July 25, 2010
photo by express000

photo by express000

July 14, 2010

am i deaf?

rrl rurrnd urnd away we gwrrrw
tur find urt rrgain
this is urrrrd gurz
fillin urp yr heart with ass
you sherrd me car niss and a voltage
was erected, showing white bread
under prrrpl, bloor blossoms
i’m smilrng frr
droop droop
droop droop
farp terp

having great trouble understanding the lyrics of twin sister

July 12, 2010

heartbeatcity:

rush hour in the netherlands

tja… niets bijzonders! ;)

July 11, 2010

4mat

ProPublica Photographer: I Was Followed by BP Security and Then Detained by Police

marco:

To summarize:

  • A photographer took these photos of a BP oil refinery while standing on the grass median of a public road. (With very few exceptions, it’s perfectly legal to take pictures of anything visible from a public place, even if the subject is privately owned.)
  • BP’s security noticed, called the city police, and followed him by car to a gas station.
  • The police forcefully detained, harassed, and threatened him for more than 20 minutes for something that is not a crime and that they did not witness.
  • The police disclosed all of his personal information, including his Social Security number, to a BP security guard.
  • The police effectively forced him to reveal the photos he had taken and continued to detain, harass, and threaten him even after an officer had evaluated them and decided that they were not a threat to Homeland “Security”.
  • He was further detained, harassed, and threatened by a Homeland Security agent who arrived at the scene and forced him to reveal the publication he was working for.

There’s a good chance that a crime was committed there, but not by the photographer.

Is there any doubt who’s running our country?

tamburina: In the late ’90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy. Above is a letter he sent to Charles Manson. Click the picture to read Manson’s response, and to see more Little Billy letters.

tamburina:

In the late ’90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy.

Above is a letter he sent to Charles Manson. Click the picture to read Manson’s response, and to see more Little Billy letters.

tamburina: The Cottingley Fairies In 1917, Elsie Wright, 16, and her cousin Frances Griffith, 10, borrowed a camera belonging to Elsie’s father and took two pictures of what the girls claimed were fairies in Cottingley Beck, England. When Mr. Wright saw fairies in the pictures, he considered them fake and banned Elsie from using the camera again. Her mother, Polly, however was convinced of their authenticity and publicized the photos. Initially, the images were authenticated by some of the leading photography experts of the time although Kodak was less convinced, arguing that there were many ways to fake images like these.Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and a believer in spiritualism, saw the photos, was convinced that they were genuine and wrote about them in The Strand in 1920. The article created a media storm and the girls took three more pictures showing fairies dancing and enjoying a sun bath.It was only in 1978 that a researcher spotted that the fairies were identical to drawings in Princess Mary’s Gift Book, a children’s book published in 1917. Three years later the girls, then in their late seventies, admitted that they had staged four of the five images using paper cut-outs and hatpins. Frances continued to claim that the fifth image was genuine; however, they insisted that they really had seen fairies.  See all the images here.

tamburina:

The Cottingley Fairies

In 1917, Elsie Wright, 16, and her cousin Frances Griffith, 10, borrowed a camera belonging to Elsie’s father and took two pictures of what the girls claimed were fairies in Cottingley Beck, England. When Mr. Wright saw fairies in the pictures, he considered them fake and banned Elsie from using the camera again. Her mother, Polly, however was convinced of their authenticity and publicized the photos. Initially, the images were authenticated by some of the leading photography experts of the time although Kodak was less convinced, arguing that there were many ways to fake images like these.

Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and a believer in spiritualism, saw the photos, was convinced that they were genuine and wrote about them in The Strand in 1920. The article created a media storm and the girls took three more pictures showing fairies dancing and enjoying a sun bath.

It was only in 1978 that a researcher spotted that the fairies were identical to drawings in Princess Mary’s Gift Book, a children’s book published in 1917. Three years later the girls, then in their late seventies, admitted that they had staged four of the five images using paper cut-outs and hatpins. Frances continued to claim that the fifth image was genuine; however, they insisted that they really had seen fairies. 

See all the images here.

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