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Canyon Road

2009-04-10T02:16:24Z

Some very interesting roadways in America. This one is in Colorado.

it is a freight train in utah

2009-04-09T00:31:48Z

Another old archived image.

photos from outer space

2009-04-07T07:29:48Z

Photograph of Geminid meteor from December 2006.

transit without a car

2009-04-06T13:42:05Z

Excerpt from a [book I made](http://www.depressing.org/archives/2007/05/book/) about people on mass transit. also.. look at this website about [bokeh, bokeh.org](http://www.bokeh.org)

archive: "street photography"

2009-04-05T20:19:43Z

These two images are part of a large archive of images.

archived: umbrellas

2009-04-04T10:10:00Z

It is raining today, there are also photos of rainy days to compare today with.

archived photographs: photos of people

2009-04-03T08:03:38Z

pat at home Another piece of the ever growing collection.

archive: people

2009-04-02T16:15:33Z

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the depressing photo archive: people

2009-04-01T09:31:15Z

chicago This is the beginning of an attempt to share a larger portion of images from the archive of photographs that fill this website. There may be 10 images or 200. The photographs in these posts may or may not be "depressing". I do not know any of the people who may have been photographed. There may be various categories of images.

Continental Flight 3407 Goes Down in America and I have the flight transcript.

2009-02-13T06:39:41Z

The Modern World is a wonderful thing but it can also be very troublesome. Sometimes things go wrong. This evening a plane crashed into a house while approaching the airport in Buffalo NY. There is no rescue operations and it is apparent that all aboard, nearly 50 people, have died. Continental flight 3407 went down in New York State. The De Havilland Dash 8-400 (twin-turboprop) plane was being referred to on the radio by the company it was operated by Colgan air 3407 and it originated in New Jersey and was bound for Buffalo when it crashed without any distress calls. How do I know there were no calls of distress? Because I have the air traffic control recordings of flight 3407. Yes, It's 2009, and this type of thing is available. CNN is talking wearily about the possibility of these recordings existing and I have had them for over an hour and wrote a website about it. The 'expert' CNN is talking to says it would be VERY strange to have these tapes so early. Is it? its 2009! [The pilot talks to Air traffic control minutes before the crash of flight 3407.](http://www.depressing.org/3407.mp3) While the television news tells me that a person on the scene says it "smells like burning fuel" I am working in a sound editor piecing together clips to understand it all. While the television is speculating if a tape exists or who else it may even been recorded by I am posting it on my website. While CNN is telling me they are wary of releasing anything on the tape because it may be sequestered by the FAA I have it on my website.. The internet has outpaced CNN by a LONG SHOT. After listening to the traffic for a while one can hear the air traffic controllers notice something went wrong. [Air traffic controllers spread word about the crash](http://www.depressing.org/traffic.mp3) **"all of the sudden we have no response from that aircraft....there's an aircraft over the marker and we're not talking to them anymore" ** CNN asks "do you know anything about this tape" and here I am quoting it on my website.. I wonder what takes them so long!? While CNN is telling me to be wary that early reports are often incorrect and spotty at best I am listening to the recordings from the controllers speaking to the actual pilot, a happy sounding female. I am also looking at a radar plot of the flight showing it did not land, with weather radar overlaid over the route itself. The weather conditions are important as just around the time the flight went missing air traffic control confirmed that a plane that was en-route to Buffalo did not have "VFR", or visual flight rules. [Controllers confirm visual flight rule status as 'no' around time when flight 3407 goes missing](http://www.depressing.org/vfr.mp3) The controllers apparent first action after the spreading about the missing flight was to talk to another plane in the area to ask about the icing conditions. [Controllers ask about Icing in area of 3407.](http://www.depressing.org/icing.mp3) The news media is now going to Youtube and on the scene citizen photos to get their latest news. Normal people are spreading the news now... It is a great world when this can happen.. Everything is at our collective fingertips... Cockpit voice recordings available from flight 3407 within moments of actual crash. (sources: liveatc.net, flightaware.com)

Is Doctrine Really the Answer?

2008-12-27T09:26:28Z

This man said "doctrine is the answer" and I wonder if it is. Just how much can doctrine and strict regimen really improve the way things in the world are dealt with? Whether it be used in a religious context or a societal ills context the question raised by this man is a worthy one. With so many things in this world that are crooked, with so many things that are neglected can Doctrine really guide us through the darkest toughest times?

Dense Fog Advisory

2008-12-27T09:10:09Z

A warm front moved in during the early evening hours. A thick layer of snow on the ground caused a large amount of fog to blow through the area. With the wind gusts one could see clouds of the fog billowing in the flood lights. For a while everything was covered in a shiny layer of ice. With the ice and snow quickly melting the street was filled with the noise of running water.

Modern day snake oil

2008-12-21T22:26:45Z

I love televised ministries. Seeing the various ways one can preach interests me to no end. Now, along with this interest is my interest in photographing a television. I have been doing this for years and I was very surprised today to find a man selling snake oil. Miracle Breakthrough Oil? It is obviously ineffective and a sham, but couldn't we all use some real Miracle Oil?

Even centuries after the roving snake oil salesman was popularized in American media we still see the snake oil salesman offering you a vial. Obviously these men still succeed, but why? Aren't people smarter in this century, smart enough to spot a lie when they see it? Maybe we have more faith now. Maybe that is why these products sell.

Is your art YOURS? Buy MY book Instead!!

2008-12-19T09:35:20Z

Making images of other people inside of their cars has fascinated me for a while now. For a long time, maybe 5 years I have been photographing the drivers and passengers of vehicles as I rode past them. Imagine my surprise when I found a well respected photographer, Andrew Bush, released a book called "DRIVE" featuring the exact type of photograph that I had been making for years. The images of people driving or riding in a car. And Imagine my further annoyance when I considered the fact that I had just printed, and hand bound created my hand made book featuring the same type of images, except my book was called "CAR" and I had the idea to include other images rather than the exact same type of image 66 times as Bush did.

Now, I loved making this type of image and I had never really seen anything like it. When I found out Andrew Bush had published a book featuring the same things I began to wonder who did it first.. was it me?! Could it possibly have been me? I have been making those images for years after all. I even made a book.

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So.. What is the stuff that Andrew Bush did looking like? They look pretty much just like mine.

only this one above image is owned by Andrew Bush

My book is hand made, in the USA, it is an edition of One. There will never be another made like the one I have made. Each print was carefully printed using archival materials to ensure the longest lasting experience possible. I am selling my hand made, edition of 1, signed, artist book of original photography for $1000 (OBO):

Potential buyers can email contact@depressing.org

the things we are always leaving behind

2008-09-22T16:49:13Z

There is a thriving creative community out there in the world that refers to certain objects as MOOP. The word is an acronym for Matter Out Of Place or what many call litter or trash. Many people think about this term, moop, and start to apply it liberally. What is out of place? What really belongs in a certain spot? What trace have I left on the globe? A lot of people go beyond the physical and start to consider the mental moop. What sort of mental litter have we left in our wake? What damage have we caused to someone elses mental habitat? It is difficult to know but certainly something one can attempt to avoid. Resolve your mental moop.