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The First Barcode Is All Too Human
"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence." --Irene Gut I'm helping the Farmington city libarary staff switch over to a new bar-code system for their books. This complements their change-over to an open-source cataloguing system. Today we actually placed the new bar-code labels for the first time. And I thought it highly appropriate how fate or chance dictated the very first book was In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdike. The new bar-code label is the one at the upper left with the yellow stripe. The book tells the story of a young Polish woman, Irene Gut , who found she could take advantage of her harsh fate to help the victims of fascist oppression and persecution. In all these concerns we have of politics and religion, this example of quiet heroism tells me--puts in my face--how human needs and ...
Visualize body counts getting smaller....
Continuing the grim mood for today, here is a (morbidly) fascinating graphic showing the comparative mayhem of various atrocities through history--some of them unbelievably huge. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/11/06/opinion/06atrocities_timeline.html?ref=sunday
I hate art vandalism--especially religious bigots
A billboard outside a New Zealand showed the Mary gasping in shock at a (positive) pregnancy test. I'm going to make it a point from now on whenever a peice of artwork is vandalized, destroyed or suppressed, I'm going to echo it here in this blog. Like, how harmful can this painting be? I thought that was the whole idea of the virgin birth: Mary tells Joseph she's pregnant; Joseph plans to "put her away" (i.e. send her back to her parents); an angel appears to Joseph in a dream and tells him it's all good. So Joseph is cool with it. All this does it put a (humorous) modern-day spin on it. And the bastard who vandalized it with a pair of scissors is proud of what he did. Think about it: he cut-up a picture of the Virgin Mary. He should be on his knees mumbling his rosary while begging forgiveness for this desecration. Source: Controversial Virgin Mary billboard destroyed by protester. A scissor-wielding protester has destroyed a controversial billboard o...
Wicked J at the Wicked G
Members of the Mount Blue High School Jazz Band showed up at Wicked Gelato's and proceeded to crank out some (wicked) cool jazz. I got some shots of the band members setting up.