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Photographer/Director/Artist "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

NYC | NOLA
Joined August 2008
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Other places you can follow me:
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It really do be like that
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Turns out they *were* right all along!
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YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW YOU NEEDED TO SEE PIX OF FLEXING VICTORIAN BABES BUT YOU DID
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RIP Barbara Ehrenreich
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Dolly Parton’s dad never learned to read. She started a program which sends a book every month to children in need. 92. Million. Books.
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Imagination Library
7 years
This month, @DollysLibrary sent 1,091,724 books, bringing the total number of free books mailed to 91,821,039!
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7 years
When you’re fucking fully over your stupid pet dragon
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3 years
Can confirm
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"Though we may be the last in the world, we feel like pioneers"
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Only about 18% of the people in Kentucky voted for Mitch McConnell and yet the entire 330 million rest of us somehow have to suffer because of it. Fantastic system we've got here
@therecount
The Recount
4 years
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) just blocked a proposal from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for a vote on the House bill to increase direct payments to $2,000.
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"They're coming for every second of your life" – @boburnham
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One time I pissed off a billionaire by saying “Capitalism only appears successful because it’s never been forced to accurately account for all its social and environmental externalities” but I was right and fuck that guy
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6 years
Scientists tell the UN: Capitalism is dying
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I love that the German Chancellor has been posing for a conceptual portrait series with the same photographer since 1991. It’s so German.
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Centrist Democrats fighting leftists/ Centrist Democrats fighting Republicans
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Oh I see Susan Sarandon is trending again
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6 years
Freelancer retirement plan
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9 years
Turn your weaknesses into strengths!
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You didn't hate 2021, you hated the hypercapitalism, poor leadership, and atrophied social safety net that made you needlessly suffer during it
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Susan Sarandon is a dear friend. I’ve witnessed her arrested protesting Trump. She hosted refugees in her own home. She street canvassed for AOC. True, she dynamited highways railways and airports to prevent Hillary from campaigning in Wisconsin, and perhaps that was xtreme but
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I use technology in order to hate it more properly. –Nam June Paik
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WE CAME FOR THE SEANCE BUT WE STAYED FOR THE GUN SHOW
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Millennials killed the serial killer business
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As a Gen X who grew up poor under Reagan I know the real "cancel culture" is conservative. I've seen them try to cancel food stamps, unions, social security, Medicare... heavy metal, hiphop, Dungeons and Dragons, video games and even french fries (!) Kiss my Gen X ass.
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Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner: "Cancel culture is spreading like wildfire. There is a call for Generation X to lead the charge to save America from the social media mob. Can they do it?"
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My 78-year old aunt is a waitress at a Waffle House in rural Alabama. She said she’s voting against Roy Moore because “he’s a kiddy diddler and a liar” and she’s bringing all our fam from the trailer park too.
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Strong endorsement for Labour
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The i paper
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Theresa May: if Labour wins at the next election “I’d be breaking rocks in John McDonnell’s re-education camp on the Isle of Man"
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Flavortown has Medicare for All
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Mayor Guy Fieri
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Not me. Us.
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SNAP ME LIKE A SWAN-HANDLED WALKING STICK AND THROW ME UNDER THE FAINTING COUCH
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You were never meant to be exposed to the internal monologues of millions of strangers as they react to a firehose of 24/7 international disaster news! You evolved to hear news once a month about a neighbor's new cow, or a cousin falling off a cart or some shit. You're OK!
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RIP to photographer Mick Rock. Even if you didn't know his name (you should know his name!) you definitely knew his iconic work
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Bernie interviewing mall goths, 1988 Goths for Bernie, 2016
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at age 16 photographed by Richard Avedon
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Cops fighting unarmed black kids and skateboarders / Cops fighting school shooters and neonazis
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That's because you kicked all freelancers and gig workers off unemployment. Being "off unemployment" is not the same as "being employed" and "being employed" is not the same as "having a living wage"
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Last year, there were 21 million unemployment insurance claims before the Thanksgiving holiday. Today, there were 2.4 million. It’s historic progress. Let’s keep it going with my Build Back Better Act.
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Evidently hardly any plastic has ever been recycled and the entire project was essentially greenwash marketing by the plastics (big oil) industry so you'd feel less guilty about consuming it and they could keep making giant profits!
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Hi let's be friends I live in a Sprite can on the bottom of the sea
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I asked my bayou-living 72-year old Cajun mom what she thought about Bernie supporters being rude to pundits online
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On the death of Koko the gorilla, here she is playing with Robin Williams
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8 years
Never attribute to Machiavellian genius what sheer brazen dickery will explain. Fascism isn’t chess, it’s street thuggery in office.
