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Tuesday, 14 August 2018

a question of ideology | Entourage | Clark Coolidge: the poem that could be ordered from the Reptile Institute (from POET)

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Long Bien Night Market (Hanoi): photo by Chu Việt Hà, 13 March 2018

Long Bien Night Market | by chrjs.0510

Long Bien Night Market (Hanoi): photo by Chu Việt Hà, 13 March 2018

Long Bien Night Market | by chrjs.0510

Long Bien Night Market (Hanoi): photo by Chu Việt Hà, 13 March 2018

TB_6461_03 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_6461_03 [captured US pilot, Vietnam, beer, Marlboros]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_6588_02 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_6588_02 [captured US pilot, Vietnam]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_6721_10 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_6721_10 [Vietnam, wartime]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_6721_10a | by thomas_billhardt

TB_6721_10a [Vietnam, wartime]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_10917_08 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_10917_08 [Vietnam, wartime]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_11081_07 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_10081_07 [Vietnam, wartime]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_14023_09 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_14023_09 [Vietnam, Seventies]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_24558_01 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_24558_01 [Vietnam, Seventies]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_18295_06 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_18295065 [Vietnam, wartime]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_0001 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_0001 [Vietnam, Seventies]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_14991_03 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_14991_03 [Vietnam, Seventies]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_18253_06 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_18253_06 [Vietnam, Seventies]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_6399_03 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_6399_03 [captured US pilot, Vietnam]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_6397_03 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_6397_03 [captured US pilot, Vietnam]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_18351_01 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_18351_01 [Vietnamese refugees near the Chinese border, Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

TB_18272_07 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_18342_05 | by thomas_billhardt

TB_18342_05 [Chinese POWs, Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979]: photo by Thomas Billhardt, 19 March 2013

 Peacocks at Mass, Santiago, 88 | by Marcelo  Montecino

Peacocks at Mass, Santiago, 88: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 29 August 2005

Pinochet's Min. of Justice and Military Vicar at Mass, Santiago 88 | by Marcelo  Montecino

Pinochet's Min. of Justice and Military Vicar at Mass, Santiago 88: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 4 February 2017


Gen Sinclair Strutting, Santiago, 88: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 29 August 2005

The Junta, Santiago, Chile 88 | by Marcelo  Montecino

The Junta, Santiago, Chile 88: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 4 July 2015

Just look at their Faces, Valparaiso, 88 | by Marcelo  Montecino

Just look at their faces, Valparaiso, 88: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 5 August 2005

The Ruling Class, Vaparaiso, Chile 88 | by Marcelo  Montecino

The Ruling Class, Valparaiso, Chile 88: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 5 August 2005

I called it that because there was the church, an unknown civilian (probably a Supreme Court Justice) and, of course, the military. Emblematic of the Pinochet era.

- MM, 2005

Entourage, Valparaiso, 88 | by Marcelo  Montecino

Entourage, Valparaiso, 88: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 5 August 2005
 
Gen. Sinclair at High Mass, Santiago, Chile, 1988 | by Marcelo  Montecino

Gen Sinclair at High Mass, Santiago, Chile, 88: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 25 June 2013

Tomás Borge, Minister of the Interior, Managua, Nicaragua, 83 | by Marcelo  Montecino

Tomás Borge, Minister of the Interior, Managua, Nicagagua, 83: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 23 June 2005

Pinochet, Banality of Evil, 83. | by Marcelo  Montecino

Pinochet, Banality of Evil, 83: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 13 June 2005

Pinochet dreaming he won, Valparaiso, Chile 89 | by Marcelo  Montecino

Pinochet, dreaming he won, Santiago, Chile. 1989: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 3 October 2012

Pinochet about to Pounce, San Bernardo, Chile. 1987 | by Marcelo  Montecino

Pinochet about to Pounce, San Bernardo, Chile. 1987: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 11 February 2005

Joan Baez, Orlando Letelier Funeral, Washington DC 1976 | by Marcelo  Montecino

Joan Baez, Orlando Letelier Funeral, Washington DC 1976: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 12 July 2013

 Princess Bass, 5, rests her head on the shoulder of her brother, King, 6, as they sit and watch the Holy Fire burn from on top of their parents' car Thursday night, Aug. 9, 2018 in Lake Elsinore, Calif. More than a thousand firefighters battled to keep a raging Southern California forest fire from reaching foothill neighborhoods Friday before the expected return of blustery winds that drove the flames to new ferocity a day earlier. (AP Photo/Patrick Record)

