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Wednesday 2 August 2017

Floating Ghosts (Multiplicity) / Zero pressure / Recursion (Aporia)

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Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Bangkok]: photo by Rammy Narula, 31 July 2017


#Nigeria Portraits of Internally-Displaced People's (IDP) at a camp at Gwoza. Photo @HeunisStefan
: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 2 August 2017

 
#8 | by kanrapee.chok

#8 [NYC]: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 18 June 2017

#8 | by kanrapee.chok

#8 [NYC]: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 18 June 2017

#8 | by kanrapee.chok

#8 [NYC]: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 18 June 2017



#Indonesia Indonesians cover themselves as thick ash blankets Tiga Pancur village following the eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano photo Ivan Damanik: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017
 
Barbara Guest: Multiplicity


   i
         An opposing force nestles closer
         — to the four square of its joint

               the nimbus divides at an unfaded seam
         and the naughts are shuffled at the table

                                and rapidly the wheedling gems
         appear and disappear from an unsteady table —;

                                — this superstition —
         the oathing — (winter in society) is felt by the hard folk
         and they scatter —

         and read their palm — the oathing catches up    under the nimbus
they part —

                             eliminate the intoxication of force — and the mincing
suggestions cast by the opposing force     weep at solemnity horse on the
platform    his thrust —

                             yet they are freed of the nimbus and opposition
they are like larvae — they are under the glass at first — and they proceed
with exemplary caution over newly paved roads    under the spy glass

                         like Hannibal; and again as the wheels of a traveller
              reactions are diverse    not being under the nimbus —

                                             being Latinate perhaps —.
This was worth breathing into — translated not bloody —
afternoon under new palms and rivers    imagination agitated and warm—;



   ii
yet verbal complications — (bestial desiring) — Jove or his discontent
                       Zodiacal origins —
                                                         Soul
mosquito Soul

                       memory of the oathing —.
It was a shawl on that table                         that hair piece the rhythm
       of the forehead    classic moans

                         interrupted the blink    the mellow square
             memory and her hireling —;

                                                   the same supperless complications
gods who multiply; wench who lifted her eyes —; what passes on the tile’s
belly (the mantle and) — perhaps Allah.
Regard the wheel
                         dark blue   maraudering.



                                   iii
                Not being under the nimbus    of earthen of metal
                          terrace levelled beams crossed; folk who
                offer early and late    zero numbers
                          sneeze in late autumn    the random

                                                       chalk sketch
                primi pensieri:
                                            
  that man coming up the hill

                        attitudini:
                                               it grows later as he climbs
                                           the multiplicity of early
                                                                                 of late



                                   iv
                         landscape’s script and nimbus
                                                                        natural and mimetic
                                serene yearning
                          early and late


                                               Dejection
and the Ode.

Barbara Guest (1920-2006): Multiplicity, from The Iowa Review 26, no. 2 (Summer, 1996)

Untitled | by Gustavo Minas
  
Untitled: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 10 May 2017

Untitled | by Gustavo Minas

Untitled: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 10 May 2017

Untitled | by Gustavo Minas

Untitled: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 10 May 2017

Hong Kong, Animal Communicator | by Edas Wong

Hong Kong, Animal Communicator: photo by Edas Wong, 3 July 2017

Hong Kong, Animal Communicator | by Edas Wong

Hong Kong, Animal Communicator: photo by Edas Wong, 3 July 2017

Hong Kong, Animal Communicator | by Edas Wong

Hong Kong, Animal Communicator: photo by Edas Wong, 3 July 2017

Untitled | by Gustavo Minas

Untitled: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 22 October 2015

Untitled | by Gustavo Minas

Untitled: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 22 October 2015

Untitled | by Gustavo Minas

Untitled: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 22 October 2015

Mr. 312 - circa 2014, iPhone 5. | by mollyporter

Mr. 312 - circa 2014, iPhone 5 [Chicago]: photo by Molly Porter, 30 July 2017

DSC00596-3 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC00596-3 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 21 March 2017

