certainly may be.
RA: Remember when you got that awful fruitcake? You tore off the holiday paper thinking it was going to be something very special, and it turned out to be that small inedible fruitcake? Yes, that one. Well, if you were quick about it, and the time for gifting hadn’t passed by, you probably wrapped it in some new paper (or if you were very clever, in the same undamaged paper it came in) and sent it along to someone you didn’t much care about. Yes, RA is like the RApidity with which you got rid of that sticky cheap gift.
Lastly, then, is ME. That should be easy. It isn’t you, it’s ME in the photo. It is a self portrait after all.
So, all together, PHO as in “fe fi FO fum,” TOG as in TOGgle, RA for Rapid (short version), and ME as in ME and not you.
Thank you.
Backbone, Portland Sea Shepherd, Columbia Riverkeeper, and NW Steelhead Association met at Holladay Park and marched to the entrance of the Bonneville Power Administration, (BPA) for a brief rally to stand up for salmon and orca, stand with the Tribes in a clarion call for bold, urgent action to shut down the BPA's Extinction Machines!
Snake River salmon are only one catastrophic event away from extinction, and if those runs start to disappear, lower river runs will follow, the orca that depend on them perish, and a way of life for the Indigenous people of this region will be lost forever. Decades of science confirm that removing the lower Snake River dams is the only way to change this trajectory.
Amidst the hottest, driest spring and summer we've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest momentum is building for a comprehensive plan called the Columbia Basin Initiative, aka "Simpson Plan" nicknamed after its author Congressman Mike Simpson, (R-ID). This plan maps a way forward that restores a free-flowing lower Snake River, modernizes transportation and energy infrastructure, and invests in river-dependent communities.
Last month, 57 tribes with Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) passed a unanimous resolution to support the Simpson Plan. Two weeks ago, the 500 tribes of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) passed a similar resolution. Last week, a Indigenous Salmon & Orca summit invited policy makers to listen to why urgent action is needed. A new petition to Biden from the Umatilla Indian Youth Leadership Council already has nearly 15,000 signatures.
The environmental community is calling on elected leaders to rally behind the Columbia River Basin Plan without any further delay or obfuscation. The BPA has spent $17 billion dollars on salmon recovery, yet the salmon in their charge continue to approach extinction. The Simpson Plan not only removes the Lower Snake River Dams, it also finally puts protection of salmon back in the hands of the Tribes.
My super-rant ahead: The common belief of how trees became petrified is a myth of science. Petrified wood, and all the formations of the US Southwest, are brimming with strong evidence of a world-wide flood that covered the earth several thousand years ago, and quickly burried these trees under mud and sediment. The cystalization process was quite quick, compared to accepted scientific timeframes. (Info for that here: earthage.org/EarthOldorYoung/scientific_evidence_for_a_worldwide_flood.htm)
There is ample evidence for this account, but that evidence is ignored, so you won't hear any of it in the media. Or if you do hear it, it's derided with all manner of logical falacies and strawman arguments to discredit, and make the other positions look weak and ill-conceived. It's no wonder that the common man doesn't give such arguments a second thought, trusting "the experts" instead.
However, giving attention to the other side of such arguments would expose the flimsy foundations of mainstream science (i.e. beliefs like: everything came from nothing, big bang, evolution, universe/earth are billions of years old, no god, we are insignificant specs of dust in an endless universe, this reality and all you see is just convenient coincidence, etc).
Mainstream science is very much a faith-based religion, albeit a well disguised one. They have woven a false belief system with just enough truth sprinkled in to keep people invested in it, as the one-and-only possible view of how the world works and our place in it. This system continues to push the mainstream narrative without question, ignoring evidence, obfuscating, leading public opinion away from questioning the version of reality they're given, and away from the overwhelming proof of there being One true Creator of all things, our significance and our purpose in His design.
Science has been built on a foundation of deceit through its heavily controlled and funded, but extremely dumbed-down egocentric legions of scientists (scientific priests) for centuries to give the public a form of stiffled scientific advancement, while keeping them ignorant, and dismissive of anything that stands to question the foundational beliefs of science. Scientists who DO question and consider exposing the problems with their "on the shoulders of giants" textbook assumptions, face ridicule in their industries and career suicide.
