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My Apology To My Friends In The Newsvine Photographers and Everyone Else I Offended In The Events Leading Up To and The Aftermath of My Unceremonious Booting For "Blatant and Unapologetic Copyright Infringement" (100 comments)
Fishing Vessel Plan B Sinks Off The Coast of Maine (33 comments)
Second Edition: Photographers Group Challenge ... "Abstract" Imagery (10 comments)
" ... the moon shines bright tonight ... Collaboration Ten. (10 comments)
A Brother And Sister Get Married (And Later, Their Son Tweets It) : The Picture Show (9 comments)

Fishing Vessel Plan B Sinks Off The Coast of Maine

Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:59 PM EST

By mightyj

Fishing Vessel Plan B Sinks Off The Coast of Maine When Captain Danny Fill and crewmember David Jones Jr.

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us-news, fishing, coast-guard, plan-b, sinking, dannyfill, david-joyce

Mardi Gras Around the World

Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:59 AM EST (Late Show: Katy Perry - "Hot N Cold" - Bing Videos)

Seeded by ambivalent

Happy Fat Tuesday from around the world! Great slide photos of colorful celebrations... Think of Mardi Gras and vivid images come to mind: beads and masks, women and men in elaborate costumes (such as this one, in Venice) or nothing more than a few strips of fabric, out …

world-news, slide-show, new-orleans-mardi-gras, fat-tuesday-around-the-world, mardi-gras-cologne, mardi-gras-venice

" ... the moon shines bright tonight ... Collaboration Ten.

Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:13 PM EST

By A. Macarthur

Please, if you have not seen Collaborations 1-9, visit my column and scroll through. A. Mac

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arts, poetry, collaboration, imagery

A Brother And Sister Get Married (And Later, Their Son Tweets It) : The Picture Show

Seeded on Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:19 AM EST (NPR)

Seeded by ambivalent

What a great story of true true love! A must read for all romantics.

religion, true-love, brother-boniface, sister-damien

My Apology To My Friends In The Newsvine Photographers and Everyone Else I Offended In The Events Leading Up To and The Aftermath of My Unceremonious Booting For "Blatant and Unapologetic Copyright Infringement"

Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:39 AM EST

By mightyj

For anyone that doesn't know last year I was banished from my favorite group on the vine and from the Foto-Friday feature that was a mainstay of my column every week.

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Second Edition: Photographers Group Challenge ... "Abstract" Imagery

Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:45 PM EST

By A. Macarthur

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challenge, arts, abstract, photo-challenge, foto-friday

Sydney - 5, February 17, 2012

Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:38 PM EST

By Dowser

Our dear friend Sydney-5 passed away last night, very early this morning. My prayers are with her family, and my heart is with her, my dear friend. I will be writing a memorial/tribute article. A celebration of her life-- I'm working on a video, and hopefully …

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not-news, request-for-prayers, sydney-5, request-for-good-thoughts

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Sex and Food: The World's Strangest Aphrodisiacs Through Time

Seeded on Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:58 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

Seeded by ambivalent

Hot chocolate? The potato? Piranhas? Throughout history, humankind has persisted in the belief that some foods are linked to sex.

odd-news, history, sex, chocolate, potato, vanilla, oysters, aphrodisiacs, british-isles, love-food

Photographers Group Challenge ... "Abstract" Imagery

Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:53 AM EST

By A. Macarthur

By definition, ABSTRACT ART is ... "Art that does not attempt to represent external, recognizable reality but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures." That's the formal, art historical definition; but artists are not bound by rules and codification …

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