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Thursday 26 April 2018

Submission guidelines

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1977_7010 | by Pierre Wayser

1977_7071 | Singapore 1977 [Sambau, Kapalaruan, Riau, Indonesia]: photo by Pierre Wayser, sometime in 1977

Untitled | by Nadav G.

 "WATCH YOUR HEAD!" | ! זהירות על הראש: photo by Nadav Gazit, 11 March 2018

Oo | by Riccardo Gerbi Cattaneo

 Oo [Milan]: photo by Riccardo Cattaneo, 17 April 2018
Submission guidelines

To not be refused admission one must submit
to the first guideline.

To submit
is the first guideline. The second guideline

remembers the first temple. The second temple was not like the first
is the second guideline.  But pay no mind. And do admit. You will never gain admission by paying mind

to these guidelines. You will not have time. You will not die
for a long time and you will die

without ever knowing the first temple 
existed. But you may well have become admitted to the second temple, made famous, and you will definitely

have submitted to the guidelines. It may almost
not even have hurt, or if it did you will not have noticed

and if you did you will have forgotten
by now. Unless you are dead. In which case your remains will be

refused permission, much as the commingled bones of the christian martyrs buried in the catacombs
beneath Rome were not admitted to the above ground city of Rome, so that you will no longer be

feeling any pain, if you ever did, from the unfortunate stumble that happened

after you bumped your head upon an overhanging vine latticed
monumental arch as you entered the second temple to receive your laurels. 

They were always going to be heavy
after all.  

Sans titre | by Guy Le Guiff

 Untitled: photo by Marco Giusfredi, 22 April 2018

Untitled | by titi.kittikorn


Untitled | by titi.kittikorn

Untitled | by titi.kittikorn

Untitled | by - STUART PATON -


My entire family survived a real death this afternoon. Airstrikes hit near Fun City in Sanaa, where hundreds of children including mine were playing. Shrapnels, sand and stones hit under their feet. They were almost suffocated by dust and smoke. Shock is unfathomable! #Yemen: image via Mohammed Al-Asaadi @alasaadim, 19 April 2018


#Iran View of an art dealer's gallery at the Bazaar in Tabriz in Iran's northwestern East-Azerbaijan province. Photo Atta Kenare #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 April 2018


An illegal oil well burns amid the fire damage it caused in Indonesia: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 25 April 2018


#Bangladesh / #Myanmar Rohingya refugee children gather in the "no man's land" behind Myanmar's border lined with barb wire fences in Maungdaw district Photo @ye_aung_thu #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 April 2018


Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer poses next to wax figures of President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump. Photo Mike Segar: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 25 April 2018

1975_6999 | by Pierre Wayser

3233 | by pkomo

3233: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 17 June 2012

IMG_9816s | by krysolove

 IMG9815s [St Petersburg]: photo by Ilya Shtutsa, 29 March 2018

2018-03-31_06-38-01 | by Chris Tuarissa

2018-03-31_06-38-01 [Jakarta, Indonesia]: photo by Chris Tuarissa, 30 March 2018

2018-03-31_06-38-01 | by Chris Tuarissa

2018-03-31_06-38-01 [Jakarta, Indonesia]: photo by Chris Tuarissa, 30 March 2018

2018-03-31_06-38-01 | by Chris Tuarissa

2018-03-31_06-38-01 [Jakarta, Indonesia]: photo by Chris Tuarissa, 30 March 2018

Untitled | by Md. Imam Hasan

Untitled [Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 16 April 2018

Untitled | by JV Damasio

Untitled [Sao Paulo]: photo by Vitor Damasio, 8 March 2018

Untitled | by JV Damasio

Untitled [Sao Paulo]: photo by Vitor Damasio, 8 March 2018

Untitled | by JV Damasio

Untitled [Sao Paulo]: photo by Vitor Damasio, 8 March 2018

 You don't have to agree with trump but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don't agree with everything anyone does. That's what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.: tweet via Kanye West @kanyewest, 25 April 2018



my MAGA hat is signed: tweet via Kanye West @kanyewest, 25 April 2018

Just three days later, West checked into the UCLA medical center, suffering from exhaustion and lack of sleep, and spent a week there receiving mental health treatment. His wife, Kim Kardashian, who has made no public appearances since a robbery in Paris in October, where she was tied up and robbed of millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry, was not with him for his arrival at Trump Tower. His entourage included a videographer. Trump’s daughter Ivanka was also there.

Amber Jamieson, The Guardian, 13 December 2016


Anti-Nazi / NSO protest. Newnan, GA 2018 | by Ben Helton


Anti-Nazi / NSO protest. Newnan, GA 2018 | by Ben Helton


Rural Maranhao 2 - Origins (1 di 1)-2 | by gianlucamorini1

5 comments:

TC said...

Donny Hathaway (1945-1979): Voices Inside (Everything is Everything), live, 1972

8:00, Willie Weeks

TC said...

I'll have to admit I'm a bit prejudiced here. Never really quite understood the urge or desire or need to submit to whatever it is promises to take away the onus of having to go out on a limb and OMG think for yourself.

"You've got to serve somebody", and so on.

Whatever the traffic will bear. Market forces. Upon what other foundation is however shakily based any of these dwarf grand institutes and colleges which offer to remove that onus, for only say 50 K per annum x however many tiresome years of having to make up totally disingenuous things to say about whatever the last reading was.

I mean I get it's better than having to get a job. But still, Just saying.

What by the way is a job I esk ya.

Curious memory. Only student i ever had who saw through the whole charade of Admission and Submission, saw it for what it was, named it forever, in the title of a poem in her MFA thesis yet,

"Another bought situation".

J. Wasserman.

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE said...

Thanks Tom , good to see this, thanks for keeping up all your good works. Steve

TC said...

Thank you Steve!

It's only your astounding daily example keeps me going.

O tempora, O mores!

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE said...

Thanks Tom! It's your ongoing prodigious efforts that likewise spur me onward . . . what else can one do but aspire to continue?