This is why I always say, if you care to get closer to the truth of earth's past, humanity's past, the purpose of life, and where we're going, you have to accept that truth is never given so easily. But since most of us want it to be that easy, the con artists running this world are only too happy to oblige, at your expense.
Truth has to be diligently sought out, outside of mainstream circles. media, academia and the well funded religion of science will never admit that they've been wrong. Too much is at stake, too many jobs and industries, cultures, false religions and manmade institutions would be disrupted or dissolve entirely. That won't be allowed to happen, so the chrarade will continue.
Yeshua (Jesus) said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me."
The road to the truth is in Him, and He reveals these things to us if we strip away the layers of nonsense we've been taught all our lives.
Crystal Forest,
Petrified Forest National Park
The tribe gathers.. Little one's obfuscated and still adorable
Back row: Jim Van Vrrth, Mur Lafferty, Sonic Boom, The Pink Tornado, Laura Burns, Allison, Brand Gamblin, Heather Welliver, Paul Fischer, Paulette Jaxton, Tee Morris
Front row: Scott Breakall, Mae Breakall, Chooch, Martha Halloway, Marc Bailey, John Cmar, Nat Morris
001,002, two shots of a window sill from the interior of a possible residential building. Interior is covered in plants possibly fichus type plants. Outside the building are a variety of plants, possibly palm trees and cypress or oak trees. On one side of the window sill is wood paneling. 003, shot of the interior of a possible residential type building, such as a private home. Architecture style is a mix of modernist and ecological or sustainable. Floor is covered in carpet including stairwell. Wooden beams and high placed windows allow in a lot of light. A variety of plants and flora cover the floor, walls, and even wooden beams on top of the interior, ranging from palms to fichus plants, to ferns. 004-009,013,016-018, multiple shots of two females, one standing and one sitting in a possible storage room area. Woman sitting down is older and has short light hair and wears a floral patterned outfit. Standing woman has short dark hair and wears a semi formal outfit. Both of them hold and admire a porcelain type diorama of female children in Victorian or Edwardian outfits with the faces obfuscated. Desk lamps, ceiling lamps, boxes and other objects such as a mobile made of small pots occupy the background. 010,014,015, three shots of a window sill that holds a glass stained diorama of an arch with a top with the Christian symbol of a cross on it. In the middle of the arch is a representation of a dove and a small fountain, most likely representing the Christian concepts of the Holy Spirit and Baptism. Setting is most likely a church or other religious institution. 011,012, two shots of a entrance way of a possible residential environment, such as a private home. Door is made out of wood and glass. Large window sills hang overhead. A hat stand sits by the door with hats on it. A large potted plant sits by hat stand. Floor is made of stone but as it descends is covered in carpet. Outside is a large oak tree.
Using the iterative chord enumeration/gray code/shuffle combination, now visualized in realtime via OF with a ported BigInteger class. Next: sort the columns to find out how much disorder there "really" is -- or if the bit ordering is just cleverly obfuscating things.
These sketches are part of my masters thesis, and all the source is available on Google Code: code.google.com/p/oelf/
001,006, shot of a group of people sitting in an administrative or recreational environment, sitting or standing at a row of tables and chairs. In focus are a man and a woman. Woman wears a dress and has short dark hair. Man has short dark hair and wears a plaid shirt and has a watch on his wrist. People in the background wear semi formal clothing. Man and woman have nametags. Male's nametag reads DON WILLARD. Female's name is obfuscated. 002,004,005,008,009,018, six wide shots of a group of people sitting at tables and chairs, while others stand. All of the group appears to wear semi formal clothing and have plastic cups and plates of food in front of them. Some of them clap their hands. 003, shot of an older woman wearing semi formal clothing looking at scraps of newspaper with various drawings on them. Plates of food, cups and ashtrays litter the tables. Various other people sit around her wearing semi formal and formal attire. 007,010,011, three wide angle shots of a group of people sitting at rows of tables and chairs, staring at a screen with a man's face on it, on a stage along a wall of plaques, a podium, flanked by two flags, one the American flag and another flag. On the wall is a large black board with a series of numbers on it. 012,016,017, three shots of an older woman in a floral pattern dress and wearing a nametag with the name OPAL SKOLNICK on it, holding a plastic cup with ice cubes in it and a plate of food on the table she is sitting at. 013, shot of older man and woman sitting at a table with plastic cups and plates of food on it. They wear nametags that read H.C. STEINMETZ and ESTHER WHITE on them. 014, shot of two men sitting at a table with a pile of papers on it and speaking with one another. One man wears a white shirt and vest and has light hair and a mustache. Man on the right wears a plaid pattern shirt and a nametag that reads DAN FINNIGAN STATE SENATE. 015, blurry photo. 019,020, two shots of a man standing in a possible administrative or recreational environment. Group of people there sit possibly at tables and chairs. A sign on a post reads DEDDELL on it. A trophy case lines the back of the wall. 021, shot of a group of people sitting down, wearing formal clothing and looking at something. Two people in focus is a white woman with short light hair, and African American man with short dark hair and beard, both wearing formal attire.