DSC00596-3 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC00596-3 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 21 March 2017

DSC00596-3 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC00596-3 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 21 March 2017

Odessa, Ukraine | by f.d. walker

Odessa, Ukraine: photo by f.d. walker, 24 September 2016

... | by Nacho's libre

 [Bucharest]: photo by Svilen Nachev, 18 July 2017

Dhaka | 2017 | by Sohail Bin Mohammad

Dhaka | 2017. artist dog.: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 25 June 2017

DSC00023-2 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC00023-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 21 March 2017

DSC00023-2 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC00023-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 21 March 2017

DSC00023-2 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC00023-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 21 March 2017

Droste effect | by fdecomite

 Droste effect. Using paraboloidal mirror.: photo by fdecomite, 5 June 2012

Droste effect | by willemalink
  
Droste effect: photo by Willem Alink, 10 February 2014

Droste effect | by fdecomite

 Droste effect. Using paraboloidal mirror.: photo by fdecomite, 5 June 2012

Dexter Droste-effect | by Ferdinand1977

Dexter Droste-effect: photo by Ferdinand, 8 February 2008

Guardians of Memory | by Anandamide
  
Guardians of Memory: photo by Giuliano Cocco, 4 June 2007

Droste on billboard | by Huub van Osch

Droste on billboard: photo by Huub van Osch MBM, 27 April 2015

Droste effect | by Huub van Osch

Droste effect: photo by Huub van Osch MBM, 27 April 2015

Droste: Lady Gaga | by Huub van Osch

Droste: Lady Gaga: photo by Huub van Osch MBM, 27 April 2015

Droste: Brad Pitt | by Huub van Osch

Droste: Brad Pitt: photo by Huub van Osch MBM, 27 April 2015

Droste on truck | by Huub van Osch

Droste on truck: photo by Huub van Osch MBM, 27 April 2015

Droste: Mupi Delft | by Huub van Osch

Droste: Mupi Delft: photo by Huub van Osch MBM, 14 May 2012

Recursion - Droste Effect | by CosmoClick

Recursion -- Droste effect. Entrance of The Hague.: photo by Agnes and Hans, 13 May 2015

Recursion - Droste Effect | by CosmoClick

Recursion -- Droste effect. Entrance of The Hague.: photo by Agnes and Hans, 13 May 2015

Recursion - Droste Effect | by CosmoClick

Recursion -- Droste effect. Entrance of The Hague.: photo by Agnes and Hans, 13 May 2015

Untitled | by Guido Steenkamp

[Berlin]: photo by Guido Steenkamp, 29 May 2013

2017-06-19 | by Torsak Panjasuparak

2017-06-19: photo by torsak panjasuparak, 19 June 2016

2017-06-19 | by Torsak Panjasuparak

2017-06-19: photo by torsak panjasuparak, 19 June 2016

2017-06-19 | by Torsak Panjasuparak

2017-06-19: photo by torsak panjasuparak, 19 June 2016

Droste-effect | by Dirk Blij

Droste-effect. Gemeente Museum den Haag.: photo by Dirk Blij, 2 February 2013

Droste-effect 2 | by Dirk Blij

Droste-effect 2. Deze is dan weer leuk op mijn pc.: photo by Dirk Blij, 7 February 2013

Droste effect | by bisybackson

Droste effect: photo by bisybackson, 29 July 2012

Recursion (Aporia): Thomas Wyatt: It may be good

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/The_Chocolate_Girl.jpg

La serveuse de chocolat
(La belle chocolatière/The chocolate girl): Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789), 1743-1745 (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden)



It may be good like it who list
..but I do dowbt who can me blame
..for oft assured yet have I myst
..and now again I fere thesame
..The wyndy worde[s] the Ies quaynt game
..of soden chaunge maketh me agast
..for dred to fall I stond not fast
Alas I tred an endles maze
..that seketh to accorde two contraries
..and hope still & nothing hase
..imprisoned in liberte[s]
..as oon unhard & and still that cries
..alwaies thursty & yet nothing I tast
..for dred to fall I stond not fast
Assured I dowbt I be not sure
..and should I trust to suche suretie
..that oft hath put the prouff in ure
..and never hath founde it trusty
..nay sir In faith it were great foly
..and yet my liff thus I do wast
..for dred to fall I stond not fast


