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US First Lady Melania Trump, US President Donald Trump, US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence wave goodbye to former US President Barack Obama and Former US First Lady Michelle Obama on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC: photo by Rob Carr/EPA, 20 January 2017
"Because today, we are transferring power from Washington, and giving it back to you." Photo Darcy Padilla @lemondefr #inauguration2017 #1percent: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
The Capitol Building is illuminated against the sunrise before the presidential inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington: photo by John Minchillo/AP, 20 January 2017
Protesters have turned entire area around Trump's ball into a living Georg Grosz painting: image via Paul Mason @Ppaulmasonnews, 20 January 2017
The Capitol Building is illuminated against the sunrise before the presidential inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington: photo by John Minchillo/AP, 20 January 2017
The Capitol Building is illuminated against the sunrise before the
presidential inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington: photo by John Minchillo/AP, 20 January 2017
Protesters have turned entire area around Trump's ball into a living Georg Grosz painting: image via Paul Mason @Ppaulmasonnews, 20 January 2017
Place markers for the Trump family are seen on the podium before the inauguration ceremonies swearing in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States on the West front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington: photo by Brian Snyder, 20 January 2017
PHILIPPINES - Activists burn a mock US flag with President Donald Trump's portrait during a rally in Manila. By Ted Aljibe #AFP:
image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
US
- A worker cleans steps on the inaugural stand at the US Capitol in
Washington, DC, before the inauguration of Donald Trump. By @saulloeb:
image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton arrive during the
58th Presidential Inauguration in Washington: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 20 January 2017
US President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as President at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo Mark Ralston:
image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 20 January 2017
US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama escort President-elect
Donald J. Trump and wife Melania into the White House for tea before
the inauguration
Barack
Obama shakes hands with Donald Trump during the Presidential
#inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo @saulloeb:
image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 20 January 2017
US - Former First Lady Michelle Obama waves from the helicopter as she and Barack Obama depart the US Capitol in Washington. By @JimWatson_AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
US - Former First Lady Michelle Obama waves from the helicopter as she and Barack Obama depart the US Capitol in Washington. By @JimWatson_AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
US - US President-elect Donald Trump merchandise on sale outside the White House in Washington, DC. By Mark Ralston #AFP:
image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
Jose Luis Borges: Mutaciones (Mutations)
Inmates are seen during an uprising at Alcacuz prison in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil: photo by Josemar Goncalves/Reuters, 19 January 2017
Inmates are seen during an uprising at Alcacuz prison in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil: photo by Josemar Goncalves/Reuters, 19 January 2017
Jose Luis Borges: Mutaciones
En un corredor vi una flecha que indicaba una dirección y pensé que aquel símbolo inofensivo había sido alguna vez una cosa de hierro, un proyectil inevitable y mortal, que entró en la carne de los hombres y de los leones y nubló el sol en las Térmópilas y dio a Harald Sigurdarson, para siempre, seis pies de tierra inglesa. Días después, alguien me mostró una fotografía de un jinete magyar; un lazo dado vueltas rodeaba el pecho de su cabalgadura. Supe que el lazo, que antes anduvo por el aire y sujetó a los toros del pastizal, no era sino una gala Insolente del apero de los domingos. En el cementerio del Oeste vi una cruz rúnica, labrada en mármol rojo; los brazos eran curvos y se ensanchaban y los rodeaba un círculo. Esa cruz apretaría y limitada figurabla otra, de brazos libres, que a su vez figura el patíbulo en. que un dios padeció, la “máquina vil” insultada por Luciano de Samosata. Cruz, lazo y flecha, viejos utensilios del hombre, hoy rebajados o elevados a símbolos; no sé por qué me maravillan, cuando no hay en la tierra una sola cosa que el olvido no borre o que la memoria no altere y cuando nadie sabe en qué imágenes lo traducirá el porvenir.Jose Luis Borges: Mutaciones (Mutations), from El hacedor, 1960; English version by Mildred Boyer
[Untitled]: photo by Tom Olson, 27 August 2016
[Untitled]: photo by Tom Olson, 27 August 2016
[Untitled]: photo by Tom Olson, 27 August 2016
Mutations
I saw in a hall an arrow pointing the way and I thought that this
inoffensive symbol had once been a thing of iron, an inescapable and
fatal projectile that pierced the flesh of men and of lions and clouded
the sun at Thermopylae and gave Harald Sigurdarson six feet of English
earth forever.
Some days later someone showed me a photograph of a Magyar horseman. A
coiled lasso circled the breast of his mount. I learned that the lasso,
which once whipped through the air and brought down the bulls of the
prairie, was now nothing more than a haughty trapping of Sunday harness.