001,006, shot of a group of people sitting in an administrative or recreational environment, sitting or standing at a row of tables and chairs. In focus are a man and a woman. Woman wears a dress and has short dark hair. Man has short dark hair and wears a plaid shirt and has a watch on his wrist. People in the background wear semi formal clothing. Man and woman have nametags. Male's nametag reads DON WILLARD. Female's name is obfuscated. 002,004,005,008,009,018, six wide shots of a group of people sitting at tables and chairs, while others stand. All of the group appears to wear semi formal clothing and have plastic cups and plates of food in front of them. Some of them clap their hands. 003, shot of an older woman wearing semi formal clothing looking at scraps of newspaper with various drawings on them. Plates of food, cups and ashtrays litter the tables. Various other people sit around her wearing semi formal and formal attire. 007,010,011, three wide angle shots of a group of people sitting at rows of tables and chairs, staring at a screen with a man's face on it, on a stage along a wall of plaques, a podium, flanked by two flags, one the American flag and another flag. On the wall is a large black board with a series of numbers on it. 012,016,017, three shots of an older woman in a floral pattern dress and wearing a nametag with the name OPAL SKOLNICK on it, holding a plastic cup with ice cubes in it and a plate of food on the table she is sitting at. 013, shot of older man and woman sitting at a table with plastic cups and plates of food on it. They wear nametags that read H.C. STEINMETZ and ESTHER WHITE on them. 014, shot of two men sitting at a table with a pile of papers on it and speaking with one another. One man wears a white shirt and vest and has light hair and a mustache. Man on the right wears a plaid pattern shirt and a nametag that reads DAN FINNIGAN STATE SENATE. 015, blurry photo. 019,020, two shots of a man standing in a possible administrative or recreational environment. Group of people there sit possibly at tables and chairs. A sign on a post reads DEDDELL on it. A trophy case lines the back of the wall. 021, shot of a group of people sitting down, wearing formal clothing and looking at something. Two people in focus is a white woman with short light hair, and African American man with short dark hair and beard, both wearing formal attire.
My super-rant ahead: The common belief of how trees became petrified is a myth of science. Petrified wood, and all the formations of the US Southwest, are brimming with strong evidence of a world-wide flood that covered the earth several thousand years ago, and quickly burried these trees under mud and sediment. The cystalization process was quite quick, compared to accepted scientific timeframes. (Info for that here: earthage.org/EarthOldorYoung/scientific_evidence_for_a_worldwide_flood.htm)
There is ample evidence for this account, but that evidence is ignored, so you won't hear any of it in the media. Or if you do hear it, it's derided with all manner of logical falacies and strawman arguments to discredit, and make the other positions look weak and ill-conceived. It's no wonder that the common man doesn't give such arguments a second thought, trusting "the experts" instead.
However, giving attention to the other side of such arguments would expose the flimsy foundations of mainstream science (i.e. beliefs like: everything came from nothing, big bang, evolution, universe/earth are billions of years old, no god, we are insignificant specs of dust in an endless universe, this reality and all you see is just convenient coincidence, etc).