Hase hazard, attempt
ure use


http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/images/droste.jpg

Illustration of "the nurse" on Droste cocoa tin, showing a visual form of recursion known as the Droste effect; the woman in the image is holding an object which contains a smaller image of herself holding the same object, and so forth: illustration by Jan (Johannes) Musset (?), c. 1903

Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542): It may be good like it who list, n.d.: text: British Library Egerton MS 2711, fol. 22; transcription by Richard Harrier in The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poetry, 1975

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak

multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak

multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak

multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

Dingbat alley | by ADMurr

  Dingbat alley [Normandie, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 13 October 2016

Mokau, NZ | by bobsan88

Mokau, NZ: photo by bobsan88, 24 June 2016

Spain Daily Life

 A man takes a break outside of Barcelona airport in Prat Llobregat, Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017.: photo by Manu Fernandez/AP, 1 August 2017

Spain Daily Life .

A man takes a break outside of Barcelona airport in Prat Llobregat, Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017.: photo by Manu Fernandez/AP, 1 August 2017

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak 
 multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016
 
multicity | by Marcin Kubiak

 multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak

multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak 
multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak 

 multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak 
multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak
 
multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak

multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak 
multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak 
multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak 

multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016

multicity | by Marcin Kubiak 
multicity [Warsaw]: photo by Marcin Kubiak, 27 September 2016
apocalypse multicity

>108b/365 - Misty evening with helicopter on vessel | by ECC Edward

108b/365 Misty evening with helicopter on vessel  2013/04/18 [Hong Kong]: photo by ECC Edward, 18 April 2013

>108b/365 - Misty evening with helicopter on vessel | by ECC Edward

108b/365 Misty evening with helicopter on vessel  2013/04/18 [Hong Kong]: photo by ECC Edward, 18 April 2013

>108b/365 - Misty evening with helicopter on vessel | by ECC Edward

108b/365 Misty evening with helicopter on vessel  2013/04/18 [Hong Kong]: photo by ECC Edward, 18 April 2013

Untitled | by penso

[Monument Valley]: photo by Fabien Penso, 21 July 2015

Untitled | by penso

[Monument Valley]: photo by Fabien Penso, 21 July 2015

Untitled | by penso

[Monument Valley]: photo by Fabien Penso, 21 July 2015

William Empson: Let It Go

It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you can't
Tell or remember even what they were.

The contradictions cover such a range.
The talk would talk and go so far aslant.
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

William Empson (1906-1984): Let It Go, from Collected Poems (1940)


Northumberland field | by ADMurr 

Northumberland field: photo by Andrew Murr, 13 October 2016


JERUSALEM - A Jewish man prays at the Little Western Wall in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem during the annual Tisha B'Av Photo @menahemkahana: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 August 2017


#India An Indian commuter drives his motorbike along a flooded street during heavy rainfall in Jalandhar Photo @shammiphotos #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 August 2017


#India Indian residents affected by flooding navigate floodwaters to collect relief materials in Udaynarayanpur Photo @Dibyangshus #AFP
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017


#India #monsoon Residents affected by flooding use a makeshift boat to collect relief materials in Udaynarayanpur. Photo Dibyangshu Sarkar
: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 2 August 2017
 

#India Protest of farmers in New Delhi with the bones of farmers who have committed suicide in the wake of rising amounts of debt Photo @sajjadkmr: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 August 2017


#india An Indian man reads a newspaper as he sits inside a pipe in New Delhi Photo @Money_Sharma #AFP
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017


#Afghanistan  An Afghan media personnel walks through a Shiite mosque after it was attacked by suicide bombers in Herat. @hoshangAP #AFP
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017