In the west cemetery I saw a runic cross, chiseled in red marble. The
arms curved as they widened out, and a circle encompassed them. That
limited, circumscribed cross represented the other one, the free-armed
cross, which in its turn represents the gallows where a god suffered,
the “vile machine” railed at by Lucian of Samosata.
Cross, lasso, and arrow --former tools of man, debased or exalted now
to the status of symbols. Why should I marvel at them, when there is not
a single thing on earth that oblivion does not erase or memory change,
and when no one knows into what images he himself will be transmuted by
the future.
Jose Luis Borges (1899-1986): Mutaciones (Mutations), from El hacedor, 1960; English version by Mildred Boyer
Saas-Grund: photo by Tom Olson, 12 November 2016
Saas-Grund: photo by Tom Olson, 12 November 2016
Saas-Grund: photo by Tom Olson, 12 November 2016
Saas-Grund: photo by Tom Olson, 12 November 2016
Saas-Grund: photo by Tom Olson, 12 November 2016
Saas-Grund: photo by Tom Olson, 12 November 2016
US
- An activist holds up a sign at the "We Stand United" rally outside
Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York. By Bryan R. Smith:
image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
Chinese soldiers queue to properly arrange their parachute bags as they prepare for parachuting training in Hubei province, China: photo by EPA, 20 January 2017
Chinese soldiers queue to properly arrange their parachute bags as
they prepare for parachuting training in Hubei province, China: photo by
EPA, 20 January 2017
Chinese soldiers queue to properly arrange their parachute bags as they prepare for parachuting training in Hubei province, China: photo by EPA, 20 January 2017
UK
- Placards are pictured ahead of a protest in London to coincide with
the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of US. By @lealolivas:
image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
Demonstrators hang a banner that reads “Act Now! Build Bridges not Walls” from Tower Bridge during a protest against the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. President, in London: photo by Toby Melville/Reuters, 20 January 2017
Demonstrators hang a banner that reads “Act Now! Build Bridges not Walls” from Tower Bridge during a protest against the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. President, in London: photo by Toby Melville/Reuters, 20 January 2017
The Colima volcano is photographed erupting. It is one of the most active in Mexico.: photo by Sergio Velasco Garcia/AFP, 20 January 2017
The Colima volcano is photographed erupting. It is one of the most active in Mexico.: photo by Sergio Velasco Garcia/AFP, 20 January 2017
US President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as President at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo Mark Ralston: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 20 January 2017
Barack
Obama shakes hands with Donald Trump during the Presidential
#inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo @saulloeb:
image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 20 January 2017
El momento cantinflesco de George W. Bush con un impermeable #InaugurationDay: image via Univision Noticias @UniNoticias, 20 January 2017
El momento cantinflesco de George W. Bush con un impermeable #InaugurationDay: image via Univision Noticias @UniNoticias, 20 January 2017
El momento cantinflesco de George W. Bush con un impermeable #InaugurationDay (3): image via Univision Noticias @UniNoticias, 20 January 2017
An End to American Carnage
This portrait of President #GeorgeWashington wearing a #MAGA hat greeted people attending the "Deploraball." (Photo @brookefoxnews): image via Fox News Verified account @FoxNews, 19 January 2017
Trucks blocking one of the roads leading to the White House in Washington DC: image via Paul Owen @PaulTOwen, 20 January 2017
Big challenge for botoxed Reifenstahls of US media today - frame out signs like this...: image via Paul Mason Verified account @paulmasonnews, 20 January 2017
this...: image via Paul Mason Verified account @paulmasonnews, 20 January 2017
Wow .. Melania = Jackie O. Sit your ass down Tom Ford.: image via WestCoastCon @jonyourside, 20 January 2017
Donald and Melania Trump arrive at St John's Church in Washington DC: image via Paul Owen @PaulTOwen, 20 January 2017
Remember that this was uttered by your #President n case u forgot #WomensMarch #WomensMarchOnWashington #UnitedAgainstHate #TrumpProtest: image via Nathian Rodriguez @Nate_SDSU, 20 January 2017
Trucks blocking one of the roads leading to the White House in Washington DC: image via Paul Owen @PaulTOwen, 20 January 2017
Big challenge for botoxed Reifenstahls of US media today - frame out signs like this...: image via Paul Mason Verified account @paulmasonnews, 20 January 2017
this...: image via Paul Mason Verified account @paulmasonnews, 20 January 2017
Half the line seem to be anti-Trump. Protesters being let thru and assembling on inside: image via Paul Mason Verified account @paulmasonnews, 20 January 2017
Wow .. Melania = Jackie O. Sit your ass down Tom Ford.: image via WestCoastCon @jonyourside, 20 January 2017
Donald and Melania Trump arrive at St John's Church in Washington DC: image via Paul Owen @PaulTOwen, 20 January 2017
Remember that this was uttered by your #President n case u forgot #WomensMarch #WomensMarchOnWashington #UnitedAgainstHate #TrumpProtest: image via Nathian Rodriguez @Nate_SDSU, 20 January 2017
México contraataca: empresas y consumidores lanzan un boicot a productos de Estados Unidos: image via Infobae América @InfobaeAmerica, 19 January 2017
Nigel Farage and the Bad Boys of Brexit arrive in Washington for Donald #Trump's #Inauguration: image via Warrior Huntress @daeshhun, 20 January 2017
Official farewell, but you know he'll be watching this closely from 30k foot view the whole time. Photo @PeteSouza: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