Princess Bass, 5, rests her head on the shoulder of her brother, King, 6, as they sit and watch the Holy Fire burn from on top of their parents' car Thursday night, Aug. 9, 2018 in Lake Elsinore, Calif. More than a thousand firefighters battled to keep a raging Southern California forest fire from reaching foothill neighborhoods Friday before the expected return of blustery winds that drove the flames to new ferocity a day earlier. : photo by Patrick Record/AP, 9 August 2018

 Princess Bass, 5, rests her head on the shoulder of her brother, King, 6, as they sit and watch the Holy Fire burn from on top of their parents' car Thursday night, Aug. 9, 2018 in Lake Elsinore, Calif. More than a thousand firefighters battled to keep a raging Southern California forest fire from reaching foothill neighborhoods Friday before the expected return of blustery winds that drove the flames to new ferocity a day earlier. (AP Photo/Patrick Record)

Princess Bass, 5, rests her head on the shoulder of her brother, King, 6, as they sit and watch the Holy Fire burn from on top of their parents' car Thursday night, Aug. 9, 2018 in Lake Elsinore, Calif. More than a thousand firefighters battled to keep a raging Southern California forest fire from reaching foothill neighborhoods Friday before the expected return of blustery winds that drove the flames to new ferocity a day earlier. : photo by Patrick Record/AP, 9 August 2018

 A relative mourns over the body of Abdullah al-Qutati, 26, at the morgue of the European hospital east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, east of Khan Younis, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. Two Palestinians, including a paramedic, were shot and killed by Israeli fire at a Hamas-led protest along the border, Gaza's Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

A relative mourns over the body of Abdullah al-Qutati, 26, at the morgue of the European hospital east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, east of Khan Younis, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. Two Palestinians, including a paramedic, were shot and killed by Israeli fire at a Hamas-led protest along the border, Gaza's Health Ministry said.: photo by Adel Hana/AP, 10 August 2018

 A relative mourns over the body of Abdullah al-Qutati, 26, at the morgue of the European hospital east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, east of Khan Younis, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. Two Palestinians, including a paramedic, were shot and killed by Israeli fire at a Hamas-led protest along the border, Gaza's Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

A relative mourns over the body of Abdullah al-Qutati, 26, at the morgue of the European hospital east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, east of Khan Younis, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. Two Palestinians, including a paramedic, were shot and killed by Israeli fire at a Hamas-led protest along the border, Gaza's Health Ministry said.: photo by Adel Hana/AP, 10 August 2018

 A Palestinian protester wears a plastic bag on his head as a protection from teargas as he waves a national flag during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, Aug.10, 2018. Violence erupted at the Gaza border Friday after the territory's militant Islamic Hamas rulers and Israel appeared to be honoring a cease-fire that ended two days of intense violence amid efforts by neighboring Egypt to negotiate between the two sides. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A Palestinian protester wears a plastic bag on his head as a protection from teargas as he waves a national flag during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, Aug.10, 2018. Violence erupted at the Gaza border Friday after the territory's militant Islamic Hamas rulers and Israel appeared to be honoring a cease-fire that ended two days of intense violence amid efforts by neighboring Egypt to negotiate between the two sides.: photo by Khalil Hamra/AP, 10 August 2018

 A Palestinian protester wears a plastic bag on his head as a protection from teargas as he waves a national flag during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, Aug.10, 2018. Violence erupted at the Gaza border Friday after the territory's militant Islamic Hamas rulers and Israel appeared to be honoring a cease-fire that ended two days of intense violence amid efforts by neighboring Egypt to negotiate between the two sides. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A Palestinian protester wears a plastic bag on his head as a protection from teargas as he waves a national flag during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, Aug.10, 2018. Violence erupted at the Gaza border Friday after the territory's militant Islamic Hamas rulers and Israel appeared to be honoring a cease-fire that ended two days of intense violence amid efforts by neighboring Egypt to negotiate between the two sides.: photo by Khalil Hamra/AP, 10 August 2018

 A Kashmiri rebel fires his gun to salute fallen comrades during their joint funeral in Malikgund village, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. At rebels and an Indian army soldier were killed in gunbattles in disputed Kashmir, triggering violent protests by residents opposed to Indian rule, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A Kashmiri rebel fires his gun to salute fallen comrades during their joint funeral in Malikgund village, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. Seven rebels and an Indian army soldier were killed in gunbattles in disputed Kashmir, triggering violent protests by residents opposed to Indian rule, officials said Saturday.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 4 August 2018