#Afghanistan An Afghan youth walks on a path at sunset on the outskirts of Herat. Photo @hoshangAP #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 August 2017


Congo - Brazzaville A woman and her child who fled from rebel group attacks, stand in a field farmed with the help of the UN in Tshikapa Photo @JuniorDkannah: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 August 2017


#Rwanda Bayanda or brick sellers push a bike with bricks that would earn an average of two dollars a day near Tshikap Photo @JuniorDkannah @AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017


Attendance. Rwanda, 2017. Opposition rally. The make of democracy. #photojournalism #documentary #africa #rwanda20: image via Marco Longari @mlongari, 1 August 2017


#Rwanda Supporters attend a campaign rally of incumbent President Paul Kagame in Gakenke ahead of August 4 presidential election. Photo @mlongari: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 August 2017

 
Supporters attend a campaign rally for incumbent Rwandan President Paul Kagame #Rwanda #RwandaDecides Photo @mlongari @AFPphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 August 2017

#Rwanda A woman observes an electoral rally for Rwandan Green Democratic Party and presidential candidate Frank Habineza in Burera Photo @mlongari: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017


#Rwanda Moto taxi drivers hold flags of the governing Rwanda Patriotic Front at the start of a parade in Kigali. #elections Photo @mlongari
: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 2 August 2017


#Rwanda Moto taxi drivers hold flags of the governing Rwanda Patriotic Front at the beginning of a parade in Kigali. @mlongari: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017


Supporters of Rwanda's Pres. Paul Kagame attend a campaign rally on the hills overlooking Kigali, Rwanda Aug. 2, 2017. @jeromedelay #APTOPIX
: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 August 2017



#Nigeria Portraits of Internally-Displaced People's (IDP) at a camp at Gwoza. Photo @HeunisStefan: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 2 August 2017



 #Nigeria Portraits of Internally-Displaced People's (IDP) at a camp at Gwoza. Photo @HeunisStefan: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 2 August 2017


African migrants react after crossing the razor-wire border from Morocco to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 1 August 2017



Usain Bolt describes how he felt crossing the finish line to win the 200M final at the Olympic Games in Beijing.
: image via Adrian Dennis @photogator96, 2 August 2017


MEDITERRANEAN SEA - Eight migrants dead off Libya as Italy outlines naval mission Photo @atzortzinis #AFP
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017



MEDITERRANEAN SEA - Migrants wait to be rescued by the Aquarius rescue ship run by non-governmental organisations (NGO). Photo @atzortzinis #AFP
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017

 

U.S-backed Syrian forces now battling in the streets of Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 1 August 2017



U.S-backed Syrian forces now battling in the streets of Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 1 August 2017

 

U.S-backed Syrian forces now battling in the streets of Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 1 August 2017



El Hoceima #Morocco Women protesters shout slogans during an unauthorised demonstration over inequality and corruption. By @ThereseDiCampo AP: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 1 August 2017


Syrian refugees protest GER decision to limit the number of family reunifications from #Greece at the embassy in #Athens By @YannisKolesidis:: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 1 August 2017

India Kashmir Violence

Unidentified relatives comfort wailing Rukaya Firdous, pregnant wife of a Kashmiri civilian who was killed during a protest near the site of gun battle at her residence in Begumbagh, about 32 kilometers (20miles) south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Large anti-India protests and clashes spearheaded mostly by students erupted in disputed Kashmir on Tuesday after government forces killed two senior militants in a gunbattle and fatally shot a protester during an ensuing demonstration demanding an end to Indian rule.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 1 August 2017

India Kashmir Violence

Unidentified relatives comfort wailing Rukaya Firdous, pregnant wife of a Kashmiri civilian who was killed during a protest near the site of gun battle at her residence in Begumbagh, about 32 kilometers (20miles) south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Large anti-India protests and clashes spearheaded mostly by students erupted in disputed Kashmir on Tuesday after government forces killed two senior militants in a gunbattle and fatally shot a protester during an ensuing demonstration demanding an end to Indian rule.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 1 August 2017


