#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by mark walch, 4 November 2017
#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by mark walch, 4 November 2017
#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by mark walch, 4 November 2017
What a time to be alive: image via RF Parsley @sanverde, 10 November 2017
Flip-flops belonging to Rohingya refugees are pictured outside a mosque as they attend Friday prayers at Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: photo by Navesh Chitraka/Reuters, 11 November 2017
Wairoa, Bay of Plenty, NZ: photo by bobsan88, 11November 2017
X [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 10 November 2017
Who by Fire: photo by Mario Phox, 23 July 2017 President Trump says Russia President Putin once again denied meddling in the 2016 election and still won’t say definitively whether he believes Putin.Photo Jorge Silva/Pool: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 10 November 2017
#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by Eric Chi, 4 November 2017
This looks fun. In we go!: image via RF Parsley @sanverde, 10 November 2017
Bricks in the backyard. (and yes... I am OK with the solar flares on this one) [Troy Hill, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 16 May 2017
Bricks in the backyard. (and yes... I am OK with the solar flares on this one) [Troy Hill, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 16 May 2017
Bricks in the backyard. (and yes... I am OK with the solar flares on this one) [Troy Hill, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 16 May 2017
Clarksdale lot, MLKJr. St.[Clarksdale, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 November 2017
Napier, NZ.: photo by bobsan88, 20 October 2017
Light from a flashlight falls on the face of a Rohingya Muslim girl sitting on a raft made with plastic containers on which a group crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, Nov. 10, 2017. #APPhoto A.M. Ahad: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 10 November 2017
RIP 200 [Eastside, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 6 November 2017
Untitled: photo by my name is gorilla, 8 November 2017
Untitled: photo by my name is gorilla, 8 November 2017
Untitled: photo by my name is gorilla, 8 November 2017
In this Nov. 9, 2016 photo, Hillary Clinton pauses while delivering a speech conceding her defeat to Republican Donald Trump after the hard-fought presidential election. The AP reported on Nov. 10, 2017, that an article claiming Clinton didn’t give a concession speech was false.: photo by Andrew Harnik/AP, 9 November 2016
#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by Jota C., 6 November 2017
In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017 photo, a human skull wearing sun glasses and flowers is displayed during the Natitas Festival outside the General Cemetery chapel in La Paz, Bolivia. Every year, hundreds of Bolivians carry human skulls adorned with flowers to a cemetery in La Paz, asking for money, health, and other favors as part of a festival.: photo by Juan Karita/AP, 8 November 2017
Directions to cinema at the end of the world: image via The Scribe Hunefer, 2560
A sweeper works in Agua Branca Park in Sao Paulo, Brazil Photo @NachoDoce12: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 10 November 2017
Chanting and flailing in mourning for Imam Hussein, Shi'ite Muslims gather in Iraq for one of their most sacred rituals: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 10 November 2017
Evening [Clarksdale, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr, 11 November 2017
Wairoa, NZ.: photo by bobsan88, 22 October 2017
Looking West Off of West Colfax Avenue. Denver, Colorado. (Title changed 11 November 2017, at 12:50 pm MST.): photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 June 2017
Looking West Off of West Colfax Avenue. Denver, Colorado. (Title changed 11 November 2017, at 12:50 pm MST.): photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 June 2017
Looking West Off of West Colfax Avenue. Denver, Colorado. (Title changed 11 November 2017, at 12:50 pm MST.): photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 June 2017
Untitled [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 5 November 2017
#18 - till death do us part "Show me the LOVE": photo by Paulo Guerra, 1 November 2017
#18 - till death do us part "Show me the LOVE": photo by Paulo Guerra, 1 November 2017
#18 - till death do us part "Show me the LOVE": photo by Paulo Guerra, 1 November 2017
Frankie's [Yazoo City, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr, 7 November 2017
Not sure this got around. #SutherlandSprings shooter's parents home, where he lived. Quite a departure from 1 stoplight town. @Reuters: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 9 November 2017
Door (cotton gin shed, Clarksdale, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr, 10 November 2017
South 20th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 13 January 2015
South 20th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 13 January 2015
South 20th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 13 January 2015
La valeur hédonique: photo by Max Li, 22 October 2017
Piercing shop sunset [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 November 2017
The view. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 9 November 2017
The view. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 9 November 2017
The view. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 9 November 2017
On Deck #4: photo by David Stones, 30 June 2017
a short history of ephemerae a deep dive offroad speculum expedition into the sinai yielded such a load of cul de sac
the other side of the scale was weighed down by feathers weighing less than a pound of flesh
a line was drawn in the sand of the desert by the hopeful architect
everything on this side of the line is now in the mailbox viz items in no. two thousand lbs.
Strange curved things fly through the air of the sinai are they missiles or giant scythes
suitable for collecting in attractive fasces bound by a gold thread of the garment of the first born There's an almost fabled hunger here in the desert not quite same as real hunger We live at the moment here in the desert in a history of cul de sacs - that's what she seems to be saying to the architect
That and the world seems to be an excuse for tomorrow ha fooled you Don't know what I'm saying
there are some within others - and that there's (apparently?) no way out of a single one of them
But to think our way out of them - that might work / that might be something (that would work) But does it matterThere's always going to be more error than the world has a use for
Giant scythes are flying through the air of the desert with a whirring sound
Scythes within scythes within scythes triggering an almost fabled hunger for collectibles
You can take them with you That or think your way out of them - that might work
time is nothing here - on going project: photo by Giacomo Alberico, 16 September 2017
Yonge Street, Toronto, 1981: photo by Avard Woolaver, sometime in 1981
Pequeño homenaje a Edward Hopper: photo by trapa!, 17 June 2011
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Ricky Aguilera, 2 August 2017
there will be blood. blackwell's corner, ca. 2014. highway 33, aka "the petroleum highway" cuts south thru the west kern county oilfields made famous in the film "there will be blood".: photo by eyetwist, 13 June 2014
Eyes of Club Memphis [Memphis, TN]: photo by Andrew Murr, 12 November 2017
the weighing of the heart of the scribe
The weighing of the heart of Hunefer by Anubis, before the Devourer Ammit: from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 19th Dynasty, c. 1285 B.C. (British Museum)
A papyrus from the Book of the Dead in the Egyptian Archive of the British Museum tells the story of the scribe Hunefer in the waiting room of the afterlife: of how his fate hangs in the balance as his heart is weighed against a feather upon the scales of Maat, the scales of eternal justice, by the jackal-headed god Anubis.
