Do you want to live in the police state that the reelection of Trump will enable? Have you registered to vote? Have you requested your absentee ballot? Have you planned how you will cast your ballot in this election — by mail or in-person? If the latter, where? Will you vote early if possible in your state? Are you urging everyone in your circle to vote? The survival of this flawed democracy hangs in the balance between now and November 3. Get woke. Stay woke. […]
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This 1978 lecture, taken in combination with my Y2K prognostications regarding press photography and photojournalism, recently posted here, you have some means of gauging my capacity for futurecasting. […] By the end of the twentieth century, you and your classmates were reading about the disposition of this or that photographer’s life’s work. Some did it well, some did it badly, and some didn’t do it at all — so the stuff got tossed out, or damaged, or dispersed, or simply vanished into thin air. […] As a young 21st-century maker of informationally oriented imagery, you’re familiar with and knowledgeable about both print media and digital media. You can use analog cameras, perhaps even prefer them for some tasks, but increasingly your clients and your vehicles prefer digital systems. Therefore, much of your activity is digital from start to finish. […] |
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Spring Ahead: Bits & Pieces 2022 (1)
If, as seems quite possible now, the hubristic ineptitude of a mediocre ex-KGB officer brings post-Soviet Russia to its knees and reveals it as a second-class power, you could serve up slices of that irony (without air quotes) at summer cookouts across the free world and have people queuing for seconds right up through Labor Day weekend. […]