 A Kashmiri rebel fires his gun to salute fallen comrades during their joint funeral in Malikgund village, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. At rebels and an Indian army soldier were killed in gunbattles in disputed Kashmir, triggering violent protests by residents opposed to Indian rule, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A Kashmiri rebel fires his gun to salute fallen comrades during their joint funeral in Malikgund village, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. Seven rebels and an Indian army soldier were killed in gunbattles in disputed Kashmir, triggering violent protests by residents opposed to Indian rule, officials said Saturday.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 4 August 2018

 A military paramedic tends to a boy who's head was injured from Sunday's earthquake at a makeshift hospital in Kayangan, Lombok Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. The north of Lombok has been devastated by the magnitude 7.0 quake that struck Sunday night, damaging thousands of buildings and killing dozens. (AP Photo/Fauzy Chaniago)

A military paramedic tends to a boy whose head was injured from Sunday's earthquake at a makeshift hospital in Kayangan, Lombok Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. The north of Lombok has been devastated by the magnitude 7.0 quake that struck Sunday night, damaging thousands of buildings and killing dozens.: photo by Fauzy Chaniago/AP, 8 August 2018

 A military paramedic tends to a boy who's head was injured from Sunday's earthquake at a makeshift hospital in Kayangan, Lombok Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. The north of Lombok has been devastated by the magnitude 7.0 quake that struck Sunday night, damaging thousands of buildings and killing dozens. (AP Photo/Fauzy Chaniago)

A military paramedic tends to a boy whose head was injured from Sunday's earthquake at a makeshift hospital in Kayangan, Lombok Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. The north of Lombok has been devastated by the magnitude 7.0 quake that struck Sunday night, damaging thousands of buildings and killing dozens.: photo by Fauzy Chaniago/AP, 8 August 2018

 Crocodiles rest at a farm in the Jordan Valley, West Bank on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. Hundreds of crocodiles are stuck at the farm where they were brought in the mid-90s to serve as a tourist attraction. Ensuing Palestinian-Israeli violence kept visitors away, prompting the crocodiles' purchase by an entrepreneur hoping to sell them for their skin, but his venture flopped after Israel passed a law in 2012 defining the crocodile as a protected animal, and banning raising the animals for sale as meat or merchandise. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Crocodiles rest at a farm in the Jordan Valley, West Bank on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. Hundreds of crocodiles are stuck at the farm where they were brought in the mid-90s to serve as a tourist attraction. Ensuing Palestinian-Israeli violence kept visitors away, prompting the crocodiles' purchase by an entrepreneur hoping to sell them for their skin, but his venture flopped after Israel passed a law in 2012 defining the crocodile as a protected animal, and banning raising the animals for sale as meat or merchandise.: photo by Dusan Vranic/AP, 6 August 2018

Clark Coolidge: "That poem..." (from POET)

That poem sounds like a bug at the light
  a rug in flight a brain in the night 
that poem goes in the effects hamper
that poem peaks in the morning Times
that poem they don't have all the bugs out of yet
that poem streaks across nobody's anything
that poem is the pride of the matrices
that poem was found on Isaac Asimov
that poem gives directions to the corridas of powder
that poem admits to discrepancies
that poem could be ordered from Ross Allen's Reptile Institute
that poem is subject to no object 

Clark Coolidge: "That poem...", from POET, 2018

 Crocodiles rest at a farm in the Jordan Valley, West Bank on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. Hundreds of crocodiles are stuck at the farm where they were brought in the mid-90s to serve as a tourist attraction. Ensuing Palestinian-Israeli violence kept visitors away, prompting the crocodiles' purchase by an entrepreneur hoping to sell them for their skin, but his venture flopped after Israel passed a law in 2012 defining the crocodile as a protected animal, and banning raising the animals for sale as meat or merchandise. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Crocodiles rest at a farm in the Jordan Valley, West Bank on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. Hundreds of crocodiles are stuck at the farm where they were brought in the mid-90s to serve as a tourist attraction. Ensuing Palestinian-Israeli violence kept visitors away, prompting the crocodiles' purchase by an entrepreneur hoping to sell them for their skin, but his venture flopped after Israel passed a law in 2012 defining the crocodile as a protected animal, and banning raising the animals for sale as meat or merchandise.: photo by Dusan Vranic/AP, 6 August 2018
 

1 comment:

Hanford Woods said...

How can one ever forgive oneself for forgetting. All of it so long ago and still so current. Thank you, Tom and thanks to the photographers and Clark Coolidge.