10.26.04

Listen to the Pumpkin

Posted in Good Stuff at 11:52 pm by Thomas

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10.06.04

Precision Bombs Make No Friends

Posted in Rants at 12:50 am by Thomas

Every day we hear in the news about precision bombs targeting insurgents somewhere in an Iraqi city. It’s the same story every day, with the US forces giving a rough number for the insurgents killed (”twenty to thirty…”) and then the usually unconfirmed report from a local hospital that a very specific number of civilians have been brought in (”twelve civilians, among them five children…”).

What does this really look like? Clearly, nobody in the US gives a damn, because otherwise our government couldn’t get away with this kind of shit. There are US soldiers blowing up houses from the air in the middle of residential neighbourhoods and nobody in this country puts their fucking Latte down and goes “Wait a minute!”

It seems that like in Vietnam, it is impossible to hammer it into the American population that there is something incredibly horrible going on in the name of every single US citizen.

Here are some pictures collected by Political Physics – If you aren’t outraged, you haven’t been paying attention.

Via The Poor Man

10.04.04

Old Favorite

Posted in Photography at 11:44 pm by Thomas

It’s always a challenge to find a new angle for a well-photographed subject like the Golden Gate Bridge, and often enough I’m utterly disappointed by the complete absence of inspiration in my pictures of the bridge…

But then again sometimes it just all works together – well, at least for me. :-)

This picture was taken with a Kodak Brownie Bull’s Eye with the close-up attachment on Agfa Optima 100 film. I am very fond of this camera (as anybody who’s seen this site can tell!) and especially the close-up attachment allows for very unusual and beautiful pictures of ordinary or overused subjects.