Levitttown, PA
Walking in a minefield…
A Kurdish man walking on top of a mountain behind the ancient city of Amadiya in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. The city itself is on a natural raised up plateau which was perfect for fending off ancient invading armies. A few minutes later I found out we were walking in a mine field, wonderful! Click on the photo to link to my Facebook photo page, its not updated but it still has a bit of my work.
American Dream Bingo, NW Pearl District, Portland, OR
(Source: sometimesyoudie)
Alec Soth from his series Sleeping by the Mississippi
(Source: serialprotagonist)
Make your own path, live your own life
Tonight’s Tumblr search is “American Dream.” Let the reblogging begin…
Couldn’t help but reblog this photo. I traveled to Iraq in the ’90s, when Iraqi Airways was grounded by economic sanctions. The Iraqi Airways office on Sadoon Street in downtown Baghdad had been converted to an “International Businessman’s Center.” There you could place international calls, exchange dollars for dinars or send a fax to wherever.
The men who dealt with currency exchanges and faxes (it was mostly women who sat at the phone desk, dialing for you and holding a stopwatch to time the call) were all out-of-work pilots. The receipts you got for whatever business you did there were Iraqi Airways catering slips.
I wonder if that place is still there on Saddon Street, and if it has been converted back to a place for booking flights out of Iraq. Anybody?
(Source: iraqiana)
I’ve been obsessed lately with how we make stories (and how we make them effective). I came across this nugget online in an article called The Marvels and Flaws of Intuitive Thinking by psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. Here’s what excited me about the bananas/vomit thing:
Let me propose what’s happened in your minds over the last few seconds as you were looking at this display of two words. Everything that I’m going to say is very well-defended in recent research, mostly in research over the last 10, 15 years. You saw those two words. People recoil from the word “vomit”. You actually move backward, and that has been measured. You make a face of disgust. It’s not very obvious, but there is a disgust face being made. You feel a bit bad. The disgust face makes you feel worse because we know that forcing, shaping people’s face into a particular expression changes the way they think and the way they feel. All of this happened. You are now prepared. Then something else happens. You have those two words that have nothing to do with each other, you made a story. There is now a connection between those two…
Saul Steinberg’s View of the World from 9th Avenue.
Ink, pencil, colored pencil, and watercolor on paper, 28 x 19”.
Cover drawing for The New Yorker, March 29, 1976.Context is everything…
“It is not necessary to remind you that the fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.”
Edward R. Murrow
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