I don't know if this man was actually laid off someplace, but that was the mood as he walked his box of odds and ends down to the commuter train.

I blurred and rendered this photo a little softer (and perhaps more anonymous) for… Read full post »

The most famous of the original Salon.com user blogs is about to become a movie. A real movie, as in a major motion picture. Nora Ephron as director/screenwriter. Meryl Streep as Julia Child, Amy Adams as blogger Julie Powell, and not to forget the husbands, Stanley Tucci as Paul Child… Read full post »

Recently I returned from a wonderful, heart-warming, musically and culturally rich trip to New Orleans... and what am I posting in my flickrstream? Photos of empty buildings in the Lower Ninth Ward, a place that was once a poor African American neighborhood with… Read full post »

The night after Thanksgiving, Steve and I went to City Hall for the walk to the Castro District for the Harvey Milk 30th Anniversary Memorial march.

The entire tribute was moving, and at the end of the evening one of the young activists working on the event played… Read full post »

A 30 second impressonof early voting, Sunday in San Francisco.  There is only one early vote location, City Hall.  About 300 people were in line outside the building, maybe another 100 in line inside in the hallways, at about 4:00 pm. The wait at the time… Read full post »

" Here is a photo I thought you might appreciate that I took yesterday in suburban Cincinnati while going door-to-door for the Obama campaign. All the Obama signs in the neighborhood had been stolen.  -- Jayson Wechter"

The large handmade sign says: You can steal our… Read full post »

"Walking through the wind shadow." Very short, very simple, minimal ambient sound -- speakers not needed. (c) by me, shot with my Canon still camera, lightly edited via iMovie, uploaded to Flickr, then grabbed embed code for here.  Nothing, almost.

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(c) me

...you gonna linger here for five dollars or best offer?
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and those handset stickers are so naive -- the whole hivemind communications network is "tapped" doncha know!

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The arid American west is an ancient canvas for messages.

This one, someplace over Eastern California or Western Arizona (flying from San Diego to Albuquerque), could be designed to bring the big shiny ships in. Or maybe the roadmakers had an inkling that someday… Read full post »

OK, no HBO. So it goes. Meanwhile, the Wires in my life have to do with an obscure flickr group where artists from varous countries make photographs with wire patterns in them. Oh those camera-wielding fools.  Here's one I submitted to the group:

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(seen on Mission Street. Photo copyright by me. Originally posted at
Flickr, where there are comments )

My favorite time-wasting is photo posting with comment-swapping. One thing I love about Flickr is that there is a little link at the bottom of the page that shows all recent… Read full post »

(Seen near Fresno, California by Gail Williams, copyright 2005)

I love quirky signs. They are such a popular fixture at internet photo sites... what about hosting a show me a sign day at Open Salon?

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Edit wars. Sock puppets.  These things can make you toss and turn at night. A recent article about Wikipedia edit wars, from SF Weekly, has an odd whiff of vengeance about it, along with some amazing tales and questions, as it delves into the shady world of gang content-policing.  

I highly… Read full post »

 

(Jesus of the Gravel. Photo copyright 2006, Gail Williams)

What is it with people who dig up lawns for such an installation? Read full post »