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Re-admitting Eternity (Joseph Ceravolo: No Complaints)
.Iranian carpet salesmen watching an announcement of the nuclear pact Iran reached with six nations and the European Union, an agreement negotiated by the United States. The deal will end international...
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Pressure Drop: Democracy in Chains: The Reluctant Capitulation of the...
.Protester outside Greek parliament says it with a symbol: image via Paul Mason @PaulMasonNews, 15 July 2015John Giorno: An Unemployed MachinistAn unemployedmachinistAn unemployed machinistwho...
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The Desertification of Eden
. What remains of New Melones Lake. Tuttletown, California: photo by Ben Amstutz, 3 June 2015Who is the third who walks always beside you?When I count, there are only you and I togetherBut when I look...
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Really Not a Planet
.Pluto, Jupiter and Neptune: Caravaggio, 1597-1600, ceiling painting in oil, 300 x 152 cm (Casino dell'Aurora, Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome)Fuck Pluto. Somebody's got to ownSomethingSometime. The...
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Insecurity: Burundi
.Election observers sit in an empty polling station for the presidential elections in Bujumbura, Burundi, on Tuesday: photo by Jerome Delay/AP 21 June 2015A policeman casts his vote while a soldier...
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Turbulence and Serenity: van Gogh at Auxers, June-July 1890: Last Strokes
.I...Tree RootsTree Roots: Vincent van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise, July 1890, oil on canvas, 50.3 x 100.1 cm (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)Van Gogh had already made several drawings of tree roots in The Hague...
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation
.A homeless man sleeps beside a wall covered with movie posters in Los Angeles [photo: Frederic J. Brown]: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 21 July 2015The sun sets behind the minaret of a...
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Negativland: No Other Possibility ("...dying is easy, comedy is hard")
.RIP radio master Don Joyce #negativland #KPFA @kpfa: image via Derk Richardson @Derk Richardson, 23 July 2015DON: Well, dying is easy, comedy is hard. That 19th Century actor's death bed confession...
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"Everything is sighing" (Joseph Ceravolo: Come Clean)
.Young men clean second-hand shoes to sell them in a market in Bujumbura on Friday. Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is set to win a controversial third term in office: photo by Phil Moore/AFP, 24...
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Josephine Miles: Saving the Bay
. [Looking westward from Berkeley hills, early evening]: photo by Film&PhotoArchivist, 19 May 2015Apart from branches in courtyards and small stones,The countryside is beyond me.I can go along...
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Underground
.A homeless person sleeps back dropped by wallpaper of New York city on the windows of a casino near the main railway station during a police raid in Bucharest, Romania. Police in Romania have searched...
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Cecil the Lion, Meet Man the Killer
.Only a monster could kill such a majestic beautiful animal we share this world with. RIP #CecilTheLion: image via mike @WhiskeySoured, 28 July 2015The hunter who killed Cecil the Lion doesn't deserve...
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Red Shuttleworth: Three Poems from the Bone-Dry West
. Photo by Red Shuttleworth, 8 July 2015Before the Hand ofSpilled beer and Jesus-platitudes,road-twisted cheap-brass rodeo trophy buckle...And the pickup rattles... fencing tools and crushed beer...
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Tom Raworth: Shadows
.Untitled (Black on Gray): Mark Rothko (1903-1970), 1970: photo by ekenitr, 1 March 2015 once upon a time is no more in the dark each page seems written upon light dawns a high ceiling is not wasted...
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Fire Season
. #RockyFire east of Clear Lake is now 27,000 acres & 5% contained. Hwy 16 now closed between Hwy 20 & Yolo County Line: image via CAL FIRE PIO Berlant @CALFIRE_PIO, 1 August 2015Night Sky:...
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Ask the Goats
.Two stranded dogs on the roof of a flooded building in Kale township, Myanmar: photo by Lynn Bo Bo/EPA, 3 August 2015Locals use makeshift raft and rubber inner tube as a means of getting through...
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Smoke Alarm
.People aren't the only ones concerned about the #RockyFire Spotted this heard of elk several miles from the fire line: image via Brian Hickey @kcraBrianHickey, 4 February 2015I...SmokeThe #RockyFire,...
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Nâzım Hikmet Ran: I Come and Stand At Every Door
.Article of clothing worn by a victim of the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, seen in the archive of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum: photo by Ishiuchi Miyako From “Here and Now: Atomic...
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Nâzim Hikmet Ran: Two Poems
.A Turkish police officer questions a Kurdish boy about an attack on fellow officers that left one dead and another wounded. The attack occurred in Diyarbakir, Turkey, a predominantly Kurdish town, and...
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Bertolt Brecht: On Thinking about Hell in Los Angeles, 1941 ("...just when I...
. Socony-Vacuum Oil Company advertisement for Mobilgas: Life, 13 October 1941 (via Gallery of Graphic Design)Bertolt Brecht: On Thinking about Hell On thinking about hell, I gather My brother Shelley...
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