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POPSMost Endangered Historic Sites in the U.S. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its annual list of the most endangered sites. Included are former tenements in New York's Lower East Side and the elementary school in Topeka, Kansas that led to the Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education. Are there endangered historic sites in your town, city or state?
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POPSGeorge Carlin Quotes Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
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POPS1941 National Park Service Photo Mural "In 1941 the National Park Service commissioned noted photographer Ansel Adams to create a photo mural for the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC. The theme was to be nature as exemplified and protected in the U.S. National Parks. The project was halted because of World War II and never resumed." I included the entire set, so the clip is REALLY long. - you may want to view when you have more time. At the source page, you can download any of these photos in much higher resolution. I scaled them all to 500 px wide for the clipmark.
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POPSThe Ten Legal Commandments of Photography*
*Charlton Heston not included. :) I. Anyone in a public place can take pictures of anything they want. Public places include parks, sidewalks, malls, etc. Malls? Yeah. Even though it’s technically private property, being open to the public makes it public space. II. If you are on public property, you can take pictures of private property. If a building, for example, is visible from the sidewalk, it’s fair game. III. If you are on private property and are asked not to take pictures, you are obligated to honour that request. This includes posted signs. IV. Sensitive government buildings (military bases, nuclear facilities) can prohibit photography if it is deemed a threat to national security. V. People can be photographed if they are in public (without their consent) unless they have secluded themselves and can expect a reasonable degree of privacy. Kids swimming in a fountain? Okay. Somebody entering their PIN at the ATM? Not okay. There's a bit more at the source.
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POPSGlobalized Contamination The article points out that these contaminants are traveling around the world through the atmosphere and coming in for a landing wherever and whenever they fall to Earth via rain or snow. Mountain areas are particularly susceptible because they "catch" the pollutants as they fly by in high altitude winds. We are all interconnected, and yet we have no real institutions that are functioning on these issues in a globally interconnected way. Yet nation states don't seem to be able to protect their inhabitants from this type of agression.
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