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Saturday 1 April 2017

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Black sky over Buckhead) / Joseph Ceravolo: Someone / Night Strokes

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Giant grey smoke cloud as seen from #piedmontpark #buckhead #Atlanta: image via Charles Asik @cjasik, 30 March 2017
Joseph Ceravolo: Someone

                                 28 August 1986
In a dream
someone showed me
   a poem, short
and dynamic! I can't
                     remember
    how it went
but it cleaned me.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Someone [28 August 1986], from Collected Poems, 2012

Smoke - Kolkata, India | by Maciej Dakowicz

  Smoke - Kolkata. A young girl walks in an alley filled with smoke in a small lane near the New Market in Kolkata.: photo by Maciej Dakowicz, 2 December 2016

Smoke - Kolkata, India | by Maciej Dakowicz
  
Smoke - Kolkata. A young girl walks in an alley filled with smoke in a small lane near the New Market in Kolkata.: photo by Maciej Dakowicz, 2 December 2016
 
open wound 27 | by yiannis kafkas

  open wound 27 [Athens]: photo by yiannis kafkas, 14 April 2011

Untitled | by Street photographer - http://www.gabibest.com/

  Untitled [Tel Aviv}: photo by Gabi Ben avraham, 7 February 2017

Untitled | by Md. Imam Hasan

[Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 7 March 2017

Black sky over Buckhead



Here's a shot from Piedmont Rd leaving Buckhead. Whole sky looks black. #atlanta #traffic
: image via Lucy Steffens @lucyfrances,
30 March 2017


Footage Shows I-85 #Bridge Collapse in #Atlanta After Massive fire !!: image via boppinmule2 @boppinmule, 30 March 2017

 
Oh noooooo! #i85 #Atlanta #Piedmont #400 #Buckhead #i85N #BridgeCollapse #atltraffic #Dukesofhazzard: image via '91SHXN @ShaunQuinMix, 30 March 2017
 

Starting tomorrow #Atlanta gonna be like: image via Monsieur Florian @SirFlorianJ, 30 March 2017 


Dode #Stieltjeskanaal door misdrijf omgekomen #Polite: image via boppinmule2 @boppinmule, 30 March 2017

In the Day of the Giants (Joseph Ceravolo: Night Strokes)
 

Ten extinct #IceAge giants that once roamed North America #FossilFriday: image via Jamie Woodward @Jamie_Woodward_, 31 March 2017

Joseph Ceravolo: Night Strokes
                                                  
                                      1 April 1985
 
So much that I see, O night
is emptiness and pain
I come home and
  what do I do?
The morning ice melts
         along the edges
of my fire

My heart melts for
the new world of my children
and their happiness.
Early America slips by me.
Ships, wagons, horses
walking running
beside the moonlight
along the river.
 
Then suddenly a bomb
smashes the nearby apartment house
an armored division
cuts through the block
searching out Islam renegades.
 
A communist band
cuts the jugular veins
of an encampment.
Fascists blow out brains
over the walls of a house.
An airplane of cocaine
blows up in the sky.
 
Capitalist "saints" self proclaimed
tear the balls off man
Chemicals burn the eyes
and livers of a village.
Islands of beauty burn up.
 
Earth doesn't weep
Nor do comets nor
           yellow asteroids destined in some future
           Nor stars in some implosion
           Nor moon in some religion
Nothing weeps
  only sleeps
O night, as the greed explodes
over our daily bread.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Night Strokes [1 April 1985], from Collected Poems, 2012



Beautifully crafted cave lion head carved in mammoth ivory 35,000 years ago. From Vogelherd Cave, Germany. #IceAgeArt: image via Jamie Woodward @jamie_woodward, 26 March 2017

 
Bison engraved on a sperm whale tooth pendant about 13,400 years ago. From Las Caldas Cave near the coast of northern Spain #IceAgeArt: image via Jamie Woodward @jamie_woodward, 1 March 2017
 

 #Syria A young man @ Aleppo cut off his dick and while naked amid the crowds w/ blood running through his legs shouted I am a woman not a man
: image via Ivan Sidorenko @IvanSidorenko, 30 March 2017



 Missing our friend and guest host Jessica Poessiger on set today! Check out Episode 7 of DISTAFF to learn the backstory of this photo!: image via Kronik Television @KronikTVlive, 18 March 2017


 @realDonaldTrump signs order to roll back @BarackObama Clean Power Plan, threatening US position in #ParisAgreement
: image via Jeff Mason @jeffmason1, 28 March 2017



@realDonaldTrump says he told coal miners they would be able to continue to do their jobs.
: image via Jeff Mason @jeffmason1, 28 March 2017



  
"here's your membership cards kids... the saucers arrive on July 5th": image via Pope Phil Monty @PopePhilMonty, 11 January 2017
 