Mainstream science is very much a faith-based religion, albeit a well disguised one. They have woven a false belief system with just enough truth sprinkled in to keep people invested in it, as the one-and-only possible view of how the world works and our place in it. This system continues to push the mainstream narrative without question, ignoring evidence, obfuscating, leading public opinion away from questioning the version of reality they're given, and away from the overwhelming proof of there being One true Creator of all things, our significance and our purpose in His design.
Science has been built on a foundation of deceit through its heavily controlled and funded, but extremely dumbed-down egocentric legions of scientists (scientific priests) for centuries to give the public a form of stiffled scientific advancement, while keeping them ignorant, and dismissive of anything that stands to question the foundational beliefs of science. Scientists who DO question and consider exposing the problems with their "on the shoulders of giants" textbook assumptions, face ridicule in their industries and career suicide.
This is why I always say, if you care to get closer to the truth of earth's past, humanity's past, the purpose of life, and where we're going, you have to accept that truth is never given so easily. But since most of us want it to be that easy, the con artists running this world are only too happy to oblige, at your expense.
Truth has to be diligently sought out, outside of mainstream circles. media, academia and the well funded religion of science will never admit that they've been wrong. Too much is at stake, too many jobs and industries, cultures, false religions and manmade institutions would be disrupted or dissolve entirely. That won't be allowed to happen, so the chrarade will continue.
Yeshua (Jesus) said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me."
The road to the truth is in Him, and He reveals these things to us if we strip away the layers of nonsense we've been taught all our lives.
Crystal Forest,
Petrified Forest National Park
Using the iterative chord enumeration/gray code/shuffle combination, now visualized in realtime via OF with a ported BigInteger class. Next: sort the columns to find out how much disorder there "really" is -- or if the bit ordering is just cleverly obfuscating things.
These sketches are part of my masters thesis, and all the source is available on Google Code: code.google.com/p/oelf/
Managed to snag a few frames of an eagle perching with an un-obfuscated view before my 5D Mark II's AF failed me yet again for the day. The eagle (of course) flew away while my 5D was confused as to where the subject was.
Please view large! :)
Canon 5D Mark II + 500mm f/4L IS + 1.4x Extender II
001,006, shot of a group of people sitting in an administrative or recreational environment, sitting or standing at a row of tables and chairs. In focus are a man and a woman. Woman wears a dress and has short dark hair. Man has short dark hair and wears a plaid shirt and has a watch on his wrist. People in the background wear semi formal clothing. Man and woman have nametags. Male's nametag reads DON WILLARD. Female's name is obfuscated. 002,004,005,008,009,018, six wide shots of a group of people sitting at tables and chairs, while others stand. All of the group appears to wear semi formal clothing and have plastic cups and plates of food in front of them. Some of them clap their hands. 003, shot of an older woman wearing semi formal clothing looking at scraps of newspaper with various drawings on them. Plates of food, cups and ashtrays litter the tables. Various other people sit around her wearing semi formal and formal attire. 007,010,011, three wide angle shots of a group of people sitting at rows of tables and chairs, staring at a screen with a man's face on it, on a stage along a wall of plaques, a podium, flanked by two flags, one the American flag and another flag. On the wall is a large black board with a series of numbers on it. 012,016,017, three shots of an older woman in a floral pattern dress and wearing a nametag with the name OPAL SKOLNICK on it, holding a plastic cup with ice cubes in it and a plate of food on the table she is sitting at. 013, shot of older man and woman sitting at a table with plastic cups and plates of food on it. They wear nametags that read H.C. STEINMETZ and ESTHER WHITE on them. 014, shot of two men sitting at a table with a pile of papers on it and speaking with one another. One man wears a white shirt and vest and has light hair and a mustache. Man on the right wears a plaid pattern shirt and a nametag that reads DAN FINNIGAN STATE SENATE. 015, blurry photo. 019,020, two shots of a man standing in a possible administrative or recreational environment. Group of people there sit possibly at tables and chairs. A sign on a post reads DEDDELL on it. A trophy case lines the back of the wall. 021, shot of a group of people sitting down, wearing formal clothing and looking at something. Two people in focus is a white woman with short light hair, and African American man with short dark hair and beard, both wearing formal attire.
