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Sunday 12 November 2017

till death do us part (the golden hour)

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#18 Show me the Love 2017 021 | by mark_walch1968

#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by mark walch, 4 November 2017

#18 Show me the Love 2017 021 | by mark_walch1968

#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by mark walch, 4 November 2017

#18 Show me the Love 2017 021 | by mark_walch1968

#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by mark walch, 4 November 2017
 

What a time to be alive: image via RF Parsley @sanverde, 10 November 2017

Flip-flops belonging to Rohingya refugees are pictured outside a mosque as they attend Friday prayers at Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
#18 | by LocusC

#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by Eric Chi, 4 November 2017



This looks fun. In we go!: image via RF Parsley @sanverde, 10 November 2017

Bricks in the Backyard | by david grim

Bricks in the backyard. (and yes... I am OK with the solar flares on this one) [Troy Hill, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 16 May 2017

Bricks in the Backyard | by david grim

Bricks in the backyard. (and yes... I am OK with the solar flares on this one) [Troy Hill, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 16 May 2017

Bricks in the Backyard | by david grim

Bricks in the backyard. (and yes... I am OK with the solar flares on this one) [Troy Hill, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 16 May 2017

Clarksdale lot, MLKJr. St. | by ADMurr

Clarksdale lot, MLKJr. St. [Clarksdale, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 November 2017  

Napier, NZ | by bobsan88

Napier, NZ.: photo by bobsan88, 20 October 2017
 

Light from a flashlight falls on the face of a Rohingya Muslim girl sitting on a raft made with plastic containers on which a group crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, Nov. 10, 2017. #APPhoto A.M. Ahad: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 10 November 2017


Hillary Clinton

#18 | by Jota C.

#18 "Show me the LOVE": photo by Jota C., 6 November 2017



In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017 photo, a human skull wearing sun glasses and flowers is displayed during the Natitas Festival outside the General Cemetery chapel in La Paz, Bolivia. Every year, hundreds of Bolivians carry human skulls adorned with flowers to a cemetery in La Paz, asking for money, health, and other favors as part of a festival.: photo by Juan Karita/AP, 8 November 2017

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Rohingya woman Anowara Begum holds her son while she is faint after disembarking from a boat that crossing Naf river and landed in Teknaf, Bangladesh, 14 September 2017. Many of the Rohingya fleeing the violence in Myanmar had travelled by boat to find refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. According to United Nations more than 300 thousand Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar from violence over the last few weeks, most trying to cross the border and reach Bangladesh. International organizations have reported claims of human rights violations and summary executions allegedly carried out by the Myanmar army.  EPA-EFE/ABIR ABDULLAH




A sweeper works in Agua Branca Park in Sao Paulo, Brazil Photo @NachoDoce12: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 10 November 2017


Chanting and flailing in mourning for Imam Hussein, Shi'ite Muslims gather in Iraq for one of their most sacred rituals: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 10 November 2017

Evening | by ADMurr

Evening [Clarksdale, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr, 11 November 2017 

Wairoa, NZ. | by bobsan88

Wairoa, NZ.: photo by bobsan88, 22 October 2017

Looking West Off of West Colfax Avenue | by GC_Dean

Looking West Off of West Colfax Avenue. Denver, Colorado. (Title changed 11 November 2017, at 12:50 pm MST.): photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 June 2017

Looking West Off of West Colfax Avenue | by GC_Dean

Looking West Off of West Colfax Avenue. Denver, Colorado. (Title changed 11 November 2017, at 12:50 pm MST.): photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 June 2017

Looking West Off of West Colfax Avenue | by GC_Dean

Looking West Off of West Colfax Avenue. Denver, Colorado. (Title changed 11 November 2017, at 12:50 pm MST.): photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 June 2017

Untitled | by ADMurr

Untitled [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 5 November 2017

#18 - till death don't us part | by paulu

#18 - till death do us part "Show me the LOVE": photo by Paulo Guerra, 1 November 2017

#18 - till death don't us part | by paulu

#18 - till death do us part "Show me the LOVE": photo by Paulo Guerra, 1 November 2017

#18 - till death don't us part | by paulu

#18 - till death do us part "Show me the LOVE": photo by Paulo Guerra, 1 November 2017 

Frankie's | by ADMurr

Frankie's [Yazoo City, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr, 7 November 2017



Not sure this got around. #SutherlandSprings shooter's parents home, where he lived. Quite a departure from 1 stoplight town. @Reuters: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 9 November 2017

Door | by ADMurr

Door (cotton gin shed, Clarksdale, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr, 10 November 2017  

South 20th Avenue | by GC_Dean

South 20th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.
: photo by Dean Terasaki, 13 January 2015

