A far better use of little flags

Back in September I had a good moan about some students here sticking a bunch of American flags in the ground to commorate September 11th, 2001.

Desert Donkey just gave me a pointer to a far better use of little flags. At the University of Oregon a group is setting out flags to represent those killed in the fiasco in Iraq – red for American soldiers and white for Iraqis. Very powerful stuff. There’s a nice photo essay that does an excellent job of giving a sense of the thing, and I definitely recommend it; the photo below is one such image:
Iraq war rememberance flags at U of Oregon

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Loads o’ Open Mic Night photos

UMM Open Mic Night, 25 Jan 2007 - 001

Thursday was another excellent Open Mic Night at UMM as part of the series of Open Mic Nights hosted by UMM’s Campus Activities Council Concerts Committee. (For those who are interested, these typically happen on the last Thursday of every month during the school year. Their web presence, sadly, is in shambles and out of date, so don’t count on finding anything useful there…)

This continues to be a truly wonderful series of events here at UMM, and this was a highlight even in that great set. This is the first time I’ve taken a lot of pictures at one of our Open Mic Nights, and it was quite fun. I took over 300 photos, with multiples of every performer (except me for obvious reasons). I’ve posted the better half of the 300 over on Flickr and will include a few highlights below. Unfortunately I’m crap with names on a good day with a tail wind, so there are several of these kind and talented people’s who’s names have, for whatever reason, leapt from my brain to make a new home in some deep forest loam. Sigh. Various kind folks are sending in corrections and additions, and I’ll include those here as they arrive. Please get in touch if you can fill a gap or correct an error of fact — errors of judgement are usually my problem to deal with.

Read on for more info and some highlight photos…

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