Relatives comfort Rukaya Firdous, pregnant wife of a Kashmiri civilian killed during a protest near the site of gun battle. Photo @daryasin: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 1 August 2017 


#Indian Administered Kashmir The pregnant wife of Kashmiri civilian Firdous Ahmed mourns during his funeral at Begum Bagh Pulwama, south of Srinagar Photo @TauseefMUSTAFA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 1 August 2017


Rainy night at the #LakeMonsters game. We're under the roof though so all good. Go Monsters!: image via Brendan Reichs @BrendanReichs, 14 July 2017

zero pressure

 
 Reince (me) giving @Scaramucci something to think about. He never replied haha: image via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 31 July 2017


ERIC TRUMP'S EMAIL ADDRESS. I'd feel bad if his fans couldn't reach him. etrump@trumporg.com: image via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 27 July 2017

 
What your iPhone screen looks like when Eric Trump replies thinking you're his brother. What a fucking idiot.: image via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 18 July 2017


NEW PRANK on ERIC TRUMP!! I'm playing the part of Donald Trump Jr. GENUINE exchange today #LetsGoHunting: image via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 13 July 2017
 

I wished Jon Huntsman Jr all the best. He seems enthusiastic about his new role.: image via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 27 July 2017

 
 An excerpt of what I emailed to @Scaramucci whilst playing the part of Jon Huntsman Jr. Apparently this didn't seem out of the ordinary?: image via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 31 July 2017
 
There's a million causes more deserving than mine. I just want a life that makes me content. Zero pressure xx: tweet via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 31 July 2017
Replying to @SINON_REBORN
HA, I imagine you're having a bizarre day at work; trying to concentrate on your job while becoming instantly famous. P.S. On CNN right now:
EMAIL PRANKSTER Retweeted Pauli 
EMAIL PRANKSTER added, 
You are absolutely spot on haha. Plus, my meds make me as hot as a furnace. The sweat should make it harder for NSA to grab me im hoping 
image via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 1 August 2017

I was in rehab 3 months ago. Just goes to show. Follow your calling even if it seems utterly mental and unconventional. Life is fun at times: tweet via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 1 August 2017 

Charlotte HigginsVerified account @chiggi
 tweet via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 1 August 2017
 
I targeted @Scaramucci as i've suffered from mental health problems all my life, and he seems to think paranoid schizophrenia is a put down: tweet via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 1 August 2017
 

I think what I said to @Scaramucci when I was playing the part of @Reince was actually quite an accurate summary of his behaviour: image via EMAIL PRANKSTER @SINON_REBORN, 31 July 2017


An F/A-18F Super Hornet jet flies over the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier during launch and landing tests: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 1 August 2017


Also scary how much #NKorea threat pix pushed out by #military PR so much eye candy. via @GettyImages @USATODAY
: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 1 August 2017


null
  One more from the Kelly-Trump intro by @evanvucci. The General as furniture. @AP_Images @USATODAY: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 1 August 2017

Reading The Pictures Retweeted Ivanka Trump
Reading The Pictures added,
Word "alongside" gobsmacks even more w photo. So 2-sided, factional. Then there's having Daddy's back + what happens when looks other way.
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 2 August 2017


#Bulgaria A man moves tobacco leaves from a tobacco drying shed in Kukuryak southeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia Photo @dilkoff #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017

#Czech Republic A girl runs through a fountain in Prague as a heatwave hits the Czech Republic with temperatures rising over 35 C° Photo @MichalCizek: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 August 2017

 
#Caracas #Venezuela Supermarkets are almost empty as the Venezuelan economic crisis continues. By @umarcelino @reuterspictures: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 2 August 2017   


#Venezuela Opposition demonstrators clash with riot police during an anti-government protest in #Caracas. By @jbarreto74 @AFPphoto
: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 2 August 2017

China Military

Chinese President Xi Jinping, front row center, and delegates stand during the singing of the Chinese national anthem at a ceremony to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Xi issued a tough line on national sovereignty amid multiple disputes with his country's neighbors, saying China will never permit any loss of territory.: photo by Andy Wong, Pool via AP, 1 August 2017

