Streets and Storefronts

Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky March 24, 2012. Click on pictures for larger view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angles and Shadows

The Veteran’s Peace Memorial, River Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Click on picture for larger view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi-Fi

My Kenwood KR-4600 amp and the Pioneer PL-516 turntable. This is exquisite sound. Click on photos for larger view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is how to do it if you want to listen to music. There has never been a iPod built that can produce sound like this rig can. There’s not a molecule of digital in the whole pipeline. It’s pure analog. Run it out to a pair of Bose speakers and it’s ecstasy.

Hi-Fi

My Kenwood KR-4600 amp and the Pioneer PL-516 turntable. This is exquisite sound

 

 

 

This is how to do it if you want to listen to music. There has never been a iPod built that can produce sound like this rig can. There’s not a molecule of digital in the whole pipeline. It’s pure analog. Run it out to a pair of Bose speakers and it’s ecstasy.

A Warm Winter Day

I went walking down my favorite street in the world, Bardstown Road in Louisville. Click on pictures for larger view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some iPhonography

These are iPhone shots using several effects apps like Hipstamatic, 100 Cameras and Photoshop Express. Click on the photos for larger view.

 

 

 

 

Gertrude Käsebier In Europe, 1905 by Frances Benjamin Johnston [LOC]

Gertrude Käsebier (LOC)

Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.

Gertrude Käsebier

[1905]

1 photographic print.

Notes:
Title from item.
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
Photograph shows photographer Gertrude Käsebier, standing next to a tripod-mounted camera, an unidentified man is standing behind the camera.

Subjects:
Käsebier, Gertrude,--1852-1934--Journeys--Europe.
Cameras--1890-1930.
Photography--1890-1930.
Photographers--1890-1930.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.31769

Call Number: LOT 11733-5b [item]

Optimist

by Nad

Amy Winehouse 1983-2011 Photograph By Andrew Kendall

 1983-2011

RIP Amy Jade Winehouse 1983-2011                                                     Photograph: Andrew Kendall


Nearly all of what you will hear about this immense talent is "drink and drugs" the "27 Club" "what a waste" etc.  All this does is perpetuate myth and stigma.

While sudden fame can certainly accelerate matters, in thousands of ordinary cases each year,
untreated mental illness = death.  It's been a very sad weekend indeed.

Until The Watch Is Taken From The Wrist

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist. It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one's life, change the nature and direction of one's work, and give final meaning and color to one's loves and friendships.

Kay Redfield Jamison, 

An Unquiet Mind (1995)

123/365. When I was driving across Andalucía

123/365. When I was driving across Andalucía, Photograph by ixot.


or actually Öland, Sweden.

Coming Out With Mental Illness

"Across the country, in small towns and cities, hundreds of people with severe mental illness live what appear to be normal, successful lives. They work in demanding jobs. They juggle responsibilities. They pay the bills, study, fall in love, raise families — all while knowing that their secret, if ever exposed, would mean almost certain ruin.

Now, a small number of them are taking that chance, saying that it’s time. The nation’s mental health system is in a shambles, they say, criminalizing many patients and warehousing many others in nursing and group homes where they receive minimal therapy.

Moreover, the enduring stigma of mental illness teaches people with a diagnosis to think of themselves as victims, snuffing out the one thing that can motivate them to find treatment — hope."

Tara Parker-Pope, NYT  

See also: Kay Redfield Jamison