Image Thread

[Setherick]

And here are some candids:

[QuickreleasePersonalitY]

Setherick,

wow, neet photos :3  thanks for sharing

[clockworkjoe]

Setherick,

wow, neet photos :3  thanks for sharing

yeah, good stuff!

[Setherick]

Setherick,

wow, neet photos :3  thanks for sharing

Thanks. Here is another favorite, but it needs some context. This was taken in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee. Riverwest is notable for its diversity as well as its artists and activists.



Also, I completely missed this photo when I was uploading shots.



And, finally, one edit. Here's Ross' cover art for his Carcosa material. (This is the moonrise shot from earlier with the color pallet inverted and the image cropped.)

[Setherick]

OK, I found three more while going through photos. I won't have anymore for awhile though. It's not like I'm specifically going out to shoot these. I just shoot the things I find interesting.

Halloween decoration.



This shot annoys me that it didn't turn out better than it did. I shot it through the window of a city bus that was stopped at a red light. I didn't have time to frame the image correctly or account for the glare.



Meanwhile in downtown Milwaukee.



When I get more time, I'll build a website to host all of these and look for a pay-to-print option for postcards and posters if anyone is interested.

[QuickreleasePersonalitY]

i've been to Milwaukee a few times--during the 90's when i went on my gamer hadj to MECCA.

i had some nifty experiences there:

-- when M:tG came out, people were lined up thrice around the inside of the dealer's room.  in the bathrooms, someone had left M:tG cards in the waste receptacles

--  when my friend and i noticed how xpensive the food was in MECCA, we went to the info desk to ask for any restaurants locally...we were told a list, and then that if we wanted ethnic food, there was a taco bell...that made me double take -- i had a moment of culture shock/alienation/minor sanity roll ;3

-- one time when we were figuring out how to get there we somehow drove less than a block and suddenly the neighbourhood changed where everyone was staring at us...like we passed into another reality...decaying streets & buildings...from wealth to poverty...

[Setherick]

-- one time when we were figuring out how to get there we somehow drove less than a block and suddenly the neighbourhood changed where everyone was staring at us...like we passed into another reality...decaying streets & buildings...from wealth to poverty...

While we have lots of ethnic food choices now, this pretty much sums up Milwaukee's socioeconomic conditions still. I live in Shorewood, technically, so I get to avoid a lot of normal Milwaukee problems though.

[Setherick]

So one more anyway. The WITI Tower  (mine is better than the Wikipedia photo) near my house.

[QuickreleasePersonalitY]

-- one time when we were figuring out how to get there we somehow drove less than a block and suddenly the neighbourhood changed where everyone was staring at us...like we passed into another reality...decaying streets & buildings...from wealth to poverty...

While we have lots of ethnic food choices now...

That's the thing, though...isn't all food ethnic food? :3  That's why I had that shock/alienation when that information desk woman described the fast food restaurant as 'ethnic food'...is/was that part of Milwaukee culture, her comment?

[Setherick]

-- one time when we were figuring out how to get there we somehow drove less than a block and suddenly the neighbourhood changed where everyone was staring at us...like we passed into another reality...decaying streets & buildings...from wealth to poverty...

While we have lots of ethnic food choices now...

That's the thing, though...isn't all food ethnic food? :3  That's why I had that shock/alienation when that information desk woman described the fast food restaurant as 'ethnic food'...is/was that part of Milwaukee culture, her comment?

Sure. But typically the term is used to describe food choices that are outside the normal American diet, so no burgers, steaks, "Mexican," "Italian," and, for Milwaukee, "Greek." One of my favorite Ethiopian restaurants is an Ethiopian place where you sit at traditional low wicker tables and eat with injera bread. I mean you could get silverware, if you wanted to look like an American.

[Mckma]

All these...

http://www.happyplace.com/15235/the-creepiest-easter-bunny-photos-ever-taken/page/1

[clockworkjoe]

Look at all of these abandoned places







http://imgur.com/gallery/25orM

just look at them

[Setherick]

Say what you will, but Soviet monument building is one of the most fascinating things of the 20C:

http://www.nikolamihov.com/forget_your_past.html

http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html

http://io9.com/5899924/an-extremely-creepy-tour-of-an-abandoned-soviet-war-memorial

http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2012/04/urban-exploration-soviet-propaganda.html

Even creepier in the dead of winter: http://humanplanet.com/timothyallen/2012/02/buzludzha-buzludja-bulgaria/

[clockworkjoe]

[Mckma]

My roommates have been watching this show obsessively for the past 2 weeks or so.  Amusing scene for sure though....