Next week: "Tasteless"

"Domestic" due tomorrow!

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Craig's Domestic

In the USA, Mikkeller beer is a pricey import. In Copenhagen, it's a pricey domestic.

This was taken at the Mikkeller Bar in Copenhagen. The beer (and cheese) were quite good.

Craig's Corruption

Turns out I can upload on my trip, yay.

This is taken from the Modern Art museum in Stockholm -- they had this wall of Soviet propaganda art. Those revolutionaries in Tsarist Russia had an idea of what they wanted to do, but somewhere along the way it got corrupted into the mess that became the USSR.

And people call Obama a Marxist now. Of course, they also call him Hitler, so, you know...

Mike's "Corrupt"

I took a page out of Ryan's playbook for this one.  I went looking for cemeteries.   Sarpy County has many ghost towns.  I've written a couple of blog posts on how progress has corrupted rural living, Americana, American Gothic.

Portal, NE was a town at the turn of the century that became overgrown by Pappillion & LaVista, NE.  It stood where the intersection of 108th and Giles is now.  There is a subdivision and a road named after it, but all that remains of the town is a cemetery half way between Giles and Harrison.  It was a railroad town.  The tracks connect with another ghost town, Chalco, NE, which has a few standing buildings left.  According to the plaque this cemetery was established in 1879.  I am guessing this is the oldest stone.  There were some that were more corrupted.

Ryan's "Corrupt"

Who you callin' corrupt?




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Cory's Corrupt

Nature has been somewhat corrupted by the addition of the highway.

"Corrupt" due tomorrow!

"Domestic" for next week.

I can see the bottom of the Bucket-O-Topics. Any suggestions?

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Michael's "Walk / Don't Walk"

There is a lot of walking in music.  In this pose the player looks like he is going to try a Chuck Berry "Duck Walk", but I think the stage is too small.  Becomes a choice of "Duck Walk / Don't Duck Walk".
Scales are "walked" in guitar leads, and by the bassist.  Sometimes you walk to the beat of the drum.  I've taken many stretches to make this photo fit the theme!  I took a lot of pictures for a CD release party I helped set up for Sandra's son and friends.  In the process of doing so, I remembered why I quit playing in groups.  It is a lot of work.  The pay-off is sweet while it last, but that isn't always in money.  You could say I had to "walk" away from it.

Ryan's "Walk / Don't Walk"

Walk? Don't Walk? Doesn't matter. Turning traffic is not allowed to run you over.



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Cory's Walk/Don't Walk

Walk? Don't walk? Let Walky-Guy show you the way!

Next week: "Corrupt"

"Walk / Don't Walk" due tomorrow!

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Ryan's "Fourth of July"

We climbed onto a 4th floor balcony at Quentin's place to view the Rosenblatt show. It was 95% obscured in smoke, so I tried the fishy lens for a different view:



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Mike's "Fourth of July"

Last year we went to the display at Stoneybrook and I took hundreds of shots from a tripod, bracketing several different exposure settings (manually) and got some neat shots.  This is not one of them. 
This was shock and awe year for Sarpy County, and I did not have to leave my back porch to see my neighbors blow thousands of dollars into the air.  It was an insane display of self indulgence that lasted until 1:30 AM when the last pipe bomb woke me up.

I did take pictures.  I did not use a tripod.  I purposely moved the camera.  I was a rebel caught up in the moment.  The smell of magnesium and sulfur still haunts me.

Cory's Fourth of July

This was a very meteorologicaly weird Fourth of July. We ran up to Omaha for the weekend, where they were experiencing heat and 300% humidity. Coupled with no wind and lots of smoke from people blowing stuff up all over the city, that created a weird fog that sat over us all night on the Fourth. This is a view from my parents' front yard, looking at a tree being back lit by a house across the street. Yup, we couldn't even see all the way across the street.

Next week: "Walk / Don't Walk"

"Fourth of July" due on the Eleventh of July.

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Mike's "Best of Q2"

Sorry, I'm late.  I had this ready to go on the weekend, and forgot to publish it!
I took the "long way" to the farm on Memorial weekend, and tried to find older buildings and farms.  I was trying to find little slices of Americana.  There is frighteningly less and less out there.

Craig's Best of Q2

Giant art spider attacks National Gallery!

Sorry for the late. And for the missing last week.

Preemptive note, I'll definitely be missing July 22-Aug 11, as I won't have a computer.

Cory's Best Of Q2

Back in April we took a trip to Bandelier National Park and spent the day wandering around old cliff dwellings. Some of them are open for exploration, including this kiva at the top of Alcove House. This particular one was fun to get to - we had to climb a series of tall, steep ladders up the cliff face to get to the top. Amazingly, we all made it back down in one piece.

Also, I just checked the archives and noted that this week closes up two years of us taking pictures - the first post was on July 12 2008. Coincidentally, this here is also the 500th post. Woo milestones!

Ryan's "Best of Q2"

This is among my favorites, mostly because it was a good weekend.

Jenny and Amy behind some climbing gear:



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"Best of Q2" due tomorrow**

Next week: "Fourth of July"

** Cory got turned around driving home from work on Thursday. He ended up in Omaha instead of Los Alamos. He has "requested" an extension until Wednesday, so I won't put up the poll until then.

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