Mr Media
@mrmedia1.bsky.social
Writer, cultural critic. Photographer Couple of u.degrees in media,+a lifetime of experience. Interpreting and commentary on media messages. Love photography, advertising, music, arts, culture, movies, education, justice 🚫AI
On 19 August each year, the world unites to celebrate this beautiful art on World Photography Day. Why does photography matter to you? Creativity Release? Storytelling? Remembering the past? Transforming the world? Bringing people together? #BelieveInFilm #Photography #WorldPhotographyDay
Benaissa Ilyes: *** Fred Stein (1909–1967) was a pioneering German-American street photographer and portraitist who became one of the most significant visual chroniclers of mid-century intellectual, cultural, and urban life.
World Photography Day is an annual global celebration of the art, craft, science, and history of photography. It encourages photographers, both amateur and professional, to share their work, reflect on photography’s impact, and connect with a worldwide community. 📸: News18
Happy World Photography Day A photograph can do more than capture a moment. It can change the way we see the world. headon.org.au/magazine/16-... Image - Charles C. Ebbets / Washington Post #WorldPhotographyDay #Photography
The news this morning. Seeing that today is #WorldPhotographyDay I had to get out with the camera, even if briefly, this morning. Set the crutch aside and hobbled over to the local market. #photography #streetphotography #blackandwhite #Leica #France
Happy World Photography Day to everyone who sees the world a little differently through a viewfinder. #WorldPhotographyDay #BelieveInFilm #Holga #KodakGold
A barn swallow searches for a place to land as another bird seems to turn to talk to it. For the #birdoftheday theme of #flyinghigh #birds #swallows #barnswallow #protectnature ##EastCoastKin
. Well. This is ominous Personally I’ve always (since 1975) believed that Israel would be the first to set off an atomic bomb They’ve had them trained on every Arab Capital for decades, and wouldn’t hesitate to use them if they were ever to lose their superiority over the region .
A small, used bookstore in Lunenburg #NovaScotia is getting more attention for one unique reason. It opens in the evening and doesn't close until customers stop coming, even if that means keeping the lights on into the early morning. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Why this Lunenburg bookstore stays open late into the night
A small, used bookstore in Lunenburg, N.S., is getting more attention for one unique reason. It opens in the evening and doesn't close until customers stop coming, even if that means keeping the light...
cbc.ca
Some Underground stations have curved platforms that create a fascinating perspective as trains approach, making it look almost as though you’re standing directly in their path. Fulham Broadway is a great example of this, offering a lovely view of the train exiting the tunnel.
#believeinfilm #filmphotography Things that catch my eye when I wander ..... Nikon FM2n. 50mm lens. FP4+ DD-X.
Technology has not helped us become more literate and informed.
Melissa Combs@melissacombs.bsky.social · yesterday
“What Canadians have done, of course, is they’re boycotting the U.S.,” one expert told ProPublica. People can only do so much about federal politics, he added, but by refusing to cross the border, “what they can do is … vote with their feet.”
As Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Drags On, This Border Community Suffers Without a Voice
Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sig...
propublica.org
I don’t profess to know what a good trade deal or a bad trade deal looks like but I do know that Trump’s word is meaningless. 
Having a Buick Roadmaster as a Domino’s delivery car is such an amazing flex. Leica M3 M-Rokkor 40mm f/2 Kentmere Pan 200 #BelieveInFilm
How wonderful would this be just to float down a river.
#Canada’s Beaverton has an article about 🇺🇸US “EMBARRASSOR” 🇺🇸 #PeteHoekstra. Love the #Beaverton. #JanelComeau #cdnpoli #canpoli
"I would never have agreed to be a diplomat in Canada if I knew I'd have to be diplomatic to Canadians," says Pete Hoekstra
OTTAWA - Tensions between Canada and the United States flared this week when US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra was captured on a live microphone admitting that he regretted his decision to accept a diplomat...
thebeaverton.com
"The news media need to say plainly, in big headlines: Trump is building a dictatorship. Use the D word. Say that this is the most corrupt presidency in American history, which it obviously is. Say that the president is mentally unstable, which he obviously is." My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The media are missing the story of our lives: a looming dictatorship
News outlets’ downplaying of the danger is shameful journalism neglect
stopthepresses.news
The UK signed a bad trade deal to win favour with Trump. Now he is threatening them with 100% tariffs. Canada would be fucking nuts to think we could give concessions to this mobster and get peace. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Trump’s threat of 100% import tariff on UK ‘not a bluff’, US trade tsar warns
Donald Trump issued the threat in June over the UK’s digital tax on American companies - but has so far not followed it up
independent.co.uk
We do not live in the greatest country on earth. That is the lie they tell us to conceal that we live in the greediest country on earth.
A crown does not make a king. A con does not make a leader. America belongs to its people…not to the ego, bank account, or vanity projects of any one man. It is not for sale, not for control, and not for surrender. NO KINGS. NO FELONS OR CON MEN. 🇺🇸 #USDemocracy #RisingBlue
This is a criminal enterprise running under the guise of government.
