Notes from a pad in Oslo
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20030529   Foster's Pond, 2000Arno Rafael MinkkinenBorn in 1945 in Helsinki, Minkkinen has been photographing himself since 1971 as a timeless landscape of the human figure amid the forces of nature. The element of water - upon which his feet race, below which his torso dives or above which his being floats - provides the common ground for his surrealistic vision. There is no manipulation, no darkroom trickery, nothing but the single instant of the shutter and the placement of the lens. 
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 20030528 [ tom waits | telephone call from istanbul ]
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20030527  Children holding toy guns, Gaza Strip, 1993 Larry Towell In 1988 Towell became the first Canadian member of the renowned Magnum Photos agency, and has since published six books. Towell's photography does not derive from an intellectual quest or a particular ideology, but from the knowledge he acquires in the field as he unflaggingly follows his subjects in their everyday life, from his unique angle of vision on the realities of their society, and from his fellow-feeling for flesh-and-blood people caught in the crosscurrent and random events of history.
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20030526  Thirteen children from The Imbabazi Orphanage participated in two photo workshops, and had their photographs exhibited to raise fund for their education. The gallery features photographs taken by the children using their 35mm disposable cameras.
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20030519 [ rudyard kipling | just so stories : the beginning of the armadillos ]
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20030516  [ Etter at Norge gikk i union med Sverige i 1814, var det stadig spørsmål om hvilket flagg norske skip skulle føre. I Grunnloven fantes en egen bestemmelse om at Norge hadde rett til et eget handelsflagg. 13. juli 1821 godkjente Karl Johan Stortingets vedtak om et eget norsk handelsflagg. Som vedlegg til den kongelige resolusjonen finnes en tegning av det nye flagget. Det var stortingsrepresentant Fredrik Meltzer fra Bergen som kom med dette forslaget. Utgangspunktet var det danske flagget, med et mørkeblått kors innenfor det hvite. ]
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20030513  Odè, 1989 Mario Cravo Neto Born in Salvador, Bahia in 1947 to Mario Cravo Junior, a well-known Brazilian sculptor, Cravo Neto started creating art at an early age. Initially interested in sculpture, Cravo Neto turned his attention to photography in the late sixties. Combining spiritual, mystical and religious elements - eggs, birds, fish and bones - with nude torsos, Cravo Neto creates sensual images which unite man and nature, the erotic and the spiritual. His images reveal a psychological portrait of the Indigenous, Portuguese and African communities that co-exist in Bahia today. Often evoking a ritual look, Cravo Neto's photographs invite the viewer to wander through black spaces, to linger on specific objects that are both elegant and primitive.
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20030512  Sharbat Gula, 1985 Steve McCurry Traveling the world over the last two decades, Magnum photographer Steve McCurry has looked directly into the faces of people from all corners of this planet. From Afghanistan to Los Angeles and countless places in between, he has shot some of the most compelling photo portraits of our time. His direct and uncompromising style of shooting has produced memorable images, many of which have graced the covers and pages of National Geographic, including this famous photograph of a young Afghan girl from a refugee camp in Pakistan.
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20030509 The Gematriculator  Top ten "important" words found on this page (prior to this post) with the highest absolute value*: 1995 - value for the word - revolutionary The ten "important" words on this page containing the lowest absolute value: 07 ________________ bad *Where a=1, b=2 ... i=9, j=10, k=20 and so on. "Important" words refer to those that are divisible by a certain number, such as 7, which is said to be God's number and that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text. [ Not that I care, but 'tis cool ]
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20030508   Explore Easter Island, Chichen Itza, Ancient Americas, Stonehenge, Antarctica, and in Mali, from Bamako to Tombouctou. [ Thanks to Shazalina for the link ]
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20030507 Politca - View from the Left of Center The Texas Clown is modeling US Navy flight suits so he can feed the corpo-media propaganda machine some cute pictures of him looking like a warrior. The truth is that if he really had the courage of a warrior he would've joined up and fought in Vietnam instead of getting his daddy's connection to assign him to a broke dick state-side unit. I guess when you're a rich-boy chicken-shit you can talk shit and let others do the fighting - but I digress... - Mike, Dubya's Resume / A Snapshot of Failure
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20030501 Trivial Facts | The Human Body _ It is impossible to lick your elbow. _ Every person has a unique tongue print. _ The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools. _ The two lines that connect your upper lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum. _ An average person will spend two weeks of their life kissing. _ The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes. _ The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm. _ The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart. _ Women's hearts beat faster than men's. - If you were blind in one eye, you'd only lose about one-fifth of your vision, but all your depth perception. _ On average a man blinks over 10,000 times a day. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. _ After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will appear pink. _ The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal is called a tragus. _ The white part (half-moon) of your fingernail is called the lunula. _ Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. _ Each day we lose anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 brain cells. _ 8 out of 10 people who read this did try to lick their elbows.
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