@realDonaldTrump at @EPA
to sign executive order rolling back @BarackObama climate regulations: image via Jeff Mason @jeffmason1, 28 March 2017



 #TalesFromTheBorder: Scenes of daily life along the existing US-Mexico border fence by photographer @RodrigoAbd
: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 31 March 2017




 #TalesFromTheBorder: Scenes of daily life along the existing US-Mexico border fence by photographer @RodrigoAbd
: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 31 March 2017



 #TalesFromTheBorder: Scenes of daily life along the existing US-Mexico border fence by photographer @RodrigoAbd: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 31 March 2017
 

Children wait as their mother collects food being distributed in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces, Mosul, Iraq.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 17 March 2017

as the greed explodes / over our daily bread
 
Untitled | by kaykanat

[Untitled, Stockholm]: photo by kaykanat, 20 May 2013

Untitled | by Street photographer - http://www.gabibest.com/

Untitled [Tel Aviv]: photo by Gabi Ben avraham, 17 March 2017

Untitled | by Quarlo

[Untitled, Manhattan]: photo by Todd Gross, 18 March 2014

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS? | by Eric Seneca Kim

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS: photo by Eric Kim, 22 March 2017

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS? | by Eric Seneca Kim

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS: photo by Eric Kim, 22 March 2017

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS? | by Eric Seneca Kim

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS: photo by Eric Kim, 22 March 2017

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 7 March 2017

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 7 March 2017

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 7 March 2017

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 1 June 2013

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 1 June 2013

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 1 June 2013

flamingo | by issaret.chalermsopone

flamingo [Huahin, Thailand]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 27 March 2017

flamingo | by issaret.chalermsopone

flamingo [Huahin, Thailand]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 27 March 2017

flamingo | by issaret.chalermsopone

flamingo [Huahin, Thailand]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 27 March 2017

nap | by issaret.chalermsopone

nap [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 29 January 2017

nap | by issaret.chalermsopone

nap [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 29 January 2017

nap | by issaret.chalermsopone

nap [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 29 January 2017

2017_0326_17423100-01 | by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao Photos

2017_0326_17423100-01: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 26 March 2017

2017_0326_17423100-01 | by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao Photos

2017_0326_17423100-01: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 26 March 201

2017_0326_17423100-01 | by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao Photos

2017_0326_17423100-01: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 26 March 2017

DSC00608 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC00608: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 21 March 2017

DSC00608 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC00608: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 21 March 2017

DSC00608 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC00608: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 21 March 2017

Siam | by issaret.chalermsopone

Siam [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 24 December 2016

Siam | by issaret.chalermsopone

Siam [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 24 December 2016

Siam | by issaret.chalermsopone

Siam [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 24 December 2016

face | by issaret.chalermsopone

face [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 20 October 2016

face | by issaret.chalermsopone

face [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 20 October 2016

face | by issaret.chalermsopone

face [Bangkok]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 20 October 2016

Untitled | by kaykanat

[Untitled, Stockholm]: photo by kaykanat, 20 May 2013

Untitled | by Quarlo

[Untitled, Manhattan]: photo by Todd Gross, 18 March 2014

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS? | by Eric Seneca Kim

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS: photo by Eric Kim, 22 March 2017

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS? | by Eric Seneca Kim

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS: photo by Eric Kim, 22 March 2017

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS? | by Eric Seneca Kim

WHY DO YOU MAKE PHOTOS: photo by Eric Kim, 22 March 2017

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 7 March 2017

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 7 March 2017

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 7 March 2017

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 1 June 2013

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 1 June 2013

Untitled | by Rammy Narula

[Untitled]: photo by Rammy Narula, 1 June 2013

 
Thermopylae
: Edward Lear, 1872, oil on canvas, 34 x 54 cm (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)


http://www.wga.hu/art/l/lear/thermopy.jpg

Thermopylae
: Edward Lear, 1872, oil on canvas, 34 x 54 cm (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)


Four killed in clashes in Kashmir #AFP  Clashes between suspected rebels and Indian forces in Chadoora #kashmir Photo @TauseefMUSTAFA: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 March 2017


#Syria A family displaced due to airstrikes travels with their belongings near Tayyibat al-Imam, Hama countryside @omar_hajkadour @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 30 March 2017


SYRIA - A Syrian man flees with his belongings from the village of Rahbet Khattab in the Hama province. Photo @omar_hajkadour #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 March 2017


26M #Moscow Protesters gesture from a police bus after being detained during an anti-corruption rally By Alexander Utkin @fotoutka @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017

Battle for Mosul © Ivor Prickett, Ireland, Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs & News, 2017

Battle for Mosul © Ivor Prickett, Ireland 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs and News: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017


Battle for Mosul © Ivor Prickett, Ireland, Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs & News, 2017 

