[AGL] homeless

Sun Apr 16 10:25:22 EDT 2017

far be it from me to criticize your backwoods idyll.

i and wife are movie heads. we have a small flat panel old-time
TV set. we used to go to Waterloo Video rentals way back but
it and most video rental stores are out of biz, Vulcan Video
a notable exception.

i discovered that the public library has many movies and buys more
as they come out. there is no concept to watching a movie
on a tv with a DVD player hooked up to it. you just press the button,
the dvd shelf pops out, you press the other button, the shelf retracts
and you're watching a movie on your TV.

i suspect that you are not a movie head. as for concepts, i'm not
clear on the clearing bush part. do you do it by hand, swinging
a scythe, or with a chain saw?

On 4/16/2017 8:22 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
> Library. We have one in Camp Wood but I have more books than it does. 
> I use Goodwill in Kerrville and the ones I find to get books as well 
> as deal on Amazon buying books because I learned long ago I forget to 
> take books back to the library and have been fined more than the book 
> costs. I rented on VHS tape in my life and I had to buy it later. 
> Never rented a DVD yet or recorded anything. I can't understand the 
> concept. If you don't have time to watch it when it is there how can 
> you have time later? I just read books and paint and draw and of 
> course clear brush. That is a never ending project and really fun.
>
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Michael Eisenstadt 
> <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com <mailto:eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I go to the big library 3 or 4 times a week, just to get out of the
>     house, to check out or return DVD movies and the occasional
>     book. the library is funded to buy non-fiction books as they are
>     published which is a great gift poisonally.
>
>     public libraries throught America are magnets for homeless people,
>     with public toilets.
>
>     however, for the last year of so, there are more homeless than
>     in earlier more prosperous years. these are mostly under thirty,
>     about 55% black, 45% white, down and out women and men.
>     in the last 6 months, cheap bad drugs have a large proportion of
>     this population nodding out or sleeping it off on the sidewalks.
>     the police/EMS are a not infrequent sight. there are free facilities
>     in big cities as there are not out in the country which explains
>     why this is a big city phenomenon. the amount of gear they
>     carry around is prodigious.
>
>     Telejerk recommends a telephoto lens which my handy dandy
>     Nikon S3500 lady's purse camera has big-time: wide wide of 25mm
>     to a long long 175mm. You can buy 'em on Ebay for around $40.
>
>     the death of Robert Capa from getting too close has long been an
>     inspiration to me.
>
>
>     On 4/16/2017 7:26 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
>>     I never see any homeless people in the outback. Rock Springs,
>>     Uvalde, Camp Wood, Marathon, Alpine, Marfa, and even Del Rio.
>>     Surely they are here or there but they must be invisible.
>>
>>     We have a couple of old codgers here, gringos, that wander the
>>     streets of Camp Wood all day but they will talk to you and do not
>>     seem to be totally out of it. They just don't have anything to
>>     do. One is a retired Coastie and he surely gets a check every month.
>>
>>     Do the homeless just live in large cities? I saw a few in Corpus
>>     Christi when I was there a few months ago.
>>
>>     On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Frances Morey via
>>     Austin-ghetto-list <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net
>>     <mailto:austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         Yes. But paid models sounds a tad "National Enquirer." I do
>>         like the political implications as reportage. To most people
>>         the homeless are invisible. It's hard to have empathy with
>>         people you can't see.
>>         It might be interesting to give them a platform for showing
>>         photos they themselves take, selfies or of one another. That
>>         makes it more egalitarian.
>>         I feel guilty about taking photos of other photographer's
>>         works. There is certainly enough mea culpa to go around. Yet
>>         I justify it as publicity, or my own critical review, touting
>>         photography as art.
>>         Best,
>>         Frances
>>
>>
>>         Here's my favorite sunrise on the Gulf Coast.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Saturday, April 15, 2017 9:41 PM, TeleBob
>>         <telebob at gmail.com <mailto:telebob at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         I would and do think of it differently, and I frame it so. 
>>         The image that I capture here is an indictment of the system
>>         that helped put you here.
>>
>>         Your picture is another bullet for change.
>>
>>         Some go for it, some not.
>>
>>         Ask Diane Arbus or Vivian Maier about it.
>>         On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 6:40 PM Frances Morey via
>>         Austin-ghetto-list <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net
>>         <mailto:austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>> wrote:
>>
>>             I paid "street models" in New Orleans who would dress up
>>             in elaborate costumes just for the purpose of being
>>             photographed for tips. Yet shooting the homeless seems
>>             intrusive and tacky. "May I take a photo of you in your
>>             most miserable state of homelessness?--I'll pay you"
>>
>>             I love the lyrics from a friend of Mike's who wrote a
>>             song, "Welcome to Selena Christi", this snippet is one of
>>             my favorite lyrics. Reminds me of a homeless person's
>>             sentiment.
>>
>>             "I live right here on Primrose,
>>             Come on down to visit,
>>             I don't charge admission,
>>             I'm not an exhibit."
>>
>>             Best,
>>             Frances
>>
>>
>>             On Saturday, April 15, 2017 5:00 PM, TeleBob
>>             <telebob at gmail.com <mailto:telebob at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>             Bull. I offer them money. You have to have a dialog.
>>             Couple of bucks a shot, worth it for their cooperation.
>>             Otherwise, get a long lens and treat them like wildlife.
>>
>>
>>             On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 2:57 PM Michael Eisenstadt
>>             <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com <mailto:eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>                 photos taken surreptiitiously. hight of rudeness to
>>                 go slumming
>>                 with a camera right in their face - and risking a
>>                 punch in the face
>>
>>                 remember what happened to Robert Capa!
>>
>>
>>                 On 4/15/2017 4:39 PM, TeleBob wrote:
>>>                 Remember what Robert Capa said, "if your pictures
>>>                 are not good enough, it's because you're not close
>>>                 enough."
>>>
>>>
>>>                 On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 1:42 PM Michael Eisenstadt
>>>                 <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com
>>>                 <mailto:eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                     2 views of a group of homeless camped out across
>>>                     the street
>>>                     from the library
>>>
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>>     -- 
>>     Charlie Loving
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> -- 
> Charlie Loving

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