Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Dont Blow Your Own Trumpet

Dont blow your own trumpet
be smart dont put all your eggs
in one basket
keep a back up
of your photos
besides
posting them
on the internet
dont defecate
urinate
hate comments
on my religious post
use your neighbors toilet
if you dont have one
and find one hard to get
I am a pedestrian poet
I poetize generously
so please dont get upset
opinionated I am
who isnt
in the spiders net
75000 photo blogs in 24 months
a thought you must not forget
while you trail me to the finishing line
you bet
Flickr a global community
the very best
a heart beat
in a photo bloggers chest
this poem is dedicated
to a wise guy of Poona
you have not met
the genius here
at Facebook
Now Public
Miller "Thriller "Fred

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Maryamma Feast 2009

Sacrifice to appease Goddess Kali or her several regional avatars is an integral part of devotion,a tradition that has been coming down the ages in Hinduism..It exists in the Western World too as Paganism...though I am no authority on the subject..Here I miss my friend Dale .and Esta.


This is my new series at Flickr I shot this morning at 7 am for two hours in bad light just in built camera flash..I dedicate this new series to my mentor Dr Glenn Losack MD ..he would give away his limbs just to shoot this - better than me .This is up his alley , I shot this and pretended he was in the crowd , shooting this too..

As a photographer I have no qualms in shooting with others , we may shoot the same thing and yet our pictures will be different..

Many photographers specially the press and those who sell their stuff to Marwari stock agencies differ , they wont share information at all , besides some with the press think they are Gods gift to photo journalism and to photography in general..

So I am happy as a photo blogger who carries the Bandra Samachar Press Card giving it free..and I have built contacts that soon became relationships.. the Head Priest of the Maryamma Temple called me for this event and thank you friend Bhima Davendar too..

Now one request if you are squeamish, avoid this set, and if you are against animal sacrifice , than just skip and move on..

Read me as an internet photo journalist..dont blow my mind with queries that I cant answer..or wont answer.. this is part of my series on Hope and Hindutva..

We Muslims too believe in animal sacrifice but our methods are slightly different..here the animals too are given water and blessed ..the Tamils are a very religious race and perhaps most of them were appeasing the Goddess for Peace in Sri Lanka and safety of their Tamil brothers sisters and the genocide that continues.

Besides goats there was poultry sacrifice ,by the poorer section of the community, others offered cooked rice made on make shift burners , flowers coconuts and turmeric paste.

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75000 Blogs at Flickr in 24 Months

I normally dont blow my trumpet till I have completed a task..at the moment while you read this I have 74,964 photo blogs / 389,722 views but in a few hours from now I shall complete 75000 photo blogs at Flickr today-13 May 2009..
Its been a very long journey..I joined Flickr in June 2007.
Flickr Pro membership of two years was a gift from Asif Shakir my eldest son, when Yahoo pictures closed down Flickr added 3 months of grace to my Flickr account.

Than a few days back my mentor my friend also my family Dr Glenn Losack MD bought me another 2 years of a Pro account..at Flickr.

In just a few minutes I go to shoot an incredible event than I shall come back and go to shoot the finale..I will tell you all about it when I post the pictures.

There was not much to shoot in Mumbai - much of the shooting happens in November right up to Feb..Ajmer Urus is one big thing Jul - Aug I guess.

The Koovagam Eunuch festival eludes me till this day..

I have a shop to take care of , business is down in the dumps and so I shoot pictures with a heavy heart and some guilt..recession in the Industry has completely broken this camels back..so I make do with shooting street scenes , and my grand daughter ..

Once again I thank all my friends at Flickr , Word Press , Blogspot ,Face Book, Live Journal, Vox and Fotothing , Buzznet ,Twitter , My Space..I have an account at Webshots have stopped posting there.

Blogging keeps me sane from the crass corrosion of my business life..
If given an opportunity I would renounce all this and take spiritual sanyas as a Shia Yogi in the Himalayas...but I have to pay back a lot of friends for the help they gave me when I was completely grounded..this is the most important responsibility ..and priority as of now.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Shiasm Up Close

the blood of our forefathers
from every face flows
1400 years
our pain grows
a chapter
that shall
never ever close
blood like melting ice
our ancestry of pain shows
we bleed
to remind the world
of a spiritual terrorism
on the soul of humanity
as Moharam
the whole world knows
save those
lovers of Mauwiyah
lovers of Yazid
behind close doors
the Lion of Karbala
on the banks
of the Euphrates
lets out a roar
Hussain is Humanity
a thought implores
the standard of Hussainiyat
on all hearts soars
puritanical poison
as Yazidiyat ignores
the Beauty of Islam
Hussain restores

Shiasm Up Close
A path of Truth
that we chose
through our blood
a conspiracy of hate
expose ..
Allah Ho Akbar
scriptured silence
of all our foes
read this as a poem
or read it as prose
testament and will
of men in black clothes

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Moments of Joy

moments of joy..where have they gone
ask the rose.. the rose will say
ask the thorn..
some are rich
some poor born
the Richie Rich
the poor
the underprivileged
scorn
some blind
groping the darkness
searching for a new dawn
moment of sadness
a moment forlorn
a spiritual soul
in a waste basket
tattered and torn
a reflected moment
as a poem reborn
walking barefoot
kissing mother earth
on the soul of a lawn
hate only hate
loves to spawn



This was a line of a comment turned into a poem..

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Parting is Shared Sorrow

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Picture posted here will now be more nicely seen on Dr Glenn Losack MD photo stream on Flickr..

Welcome Bro
Welcome Pro..

www.flickr.com/photos/glosackmd/


this image i shot and named "PARTING!"
it is taken at BOCA CHICA beach DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
the subject is broken hearted, disintegrated, parted, fragmented
she is not new to rejection abandonment and a new man
yet pain from the sight of his parting plane
is never old
she is distraught. wiping tears. this is not a paradise for her

Text Dr Glenn Losack MD

my poem of pedestrian polemic pain

parting is shared sorrow
stained bed sheets
writhing in pain
a lost tomorrow
an empty gilded cage
a dead sparrow
shot in the heart
by her lovers
poisonous arrow
flustered feathers
bone and marrow

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Marziya and the Whippers

The whippers is a community I shoot as fervently as I shoot the hijras, I met both of them near the Bazar and called them close to my shop, I told them I would pay them, I gave them Rs 10..They took it without a grouse but were excited by the photography.
Marziya was seeing them for the first time and I did not ask them to whip themselves , a huge crowd collects..but I would have got some great pictures.
These were the best whippers I have ever met, friendly congenial..curious.
They were happy with what I gave them, without demanding a pound of flesh.
Sometimes it is difficult to convince people I should pictures not to make money, they think I am crazy..
But what really gets me on my goat I see many whipper kids near my area and my camera is at home, and these guys are on the move..most of this happens when I am expecting a client at my shop..I cant be measuring people and shooting whippers atthe same time..
I had posted my best pictures and stories at Now Public..and the whippers is one of my best narratives of street pain, whipping the body to keep the soul alive..luckily I dont need the highlight tool to highlight this..luckily I have no racist editorial constrains..
I am my own editor..Fuck Culture..
I know this sounds Strange if you are searching only for newsworthiness through another mans journalistic effort that you will be soon sodomizing with your thoughts ..makes me wonder ..
I think a Photo Blog holds the answer to a key of street wisdom..a pearl in an oyster of Ignorance..

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