Battle for Mosul © Ivor Prickett, Ireland 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs and News: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017


23M #Libya(n) coast. The body of a dead migrant rests in an @openarms_fund inflatable boat during a search and rescue op. By @yannisBehrakis: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017


#instantané Trois jeunes garçons dans le camp de déplacés d'Hasan Sham, à 30 km à l'est de Mossoul #AFP #Irak Photo @gharabli_ahmad: image via Agence France-Presse @afpfr, 26 March 2017


Iraq forces launch renewed attack on Mosul's Old City #AFP @gharabli_ahmad: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 27 March 2017





A man gathers his belongings from his damaged home following a reported air-strike in Al-Ghouta area, Syria. Photo @amer_almohibany: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 30 March 2017


 
An estimated 750 civilians have been killed or wounded since late January in the battle for western Mosul, Iraq. Photo by @felipedana: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 29 March 2017 


 
An estimated 750 civilians have been killed or wounded since late January in the battle for western Mosul, Iraq. Photo by @felipedana: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 29 March 2017 



An estimated 750 civilians have been killed or wounded since late January in the battle for western Mosul, Iraq. Photo by @felipedana: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 29 March 2017 


An estimated 750 civilians have been killed or wounded since late January in the battle for western Mosul, Iraq. Photo by @felipedana: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 29 March 2017

Fight Against Daesh in Mosul © Ivor Prickett, Ireland, Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs & News, 2017

Fight Against Daesh in Mosul © Ivor Prickett, Ireland, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017

Fight Against Daesh in Mosul © Ivor Prickett, Ireland, Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs & News, 2017

Fight Against Daesh in Mosul © Ivor Prickett, Ireland, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017

Migration from Syria to Turkey © Paşa İmrek, Turkey, Shortlist, Professional Competition, Current Affairs & News, 2017

Migration from Syria to Turkey © Paşa İmrek, Turkey, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017

Migration from Syria to Turkey © Paşa İmrek, Turkey, Shortlist, Professional Competition, Current Affairs & News, 2017

Migration from Syria to Turkey © Paşa İmrek, Turkey, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017

Battle for Sirte, Libya © Alessio Romenzi, Italy, Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs & News, 2017

Battle for Sirte, Libya © Alessio Romenzi, Italy, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017

Battle for Sirte, Libya © Alessio Romenzi, Italy, Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs & News, 2017

Battle for Sirte, Libya © Alessio Romenzi, Italy, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017

Battle for Mosul © Asger Ladefoged, Denmark, Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs & News, 2017

Battle for Mosul © Asger Ladefoged, Denmark, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017

Battle for Mosul © Asger Ladefoged, Denmark, Shortlist, Professional, Current Affairs & News, 2017

Battle for Mosul © Asger Ladefoged, Denmark, 2017 Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 March 2017



 
Acknowledging women's superior intellect, @realDonaldTrump stated "You just have a big advantage over us, you know why? Right there...": image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 29 March 2017



A construction site in the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, in February
: photo by
Oded Balilty/Associated Press, 31 March 2017

  


A construction site in the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, in February: photo by Oded Balilty/Associated Press, 31 March 2017


A biblical scene defaced by the Islamic State in Bartella: photo by Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times, 23 December 2016

 

 
A biblical scene defaced by the Islamic State in Bartella: photo by Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times, 23 December 2016


A boy mourning over the body of his father, killed by the Islamic State, as he arrived at a field clinic near the front-lines in the battle for Mosul. When the battle began, the government, fearing an exodus of civilians it could not care for, urged residents to stay in their homes. Most did, and weeks into the battle, civilians were dying in growing numbers.: photo by Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times, 23 December 2016
 
 
 
A boy mourning over the body of his father, killed by the Islamic State, as he arrived at a field clinic near the front-lines in the battle for Mosul. When the battle began, the government, fearing an exodus of civilians it could not care for, urged residents to stay in their homes. Most did, and weeks into the battle, civilians were dying in growing numbers.: photo by Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times, 23 December 2016
 
 
The interior of a home in Santiago de Cuba: photo by Tomas Munita for The New York Times, 22 December 2016
 
  

The interior of a home in Santiago de Cuba: photo by Tomas Munita for The New York Times, 22 December 2016


A woman sharing a taxi ride to Santiago de Cuba. Cuba can feel like a nation abandoned. The aching disrepair of its cities, the untamed foliage of its countryside, the orphaned coastlines — a half-century of isolation has wrapped the country in decay. Yet few places in the world brim with as much life, a contrast drawn sharper amid its faded grandeur.: photo by Tomas Munita for The New York Times, 22 December 2016



