Jill Freedman

Jill Freedman is a great photographer who has done some excellent work covering the gritty side of New York City. She may not be as well known as other documentary photographers but her work is every bit as good. She was out of the limelight for a number of years however it seems that her work is getting rediscovered. Lets hope so, she deserves it.

Labor Day Roadtrip

Decided to take a quick little Labor Day roadtrip here, http://www.gastateparks.org/info/providence/. Should be pretty darn cool. I know they got tons of rain from Tropical Storm Fay so hopefully that does not mess things up to much.

Going to take Route 27 from Tallahassee up so there should be tons of photo ops. Lets hope so.

Untitled

This picture is from William Eggleston. It is untitled. Eggleston for me is great at capturing the everyday moments that most people pass over, they never see it or process it. Simple yet captivating shots of life.

His color work is fantastic. Many great pieces of work to choose from.

Candy Cigarette

For my next few posts I am going to show some pictures of some of my favorite photographers.

The first one here is from Sally Mann. I think this is a classic photograph. Sally Mann has caught a lot of grief over the years for some of her material but she is a great photographer and art should make people think.

This photograph is simply classic and a great piece of work.

What a Dork

Well I screwed some camera settings on vacation and the picture file size are very small. I take pictures at the largest file size so I can get some large prints. I can still do this however it is not easy. Oh well, maybe I'll watch what I am doing next time.

Dear CNN

Dear CNN,

You are screwing up your convention coverage.

We the grownup citizens of the United States want you to take all your stupid crap off the tv screen. Do we really need the sound level indicator on the screen. Nobody fucking cares about that. If there are really people who need to see that I do not want them voting in the election. It is just plain stupid. Then you have the Gavel to Gavel schedule on the other side of the screen and you continue to show this over and over. We do not need to see this over and over and over and over and over and over. Get the point. It is just plain annoying. Then you have the largest amount of space taken up on the bottom of the screen that the world has ever seen. Again most of this is just utter crap. Make it smaller and if you feel you need to have the Gavel to Gavel coverage then scroll that across the bottom of the screen. Please. You really make watching the unbearable.

I will be watching on PBS. No crap on the screen, just like we want it to be.

Thank you, now please fix this. Immediately.

Joe Biden

Well I said it a few weeks ago in a post that I thought Obama needed to pick Biden. I am glad to see Obama has been reading my blog and accepted my advice. Biden has a great view of the world and where America needs to be and he will be able to help Obama guide the U.S. back to a place where we are respected around the world again. He also is not afraid to speak his mind even though sometimes he gets hammered for his thoughts. The other great thing is he will know where to strike at the heart of the Republican team. I am sure that McCain is somewhat afraid of Biden being the attack dog for Obama. He knows McCain very well and will be able to punch many holes in McCains platform.

Now Obama needs to pick Bill Richardson as Secretary of State and Jim Webb as his Secretary of Defense, Robert Reich as Secertatary of Labor and if he wants it Al Gore as Energy Secretary.

Vacation is over

Man, do I hate coming back from vacation. I always want to be someplace other than home. My house is fine, however I need to be someplace else.

Vacation was great. Was in Connecticut for 9 days. The weather was perfect. Low eighties, no humidity and the temp at night was around sixty. Just perfect. Went swimming in Rhode Island a couple times. The Ocean was around 67 degrees. A tad cooler than the Gulf of Mexico where this time of the year the water is 90 degrees. Like swimming in a bathtub.

All in all a great vacation. Spent time with the family and friends. Went to some car shows, looked into putting some photos in an art gallery.

All in all very good.

We better keep our eyes open

One other thing we need to watch out for during the Georgia/Russian conflict is something that Putin said recently was he thought that Russia should renew their Cuban/Soviet alliances. Now that would be trouble. All we need is Cuba, Russia, and I bet good old Hugo would join the party to be plotting things right in our backyard.

We could diffuse that whole problem by normalizing relations with Cuba. It is time to get over Fidel and our Bay of Pigs fiasco. There is nothing more the Cuban people want than to have normalized relations with the U.S. The Cuban embargo has to be one of the dumbest policies we have. How can we justify this policy when we do all the business we do with China? Oh yea, I forgot it is about money. We stand to gain nothing from Cuba like we gain from China. We have nothing to fear from Cuba as long as we keep Russia from going back to Havana.

I find it interesting all this happening during the presidential election and when our troops are stretched as thin as possible. The Russians are seeing us as being weak and attempting to put the screws to us.

We are in some deep trouble. We better be picking our friends very carefully.

Gutter Journalism

How come a major publisher like Simon and Schuster publishes a book of shit about a presidential candidate? Is their agenda just about money? I am talking about Jerome Corsi's book about Obama. The Obama campaign better push back hard and make this guy squirm.
Are people ready so stupid they will actually believe this type of crap. As a matter of fact if I was part of the Obama campaign I would literally drive this guy's reputation into the ground. We do not need assholes like this fucking up our presidential campaign. The candidates can do that by themselves just fine.

I hate scumbag journalists. This guy qualifies.