Year: 2023
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Questions about Monuments
Preamble: This is the first in a series of entries I will post over the coming weeks that continues my study into the movement to take down monuments, and change place names. The question I keep asking myself is why does it makes sense to remove some monuments from the public space? What are the…
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Toronto Island
in: Photography
I recently visited Toronto Island with our photography group. In advance, I prepared some notes on the Islands for the group, focusing largely on the architecture of the homes / cottages on the different islands.
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The Thief
According to Politico, Donald Trump earned over $7 million in sales, from various merchandize he sold that included his mug shot. Some have asked whether this is a copyright infringement, as Trump is not the owner of the copyright; the law enforcement agency is. In an article published December 2022, Innocent Until Proven Posted: Regulating Online Mugshot…
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Tyranny of the Crowd
In the rolling fields of green and golden yellow, where sunflowers stretch their heads to the sky, it’s hard not to see a face on each one, gazing with a silent, expectant expression, following the sun’s path through the day. When you stand at the edge of a field, these faces merge into a crowd,…
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Protection of the Crowd
In that same sun-drenched meadow of sunflowers, beneath a sky that both watches and ignores, one witnesses a profound transformation of individuals merging into a crowd becoming a sea of golden faces turning toward the sun. Here, it is as if individuality ceases to exist, each vibrant face blurring into the rest, losing all distinct…