Need To Breathe, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Need To Breathe, Atlanta, Georgia.

Need To Breathe, Atlanta, Georgia.

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It’s been stormy every day this week so I have been frustrated every time I do not have my camera near to catch a storm.  I left the camera running almost the entire time for this storm and made very few edits.  iMovie kind of destroyed the original quality so I will re-edit this one once I get Final Cut.  For now, for your viewing pleasure, here it today’s storm.

Everything is better than Savannah

Kazbegi, Georgia

The Georgia State Capital Building, Atlanta, Georgia

By Robert Rainbow Photos

My Gid Tanner T-shirt; Art work by banjo player Frank Lee.

Gid wasn’t the best fiddler to come out of northern Georgia during the 1920s, but he was a colorful character and the charismatic leader of the seminal old-time string band The Skillet Lickers.

I’ve been thinking about it long and hard and I finally decided on what I want my Cartel tattoo to be. I was listening to one of my favorite songs by them, Georgia and it just hit me. So…drum roll please, here it is…

“What good does us reason if we fail to see? What good does us freedom is we fail to be free?”

Basically, I cannot wait!

Playing around with a timelapse I took of a passing storm along...

Augusta

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Bon Scott & Angus Young, Atlanta, GA 1978 

— Image by © 2011 Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive

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I can’t even believe the ignorance of these girls that used to go to my school. What horrible, ignorant cunts.

THE FUCKING SOUTH MAN.

Playing around with a timelapse I took of a passing storm along with stock bird and storm noises. Now I want to get into recording sounds!

Finally got some tracks off Atlanta’s up-and-coming best rock-n-roll band of 2011, AMULET. A...

Toccoa River, Georgia, USA

43 days til some trout fishing and chillin’

Early Morning Traffic on Flickr.

Georgia's anti-immigrant law leaves millions in crops rotting in the fields:

Georgia’s tough anti-illegal-immigrant law drove a sizable fraction of the migrant labor pool out of the state, and as a result, “millions of dollars’ worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops [are] unharvested and rotting in the fields.” The jobs the migrants did paid an average of $8/hour, without benefits, a wage that is so low that the state’s probationed prisoners have turned it down.

Yet another story that demonstrates why harsh immigration policy is short-sighted and ultimately fucks us, as a country, over.

(And yes, I’ll continue unashamedly to put immigration reform in cost-benefit terms. I’m a social scientist; it’s in my blood, damnit.)

Georgia Classifieds - Free Georgia Classifieds and Online Georgia Classified AdsGeorgia Governor shoots his own state in the face:

NOTE: This post includes substantial material published earlier on this blog. It is published here as the electronic version of today’s AJC column.

After enacting House Bill 87, a law designed to drive illegal immigrants out of Georgia, state officials appear shocked to discover that HB 87 is, well, driving a lot of illegal immigrants out of Georgia.

It might be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

Thanks to the resulting labor shortage, Georgia farmers have been forced to leave millions of dollars’ worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops unharvested and rotting in the fields. It has also put state officials into something of a panic at the damage they’ve done to Georgia’s largest industry.

Barely a month ago, you might recall, Gov. Nathan Deal welcomed the TV cameras into his office as he proudly signed HB 87 into law. Two weeks later, with farmers howling, a scrambling Deal ordered a hasty investigation into the impact of the law he had just signed, as if all this had come as quite a surprise to him.

The results of that investigation have now been released. According to survey of 230 Georgia farmers conducted by Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, farmers expect to need more than 11,000 workers at some point over the rest of the season, a number that probably underestimates the real need, since not every farmer in the state responded to the survey.

In response, Deal proposes that farmers try to hire the 2,000 unemployed criminal probationers estimated to live in southwest Georgia. Somehow, I suspect that would not be a partnership made in heaven for either party.

As an editorial in the Valdosta Daily Times notes, “Maybe this should have been prepared for, with farmers’ input. Maybe the state should have discussed the ramifications with those directly affected. Maybe the immigration issue is not as easy as ’send them home,’ but is a far more complex one in that maybe Georgia needs them, relies on them, and cannot successfully support the state’s No. 1 economic engine without them.”

According to the survey, more than 6,300 of the unclaimed jobs pay an hourly wage of just $7.25 to $8.99, or an average of roughly $8 an hour. Over a 40-hour work week in the South Georgia sun, that’s $320 a week, before taxes, although most workers probably put in considerably longer hours. Another 3,200 jobs pay $9 to $11 an hour. And while our agriculture commissioner has been quoted as saying Georgia farms provide “$12, $13, $14, $16, $18-an-hour jobs,” the survey reported just 169 openings out of more than 11,000 that pay $16 or more.

In addition, few of the jobs include benefits — only 7.7 percent offer health insurance, and barely a third are even covered by workers compensation. And the truth is that even if all 2,000 probationers in the region agreed to work at those rates and stuck it out — a highly unlikely event, to put it mildly — it wouldn’t fix the problem.

Given all that, Deal’s pledge to find “viable and law-abiding solutions” to the problem that he helped create seems naively far-fetched. Again, if such solutions existed, they should have been put in place before the bill ever became law, because this impact was entirely predictable and in fact intended.

It’s hard to envision a way out of this. Georgia farmers could try to solve the manpower shortage by offering higher wages, but that would create an entirely different set of problems. If they raise wages by a third to a half, which is probably what it would take, they would drive up their operating costs and put themselves at a severe price disadvantage against competitors in states without such tough immigration laws. That’s one of the major disadvantages of trying to implement immigration reform state by state, rather than all at once.

The pain this is causing is real. People are going to lose their crops, and in some cases their farms. The small-town businesses that supply those farms with goods and services are going to suffer as well. For economically embattled rural Georgia, this could be a major blow.

