"Michael Gurstein" <[email protected]> forwarded from somewhere or other:
> Photographer James Griffioen left a comfy life as a securities lawyer > in San Francisco to take pictures and raise his family in what many > consider the most dangerous city in America.... > > http://www.20x200.com/artists/james-griffioen.html The photographer's own blog is IMHO more interesting than his photos. http://www.sweet-juniper.com/ A short excerpt: Posted by jdg | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 A few months ago a writer for the Wall Street Journal bemoaned the lack of national retailers in this city with the overt message is that it is fundamentally a terrible thing. Later I read about Icelanders celebrating the retreat of McDonalds from Reykjavik as a silver lining to the economic collapse there (even the Wall Street Journal wryly notes, "As cultural calamities go, there are worse fates. . .") or small towns activists lauded for keeping out a Wal Mart, or resort towns like Saugatuck, Michigan celebrated for keeping out all national chains. But the fact that Detroit has but one Starbucks and no Wal-Mart means we should be rending our garments and pulling out all our hair. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
