White Beauty...

This blatantly racist five part skin tone epic is more pathetic than anything when you get down to it. Alas-seven more recent racist ads...  (via HuffPo)

On Sheer Strength of Talent Alone!

While some of us have contented ourselves with seeing fit to demand and encourage diversity friendly juries and panels in regards to race and gender, the good folks at NYPH'10 have single handedly led the charge to ensure that the aforementioned are also free of anti-celebrity bias.

Anyone doubting Lou Reed's curatorial bona fides in photography has merely to peer at the photos included in this revelatory feature- nothing like a few infrareds to truly assure and inspire. His third (3rd!) book of photographs is published by Blurb Steidl- and if you ask him real nice when you see him there, he may not only play ya a tune, he may just let you borrow his new $24,000 medium format Leica!

20 years Yesterday...

Checkpoint Charlie 8/90

Twenty years ago I still held to the naive belief that the "monumental" creations of my lifetime were just that- monuments meant to endure... Communist China, The Berlin Wall, The World Trade Center- never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd outlive any of them. And that said, can only hope to see the destruction of the Israeli Wall ASAP...

And if you haven't seen The Last Border by Brian Rose, wait no further. In it are the memories, ironies and beauty that is the tragedy called mankind...

Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered A Young Girl- (Not) Taken Down

All good things come to an end, and after proving and winning his counter claim, Isaac Eiland-Hall has taken the "offending" website down- a class act. Class I would not have afforded such a shameless buffoon who has repeatedly proven just how low he can go...

Update:  It Lives!  See Comments...

A Developing Story

A Developing Story is a new and intriguing site for both mind and eye launched by John Bennett in conjunction with Benjamin Chesterton of DuckRabbit fame. Ben is a big time promoter of superlative multi-media presentations, and this already is just that...

A Coupla Things...

Peter van Agtmael has his cross country photo essay set to various radio chatter- it feels equal parts fleeting, episodic and yet very intense... And the rest of the up and coming work on Fader (featured on the right hand side) also looks quite the promising... (via APAD)

Managed to have a post (featuring Paolo Wood amongst others) published yesterday on Bag News Notes concerning various aspects of colonial and current day Africa...

What We Became, And Still Are...

Remember all that wonderfully mellifluous bullshit about transparency? If even the least of it were true, certainly this would not stand. Nor this...

Medication Madness

Dr. Peter Breggin has stated that if you've read two or three self help books, you effectively have a greater psychological background than your average military psychiatrist. Meds anyone?

"Logic" Personified...

I'll admit Glenn Beck quite the laughable buffoon on his own merit, but Jon Stewart's impersonation expertly reveals and revels in the ludicrous logic of his moronic right wing popularity.

Good Thing It Wasn't A Bagel...

Click on the cement donut for story... (via Boing Boing).

Rep. Alan Grayson- Congressman, Hero...

True, it doesn't take much these days- and that's why it's so incredibly extraordinary when someone with a brain, a heart, and a set of balls actually walks amongst us and takes it to the next, and logical level...

No. 27!!!

Congratulations, New York Yankees! (New York born and raised folks)

Mariano Rivera (Photo: Dave Kaup/Reuters)

Underwhelming "Landslide"

After leading the charge to overturn term limits (which he previously stated he was for) and outspending his opponent 14 to 1 with $100,000,000 of his own money (approx $200 per vote) to win his third term as mayor of NYC, Mayor Bloomberg managed to eke out a victory by some 5% despite predictions of a double digit landslide...

And for the best election pundit analysis ever (go 5 min into it)- applicable any year, any election....

Republicans For Rape (the website)

Thirty (30) proud, patriotic Republican Senators voted against Senator Al Franken's anti-rape amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill... (Click on Banner for website).

Spectacular?

Gotta admit I was completely underwhelmed by the egg sized jpeg I kept seeing of this supposedly "stunningly spectacular" 3,000 photo composite of our own Milky Way Galaxy- till I finally caught up with the high res image...

Where's Your Loyalty?

The Pledge of Allegiance was originated by one Francis Bellamy an avowed socialist- and BTW, those kids in Hawaii are saluting in 1941, and the Swastika below adorns an early American Boy Scout merit badge. Aint history grand!?

Ruined

I took this photo on a recent bicycle foray through Lafayette Square in San Francisco. And I couldn't help think of local Bay Area photographers Noah Beil, Alan George and David Wolf while taking it. All practice a modern day archaeological photography examining the modern day social strata and detritus that inundate our current environment.

The Crab Nebula- W0W!!!

Alan Grayson- What Sanity Sounds Like...

My god! Is this even physically possible? Can, not one, but two people who speak truth to power occupy The House at the same time?!?

Roy DeCarava- RIP

...and in 1952 became the first black photographer to win a Guggenheim fellowship.

“White photographers called me and they got angry with me, because I won it,” says DeCarava. “They said, ‘You won the Guggenheim?’ I could see the face screwing up and it was likely like this, “How could you win a Guggenheim?’”

The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Murder

If ever there was a dream well within the power of our grasp, this would be high on the list- and this is the man that could make it come true. Chances are we won't be able to control global warming, curb the self annihilating pollution of our land, sea and air, or achieve world peace within this brand new century without first having little left to fight over. But this at least, is achievable...