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Spawn, #9, introducing Angela. 1993.

(Image Comics)

There’s not much point in being realistic in the comic world, but when the desire for powerful women characters collides with the desire for nearly nude women characters, the result can be delightfully ludicrous.  Here we have the super hero as bombshell, almost literally.  Angela, decked out in her gear for the first time ever looks more like the victim of an attempted gang rape than a warrior – female or otherwise – set for battle.  Sure, she’s mostly naked, but for armored boobs and crotch, but check out the hair.  Beyond being impossible to maintain and an imminent obstruction to dear Angela’s view, her coif appears to be already snagged in her own gear.  Ah, the triumph of sex over pretty much everything — it’s a Marvel to behold.

Fallen branch of a palm tree, Key West, Florida.

Photo by TPF.

Line Drawing by Sir Shadow. NYC, 2013.

Line drawing by Sir Shadow, near Astor Place, NYC.

The neighborly thing to do with clothes that you don’t want anymore but are still worth wearing is to hang them out in front of your building.  Usually someone will pick them up by the end of the day.  Or if you just have a couple of hangars, you can hang them out there.

Photo by TPF.

Photo by David Guttenfelder.

North Korean women perform in a mass synchronized swimming show in Pyongyang, North Korea to celebrate the birthday of the late leader Kim Jong Il, who would have turned 70 on February 16, 2012. February 15, 2012.

You’re taking a risk when you do your art on a wall.  Like a tattoo, it’s pretty much permanent, you can’t move to somewhere else.  But then unlike a tattoo, it’s not that hard to just paint over it, tear it down, or in this case, build something in front of it.  When I see art on a wall it feels oddly temporary.

Photo by TPF.

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Garbage dumpster, detail. NYC.

Photo by TPF.

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Aug. 12, 1934: From the Mid-Week Pictorial, a squadron of bombers took part in a simulated air raid on London, “proving that the metropolitan area could not be defended from an attack by aircraft.” Photo: The New York Times

In one of the junk stores in Amsterdam there was a box of glass slides.  Several boxes, in fact.  I’d never seen so many glass photo slides before, and it felt as though they should all be in a museum.

Who is this guy in the corner of the photo?  It looks to me like a Dutch guy trying to be Salvador Dali.

From the Highline, NYC, 2013.

Photo by TPF.