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Me: I’m going for “murdered by my sleeping bag, returned as an avenging spirit” Rick Owens: say no more I got you
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At all times there’s a 26% chance I’m fantasizing about living in Ricardo Bofill’s renovated concrete factory
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You know who else loved packed churches? The bubonic plague
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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Trump on why he picked Easter as the day he wants to end strict social distancing and reopen American businesses: "Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country."
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RIP to a personal hero, Terry Hall of The Specials, icon of working class antiracist solidarity, his whole life. Thank you for your message and your style through it all. 🏁🏁🏁
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I'm not down for this "no we can't" energy for shit that's already been figured out all around the world.
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@DaveVescio *while the boss bangs on the door for ten minutes*
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Jonathan Bachman of Reuters made another iconic photo from the Baton Rouge protests:
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I really don’t like how the streaming services auto-skip the end credits so quickly: 1. The cast and crew deserve credit 2. We like to decompress and chat about what we’ve just watched 3. Credits are often set to great music 4. See #1
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I was proud to make this portrait of @lsarsour in her role as co-chair of the beautiful #WomensMarch and I’m proud to say #IMarchWithLinda
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Every day I think of the Jet Blue flight attendant who said fuck it, deployed the emergency slide, grabbed a beer, and jumped.
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Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix, 1830 Protests in Chile, @su_hidalgo , 2019
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The government can suddenly turn off CitiBikes in NYC, in case you were wondering why it's still useful to own your own things which aren't connected to an app or the internet.
@AliWatkins
Ali Watkins
4 years
CitiBike, too, is under curfew apparently.
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1. Old Department of Education logo 2. New Department of Education logo
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Haiku by a robot is the best haiku ever
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Rats are riding lobsters again while carrying scrolls that wish us Peace, Joy, Health and Happiness. The Earth is healing. We are the virus.
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"jails for children"
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@AP
The Associated Press
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BREAKING: Biden says he will 'respect the limits of power,' after Supreme Court immunity ruling
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Teenage Frida Kahlo on her way to steal your girl
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HBO would have to pay me $1000 to watch this
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STAY ALIVE, GET WEIRD (Picasso self-portraits: aged 15, 25, 90)
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Replace Groundhog Day with Capybara Spa Day
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I did a pregnancy portrait shoot and one of the takes had a nipple slip, which would require me to censor before posting to Instagram. Can Adobe's AI Generative Fill save the day by "covering" the nipple with an extension of the model's shirt? No. The AI is also censored.
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Sid and Nancy, 1986, dir. Alex Cox
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Happy birthday to Hayao Miyazaki, here he is picking up trash and then a magazine tried to run up on him and interview him but he stayed on point like a pro
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I love vintage photographs that are entire movies in a split second. Fred Herzog. Vancouver 1968.
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Stop asking Bernie supporters if they’ll vote for Hillary against Trump. We got a plan to beat Trump already. Called Bernie. Check him out.
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In conclusion
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Caskets bubbled up from their graves and floating down the road, from the tragic flooding in Louisiana right now
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In conclusion
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4 years
Anybody who ever said antifa was the problem helped lead to this
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"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.” –John Ruskin. Image by Carlos Vera Mancilla
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@SenSanders Get him brother Bernard
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Dearly beloved We are gathered here today To get through this thing called life
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Holy shit!
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8 years
Don’t pin your hopes on: 3️⃣A lottery ticket 2️⃣The rhythm method 1️⃣The moral compass of Republican electors to the Electoral College
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Lisa Bonet, 1988, aged 21, photographed by Matthew Rolston Her daughter Zoe Kravitz, 2018, aged 30, photographed by Zoe Grossman
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Wait till he finds out about Reagan during the AIDS crisis
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@SenSanders You need to take the sword on the road!
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Look at this little cutie, waving hello from a safe distance across the street!
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No dog in the history of dogs has ever had as many farts blamed on it as the Huckabee’s dog
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I would gladly break my ankle on that adorable little argyle walkway
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No technology since the CueCat has ever entranced me with its promise only to let me down this quickly
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Obamacare / GOP replacement / single payer
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Just rollin up to Outback Steakhouse in my Mercedes DoucheTron 3000
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Modigliani, 1918 Butthead, 1992
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Hello, I’m a bag of groceries in a movie. I’m made of unwrinkled brown paper, never have a logo on the side, and there’s always leafy greens and a loaf of French bread sticking out of me.
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DON'T TELL ME ABOUT PHILANTHROPY JACK
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When you get all bundled up to walk your dragon in the cold but then he refuses to shit
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Mick Jagger, aged 75, one month after heart surgery Me, now, one second after waking up
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Early wildlife photos. George Shiras used to silently float in the dark until he heard a noise and then he'd blast some flashpowder into the dark night and see what lurked.
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@pattonoswalt I hope he's buddies with red & white shirt guy and they're on a road trip engaging with local civics events coast to coast
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@shl And neither is the boss, honestly!
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