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Patti Smith Group - Jazzfest 2013 on Flickr.

Fri, 31 May 2013 18:47:55 -0400

Patti Smith Group - Jazzfest 2013 on Flickr.

Jonathon “Boogie” Long - Jazzfest 2013 on Flickr.

Fri, 31 May 2013 18:47:10 -0400

Jonathon “Boogie” Long - Jazzfest 2013 on Flickr.

Stanley Clarke & George Duke - Jazzfest 2013 on...

Fri, 31 May 2013 18:46:26 -0400

Stanley Clarke & George Duke - Jazzfest 2013 on Flickr.

George Duke!

Goodbye Tumblr…… Gone to Google Plus.

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:25:46 -0400

Goodbye Tumblr…… Gone to Google Plus.

photojojo: Lisa Tomasetti was one of the visual artists behind...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:36:11 -0400

photojojo:

Lisa Tomasetti was one of the visual artists behind films such as Star Wars Ep-2 and Charlotte’s Web, but she’s also quite the photographer. In her Dance series, she focuses on levitating dancers in unusual settings.

Mesmerizing Photos of Levitating Dancers

via 2photo

Photo Processing on the Nexus 7

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:19:20 -0400

Photo Processing on the Nexus 7

The Grateful Dead: Fillmore East 1970-09-19 Turn On Your Love...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:36:38 -0400

The Grateful Dead: Fillmore East 1970-09-19

Turn On Your Love Light (Edit)

SPTechCon Speaker Andrew Connell

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:40:20 -0500

SPTechCon Speaker Andrew Connell

Nikon D50 capture post processed on the Nexus 7 using Snapspeed

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:38:17 -0500

Nikon D50 capture post processed on the Nexus 7 using Snapspeed

Skyfall on the flight to San Francisco (processed on the Nexus 7...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:35:30 -0500

Skyfall on the flight to San Francisco (processed on the Nexus 7 using Snapspeed for post processing)

Thai Alligator! Powershot capture post processed on the Nexus 7...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:29:05 -0500

Thai Alligator! Powershot capture post processed on the Nexus 7 using PS Touch & the amazing Snapspeed

Union Square, San Francisco: Cannon Powershot capture post...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:26:09 -0500

Union Square, San Francisco: Cannon Powershot capture post processed on the Nexus 7 using PS Touch & Pixlr Express

IPod photo post processed on the Nexus 7 using PS Touch

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:19:38 -0500

IPod photo post processed on the Nexus 7 using PS Touch

Photographer’s girlfriend leads him around the world.

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:38:28 -0500

Photographer’s girlfriend leads him around the world.

youdsay: ouldm01

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:18:08 -0500

youdsay:

ouldm01

unhistorical: February 19, 1942: Franklin D. Roosevelt issues...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:00:31 -0500

unhistorical:

February 19, 1942: Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066.

The order provided for the designation of military areas (to be decided by the Secretary of War and commanders of the U.S. armed forces) from which “any or all persons” could be relocated. No specific ethnic groups or sections of the nation were singled out in the text of the order, but it stated that these new powers would serve as “protection against espionage and against sabotage”. In practice, it resulted in the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, nearly two-thirds of whom were American-born citizens; smaller numbers of German- and Italian-Americans were interned as well, but no ethnic group was targeted by the government to the extent that the Japanese were.

Virtually every Japanese-American living on the West Coast was interned, while a small fraction of those living in Hawaii - just over a thousand - suffered the same fate. The justification for the executive order was practical; it was believed that many Japanese, Issei and Sansei alike, could not possibly remain loyal to the United States if it went to war with Japan. It was outwardly practical (the Ni’ihau Incident seemed to prove American suspicions), and it was deeply rooted in racial prejudice. Many white farmers were glad to see their Japanese competition uprooted and displaced; several newspapers printed opinion pieces that supported wholeheartedly the internment based on their own personal feelings toward the Japanese; the American public (including even Theodore Geisel/Dr. Seuss) generally supported the move; and the Supreme Court, the ultimate defender and interpreter of the U.S. Constitution, upheld the constitutionality of the executive order in Korematsu v. U.S. (also see: Hirabayashi v. U.S.). Camps were run by the Wartime Civil Control Administration and the War Relocation Authority; the largest of these by population were Tule Lake and Poston, but the most well-known today is Manzanar.

Some Japanese-Americans escaped internment by volunteering to serve in the U.S. Army, and many of them served in the famous 442nd Infantry Regiment, a unit that fought in Europe after 1944. Ironically, while many of its members’ families remained interned at home based on widespread racism and suspicions of disloyalty, this all-Japanese unit eventually became the most decorated infantry regiment in the history of the U.S. Army: twenty-one of its members were awarded the Medal of Honor.

Executive Order 9066 was eventually rescinded in 1976, and surviving Japanese internees received payments and apologies from the U.S. government in the 1990s. But money paid four decades later could not compensate for the time lost in the camps; the businesses, homes, farms, and other property sold last-minute at ridiculously low prices by their owners or vandalized and destroyed in their absence; and the humiliation and disillusionment at having been denounced by their own countrymen and rounded up by their own government.

Images compiled by The Atlantic

Banksy: Stop and Shop

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:47:30 -0500

Banksy: Stop and Shop

Finally dug out from Nemo

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:05:44 -0500

“Nemo 2013 Snow” by cloud2013: http://flickr.com/photos/26095572@N07/8461144033

“Smith, Wesson and Toy Cars” by badskirt - amy:...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:04:46 -0500

“Smith, Wesson and Toy Cars” by badskirt - amy: http://flickr.com/photos/26463953@N07/5209881537

streetsick: Photo by George Valdez

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:44:27 -0500

streetsick:

Photo by George Valdez