The MAN burns in 29 Days!

Desert Geckos (Alamander, LIZ, Shooter, Bo & Busta) gather to prepare Reptile Dysfunction.

Photo Documentation at: http://www.pbase.com/imagyst/burning

Military computers off-limits to Tweeting GIs

Some Arizona military families are losing a fast, convenient connection to loved ones serving overseas now that the Marine Corps is banning soldiers from using its computer network to go to social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
The Marines issued a memo this week saying the sites pose security risks. At the same time, the Department of Defense has launched an analysis of the issue and expects to come up with a comprehensive policy by the end of September.

Source: The Arizona Republic, by Glen Creno, Aug. 7, 2009http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/08/07/20090807facebookban0807.html

Facebook & Twitter ATTACKED!

What happened Thursday, in 140 characters: Twitter went down. Facebook went down. People panicked, unused to not oversharing minutiae of life. Twitter back up. Facebook back up. Phew.

Source: Washington Post, by Monica Hesse - Aug. 7, 2009

More: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/08/07/20090807Twitter0807.html

Adobe kills lower-end Photoshop

ADOBE URGES USERS ONLINE -- Adobe Systems is discontinuing Photoshop Album Starter Edition, the lowest rung of its image-editing software products, as it pushes users toward the online Photoshop.com site.
Source: PDN Pulse, by Stephen Shankland, August 6, 2009
Full story at: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-10304713-39.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Underexposed

Hiroshima Souls

On this day (Aug. 6, 1945), the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
You may view my visual interpretation commemorating that event at:
www.pbase.com/imagyst

THE MAN BURNS in 30 DAYS

Burning Man --- Not a Spectator Sport

For thoise who want a sense of the creativity and especially the SIZE, CONCEPTUAL VISION and TEAMWORK involved witht creative synergy that is an essentail element of the Burning Man Experience. Check out the TOP Projects funded for 2009.

Top 2009 Projects on the Playa: http://http//www.burningman.com/installations/09_art_honor.html#raygun

Every Wall drawing #146

A virtual Net Art machine that produces randomized versions of LeWitt's Wall Drawing #146. An exercise in pure decisionless conceptual art adhering strictly to LeWitt's concept, as described in Paragraphs on Conceptual Art.

Source: Rhizome at the New Museun, by Ben Bruneau

http://http://rhizome.org/object.php?48636

Pax 557

Buddy Nap 542

Out of Mind

Inside the psychiatric hospitals the world forgot. Working closely with Mental Disability Rights International, noted photojournalist Eugene Richards spent years documenting conditions in pyschiatric hospitals around the world. This photo essay is an excerpt of his book, A Procession of Them (University of Texas Press, 2008)
Source: Mother Jones, Photo Essay by Eugene Richards, March/April 2009

Full Story & Photo Essay: http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2009/03/out-mind

We are always looking for reasons for not taking good pictures.
-- Cartier-Bresson --