South 20th Avenue | by GC_Dean

South 20th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.
: photo by Dean Terasaki, 13 January 2015

South 20th Avenue | by GC_Dean

South 20th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.
: photo by Dean Terasaki, 13 January 2015

la valeur hédonique | by récitateur

La valeur hédonique: photo by Max Li, 22 October 2017 

Piercing shop sunset | by ADMurr

Piercing shop sunset [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 November 2017

The view | by michaelj1998

The view. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 9 November 2017

The view | by michaelj1998

The view. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 9 November 2017

The view | by michaelj1998

The view. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 9 November 2017

On Deck #4 | by davidstones51

On Deck #4: photo by David Stones, 30 June 2017
a short history of ephemerae

a deep dive offroad speculum expedition into the sinai yielded such a load of cul de sac
the other side of the scale was weighed down by feathers weighing less than a pound of flesh

a line was drawn in the sand of the desert by the hopeful architect
everything on this side of the line is now in the mailbox viz items in no. two thousand lbs.
 
Strange curved things fly through the air of the sinai are they missiles or giant scythes
suitable for collecting in attractive fasces bound by a gold thread of the garment of the first born 
 

There's an almost fabled hunger here in the desert not quite same as real hunger
We live at the moment here in the desert in a history of cul de sacs - that's what she seems to be saying to the architect

That and the world seems to be an excuse for tomorrow ha fooled you Don't know what I'm saying
there are some within others - and that there's (apparently?) no way out of a single one of them

But to think our way out of them - that might work / that might be something (that would work)
But does it matter There's always going to be more error than the world has a use for

Giant scythes are flying through the air of the desert with a whirring sound
Scythes within scythes within scythes triggering an almost fabled hunger for collectibles

You can take them with you
That or think your way out of them - that might work

time is nothing here - on going project | by giacomo_alberico

time is nothing here - on going project: photo by Giacomo Alberico, 16 September 2017

Yonge Street, Toronto, 1981 | by Avard Woolaver

Yonge Street, Toronto, 1981: photo by Avard Woolaver, sometime in 1981

Pequeño homenaje a Edward Hopper | by trapa!

Pequeño homenaje a Edward Hopper: photo by trapa!, 17 June 2011

Untitled | by Ricky Aguilera

Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Ricky Aguilera, 2 August 2017

there will be blood. blackwell's corner, ca. 2014. | by eyetwist

there will be blood. blackwell's corner, ca. 2014. highway 33, aka "the petroleum highway" cuts south thru the west kern county oilfields made famous in the film "there will be blood".: photo by eyetwist, 13 June 2014

Eyes of Club Memphis | by ADMurr

Eyes of Club Memphis [Memphis, TN]: photo by Andrew Murr, 12 November 2017

the weighing of the heart of the scribe

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The weighing of the heart of Hunefer by Anubis, before the Devourer Ammit: from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 19th Dynasty, c. 1285 B.C. (British Museum)

A papyrus from the Book of the Dead in the Egyptian Archive of the British Museum tells the story of the scribe Hunefer in the waiting room of the afterlife: of how his fate hangs in the balance as his heart is weighed against a feather upon the scales of Maat, the scales of eternal justice, by the jackal-headed god Anubis.

Hunefer's heart resides, during this transitional period of judgment, inside the small pot on the scale tray to the left; on the scale tray to the right, we see the feather of Maat, or Rectitude. The emotional, intellectual and moral history of Hunefer has been distilled into the contents of the pot. There is no longer any chance of bargaining, negotiating or doing a deal. The finite game of mortal life, with all its little white lies perpetrated in the desperate attempt to keep the game going, is now over for the scribe; the game of infinity, with its very different set of rules, has begun.


Page from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer by Lenka P..

The weighing of the heart of Hunefer by Anubis, before the Devourer Ammit (detail: the scales): from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 19th Dynasty, c. 1285 B.C : image by Lenka P, 2007 (British Museum)

Anubis leads Hunefer by the hand into the zone of judgment, and oversees the weighing; the drama is all in the moment for Hunefer, as Ammit the Devourer, also known as the Bone-Eater, not a goddess but more like a terminal custodian of justice, her features a composite of those creatures most feared, the dog, the crocodile, the hippopotamus, crouches beneath the scales, ready to scarf up the heart of Hunefer should the faintest trace of wickedness, a blemish greater than a feather's weight, be found.

As this supreme test takes place, ibis-headed Thoth, clerk of the gods, waits to record the result in the eternal annals.

 

In the next panel the scribe, should he pass the test, is to be presented by the hawk-god god Horus to the shrine of his father Osiris, the green-skinned god of the dead, and of the latter's divine sisters Isis and Nephthys.

Page from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer by Lenka P.

