I've been steeping in the reflective a lot recently.
2006 photo by ring.

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I like my job, and have for years. But it's also kinda cool when any day you can get visited by people who are genuinely interested in the work you're doing. Guys like, oh, I dunno... Rancid?

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The travel bug is nibbling again.
This is Portland,Oregon, Amtrak station.1999

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One of my best memories of being in the Navy was seeing Cheap Trick do a show in American Soma. I remember my Senior Chief asking me if I had duty. "No, Why?" "Some pop band's playing down at the NCO club tonight, thought you might be interested." Umm, that would be a yes.

They played about 90 mins. in a room with no more then 200 people in it, on a stage about the size of my living room. Then they signed 8X10 photo's for literally everyone who wanted one.

I walked past this vehicle during one of my lunchtime constitutionals.
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this afternoon i rode my bike across this stretch of argilla road in ipswich

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That's beautiful, Roachboy.

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Florence South Carolina.

my fingers... they hurting.

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that's because you forgot the theory of strings:

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There is nearly always one of these visible from the MATC parking lot in Madison, WI. I see it/them often.

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Operation Oil Freedom

That looks like a WWII propaganda poster.

mine.

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Tonight I learn about classical conditioning:

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From the city that never sleeps

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Gorgeous photo.

Apparently, trying to click on an entertainment news story can rip a hole in the fabric of space and time.

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You're always taking everyday objects and making them look fantastic. I take fantastic objects and make then look everyday.

Someday I'm going to start picking your brain on how to get better shots... someday.

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Are we there yet?

Funny, but for personal reasons I'd like to not hear this expression for the next several decades.

MM & Tully, thank you. Pick away.

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Taxi Taxi

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Taxi Taxi - the most boring live band in all of NYC.

*Bump*

Peru Ana Ana Peru.

These guys are awesome. Their artistic exploits seem to stem from a strange desire to prove that everything - street art and modern cinema especially - sucks entirely and is long overdue for a change. As self-appointed saviors, they've stepped up to the plate with such reckless ferocity that you can't help but to wonder as to whether they enjoy being arrested or are in desperate need of being saved from themselves.

Whatever the case, these guys seem deathly intent on mindfucking whomever stumbles across their work.

My heroes.





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How to find my passion by ataralas
 

"I will always be a storyteller."

How I did it: Ever since I was small, I loved to tell stories. When I learned to talk, I would do puppet shows. No one was ever really sure what they were about, actually, but I would entertain myself for hours. In kindergarten I would write and draw stories. Of course, my handwriting was so bad no one could tell what I was saying. In third grade I created vivid imaginary worlds with my sister, where Aslan and Laura Ingalls Wilder and Darth Vader existed side by side.

When I was in fifth grade, I remember deciding to become a writer. Even back then I remember the sense of-- portent?-- about it. I knew that this was going to be a decision that would affect the rest of my life. And I haven't changed my mind since then.

--from: ataralas

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Flickr user: MegElizabeth

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The Funky Shape Rodeo by MikeJonesPhoto

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Joel Peter Witkin

more places need to follow this example


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Entropy



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painting by - ring 2008

Wow!

Nice work, ring.

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credit: me.

Is that where that pic is located? I knew I had seen it somewhere intangibly, and I just realized it's from my Flickr favorites.

Mildy NSFW:
curves - woman & machinery by Sophie Xia

Say this guy as I was wandering through downtown yesterday.
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This guy has been getting up all over Brooklyn these days.

found this on the web..

think it would be an odd pipe to ride..

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It's garage sale season. It takes some cunning to stand out.

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trash dumpster outside my apartment - 5.25.09

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...and dickchicken makes me feel a little agitated...

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by Beavis Bob

If by agitated you mean terribly aroused then I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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I hate flickr these days. Source.

wow. excellent.

the weirdest thing happened as I was using flickr search this afternoon at 2:00; one minute it was the familiar search layout I've been accustomed to for the past two years, then 90 seconds later, they rolled out some new layout design that seems to want hide the buttons I've grown accustomed to for no apparent reason. What was once a streamlined photo roll, a minute later now sets up as a landscape of little thumbnails.

It really shook my senses of habit. Ah, whatever. Here's a pic from my photobucket.

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and it would seem flickr is keeping the layout for the foreseeable future... (sigh)

to divert, yet tie into to the photo above, a pic from my "picfor.me"...

"Lounging Snow Bonnie"
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This is just a duo shot of some mysterious "Violet" in what I am guessing is a restaurant shop (bakery, maybe?). I ripped it from flickr I think about 2-3 years ago, but I can't find the original uploader's stream for the life of me.

I tried "tineye" as well, but of course there were no results to display. It'd help ease my mind to give this tease shot some accreditation, but for now, it remains a romance of the unknown.

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broken photo-links to the post above; I thought it would automerge
 

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C.S.Lewis gently tried to warn me about the wormholes wormhole.

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NYTIMES Showcase: His Camera, His self

It's a shame I can't embed the slideshow but I highly recommend reading the article.

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Source

Revealed: The Antarctic iceberg that looks like a giant humbug | Mail Online

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