We the People, photo by Mike Chickey
Occupy the Rose Parade was a calm, cooperative event on January 2. Though not covered by the TV stations airing the parade, they made news on many other outlets and the giant Constitution carried by Occupiers made the point…We the people…
Photos by Mike Chickey
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Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Photo via apple.com. The Apple ID for this photo says it all: t_hero. I had the first Mac ever made, and as I write this on my imac that I bought primarily to work on my photos, I thank you.
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Wall Street is Protested (Photo via The Atlantic)
It’s big, and it’s spreading. Protesters have had it with the US government and its banking and business policies. So the “leaderless resistance” has sprung up across the country much like the recent Arab protests. As the event enters its third week on Wall Street, the sentiment has spread to Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Follow the movement’s posts at #occupywallstreet. Check out more photos of the events at The Atlantic.
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Mars Rover arm made from steel in Twin Towers
This tribute certainly gets the long distance award. A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
The memorial, made from aluminum recovered from the site of the twin towers in weeks following the attacks, serves as a cable guard on a tool on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity and bears an image of the American flag.
The view combining exposures from two cameras on the rover is online at: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14750 .
The memorial is on the rover’s rock abrasion tool, which was being made in September 2001 by workers at Honeybee Robotics in lower Manhattan, less than a mile from the World Trade Center.
Opportunity’s panoramic camera and navigation camera photographed the tool on Sept. 11, 2011, during the 2,713th Martian day of the rover’s work on Mars. Opportunity completed its three-month prime mission on Mars in April 2004 and has worked for more than seven years since then in bonus extended missions.
(via NASA)
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The worst Vermont Flooding in 100 Years
© subadei/Flickr Creative Commons
Homes washed away, lives wrecked, farmland torn asunder, yet beauty remains. Hurricane Irene’s damage to Vermont is yet unmeasured to the accountants, insurance companies and cash-strapped FEMA. Six years after Katrina, we are reminded again that it’s the people who feel the measure of the hurricane’s power.
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