We Have Cameras

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2006-05-17T23:49:00.000-04:00

Picture taken at an eatery called Mayslack's; from a blog by a guy named arthur called erratic automatic.

Questionable offers this about Mayslack's and their "meat raffle," a phenomenon nascent to Minnesota:
Mayslack's is a great corner bar with yummy (but really unhealthy) bar food and interesting bands. And, they also have meat raffles (or at least they used to), at least during slower bar times. A Tuesday night might bring in the NE locals to eat, imbibe, and try their luck at the meat raffle. Seriously, why shouldn't there be a meat raffle every night? Who doesn't want to share a booth with pork chops or a crown roast?

2006-05-13T17:39:00.000-04:00

auckland-life-pl

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The Brick Testament

2006-05-07T14:31:00.000-04:00

Being that the accompanying text is in portuguese I had to examine the photos on this weblog very closely in order to find out that this kid is at a wax museum. Needless to say I was rather perplexed at first.

Zezinhu

2006-05-06T23:39:00.000-04:00

Bar-bands and bar-folk are as ubiquitous as the establishments they frequent. I found this picture on a blog for a band called The Bobbleheads; they're from somewhere in Southern Ontario, Canada. Its uncertain as to whether this guy first fell off his chair or simply got down on the floor for the sake of showing everyone how comfortable he is in his masculinity. He's the party-animal and he's proved it for generations to come.

The Bobbleheads

2006-05-06T15:17:00.000-04:00

This pushing at random through the blogworld is a journey unto itself. We find things and experience another's ways of relating, and then imagine the connections between the personal weblog and the person, their ways of relating, and why they place value upon certain things and not others. When I found the blog from which the photograph below was lifted, I couldn't help but identify with the project. Backy Vandermast excavates---or simply digs up---the rubbish from an abandoned and illegal dumping grounds. Many of his finds are generations old; rusty, weathered remnants from bygone eras; monuments of consumption and waste; reminders of our consumerist natureculture. From a blogbiting context, I appreciate Backy's blog as an expression of the anxiety that results from succumbing to the worship of things and technologies. His archaeological work speaks to our share in the decay of these objects, to the reflection of our living in their decay and, conversely, to their remarkable posterity in spite of our dissolution. And finally, Backy seems to remind us to appreciate the spiritual and ecological proportions of our consumption, imploring us to heed the fact that salvation really rests in things and in the earth. To this extent, it is as if the message on the old brown bottle were for those still waiting upon the salvation supposedly guaranteed by the worship of a deity: "No Deposit, No Return." Equally theological is Backy's comment that "We can only guess at what was once in the bottle." Wallace Stevens put it otherwise.

Puddleboy Rules!!!

2006-05-05T13:04:00.000-04:00

chiarablog

2006-05-03T16:12:00.000-04:00

Romana City

2006-05-02T01:58:00.000-04:00

Bienvenue dans les Carpates

2006-05-01T23:56:00.000-04:00

Sometimes my friends ask why it is taking me so long to renovate my house. Well, one reason is that during the demo process you encounter things like this.

cosmic shambles

2006-05-01T19:25:00.000-04:00

Brother Van's 8 Weeks in India

2006-04-27T19:47:00.000-04:00

reciprocity failure

2006-04-27T16:07:00.000-04:00

I'm quite fond of taking pics. It seems such an easy thing to do. All you need is a good camera and tolerable sight in at least one eye. And, nowadays, a computer with Photoshop for manipulation of the images can turn any man or woman with a camera into an ace photographer. Modern day technology flatters artistic mediocrity.

Highland Dreams

2006-04-27T10:13:00.000-04:00

Boogie On!

2006-04-27T01:46:00.000-04:00

Life in Alaska

2006-04-25T16:35:00.000-04:00

Here is the view of the beach from where we sat everyday. To the right, the soccer field and to the left, a beach volleyball court.

The Life and Times...

2006-04-25T16:29:00.000-04:00

This is us.

2006-04-25T02:11:00.000-04:00

It is under deliberation as to whether or not the photos here will be credited to their sources or just posted as such, without referent---kind of like the way they are found, as viewed by total unassuming strangers.