User:Victorgrigas
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Hi! My name is Victor Grigas. I'm a storyteller for the Wikimedia Foundation and have been a contributor to Wikipedia since 2005. I have a background in film, audio and video and am interested in all things open source and public domain :) . The best way to reach me is by email at vgrigas (at) wikimedia (dot) org
VIDEO
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Wikimedia Foundation 90 second Recruiting video
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This is video of the 'War Room' at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco at the moment when English Wikipedia was blacked out in protest of SOPA
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An interview with Garfield Byrd, Chief of Finance and Administration at the Wikimedia Foundation
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Sue Gardner addresses 1st Bangla Wikipedia unconference, March 2012
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Sue Gardner addressed Wikimedia Philippines for Wiki Loves Monuments, March 23, 2012
External Video Links:
- 'All It Takes Is Exposure'
- Video celebrating Eames' Powers of 10 an Award Winner!
- It's Pah-tay Time! video for the Acumen Fund
- Army Hodown music video for Sharkula
I've shot documentary footage for I Am Chicago
PHOTO
*Most of these images I have released under a Creative Commons license or into the public domain, so please feel free to use appropriately.
Sao Paulo
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User:Victor Grigas interviewing pt.user:Aerolitz
Curitiba
Rio de Janeiro
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University Students going through hazing, asking for money in the street
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Bobo
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Child Labor Prohibited
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a Cow in Bangalore
Indians and technology / cellphones
Wikimeetup
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Victor Grigas on a film set
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Bocce
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Bicycle Power charging batteries for laptops and other electronics at Occupy San Francisco
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A Protester with a sign at Occupy San Francisco
Burning Man 2011
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An Art Car
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Ash in a ghostly Environment
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A Burning man version of the sign at Checkpoint Charlie
Israel and Palestine
An-Najah University
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An-Najah University media room
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An-Najah University sound proofing
Nablus
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"Resistance" Graffito in Nablus
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Che Guevara in the Freedom Theater in Palestine
Jerusalem
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Plastic Bottles and LED Lights repurposed as a chandelier during Ramadan in Muslim Quarter, Jerusalem
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Smoking Hookah in the Muslim Quarter Jerusalem during Ramadan
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Baklava Jerusalem
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Bracelets Jerusalem
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Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem
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Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem
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Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
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Israeli Flag and vests by the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
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T-Shirts for sale in Jerusalem
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Hebron Hostel
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Meat Burger
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Dome of the Rock
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Foods for sale in Jerusalem
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The moon
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Menorahs for sale in Jerusalem
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Crusader Graffiti in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
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'Perception of Christ Ascending to Heaven' Dome of the Rotunda of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem
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a boy and his bicycle
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San Francisco as seen from Bernal Heights
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A flower in Bernal Heights
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Some flowers in Bernal Heights
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Crescent_Shadows_from_tree_on_wall_May_20_2012_Partial_Solar_Eclipse
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Crescent_Shadows_from_tree_on_wall_May_20_2012_Partial_Solar_Eclipse
San Francisco Pride 2012
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Dan Savage speaking at Google about the it gets better project
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The Space Needle in Seattle
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Seattle and Mount Ranier
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Seattle and Mount Ranier
Chicago
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This is an 1880's photo of 653 W Wrightwood (now 655 W Wrightwood) in the Lincoln Park Neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Note the wooden sidewalk, dirt road and lack of buildings surrounding the edifice.
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A Diner on Belmont Ave In Chicago
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Chicago Deep Dish Pizza
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Demolition of Cabrini Green
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Loews Theater at Pipers Alley
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Home of a 19th century network engineer
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The Midwest Buddhist Temple [1], with St. Michaels visible in the upper right
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The exterior of the Up Down Tobacco Shop
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A window display at the Up Down Tobacco Shop
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You Are Beautiful
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You Are Beautiful
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You Are Beautiful
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Old Town Poster
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Grammophone Records
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Central Camera, a 19th century camera store
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Lincoln Park
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A banner from Looptopia
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an ad for Looptopia on the Chicago El
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Victor's Neighborhood: Old Town, Chicago
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The intersection of North Ave. and Wells in 2006
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Genocide in Chicago [2]
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A building in Old Town built in the 1920s
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A Corporate marker in Millennium Park
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The prices
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A sign of the establishment
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The grill
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Bell Tower St. Clement Chicago
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Fasces on Chicago City Hall
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Chicago at Dusk in December
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Fort Dearborn
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Fort Dearborn
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The Biograph Theater redressed for the film Public Enemies.
