Posts Tagged ‘Charleston’

Questioning authority

Saturday, September 1st, 2007


Addendum to last post:

Just to demonstrate, this is the next shot I took after security chased us off. I was out of site and beyond being hassled, by being sneaky. Now look to the deep left of the photo, see all those condos overlooking the base. Hmm? Those windows have much better views than I did. As well as all the residential buildings behind where I was snapping. As they say, “Common Sense isn’t very Common.”

A big facade

Saturday, September 1st, 2007


In celebration of Fredo Gonzales stepping down as Big Brother, I post this picture from the past. The special history behind this picture was that this dilapidated facade was just beyond the fence of the Charleston, S. C. Naval Yard. For those that are not in the know, this is the base that holds the Naval Brig, which for a time it turns out held Jose Padilla. Now I walked up in plain site to photograph this building, frankly it is visable from much of that street and I could have taken it from many more concealed locations. But no, I was about a hundred yards from the main enterance, and snapped away at this beautiful shell. The security guard came from his entrance post screaming that I should stop or be arrested. I tried to tell him, I was just an artist, but he was pretty irate. Well as a fair well gift to our outgoing Attorney General, I just want to apologize for my endangering National Security. Bad Artist! No rights for you!