#visuallanguage: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Protester dissing on anarchists to @NBCNews. Trusting media to make the distinction. #inauguration2017 #protests: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Contrast in style @drewangerer @gettyimages #inauguration2017: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
The DeVos crowd has arrived Photo @MJKaus #inauguration2017 #layingonofhands #trumpfaithful #MarkKauzlarich: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Waving goodbye to Obama #bodylanguage Photo @billclarkphotos: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Official farewell, but you know he'll be watching this closely from 30k foot view the whole time. Photo @PeteSouza: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
#visuallanguage: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Don't know what you got till it's gone Photo @LeighVogel/Instagram #bodylanguage #rolemodels #inauguration2017: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
The Rubicon. Photo Damon Winter #inauguration2017 via @nytimes: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
At this point, he's become an icon #white #male #young #loud Photo @heislerphoto @nytimes #inauguration2017: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Limo now on fire beneath windows of @washingtonpost. We're wondering if it's going to blow up
Reading The Pictures Retweeted Christian Caryl
Reading the Pictures added,
New normal
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Reading The Pictures Retweeted Christian Caryl
Reading the Pictures added,
New normal
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Protester dissing on anarchists to @NBCNews. Trusting media to make the distinction. #inauguration2017 #protests: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Contrast in style @drewangerer @gettyimages #inauguration2017: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Characteristic down the line @alexwongcw @@gettyimages #inauguration2017: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
So long, no drama. Unearthly shot by @_monicajorge at #inauguration2017 concert #trumpfireworks #nukecodes: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Just yuge or paper tiger? Photo @ninaberman @noorimages #inauguration2017 #trumpmarch: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Telling
how #Trump and Melania look on blankly as Blunt points out statues/U.S.
history in Statuary Hall #incurious #inauguration2017: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Telling
how #Trump and Melania look on blankly as Blunt points out statues/U.S.
history in Statuary Hall #incurious #inauguration2017: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
On the trouble, tone deaf painting hanging behind Trump at inaugural luncheon: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Shocking,
but not surprising, to absorb same hateful spoken and visual rhetoric
at this defining moment #inauguration2017 Photo @jraedle: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
A worthy metaphor, in fact, having to sit through same scrabble you've heard 1000x before. #inauguration2017 #BarronTrump @somogettynews: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
The face of petulance. #inauguration2017 @somogettynews: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
So long, no drama. Unearthly shot by @_monicajorge at #inauguration2017 concert #trumpfireworks #nukecodes: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Just yuge or paper tiger? Photo @ninaberman @noorimages #inauguration2017 #trumpmarch: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
The DeVos crowd has arrived Photo @MJKaus #inauguration2017 #layingonofhands #trumpfaithful #MarkKauzlarich: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 20 January 2017
Looking forward to NOT watching the inauguration tomorrow and surfing/reading instead. Join me #Boycott #Trump #PoorRatings #NMP: image via Max Carver Verified account @maxcarver, 19 January 2017
The tallest building in the world, tearing through the clouds. Literally skyscraping via Imgur: image via ernesto veles @erveza, 18 January 2017
Chris Hammer sits with his sign in #protest in front of Los Angeles City Hall during the #UnitedAgainstHate #trumpprotest #TrumpInauguration: image via Two Vivid Photography @twovivid, 20 January 2017
Oakland #TrumpProtest now passing 26th on Broadway, headed back downtown: image via Michael Bodley Verified account @michael_bodley, 20 January 2017
Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrive to attend an inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC
#TrumpInauguration: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 19 January 2017
Trump, on inauguration eve, pledges to 'unify' Americans. Photo @b_smialowski #Inauguration: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 19 January 2017
President-elect Donald Trump, left, and his wife Melania Trump arrive to "Make America Great Again Welcome Concert" in Washington: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 19 January 2017
US President-elect Donald Trump and wife Melania look at the Abraham Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. #Inauguration: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 19 January 2017
Donald Trump and family pose at the end of a welcome celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Photo Mandel Ngan #Inauguration: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 19 January 2017
WAPO's Matt McClain wanted power Portrait so showed #Trump #Churchill. Got more Apprentice. #gravity @postphoto : image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 January 2017
WAPO's Matt McClain wanted power Portrait so showed #Trump #Churchill. Got more Apprentice. #gravity @postphoto: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 January 2017
Just prep for real portrait by @jabinbotsford @washingtonpost. But this "pull up your socks"/is he really up for this? a lot more telling.: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 January 2017
Ask Macbeth. From @washingtonpost @postphoto portrait of a city prepping for Trump @chavismophoto: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 January 2017
Excuse me Oakland but is there a rocket in the sky? cc @mslopatto: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 14 January 2017
My mom's plan for her sign for the woman's march:
Side A: subtle reference to Reichstag fire
Side B: "Winter is coming": tweet via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 15 January 2017
apparently "winter is coming" got bled on: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 19 January 2017
About 100 protesters kettled with hands up 12th and L: image via Paul Mason @paulmasonnews, 20 January 2017
Hi from Washington: image via Owen Jones @OwenJones84, 20 January 2017
Innit: image via Owen Jones @OwenJones84, 20 January 2017
Words said for the first time in any inaugural address: image via Post Graphics @PostGraphics, 20 January 2017
Updated to include "disagreements," "overseas" and "tunnel.": image via Post Graphics @PostGraphics, 20 January 2017
At Freedom Ball, Trump and his wife Melania again dance to Sinatra's "My Way." Pence and wife join, and kids and spouses. Then they're off.: image via Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs, 20 January 2017
SYRIA - A Syrian man sits under a building in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
SYRIA - A man cries over the bodies of his family during their funeral in the rebel-held town of Douma, Damascus. By @SameerAlDoumy #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
SYRIA - Children walk along a damaged street in Aleppo's Tareeq al-Bab neighbourhood. By George Ourfalian #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
Land of Shadows. Bieszczady Mountains, Poland.: photo by adam dunikowski, 16 September 2014
Land of Shadows. Bieszczady Mountains, Poland.: photo by adam dunikowski, 16 September 2014
Eagle Nest, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, January 2017
Eagle Nest, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, January 2017
Eagle Nest, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, January 2017
About 100 protesters kettled with hands up 12th and L: image via Paul Mason @paulmasonnews, 20 January 2017
Hi from Washington: image via Owen Jones @OwenJones84, 20 January 2017
Innit: image via Owen Jones @OwenJones84, 20 January 2017
At Freedom Ball, Trump asks crowd if he should keep tweeting.
They said yes.: image via Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs, 20 January 2017
TRUMP IN THE OVAL OFFICE [note new gold decor!].
photo by @justinsink: image via Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs, 20 January 2017
an elegy
Words said for the first time in any inaugural address: image via Post Graphics @PostGraphics, 20 January 2017
Bleed carnage depletion, people... it's sad...
all our disagreements in disrepair
flush against the infrastructure of the Islamic lady...
the landscape overseas is ripped and rusted... sad!
But all that's over now and we're going to build something terrific out of our tremendous
solidarity in the sprawl of stealing from the people, people,
But all that's over now and we're going to build something terrific out of our tremendous
solidarity in the sprawl of stealing from the people, people,
that's what we're going to do, and you won't even notice it's stolen from you
because it'll be so tremendous, people are going to
love it so terrific, it's sad... sad...
A man saw a ball of gold
A man saw a ball of gold
and lo, it was all of gold...
This is our great history, people
This is our great history, people
and we're going to put a stop to those subsidized
tombstones that have trapped our terrific trillions in a time tunnel... sad...
trust me, people... we're going to so make America so great again, so tremendous
unrealized unstoppable and urban from sea to golden sea
wind-swept...
Updated to include "disagreements," "overseas" and "tunnel.": image via Post Graphics @PostGraphics, 20 January 2017
At Freedom Ball, Trump and his wife Melania again dance to Sinatra's "My Way." Pence and wife join, and kids and spouses. Then they're off.: image via Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs, 20 January 2017
SYRIA - A Syrian man sits under a building in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
SYRIA - A man cries over the bodies of his family during their funeral in the rebel-held town of Douma, Damascus. By @SameerAlDoumy #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
SYRIA - Children walk along a damaged street in Aleppo's Tareeq al-Bab neighbourhood. By George Ourfalian #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
SYRIA - A boy sells sweets in the street in Tareeq al-Bab neighbourhood a month after gov. retook Aleppo from rebels.
George Ourfalian #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 January 2017
Land of Shadows. Bieszczady Mountains, Poland.: photo by adam dunikowski, 16 September 2014
Land of Shadows. Bieszczady Mountains, Poland.: photo by adam dunikowski, 16 September 2014
Land of Shadows. Bieszczady Mountains, Poland.: photo by adam dunikowski, 16 September 2014
Eagle Nest, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, January 2017
Eagle Nest, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, January 2017
Eagle Nest, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, January 2017
Everything is echo/rerun now, but how strange it all seems in this virtual light.
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There's no Guilt to this Gelt, only the overarching magnitude of the Get.
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