my crystal ball tells me that visual artists are set to be screwed big time. please please please, take the time to visit these links: New York Times Op-Ed contribution from Lawrence Lessig dated May 20, 2008 (see below for highlights) http://drawn.ca/2008/05/13/oppose-the-orphan-works-act-of-2008/ and http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2913/show The first link will direct you to a template that will make it easy for you to write your Congress people and demand that they oppose this bill. As Joe Strummer sang: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. protect your copyright! as for this blog - because of proposed atrocities relating to copyright and copyright registration, i am going to be updating the photos you see on here and adding watermarks on them; i am also marking as "private" the photos that appear on this site that are hosted from Flickr.com - so...if you see an error - some kind of blank spot where there was a photo - let me know by email so I can replace the missing space with ...