Hunefer's heart resides, during this transitional period of judgment, inside the small pot on the scale tray to the left; on the scale tray to the right, we see the feather of Maat, or Rectitude. The emotional, intellectual and moral history of Hunefer has been distilled into the contents of the pot. There is no longer any chance of bargaining, negotiating or doing a deal. The finite game of mortal life, with all its little white lies perpetrated in the desperate attempt to keep the game going, is now over for the scribe; the game of infinity, with its very different set of rules, has begun.
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The weighing of the heart of Hunefer by Anubis, before the Devourer Ammit (detail: the scales): from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 19th Dynasty, c. 1285 B.C : image by Lenka P, 2007 (British Museum)
Anubis leads Hunefer by the hand into the zone of judgment, and oversees the weighing; the drama is all in the moment for Hunefer, as Ammit the Devourer, also known as the Bone-Eater, not a goddess but more like a terminal custodian of justice, her features a composite of those creatures most feared, the dog, the crocodile, the hippopotamus, crouches beneath the scales, ready to scarf up the heart of Hunefer should the faintest trace of wickedness, a blemish greater than a feather's weight, be found.
As this supreme test takes place, ibis-headed Thoth, clerk of the gods, waits to record the result in the eternal annals.
In the next panel the scribe, should he pass the test, is to be presented by the hawk-god god Horus to the shrine of his father Osiris, the green-skinned god of the dead, and of the latter's divine sisters Isis and Nephthys.
The weighing of the heart of Hunefer by Anubis, before the Devourer Ammit (detail: the shrine): from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 19th Dynasty, c. 1285 B.C.: image by Lenka P, 2007 (British Museum)
Above the scene, in precise order of rank, sit in judgment the fourteen presiding gods of Egypt; each of the first seven of whom holds an ankh, the loop-headed cross, trilateral hieroglyphic character of eternal life. The moment is pregnant with meaning. If Hunefer fails the test, his remains will be swallowed up by the chimerical Ammit and he will be denied entry to the afterlife. He will be consigned to nonexistence for eternity.
Goddess Isis: from the tomb of Seti I, Valley of the Kings at Thebes, 17th Dynasty, c. 1380-1335 B.C. (Karnak Museum via the Yorck Project)
Who By Fire
And who by fire, who by water, Who in the sunshine, who in the night time, Who by high ordeal, who by common trial, Who in your merry merry month of may, Who by very slow decay, And who shall I say is calling?
And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate, Who in these realms of love, who by something blunt, And who by avalanche, who by powder, Who for his greed, who for his hunger, And who shall I say is calling?
And who by brave assent, who by accident, Who in solitude, who in this mirror, Who by his lady's command, who by his own hand, Who in mortal chains, who in power, And who shall I say is calling?
Leonard Cohen / Patrick Leonard, 1974 "...several songs [i.e., from the 1975 album 'New Skin for the Old Ceremony']... were influenced by his recent stay in a turbulent Israel...the melody for 'Who By Fire'...is based on the Hebrew melody for the prayer 'Unetanneh Tokef' sung at the Mussaf (or noontime service) of the High Holy Days." "...last summer I went to Ethiopia looking for a suntan. It rained, including in the Sinai desert, but through this whole period I had my little guitar with me, and it was then I felt the songs [i.e., of 'New Skin for the Old Ceremony'] emerging..." (LC)
Abandoned outdoor cinema in the Sinai Desert, Egypt: photo by Kauko Kikkas, 2014
Abandoned outdoor cinema in the Sinai Desert, Egypt:photo by Kauko Kikkas, 2014
Abandoned outdoor cinema in the Sinai Desert, Egypt: photo by Kauko Kikkas, 2014
Abandoned outdoor cinema in the Sinai Desert, Egypt: photo by Kauko Kikkkas, 2014
Remains of abandoned cinema in the Sinai desert: photo by Noha Zayed, 2014
Remains of abandoned cinema in the Sinai desert: photo by Noha Zayed, 2014 Remains of abandoned cinema in the Sinai desert: photo by Noha Zayed, 2014
A flyer for the abandoned cinema in the Egyptian desert: image via Konbini, 2014
#Israel View of a part of the Israeli border with Egypt seen from the Israeli side in the southern Negev desert, north of Eila. Photo @menahemkahana: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 13 June 2017
Boat in the Dead Sea. The picture arose when I lived in Israel for a few months in 2016. [Ein Gedi, Jordan]: photo by Franky, 9 September 2016
Boat in the Dead Sea. The picture arose when I lived in Israel for a few months in 2016. [Ein Gedi, Jordan]: photo by Franky, 9 September 2016
Boat in the Dead Sea. The picture arose when I lived in Israel for a few months in 2016. [Ein Gedi, Jordan]: photo by Franky, 9 September 2016
#18 show me the love: photo by Rihonda Lwanshak, 6 November 2017
Untitled [Tel Aviv]: photo by Ilan Burla, 20 July 2017
Untitled: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 8 November 2017
Untitled: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 8 November 2017
Untitled: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 8 November 2017
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