[AGL] homeless

Sun Apr 16 11:21:59 EDT 2017

Movies: I have Amazon prime and can watch on my computer. But movies take
up a lot of time that can be spent doing more constructive things. I paint
water colors or draw four hours a day and do a lot of cooking for fun. Nice
thing is that you can pause and come back the next day and watch another
fifteen minutes or so or fast forward. I watch a lot of Randolph Scott,
Lash LaRue, Durango Kid and such really bad films.

Brush clearing is fun. Chain sawing and pole sawing and tractor pulling out
of stumps. Getting rid of the cedar which are invasive is the idea. I like
what Bamburgher did on his 1,500 acres. He cleared all the cedar and now
the springs are back and flowing. Ashley my rancher next door has cleared
2,000 acres of cedar and has gone solar. We hunt Axis deer year round for
meat that is chemical free. Also fish his ponds for Brim and Bass. We
actually saw a bear on his place and he has night vision video of a cougar
and her cubs eating a feral hog we laid out for her. Life three hours from
the city is great. I have a five acre pond and a flowing creek and no high
rises or city folks around. They have no comprehension of what life really
means.

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Michael Eisenstadt <
mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > 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> 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> 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> 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> 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> 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> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2 views of a group of homeless camped out across the street
>>> from the library
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Charlie Loving
>>
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> --
> Charlie Loving
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Charlie Loving
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