In fact, with a federal court challenge filed last week, you have to wonder whether state officials aren’t secretly hoping to be rescued from this mess by the intervention of a judge. But given how the Georgia law is drafted and how the Supreme Court ruled in a recent case out of Arizona, I don’t think that’s likely.

We’re going to reap what we have sown, even if the farmers can’t.

Driving to Tallahassee, FL tomorrow. I have my pocket query pulled for where I”m staying in Tallahassee + a 7 mile radius around it.

AND

I have a pocket query pulled for the route to Tallahassee!

They have both loaded and exported from GSAK and loaded into my GPS and my Blackberry! I’m ready!  (..not taking my swag-bag this time)

323 Geocaches loaded and ready!

Now all I have to do is Find the time to go! :D :D

12 States. 24% of the USA
I need to get out more.. 

4 of these states were just layovers, so they don’t really even count. :[

Finally got some tracks off Atlanta’s up-and-coming best rock-n-roll band of 2011, AMULET. A tumblr is underway, so please look out for that. In the meanwhile, please feel to check out www.facebook.com/amuletjams

Georgia's farm-labor crisis playing out as planned

Krispy Kreme on Flickr.

Eating a Georgia peach in the middle of Oklahoma on 6/14.

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Corey Reese


PC or MAC?

I use PC but everyone claims mac is so better, but have yet to show me lol.

Single or Taken?

I’m actually dating a wonderful, loving, beautiful, lovely young lady.

What do you do for fun?

I’m a real home body, but love spending time with the family, going out to eat, playing pool, and watching CSI Miami on A&E.

What is your hottest feature?

Abs. Never knew the effect great abs had on women lol.

Every girl should have_______.

A vision. If you don’t have one, it’s easy to get caught up doing things that’s not important. Having vision allows you to keep your goals in perspective and continue to reach for the top. Grinding every day, making the most out of every situation.

What is sexy to you?

I love a hot independent woman. Someone that know what she wants and making things happen for herself. I’m also a sucker for heels, summer dresses, and a nice shape!!

What do you keep in your car trunk?

Most of my photography equipment, camera, lights etc.



When do you feel your sexiest?
I would have to say when I’m working being creative. When I pick up the camera and shooting my models, I’m in another world zoned out. I’m been told, nothing like a hot photographer at work!

Lights on or off?

That really doesn’t matter to me. It’s been times in the middle of the day when things got heated. You see everything, every motion, every curve, every bite of the lip etc lol.

If you could do one thing in the world and have no repercussions, what would it be?

Get one of my loved ones out of the Justice system.

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Hahahaha this is one of the first things I ever posted on Tumblr.  Shout out to all the girls of Covington, except you Ashley White.  

The Sun Unleashed

Explanation: On June 7, the Sun unleashed only a medium sized solar flare as rotation carried active regions of sunpots toward the solar limb. But that flare was followed by an astounding gush of magnetized plasma seen erupting at the Sun’s edge in this extreme ultraviolet image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Spectacular movies of the event follow the darker, cooler plasma over a period of hours as it rains down across a broad area of the Sun’s surface, arcing along otherwise invisible magnetic field lines. An associated coronal mass ejection, a massive cloud of high energy particles, was blasted in the general direction of the Earth and may have already triggered auroral activity after a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetosphere.

untitled by -szabo on Flickr.

mee

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John Isner and USTA president Gordon Smith

The Coathangers by J Trav on Flickr.

What is actually there....


What I can't stop seeing...

I got on the Atlanta Georgia Marta train today and upon arrival to the main station I couldn’t help but see how much it looked like a level in Silent Hill 3…  

Finally.  I really do not like Tybee Island at all.  The marine science center was fun, but other than that it was sort of bland. At least the parts I saw were.  Then again, I don’t like beach towns.

Savannah, on the other hand, was the most beautiful city I’ve ever visited.  I want to live there.  It was beautiful, BEAUTIFUL.  The architecture, the nature, the parks, the people, the ghosts, THE BEAUTIFUL DOGS.  AH. 

But all in all, I’m glad to be home.  Even though the cucumbers and spaghetti squash plants have all but suffocated everything else in our vegetable patch.  But oh well.

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Me

Spanish moss and light post :: Savannah, GA

Let It Be

My best friend’s dad gave my friend Taylor this tattoo after her graduation. 

This was done at Alien Touch Tattoo down in Atlanta, GA. 

If you live in Florida, Georgia, South/North Carolina or Virgina

look at your local pound/ASPCA websites for me?

The dog has to be male and larger than a beagle   because my dog is not a fan of smaller dogs since every one she has ever come in contact with has tried to attack/bite her. She LOVES Bulldogs though.

Send links to my ask http://iwasbored.tumblr.com/ask

Thanks :)

I go to Georgia, fo dis. 

The Coathangers by J Trav on Flickr.

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and I only did one module out of three. my test is on wednesday.. I also still have to revise 5/6ths of my history exam by tuesday. oh well I had a lovely evening with will, felt like I hadn’t seen him properly in ages. he bought me mini eggs

Young John!

Jason Kelly

so tired.

OHELLO. i just found like £200 under that lamp umf.

My mum just bought some coffee. As if I didn’t have enough things stressing me out already I now have to deal with worrying about that shit spilling in my car. Ugh.

untitled by -szabo on Flickr.

I was born in New York City the city of dreams and hopes and all that bullshit they feed you ; then i went to Georgia for 2 years and i fell in love with the place and now my heart is broken in two because in dont know if should live home in NY or go to my new love GA? its hard because i have friends in both places and i dont know what to do … WHAT TO DO?!