Bonny, I thought your picture was lovely. I don't wear much makeup, so I don't have any advice, but I hope you find some nice ones.
smonster, I hope the doggy works out!
But take 100 violent anti-semitic incidents in one year in the U.S., most non-fatal. In 2007 the FBI collated 2,658 incidents of "hate crimes" against African-Americans and Black people compare to 969 "hate crimes" against Jews.
Proportionally that may be higher than it looks against Jews, since there are more black people in the US than Jews. Also, it's worth looking at figures from other countries. 7,000 Jews left France for the US in 2007, and 12,000 went to Israel between 2001 and 2005 - an interesting snapshot. Here in the UK, BBC news reported that anti-Semitic incidents doubled in 2009 from the previous year, with incidents including 609 non-violent incidents (which can include some nasty things) and 77 violent ones, against the UK's small community of just 280,000 Jews. Incidents included defacing of Jewish graves with swastikas, hate mail to synagogues, and attacks on Jewish people's homes. Yes, that's often attributed to Israel's military campaigns, but you won't find violence against the Congolese or Sudanese communities here because of their countries' actions. I'm NOT saying it's any worse than prejudice and violence against other minority groups. Disabled people are facing disturbing rates of rising hate crime here in the UK, for example. I'm just saying that denying it exists is unfair. Israel may be exaggerating its scale, but IMO there's not actually much exaggeration needed.
And now I'm getting off my soapbox. Sorry. Touchy subject. How is everyone this morning? I'm off to talk Doctor Who in Boxset.
Happy birthday indeed!
And OMG YOU GUYS, I just got permission to do the field work I dreamed and aimed of (well, almost. But it's close enough) and almost have the guts to do! One of the 3 biggest daily news papers in Israel, here I come!
(I didn't think it'll work out or get as far as it did. Man. Wow. Phew).
Shir! Huge congrats! Is this your project on media reporting of conflict (hope I've remembered that correctly)?
Happy birthday Beth :)
smonster, thanks for the gloss recommendation. I'll check out Black Honey this afternoon.
I don't have your email yet...I'll check to make sure I changed my profile addy when I dropped verizon...but it should still be the good onebox account.
Right out of the box, I'm going to say that Ginger is lovely and would be easier in terms of training, but if the shelter has the breed mix right (which is not always the case, for sure) I'd vote for Francis over her. The Chow/Lab mix might be a "my person and no one else" kind of girl, which is nice in some ways, but not good for socialization. I'm reading between the lines of the 'likes to chase cats' as a life of stress for your kitties. Not fun for them and probably frustrating for Ginger.
More later!
thanks for the birthday wishes
yay of you , Shir
Happy Birthday, beth!
Congrats, Shir!
Uggh. Didn't get to sleep until four and woke up to a text from my sister that one of her childhood frenemies has died, apparently of melanoma. At 28. So it's sad but...
Talking about the dog thing again, sis suggested I look into fostering Frankie. Yes, I immediately nicknamed him Frankie. Something to consider.
Is this your project on media reporting of conflict (hope I've remembered that correctly)?
Kind of. It's about what constructed as truth in photography of "victory", "defeat", "pain", "other lofty made up human concepts", etc.. In an era of Photoshop and cell phone camera, and on which we know that most of the famous pictures were manipulated (and yet that doesn't make them any less strong nor meaningful), what is a good picture to be considered as proof to the reported events? What's the process that's happening for this meaning to be given to a picture? And that's without even saying a thing about taking a picture from a very specific angle, by gifted photographers - what makes them so gifted in capturing reality? And last, most importantly, I'm following the footsteps of the great John Tagg, by asking on which circumstances will a picture of the Loch Ness monster be considered as evidence to its existence?
I'd really like it to be specifically on war and peace photography, but I'll have to let the field to dictate me on this.
