The Machinery of Night

Posted 5:13 PM by Angie Schultz

Foto Friday: Cold as Ice

Ha ha! Thought I had gone, didn't you? Well you were wrong! I'm still here. Still kind of low on FFs, too. I must send my film off.

Anyway, here is a very old photo, scanned from print, since I don't know where the negatives have gotten to.

Lincoln Memorial, Jan. 1990

It's hot here, so I thought I'd choose a nice, cool image to look at it. Tomorrow night I will be freezing. Maybe I should have posted a hot image as well. Next week, perhaps.

I was in D.C. for a conference. That was the time that Dan Quayle addressed our group. I was going to write about it, but I see that I already have. Well, that was easy.

This photo reminds me of a painting, but I can't think which one. Maybe by Michael Whelan. (WARNING! Long pretentious -- yet minimalist -- flash opening there. Really cool, but it tries the patience. I guess if you're not willing to wait for it, you don't deserve to look at Whelan's art.)

Labels: Foto Friday, Washington D.C.

Posted 6:03 AM by Angie Schultz

Splitters!

Last Friday, the Iolani Palace in Honolulu was occupied by a group claiming to represent the true king of Hawaii.

About 25 members of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Nation, with its self-proclaimed king Akahi Nui, began locking the gates at about 5:30 p.m. One palace employee was allegedly assaulted at the palace gates.

It was the second time a sovereignty group locked the palace gates this year. About 70 members of a separate group, the Hawaiian Kingdom Government, occupied the grounds on April 30.

"We don't have any information on this group (Kingdom of Hawaii, Nation)," said [Kippen] de Alba Chu [executive director of Friends of Iolani Palace]. "We never heard of them before.

"Other sovereignty groups are very upset with this," he said.

And so they are.

Where have we seen this before?

And, of course, it must lead inevitably to this: