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to Getty, it's a search on editorial, news-only images from the last 24 hours, keyword haiti.
the contrast is too much, and it perfectly exemplifies pop culture at its most despicable. photos of silicon-enhanced, b-list "celebrities" mugging for the camera at a gala fundraiser for haiti interspersed with photos from haiti: piles of rubble spiked with seven-days-dead corpses. skeletal survivors crouched near a broken pipe gathering water.
this completely automated grouping of photos makes as strong a statement as any artist or editor could.
1/17/2010
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Introduction.
Today I attended the introductory session of the MBSR class I'll be attending for the next 10 weeks. I am honestly enthused about this, and I am not quite sure what to expect, and of course I had some preconceptions or at least projections, mostly about my fellow classmates.
The session today was not with the group I'll be in during the session, as I'll be in fabulous Atlantic City for the intro class for my group, so none of the people there will be in my class. There were quite a few "central casting" types there. Somewhat broken or damaged or just slightly off appearing characters. Only two men in the group of 15. One man seemed pretty average, the other seemed wracked with shame and seemed to have been talked into attending by his spouse who "has just left her position in the church" and is starting a new chapter in her life.
There was also a low-talker (I was almost sure we'd all end up in puffy shirts) and a young mother of three who offered that she suffered from post-partum depression and raged at her husband for his beer drinking and tobacco chewing.
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The session today was not with the group I'll be in during the session, as I'll be in fabulous Atlantic City for the intro class for my group, so none of the people there will be in my class. There were quite a few "central casting" types there. Somewhat broken or damaged or just slightly off appearing characters. Only two men in the group of 15. One man seemed pretty average, the other seemed wracked with shame and seemed to have been talked into attending by his spouse who "has just left her position in the church" and is starting a new chapter in her life.
There was also a low-talker (I was almost sure we'd all end up in puffy shirts) and a young mother of three who offered that she suffered from post-partum depression and raged at her husband for his beer drinking and tobacco chewing.
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