Combine instant digital photography with Twitter, the micro-blogging service, and you occasionally get some interesting results.
As Keith Elder writes ("twits"):
Sometimes you just have to stop and take a picture because it captures the pain of America right now.
(Via twitpic.com)
(Hat tip to Chuck Boyce.)
Simon Johnson in Bill Moyers Journal MUST SEE, It makes me sick.
Posted by: wawawa | February 14, 2009 at 01:19 PM
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02132009/watch.html
Posted by: wawawa | February 14, 2009 at 01:20 PM
Here is my detailed account of the story of this picture.
http://keithelder.net/blog/archive/2009/02/14/pre-depression.aspx
Posted by: Keith Elder | February 14, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Keith, I live in NorthWest Arkansas and am very familiar with your route/trip. As you so well described, we have the ability to feed the world. However, we don't drive that train you described, we just produce and load it. Where is goes is not up to us. People here are only akin to what is broadcast on that radio you spoke of. The question here is "why" all of a sudden the bottom dropped out? Subprime? Greedy Elite? Greedy people buying $300,000 homes while making $7.00 an hour? I suspect all of the above and more. Americans can accomplish about anything with good direction and leadership. I suspect we got in this depression with another kind of "direction and leadership". Thank you for a good article.
Posted by: H Spencer | February 14, 2009 at 06:20 PM