The weighing of the heart of Hunefer by Anubis, before the Devourer Ammit (detail: the shrine)
: from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 19th Dynasty, c. 1285 B.C.
: image by Lenka P, 2007 (British Museum)

Above the scene, in precise order of rank, sit in judgment the fourteen presiding gods of Egypt; each of the first seven of whom holds an ankh, the loop-headed cross, trilateral hieroglyphic character of eternal life.

The moment is pregnant with meaning. If Hunefer fails the test, his remains will be swallowed up by the chimerical Ammit and he will be denied entry to the afterlife. He will be consigned to nonexistence for eternity.


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Goddess Isis: from the tomb of Seti I, Valley of the Kings at Thebes, 17th Dynasty, c. 1380-1335 B.C. (Karnak Museum via the Yorck Project)
Who By Fire

And who by fire, who by water,
Who in the sunshine, who in the night time,
Who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
Who in your merry merry month of may,
Who by very slow decay,
And who shall I say is calling?

And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate,
Who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,
And who by avalanche, who by powder,
Who for his greed, who for his hunger,
And who shall I say is calling?

And who by brave assent, who by accident,
Who in solitude, who in this mirror,
Who by his lady's command, who by his own hand,
Who in mortal chains, who in power,
And who shall I say is calling?

Leonard Cohen / Patrick Leonard, 1974

"...several songs [i.e., from the 1975 album 'New Skin for the Old Ceremony']... were influenced by his recent stay in a turbulent Israel...the melody for 'Who By Fire'...is based on the Hebrew melody for the prayer 'Unetanneh Tokef' sung at the Mussaf (or noontime service) of the High Holy Days."

"...last summer I went to Ethiopia looking for a suntan. It rained, including in the Sinai desert, but through this whole period I had my little guitar with me, and it was then I felt the songs [i.e., of 'New Skin for the Old Ceremony'] emerging..." (LC)

End of the World Cinema: An Abandoned Outdoor Movie Theater in the Desert of Sinai movies Egypt

Abandoned outdoor cinema in the Sinai Desert, Egypt: photo by Kauko Kikkas, 2014

End of the World Cinema: An Abandoned Outdoor Movie Theater in the Desert of Sinai movies Egypt

Abandoned outdoor cinema in the Sinai Desert, Egypt: photo by Kauko Kikkas, 2014

End of the World Cinema: An Abandoned Outdoor Movie Theater in the Desert of Sinai movies Egypt

Abandoned outdoor cinema in the Sinai Desert, Egypt: photo by Kauko Kikkas, 2014

End of the World Cinema: An Abandoned Outdoor Movie Theater in the Desert of Sinai movies Egypt

Abandoned outdoor cinema in the Sinai Desert, Egypt: photo by Kauko Kikkkas, 2014

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Remains of abandoned cinema in the Sinai desert: photo by Noha Zayed, 2014
 
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Remains of abandoned cinema in the Sinai desert: photo by Noha Zayed, 2014

(Image Credit: Noha Zayed)

Remains of abandoned cinema in the Sinai desert: photo by Noha Zayed, 2014

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A flyer for the abandoned cinema in the Egyptian desert: image via Konbini, 2014


#Israel View of a part of the Israeli border with Egypt seen from the Israeli side in the southern Negev desert, north of Eila. Photo @menahemkahana
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 13 June 2017


Boat in the dead sea | by Frank Zigan

Boat in the Dead Sea. The picture arose when I lived in Israel for a few months in 2016. [Ein Gedi, Jordan]: photo by Franky, 9 September 2016
  
Boat in the dead sea | by Frank Zigan

Boat in the Dead Sea. The picture arose when I lived in Israel for a few months in 2016. [Ein Gedi, Jordan]: photo by Franky, 9 September 2016

Boat in the dead sea | by Frank Zigan

Boat in the Dead Sea. The picture arose when I lived in Israel for a few months in 2016. [Ein Gedi, Jordan]: photo by Franky, 9 September 2016
 
#18 show me the love | by lohumo

#18 show me the love: photo by Rihonda Lwanshak, 6 November 2017

Untitled | by ilan burla

Untitled [Tel Aviv]: photo by Ilan Burla, 20 July 2017

DSCF9099sofi | by ilanbenyehuda

Untitled: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 8 November 2017

DSCF9099sofi | by ilanbenyehuda

Untitled: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 8 November 2017

DSCF9099sofi | by ilanbenyehuda
 
 Untitled: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 8 November 2017

Untitled | by pablo wayne

 Untitled: photo by pablo wayne, 30 October 2017

Untitled | by pablo wayne

 Untitled: photo by pablo wayne, 30 October 2017

Untitled | by pablo wayne

 Untitled: photo by pablo wayne, 30 October 2017