China Military

Chinese President Xi Jinping, front row center, and delegates stand during the singing of the Chinese national anthem at a ceremony to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Xi issued a tough line on national sovereignty amid multiple disputes with his country's neighbors, saying China will never permit any loss of territory.: photo by Andy Wong, Pool via AP, 1 August 2017

RECREATION WRECKS THE NATION -- Edward Dorn, bumpersticker, 1979

Four Corners Monument | by GC_Dean

Four Corners Monument. New Mexico.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 27 June 2017

Four Corners Monument | by GC_Dean

Four Corners Monument. New Mexico.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 27 June 2017

Four Corners Monument | by GC_Dean

Four Corners Monument. New Mexico.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 27 June 2017

Navaho Bridge | by GC_Dean

Navaho Bridge. 467 feet [142 m.] above the Colorado River. [Grand Canyon, Arizona]: photo by Dean Terasaki, 12 July 2017
 
Navaho Bridge | by GC_Dean

Navaho Bridge. 467 feet [142 m.] above the Colorado River. [Grand Canyon, Arizona]: photo by Dean Terasaki, 12 July 2017

Navaho Bridge | by GC_Dean

Navaho Bridge. 467 feet [142 m.] above the Colorado River. [Grand Canyon, Arizona]: photo by Dean Terasaki, 12 July 2017
 
Untitled | by el zopilote

Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

Untitled | by el zopilote

Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

Untitled | by el zopilote

Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

Untitled | by el zopilote

Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

Untitled | by el zopilote

Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

Untitled | by el zopilote

Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

Untitled | by el zopilote

Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

Untitled | by el zopilote

Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

Untitled | by el zopilote

Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

IlfordSFX200_RZ67_19 | by Jesse Yardley

IlfordSFX200_RZ67_19 [Irricana, Alberta]: photo by Jesse Yardley, 1 August 2017

IlfordSFX200_RZ67_19 | by Jesse Yardley

IlfordSFX200_RZ67_19 [Irricana, Alberta]: photo by Jesse Yardley, 1 August 2017

IlfordSFX200_RZ67_19 | by Jesse Yardley

IlfordSFX200_RZ67_19 [Irricana, Alberta]: photo by Jesse Yardley, 1 August 2017

New Regent Cafe | by efo

New Regent Cafe. SF Chinatown.: photo by efo, 25 July 2017

Boat house | by ADMurr

Boat house. I half expected a hobbit to pop out the door. [Northumberland]: photo by Andrew Murr, 30 July 2017

Memphis limit | by ADMurr

Memphis limit [McLemore, south Memphis]: photo by Andrew Murr, 1 August 2017

Suicide door security | by ADMurr

Suicide door security. The owner said the car had been in the family for a long time. Looks as if she's working hard to keep it in the family. I believe she said it was a 1946 Ford.: photo by Andrew Murr, 12 November 2016 

Power of the Spirit church | by ADMurr

Power of the Spirit Church [Clarskdale, Mississippi]: photo by Andrew Murr, 31 July 2017

"We've never discussed politics"

;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/

;] Mongolia 2012, Elitechrome ed200: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 9 May 2017
"We've never discussed politics"

A realist knows when s/he is fighting for her/his own interests
and when s/he is making concessions to the interests
of others. A dialectician is aware that the historical situation,
at any given moment, is a complex of irreducible motives
and tasks. A romantic judges her/his own time
unhistorically, undialectically, without grasping that it stands
midway between the past and the future and represents
a kind of knot, an indissoluble conflict of static
and dynamic elements. A romantic sees only one side
of a total situation fraught with tension and conflict
and considers only one factor in the dialectic of history
and stresses this at the expense of the other
and this one-sidedness, an overcompensating reaction,
reveals a pathology. "We've never discussed politics."


;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/
 
;] Gobi Desert, Mongolia 2005, sensia 200. "You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you." Isadora Duncan.
: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 9 May 2017



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