CONSTANT SIEGE

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Left: Day 536, having been to Los Angeles, New Orleans, Vancouver, Auckland and Wellington, Berlin, Las Vegas, up and down Route 66, all around NYC, and to hell and back.

Right: Day 001, ready for a fresh path.

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Went with a 360-degree woodcut voodoo santaria magic-lantern vibe for this year’s pumpkin.

Also also: a previous year: Fuck Halloween

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Scouting New York: Rosemary’s Baby, Then and Now

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Gothamist, dead rat sitting upright in crack of sidewalk, NYC

And also: Dead white pigeon under the BQE, Brooklyn

And: Dead Sea Bird, Caribbean

And more: Dead buzzard in Mississippi

And still: Dead bird I found in my darkroom

October 25

Rich Germans Demand Higher Taxes

Not the Onion.

“The group say they have more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and social programmes to aid Germany’s economic recovery.” (via madsimian)

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‘peanut butter man’ (via in defence of lost causes)

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“ We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever. Carl Sagan

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Sage Sohier, ‘Mum in her bathtub, Washington, D.C.’ 2002

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Sage Sohier, middle image from triptych ‘Woman having facial prosthesis re-fitted, Boston, 1996’, from her series on reconstructive surgeries ‘About Face’

October 24

"Every man a king, but no one wears a crown"

Wiki: “Share Our Wealth was a movement begun during the Great Depression by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana.

The key planks of the Share Our Wealth platform included:

No person would be allowed to accumulate a personal net worth of more than 100 to 300 times the average family fortune, which would limit personal assets to between $1.5 million and $5 million. Income taxes would be levied to ensure this. Annual capital levy taxes would be assessed on all persons with a net worth exceeding $1 million.
Every family was to be furnished with a homestead allowance of not less than one-third the average family wealth of the country. Every family was to be guaranteed an annual family income of at least $2,000 to $2,500, or not less than one-third of the average annual family income in the United States. Yearly income, however, cannot exceed more than 100 to 300 times the size of the average family income.
An old-age pension would be made available for all persons over 60.
To balance agricultural production, the government will preserve/store surplus. This is made so no food is wasted.
Veterans are paid what they are owed
Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions for training in the professions and vocations of life.
The raising of revenue and taxes for the support of this program was to come from the reduction of swollen fortunes from the top, as well as for the support of public works to give employment whenever there may be any slackening necessary in private enterprise.

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“Fiery Louisiana Senator Huey Long was assassinated in 1935 by a 29-year old doctor with a 3 month old baby and no clear motive. Now, 74 years later, that baby is out to clear his father’s name. And the bottom line is that he’s probably right. But will he and his family get the chance to prove it? 61 Bullets follows Dr. Carl Weiss Jr.’s mission to recover a bullet from Huey Long’s buried body, exonerate his father, and overturn history before it’s too late.”

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“ That whole phenomenon of art directors having to see the exact picture in your book rather than accepting that you can do something because you have skills is always going to bother me. Perou (amen, brother)

October 23

Sean Freeman and photographer Iain Crawford, ink aesthetic for F/W Volt Magazine (via coute que coute)

Also also: Shinichi Maruyama, ‘Kusho’

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Isabel Samaras, ‘Going Native’ 2007