The Holly and The Ivy (1952)

           

 Soylent Green (1973)

I think I'm cursed to be haunted the rest of my life by artists, especially photographers, mostly photographers honestly, embrace of Generative AI. I'm blessed to have at least done my photography studies years prior. What a curse on us all. And I will always have some hate in my heart for those who smiled and nodded along saying they were contributing to art with it (before these things go bankrupt and use up all the water and become surveillance and mass detention centers).  'What fun! Possibilities! Freedom! The great equalizer!' Asserting they are making important creative work with it, whining you should respect it on par with...No. 

One of the worst things is that likely I am at some point going to be forced to hold this knife and contribute to cutting through the fabric of humanity if I want to eat. Why are humans their own worse enemy? How do people hate other humans so much to have invented such evil? Why do so little see it with such education and supposed enlightenment or sensitivity? These elite freaks and the people they have coerced and brainwashed are going to destroy all our fucking beautiful land and resources, peoples' psyches, societal stability, all for the opportunity for people to view and create the stupidest, mediocre and evil shit you can imagine. And you're fucking applauding it proudly.

I feel like one of a few out here unfortunately who rail against this, have actual fear and rage and yes even some grief over it in the photo world. The cultural gatekeepers and such, and teachers and such, they don't care. They don't at all. They can't see it for what it actually is ironically for being translators, teachers, philosophers of a visual medium. You can't make this stuff up, willing accepting the sci-fi dystopia because they want a gadget to decipher.

A lot to say but so much in the meantime of each time want to go and write, yet the Trump news timeline waits for no one to take a breath. However.... wow New Yorkers 😍

My four blisters from canvasing for Mamdani was well worth the win and the days fretting over if it was possible in believing something hopeful being fulfilled. 

Fuck your bitter zionist racist bloodlust Cuomo and the billionaire ghouls eager to have funded you. 

To contribute in crushing an entitled predator with his greedy dreams of continuing his family's dynasty into the political dirt is heart warming indeed. 

💖

Oh New Yorkers you have the chance to do the right thing tomorrow/today and I happen to be here to possibly witness it in real time, to grind your parasite ex-governor into the dirt politically or do the worst thing....

I've done canvasing shifts and while they have been mostly positive yet you do get some people who look at you as if you just asked them to be beamed up onto on a spaceship. 

Cuomo I was thinking about it a couple days ago after observing his Instagram, that like is this even a real campaign or a money laundering scheme? Mamdani is running a marathon of a campaign while Cuomo is in one of those rowing boats in the Central Park lake waving at spectators saying it's fine everything is great. 'Here's a poll that says I'm only losing by 7 points now!' Maybe us Mamdani supporters will get shattered and the groping sex pest is on to something we don't know. Yet who thinks this creep is actually running a campaign that he believes he can win and doing everything possible? What are Cuomo and Trump doing behind the scenes and what lobbying job is lined up for him after he has lined his pockets from this?

I almost wish that so much wasn't riding on this politically, bigger than Mamdani, and yet that this what the fates have decided, so New Yorkers are you listening?