This complex is the most important archaeological center in the Urubamba Valley, after Ollantaytambo and Pisac. The ruins are impressive, although the conservation of the site is inferior to that of Ollantaytambo or Pisac, because they are older.But unlike the places mentioned above Huchuy Qosqo has a peculiar architecture: the buildings have been built on polished stone bases of fine finish, with clay plaster (they are the best preserved parts) and the highest floors are made of adobe.Treks of Huchuy Qosqo TrekHUCHUY QOSQO TREK FULL DAYHUCHUY QOSQO TREK 2 DAYSHUCHUY QOSQO TREK 3 DAYSThere is a kallanka (rectangular enclosure that could measure up to 70 meters long and that were important state centers where Inca officials were staying) of at least 40 to 50 meters long. Also a remarkable building with two stone floors and an adobe upper one. There are also large terraces, a very wide square and a large Inca gate through which a very well preserved road leads from Tambomachay.The Hispanic chronicles indicate that Huchuy Qosqo (probably a site known in Inca times as Caquia Jaquijahuana) was the work and favorite place of the Inca Wiracocha. To this, Maria Rostworoski adds, in her work "History of Tahuantinsuyo", that this sovereign strengthened the conquest over the villages of the Urubamba Valley and that he chose as his successor his son Inca Urco who, dizzy from power and vice, He proved to be totally unable to govern. The Inca royalty was very obfuscated with this election and tried to conspire to impose another son of Wiracocha, Prince Cusi Yupanqui. Social unrest and tension increased every day and to make everything worse, the darkest night fell over Cuzco: the Chancas reached the gates of the capital and were willing to destroy it. It is the year of 1438. Wiracocha leaves the city to his fate and, accompanied by his son Inca Urco, takes refuge in its palaces in the Urubamba Valley, among which was Huchuy Qosqo.After the Hispanic conquest, Gonzalo Pizarro found here the mummy that supposedly belonged to the Inca Wiracocha and ordered it burned. The descendants of the Inca kept the ashes in a jar that many years later the chronicler Polo de Ondegardo would discover.Characteristics of the visitIt is possible to visit Huchuy Qosqo in three ways, the first one walking from Cusco and Tambomachay along the Inca trail. The other way is up from the Sacred Valley after crossing the Wilcamayo River (now Vilcanota) and the Chinchero route.
An accountant, his work spread all over the table at Starbucks. Those are stacks of checks on the table. (innocent guy in background is obfuscated).
001,006, shot of a group of people sitting in an administrative or recreational environment, sitting or standing at a row of tables and chairs. In focus are a man and a woman. Woman wears a dress and has short dark hair. Man has short dark hair and wears a plaid shirt and has a watch on his wrist. People in the background wear semi formal clothing. Man and woman have nametags. Male's nametag reads DON WILLARD. Female's name is obfuscated. 002,004,005,008,009,018, six wide shots of a group of people sitting at tables and chairs, while others stand. All of the group appears to wear semi formal clothing and have plastic cups and plates of food in front of them. Some of them clap their hands. 003, shot of an older woman wearing semi formal clothing looking at scraps of newspaper with various drawings on them. Plates of food, cups and ashtrays litter the tables. Various other people sit around her wearing semi formal and formal attire. 007,010,011, three wide angle shots of a group of people sitting at rows of tables and chairs, staring at a screen with a man's face on it, on a stage along a wall of plaques, a podium, flanked by two flags, one the American flag and another flag. On the wall is a large black board with a series of numbers on it. 012,016,017, three shots of an older woman in a floral pattern dress and wearing a nametag with the name OPAL SKOLNICK on it, holding a plastic cup with ice cubes in it and a plate of food on the table she is sitting at. 013, shot of older man and woman sitting at a table with plastic cups and plates of food on it. They wear nametags that read H.C. STEINMETZ and ESTHER WHITE on them. 014, shot of two men sitting at a table with a pile of papers on it and speaking with one another. One man wears a white shirt and vest and has light hair and a mustache. Man on the right wears a plaid pattern shirt and a nametag that reads DAN FINNIGAN STATE SENATE. 015, blurry photo. 019,020, two shots of a man standing in a possible administrative or recreational environment. Group of people there sit possibly at tables and chairs. A sign on a post reads DEDDELL on it. A trophy case lines the back of the wall. 021, shot of a group of people sitting down, wearing formal clothing and looking at something. Two people in focus is a white woman with short light hair, and African American man with short dark hair and beard, both wearing formal attire.
Yesterday I caught a djinn in this bottle. He is a wicked little thing, full of lies and obfuscation. Though I am tempted by his cajoling and magical promises, I am not going to let him out.
Taken by Cory Funk.
001,006, shot of a group of people sitting in an administrative or recreational environment, sitting or standing at a row of tables and chairs. In focus are a man and a woman. Woman wears a dress and has short dark hair. Man has short dark hair and wears a plaid shirt and has a watch on his wrist. People in the background wear semi formal clothing. Man and woman have nametags. Male's nametag reads DON WILLARD. Female's name is obfuscated. 002,004,005,008,009,018, six wide shots of a group of people sitting at tables and chairs, while others stand. All of the group appears to wear semi formal clothing and have plastic cups and plates of food in front of them. Some of them clap their hands. 003, shot of an older woman wearing semi formal clothing looking at scraps of newspaper with various drawings on them. Plates of food, cups and ashtrays litter the tables. Various other people sit around her wearing semi formal and formal attire. 007,010,011, three wide angle shots of a group of people sitting at rows of tables and chairs, staring at a screen with a man's face on it, on a stage along a wall of plaques, a podium, flanked by two flags, one the American flag and another flag. On the wall is a large black board with a series of numbers on it. 012,016,017, three shots of an older woman in a floral pattern dress and wearing a nametag with the name OPAL SKOLNICK on it, holding a plastic cup with ice cubes in it and a plate of food on the table she is sitting at. 013, shot of older man and woman sitting at a table with plastic cups and plates of food on it. They wear nametags that read H.C. STEINMETZ and ESTHER WHITE on them. 014, shot of two men sitting at a table with a pile of papers on it and speaking with one another. One man wears a white shirt and vest and has light hair and a mustache. Man on the right wears a plaid pattern shirt and a nametag that reads DAN FINNIGAN STATE SENATE. 015, blurry photo. 019,020, two shots of a man standing in a possible administrative or recreational environment. Group of people there sit possibly at tables and chairs. A sign on a post reads DEDDELL on it. A trophy case lines the back of the wall. 021, shot of a group of people sitting down, wearing formal clothing and looking at something. Two people in focus is a white woman with short light hair, and African American man with short dark hair and beard, both wearing formal attire.
4me4you features - ‘HISTORIES IN FLUX’.
Artist: Tim Kent
4me4you recently had the pleasure of visiting JD Malat Gallery to view "Histories in Flux," a new series of oil paintings by the acclaimed artist Tim Kent.
The paintings exhibited at JD Malat Gallery are reflections of what the artist describes as "playing with art history." These fragmented yet visually coherent compositions of vast interiors, sculptures, historical figures, and classical nudes blur, disconnect, and reshape before the viewer's eyes, critically engaging with the systemic power structures that Western art history has fortified, but which contemporary art must continuously challenge.
"Histories in Flux" presents twelve psychologically charged portraits, architectural depictions of estates, and cultural institutions that highlight key issues related to class, access, privacy, and consumption. Kent both resists and highlights the conformity inherent in traditional painting genres, attuned to contemporary issues. His work transforms and dissects Baroque and Georgian interior spaces, revealing an ominous past with its own dimensional terrain.
Kent's playful engagement with genre—specifically the nude, portraiture, interiors, and narrative painting—results in the distortion of old art historical systems, merging tradition with the contemporary. This imbues his work with subtle criticisms that sever traditional roles of authority. His grid-like fragmentations suggest an empirical reaction from the viewer, turning the once harmonious genre of chamber painting into a realm of architectural dissonance. As Kent states, “The perspective grid becomes a visual metaphor for the interconnectivity of how we construct our visual world and it’s influences across every level of existence.”
