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I know this story so well that it hurts. The need to be noble, when in fact, you’re really just beaten, is heartbreaking. This is about Kwame Kilpatrick and Detroit, Marion Barry in Washington, Sharpe James in Newark. It’s about Karl Rove and country clubs, 9/11, Iraq and Bush’s second term. It’s about the South and the Lost Cause, about fighting for the confederate flag while your whole state teeters on the brink of the third world. This is about blindness and humanity, about a life defined by score-settling and what someone did to you, as opposed to what you’re going to do for yourself.
—Ta-Nehisi Coates (August 12, 2008) - The false nobility of victimhood
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2008 Drummers, Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremonies, 8/8/2008
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Fuller has met upward of 50 local photographers since joining Flickr, including Michael Cramer, 35, from Northwest Fairmount. Cramer, a computer programmer who moonlights as a photographer, belongs to several photo clubs online and off, including The Lightroom, a co-op in Northern Liberties.
Cramer says Philly is many a photographer’s muse, and for good reason. “It’s a big, architecturally and economically diverse city,” he says. “You go to New York and it’s like, yeah, there are 10,000 pictures a day taken of the steaming coffee cup in Times Square. But a good shot of the rail yards outside 30th Street Station or Mustin Field down by the Navy Yard is unique.”
Often joining other photographers for picture-taking treks and post-shoot beer, Cramer has documented everything from the now-demolished United States Gypsum Company plant in Southwest Philly to the abandoned Pennsylvania Avenue railroad tunnel. “Philly Flickr people always seem happy to wander around some run-down old rail yard,” he says. “I’m just interested in how the past fits in with modern life. Not so much pining for something new or better, but accepting the city as it is.”
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Phelps gets into Beijing almost unnoticed - 2008 Olympics - SI.com
And who was the one that snuck him past the adoring crowds? My brother. As his wife put it, “Matt brought him down the freight elevator straight out to the street, past the media who had their backs to him and onto the bus.”
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bathers (via kxp130)
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Lou Noble: imagine if a machine made it possible for everyone to do geology
Lou Noble: thus making you obsolete
Tony Hicke: see
Tony Hicke: so its not about the art
Tony Hicke: its about your obsolescence
Lou Noble: well, but you consider what you do a function of your skill
Lou Noble: a bad geologist makes you mad, yes?
Tony Hicke: I suppose
Lou Noble: okay
Lou Noble: or a shitty band
Lou Noble: imagine if a machine made Shitty geologists accomplish the work that previously could only be done by good geologists
Lou Noble: dude still sucks
Lou Noble: has no talent for “the color”
Tony Hicke: HAHAHAHAH
Lou Noble: but his machine hides that
Lou Noble: you like that?
Tony Hicke: I htink you go, you learn that machine
Tony Hicke: and make better things with that machine
Lou Noble: that’s what always ends up happening, yeah
Tony Hicke: its nostalgia
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I find it usually to be the case that people who pine for the halcyon days of yore don’t remember very much about the halcyon days of yore, or never knew anything about them to begin with.
—Matthew Yglesias (July 23, 2008) - Air Travel Class War (Domestic Policy)
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