pinhole photo, Santa Clara, California
I love photography, I study photography, and I make a lot of photos. I share a new photo on Flickr almost every day, and I also have a portfolio and a (rarely-used) Instagram. Or, if you prefer, I will mail you prints.
Here are some interesting web pages I have found:
I don't know why I bother searching for deeper meaning, as if I live in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, yet I keep doing so. Los Angeles video game designer Laura Michet had a similar curiosity October a year ago:
I'm sure that this is a two-person project, since you can google up each of these graffiti writers individually and find traces of them online. I've wondered whether more than two people are putting them up, though - they're incredibly dense, all over the city. Most of the time when I'm riding on a major stroad or artery in the city, I'll see one of these at least once a minute - often more frequently! Apparently, you can find them in Toronto and SF too.
If you have ever been to a port during a national holiday or a major celebration, you have likely seen a vessel looking like it is decorated for a massive party. This stunning display, where a ship is covered from bow to stern in colorful flags, is known as Full Dressing (or Dressing Overall).
The Reform Movement unequivocally condemns the preliminary vote in the Israeli Knesset to advance legislation that would criminalize egalitarian Jewish worship at the Western Wall, one of Judaism’s holiest and most-enduring symbols. If enacted, the proposed bill by MK Avi Maoz of the far-right Noam party would render forms of Jewish prayer not sanctioned by the ultra-Orthodox Chief Rabbinate punishable by up to seven years in prison.Israel has since its inception enjoyed (and, debatably, required) support of diaspora Jews such as myself. Yet the Israeli government's actions of late – actions inconsistent with Jewish teachings and practice – have made it troubling to continue that support, even before the abuse of Gaza. And now Israeli parliament takes another step in distancing itself from Reform Judaism, pushing Haredi practice into laws such as this. For a country asking us Jews to stand together in unity, they sure are working hard to dismantle that cohesion.
This alarming proposal represents an unprecedented attempt to criminalize mainstream Jewish worship in the Jewish state. It is a direct affront to Jews in Israel, North America, and across the globe who pray in egalitarian settings.
The ball gets thrown from the offices above Mark Webster estate agents at 3pm by a local respected member of the community and from 3pm to 4.30pm, it's for the women/kids to have a try, and it's very tame. When the claxon sounds at 4.30pm, that's when it gets feral. Whoever is holding the ball when the claxon sounds again at 5pm is declared the winner. The prize: being able to say you won it and a free pint at The Stag & Pheasant. All the shops down Long Street are boarded up in preparation. If the game falls during term time, schools close early for it! In the weeks running up to the game, the ball is taken to various places (shops, schools, businesses) for people to sign it.
...it has never made much sense as to why [m00t] would ban /new/ for being a racist hell hole and then, barely a year later, launch /pol/, a board specifically designed to be a racist hell hole. But buried inside the newest batch of files related to the Epstein investigation is a possible hint as to what made Poole change his mind. He met with Epstein the day before /pol/ was created./pol/ started by giving us GamerGate, then Qanon, before shitposting Trump into the presidency. It doesn't seem like Epstein and m00t were buddies or anything, but still, what the hell is this? Was Jeffrey Epstein behind Q?
As a side-effect of me having produced a lot of Open Source code over a substantial period, and that my code has been used in billions of products and devices, my name and email address are also shown in a lot of places. Usually as a direct result of license compliance when a manufacturer insert for example the curl license in the "About Window" of a car infotainment system.The emails are usually unpleasant. He includes examples.
The Last Dyes at David Zwirner marks the final group of photographs ever produced using this vanished process. When Kodak discontinued the dyes, paper, and matrix film in the early 1990s, Eggleston and his master printers Guy Stricherz and Irene Malli began hoarding materials. For the past 25 years, they've been rationing the last reserves. Now they're gone. These prints represent the extinction of a medium made relevant in the fine art realm by Eggleston, now 85 and still working.
Besides being fun-to-say words with Ancient Greek etymologies, synecdoche and metonymy both (erroneously trigger my browser's spell check and) are very similar concepts: a word used in substitution of another. An example would be city hall in the phrase "You can't fight City Hall," where it refers not to the literal building itself, but to the associated government. But when is something synecdoche and when is it metonymy?
I searched the internet far and wide (5 minutes) for an answer not excreted by an AI (I think) and found the linked page. Regardless of whether it's slop, the article very thoroughly says what I believe I can summarize much more concisely: it's synecdoche when the substituted word is a part of the subject (e.g. wheels for "car"), and metonymy when the substituted word is simply related (e.g. Wall Street for the New York City financial markets).
Now off with ye.