These obscured historic scene scapes challenge our understanding of history. Busts, portraits, monuments, museum spaces, and estates serve as vessels for thematic parallels deeply rooted in classism, elitism, and power dynamics. Through his portrayal of these traditional art historical archetypes, Kent exposes the controversial and often overlooked narratives woven into the fabric of art history's canon. While institutional spaces proudly showcase their collections as symbols of cultural education and progress, beneath this veneer lies a concealed tapestry of colonial dominance, imperial knowledge systems, class stratification, and labor obfuscation. Kent's compositions unearth these underlying complex networks, dismantling and deconstructing familiar symbols of tradition. By layering their veneer of opulence and allure with shadows and uncertainties, he transforms these once-celebrated spaces into stark objects that challenge viewers to confront the uncomfortable realities obscured by centuries of glorification.
001,006, shot of a group of people sitting in an administrative or recreational environment, sitting or standing at a row of tables and chairs. In focus are a man and a woman. Woman wears a dress and has short dark hair. Man has short dark hair and wears a plaid shirt and has a watch on his wrist. People in the background wear semi formal clothing. Man and woman have nametags. Male's nametag reads DON WILLARD. Female's name is obfuscated. 002,004,005,008,009,018, six wide shots of a group of people sitting at tables and chairs, while others stand. All of the group appears to wear semi formal clothing and have plastic cups and plates of food in front of them. Some of them clap their hands. 003, shot of an older woman wearing semi formal clothing looking at scraps of newspaper with various drawings on them. Plates of food, cups and ashtrays litter the tables. Various other people sit around her wearing semi formal and formal attire. 007,010,011, three wide angle shots of a group of people sitting at rows of tables and chairs, staring at a screen with a man's face on it, on a stage along a wall of plaques, a podium, flanked by two flags, one the American flag and another flag. On the wall is a large black board with a series of numbers on it. 012,016,017, three shots of an older woman in a floral pattern dress and wearing a nametag with the name OPAL SKOLNICK on it, holding a plastic cup with ice cubes in it and a plate of food on the table she is sitting at. 013, shot of older man and woman sitting at a table with plastic cups and plates of food on it. They wear nametags that read H.C. STEINMETZ and ESTHER WHITE on them. 014, shot of two men sitting at a table with a pile of papers on it and speaking with one another. One man wears a white shirt and vest and has light hair and a mustache. Man on the right wears a plaid pattern shirt and a nametag that reads DAN FINNIGAN STATE SENATE. 015, blurry photo. 019,020, two shots of a man standing in a possible administrative or recreational environment. Group of people there sit possibly at tables and chairs. A sign on a post reads DEDDELL on it. A trophy case lines the back of the wall. 021, shot of a group of people sitting down, wearing formal clothing and looking at something. Two people in focus is a white woman with short light hair, and African American man with short dark hair and beard, both wearing formal attire.
One lesson from the National Park Service's public input meeting on the future Tule Lake internment center memorial: Words matter.
Calling sites like Tule Lake "camps" is, of course, an outrage. But even "internment camps" isn't accurate; people in internment are charged with crimes and given trials. Absent historical hindsight, Roosevelt himself had no trouble with the term "concentration camps," but that comes with a little bit of baggage.
"Incarceration" — or worse — more accurately describes the experience of Japanese Americans during the war. Seventy years of linguistic whitewash has abetted the obfuscation of this grim fact for at least two successive generations. And lest this become just history in a dead museum, check out the billboard facing Rainier Ave. outside the window: "Stop a terrorist. Save lives."
Bookshop through a bus. London, August 1980. Possibly Regent Street? Taken by me with my grandfather's 1930s Leica.
Nothing new about this year's election in this regard. Judging a candidate's record or competency on relevant issues is hard, after all.
We spent Tuesday morning at the Museum of Science and Industry, a museum we'd remembered visiting as kids. The website advertized a mirror maze that I hoped would be sort of cool. Dude. DUDE. That mirror maze was the COOLEST THING EVER. We got to the museum pretty much the second it opened, which meant we were the first people into the maze. For a few minutes, it was just the two of us in this otherworldly space. The room lighting changed colors really gradually while ambient music played, and the pattern of the mirrors was further obfuscated by repeating arches and lines on the floor. These pictures really don't do it justice at all. Eventually, other people started trickling in and soon the maze was echoing with delighted people squealing, "Wait, you're real?! I thought you were in the mirror!" It was so much fun; I could have stayed in there all day!
-- Pk.