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holy crap that's so very cool :)
oh, this was all rongo rongo's work. I did very little except listen to the spinnnnnnnn sound. :)
Wow! Now that takes gonads, posting your own creation. :)
Interesting. Such diligence!
And yet, I feel for that dispatcher. (I very briefly worked in EMS, but found the stress to be too much, so I left before I became a bad EMT who didn't give a damn about patient care.)
This is where somebody hastens to assure me that Mr Mayor is a fictional character, and not actually somebody in public office.
Please?
Hey, Lincoln. I like this discussion here, because I feel like I need these sorts of conversations to learn more. Ooh boy do I need to learn more.
After reading through the comments, one thought that came to mind is: how much are you (Lincoln) identifying with the subjects, and how is that similar or different to how other people are?
Me? I'm a guy. How much can I identify with a photo of a woman? Very little. Well, okay: not at all. But a woman reader? She presumably can.
So that's Idea in a Box #1.
Idea in a Box #2 is reactions to the photos. Me, I'm straight: I definitely have a sexual reaction to a photo of a pretty naked woman. I imagine that most women have -as their first reaction- something different.
So now we combine those two boxes, and I think that may be one reason why there's this vast different of reaction and opinion between you and some of the respondents. Distilled, I arrive at the phrase: "wait, that could be me".
That photo of that {woman,man,carpenter,engineer,pilot,waiter,whatever} -could be me-, and I think that imposes a responsibility on the artist, be it photographer or writer or whatnot. I may have no intention of continuing some stereotype, I may even strongly disagree with that stereotype, but if my work makes the people say "wait, that could be me in that stereotype", then well, much as I disagree, I think I need to accept that there's something about my art that -does- have that message in it.
We're in Boston.
New England? C'mon. We're *masters* of the "nod and smile... nod and smile" approach to Not Asking About That Strange Thing.
Well, unless we're flipping out about terrorists installing Lite-Brites on our bridges. Lite-Brites is serious business, after all.
*cough*
Maybe I'm just looking for too much awesome where there doesn't need to be any, because giving free tarot readings is plenty cool, but the really cool part to me is the intervention part. But that could just be me.
I think where we may differ is "what makes an sf0 task (or perhaps praxis) cool to you?". For me, it's the combination of being 1, artistic and 2, interacting with strangers (and thus reminding ourselves and strangers that, yes, the world is small, we are all connected, etc etc etc).
To do what you're asking would, I think, require me to only allow a narrow range of questions, such that intervention would be doable by a small group of people in a relatively short timeframe. Nothing wrong with that -- on the contrary, it's a rather intriguing idea! But to me, that gets neatly filed under "a different praxis", as opposed to a "huh, there's something odd about this praxis".
But now I'm musing about an army of volunteers waiting in the wings to intervene, once the reading is done. Hum. It'd work quite well at, say, a ren faire... :)