I have been spending a lot of time photographing ships and trains. Samples:
UP Container Shipment photograph
Isoldana Unloading Bagged Ceramic Proppant photograph
Coal Train, July 2014 video
Amtrak Trains at Marvin Road video
Northbound trains at N Rich Rd video
Daiwan Ace Departing with Load of Logs video
Burfoot Sunset video
see more: www.youtube.com/user/RobertWhitlock, www.flickr.com/photos/rwhitlock
Thank you, and please, have a good day!
Robert
Pushing for Progress
peace is possible!
03 July 2014
09 May 2014
What's New
So much. Life has had me changing more in the last year or two I think than since I was adolescent. So much has been going on. I have been busy. I have a full-time job (putting in 55 hours this week.) I have still been trying to be active with photography and video, and using my voice for truth and justice (for example commenting on an article in The Nation Magazine by Robert Reich about wealth inequality. I am still collecting signatures to petition the Port of Olympia Commissioners to stop engaging in the business of hydraulic fracturing (aka "fracking" or "hydro-fracking") - an extreme method for extraction of fossil fuels. The port has been importing "proppants" from China for a company called Rainbow Ceramics. Proppants are little ceramic balls; they used to prop open fissures created by the hydraulic blasting. I posted a video about that, here. I also saw an Amtrak train, the Southbound Cascades service whiz by at Waldrick Road. Another video I recently posted shows a bunch of crows flying around in the wind seen from the Law Enforcement Memorial at the State Capitol campus. Some photos recently posted to Flickr:
19 April 2014
The Size of Things
02 April 2014
21 March 2014
Ode to the Industrial Age
Massive extractions, massive amounts of fossil fuels; such a relatively brief geological time-frame -- the geological blink of an eye; life on planet Earth, in the cross hairs?
Results:
- Certain economic uplift for some of world's population.
- Pollution, including green house gasses.
- Increasing extremity of real economic inequality between rich and poor.
Problem: No one knows what will happen.
- We do however know some of the certain present day outcomes, and while for a percentage, oh say roughly 20% of the world's population, life has gotten better, for many, it may be argued, improvements have not really panned out, and many people are stuck in impoverishment, and further, enslavement, in order to suit the economic benefits of others.
- We also know that a massive extinction event is already well under way. Many species have already been drive to demise, as a result of industrial impacts on environmental conditions, the ecological balances necessary for life to flourish.
And so what about the future... It is reasonable to question whether current activities might result in ever increasing consequences for over all life on Earth. This is not even to mention the present day injustices and violence associated with the current harmful economic paradigm.
So, why do some still take profit and reap reward from activities that do so much to harm (to others, and to the overall diversity and balance of life on Earth.) So--What do you think?
Results:
- Certain economic uplift for some of world's population.
- Pollution, including green house gasses.
- Increasing extremity of real economic inequality between rich and poor.
Problem: No one knows what will happen.
- We do however know some of the certain present day outcomes, and while for a percentage, oh say roughly 20% of the world's population, life has gotten better, for many, it may be argued, improvements have not really panned out, and many people are stuck in impoverishment, and further, enslavement, in order to suit the economic benefits of others.
- We also know that a massive extinction event is already well under way. Many species have already been drive to demise, as a result of industrial impacts on environmental conditions, the ecological balances necessary for life to flourish.
And so what about the future... It is reasonable to question whether current activities might result in ever increasing consequences for over all life on Earth. This is not even to mention the present day injustices and violence associated with the current harmful economic paradigm.
So, why do some still take profit and reap reward from activities that do so much to harm (to others, and to the overall diversity and balance of life on Earth.) So--What do you think?
02 March 2014
BBC Documentary "Truth about Climate Change"
Take a look at human impact on climate change, youtu.be/a51mWYhVmek ...
18 February 2014
09 February 2014
Rail Coupling Yard, St. Paul, MN
July 2013, it just started pouring rain while I was looking at this yard, near Raymond Ave and Energy Park Drive, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Here's video:
04 February 2014
02 February 2014
Calling Corporate Power
On this episode of the program, we (me and Kenny) called and commented on several of these companies:
Bohemian Grove, Manhattan Project, atomic weapons, Global Dominance, empire, General Electric, General Dynamics, etc. ... ALEC ... Google Maps, disregarding Native American Reservations . . . forgetting indigenous traditions . . . death and destruction, pride and prejudice, in the service of financial elitism. Oh man . . .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFqBE3bWl9o
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