 A woman sharing a taxi ride to Santiago de Cuba. Cuba can feel like a nation abandoned. The aching disrepair of its cities, the untamed foliage of its countryside, the orphaned coastlines — a half-century of isolation has wrapped the country in decay. Yet few places in the world brim with as much life, a contrast drawn sharper amid its faded grandeur.: photo by Tomas Munita for The New York Times, 22 December 2016


 The body of Erika Angel Fernandez, who was killed alongside her boyfriend, Jericho Camitan, lay in the street a few hours after they were gunned down by masked, unidentified men on Oct. 26 in Quezon City.: photo by Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times, 26 October 2016

 

 The body of Erika Angel Fernandez, who was killed alongside her boyfriend, Jericho Camitan, lay in the street a few hours after they were gunned down by masked, unidentified men on Oct. 26 in Quezon City.: photo by Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times, 26 October 2016


An Iraqi woman lay on the ground as civilians fled Mosul on Wednesday, while Iraqi forces advanced inside the city during fighting against the Islamic State.: photo by Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse, 10 March 2017

 

An Iraqi woman lay on the ground as civilians fled Mosul on Wednesday, while Iraqi forces advanced inside the city during fighting against the Islamic State.: photo by Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse, 10 March 2017


Families on Monday at a refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, on the border with Macedonia. According to the local authorities, about 12,000 refugees and migrants remain stuck at the border as they wait to continue their journey north into Western Europe.: photo by Dan Kitwood, 10 March 2017



Families on Monday at a refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, on the border with Macedonia. According to the local authorities, about 12,000 refugees and migrants remain stuck at the border as they wait to continue their journey north into Western Europe.: photo by Dan Kitwood, 10 March 2017


An Iraqi fighter in Mosul on Friday. Iraqi forces, with help from the American military, are trying to retake the western part of city from Islamic State militants.: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse, 23 February 2017



An Iraqi fighter in Mosul on Friday. Iraqi forces, with help from the American military, are trying to retake the western part of city from Islamic State militants.: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse, 23 February 2017


A boy in Rimenze, South Sudan. The United Nations has issued a rare, formal famine declaration for parts of the nation.: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 4 March 2017



A boy in Rimenze, South Sudan. The United Nations has issued a rare, formal famine declaration for parts of the nation.: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 4 March 2017


Women waiting in the early morning at a water collection point in a camp for displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan. War has driven millions from their homes.: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 10 March 2017



Women waiting in the early morning at a water collection point in a camp for displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan. War has driven millions from their homes.: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 10 March 2017


A boy rides his bike through the streets of Mosul, in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi forces.: photo by Felipe Dana/Associated Press, 24 March 2017



A boy rides his bike through the streets of Mosul, in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi forces.: photo by Felipe Dana/Associated Press, 24 March 2017


People along National Route 1 trying to escape Boko Haram.: photo by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times, 30 March 2017



People along National Route 1 trying to escape Boko Haram.: photo by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times, 30 March 2017


People in the Diffa region of Niger who are fleeing Boko Haram fighters. Journalists for The Times spent weeks with them as they walked along National Route 1.: photo by The New York Times, 30 March 2017



People in the Diffa region of Niger who are fleeing Boko Haram fighters. Journalists for The Times spent weeks with them as they walked along National Route 1.: photo by The New York Times, 30 March 2017 
 
 
Somali mothers tend to children at a cholera treatment center in Baidoa. A drought is helping famine tighten its grip on Somalia, along with Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 31 March 2017

  

Somali mothers tend to children at a cholera treatment center in Baidoa. A drought is helping famine tighten its grip on Somalia, along with Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 31 March 2017


A woman in western Mosul shortly after one of her sons had been mortally wounded in a mortar attack by Islamic State fighters.: photo by Ivor Prickett for The New York Times, 31 March 2017



A woman in western Mosul shortly after one of her sons had been mortally wounded in a mortar attack by Islamic State fighters.: photo by Ivor Prickett for The New York Times, 31 March 2017


Civilians in western Mosul, Iraq, line up to receive aid, while war rages on.: photo by Ivor Prickett for The New York Times, 31 March 2017



Civilians in western Mosul, Iraq, line up to receive aid, while war rages on.: photo by Ivor Prickett for The New York Times, 31 March 2017

4 comments:

TC said...

The Platters: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1958)

This song was mums favourite, when mum passed away in 1992 dad had it played at her funeral! and then it dawned on me where we were! I turned to dad and whispered "Only you could request "smoke gets in your eyes" in the fucking Crematorium! Mum would have been absolutely pissing herself laughing! God bless Mum, miss you every day.x

Guy Ettridge 1 year ago

TC said...


Shirley Bassey: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (live on the Morecambe & Wise Show, 1971)

TC said...


Leonard Cohen: First We Take Manhattan (live on Austin City Limits, 1989)

TC said...

John Cale: Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (live at at the Crystal Palace Concert Bowl, London, 1975)