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The alley where John Dillinger was killed, redressed for the film Public Enemies.
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The sign outside The Old Town Aquarium
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A Plaque about Carl Street Studios on the Building itself]]
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A Statue of William Shakespeare in Lincoln Park
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the very first Potbelly Restaurant
Chicago Transit Authority
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Berwyn CTA Stop
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Killing Two Birds With One Stone
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Restored Texan Pioneer House
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A Windmill at the National Ranching Heritage Center
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Cool Texture
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a Cactus
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Asphalt, Cotton and Power
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A Civilized Response to the 2nd Amendment in Lubbock, Texas
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Treptower Park In Berlin
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A view into the pedestal in Treptower Park
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The Weltzeituhr at Alexanderplatz
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The Döner stand outside of modern-day Gneisenaustraße
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A Surprising and Offensive Name for English Speakers
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The Berlin wall has become a Mecca for graffiti writers. Featured here is an image of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker making out. The words at the top read "God! help me stay alive"; and continue at the bottom "Among this deadly love."
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Stencil Graffiti of Rosa Luxemburg on a portion of the Berlin Wall on display in Potsdamer Platzin Berlin. This image was uses in this magazine article.
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A Sign at Checkpoint Charlie
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A memorial to the those who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall
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A portion of the Berlin Wall in Chicago, in Lincoln Square, a historically German neighborhood.
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A closeup on the marker of the wall.
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A portion of the Berlin wall in Mountain View, California
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panorama of Boston Common
Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees game June 2012 (if you know these players, please help me to label them!)
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Adrian Gonzalez batting, with Chris Stewart (baseball) catching.
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Darnell McDonald hitting a ball
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An example of a flyer created by Sharkula
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Foster Beach carving in stone
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Reverse graffiti on a car
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A take on traffic signals
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Gandhi in San Francisco
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in Curitiba, Brazil.
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an example of Woodblock Graffiti
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an example of Woodblock Graffiti
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An image of woodblock graffiti that had been painted over by the chicago Graffiti Blasters and then covered with sticker art.
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an example of Woodblock Graffiti
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More woodblock graffiti
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enter!
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more woodblock graffiti
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By SARO
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Woodblock Graffiti depicting a Squirrel
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Support Daley Graffiti Blasters
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Chicago Graffiti
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Mayor Daley's real goal
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What the Graffiti Blasters are all about
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a stencil condemning Mayor Daley
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Election Propaganda
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A cake
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peace cake
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Emma Goldmans grave in German Waldheim Cemetery
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The monument to Haymarket
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Another angle of the monument to Haymarket
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Critical Mass Chicago, passing the Haymarket Monument
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A cyclist at the Chicago Critical Mass is arrested for public drinking.
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sputnik the cat
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Real Free range Chickens in Poland
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a female yellow shafted flicker photographed with a wide angle cellphone lens in downtown Chicago, the bird hit a window and had become disoriented. Eventually the bird was nursed to health and released in back to the wild.
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Cars stuck and abandoned on Lake Shore Drive
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Abandoned CTA bus on Lake Shore Drive
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Cars abandoned on Lake shore Drive
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Cars abandoned on Lake SHore Drive
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People Shoveling on Belden Ave. in Chicago
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The Intersection of Clark and Fullerton in Chicago
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Fullerton Harbor in Chicago.
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Cars snowed in on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago
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Abandoned CTA bus on Lake Shore Drive
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abandoned bus on lake shore drive
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CTA farebox on abandoned bus covered in snow
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inside an abandoned CTA bus during the storm. Note the snow.
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ROTATE PLEASE
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the Apple Store closed during the storm
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Skiing on Belden Ave. in Chicago.
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The Seal of the City of Chicago on a stranded salt truck on Lakeshore drive during the storm.
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A salt/plow truck abandoned and stuck on Lake Shore Drive during the storm
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An ATM during the storm
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Lincoln Park New Balance Store Closed
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Cars covered in snow on Lake Shore Drive
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the Reebie Storage Warehouse during the storm
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the 36 broadway bus at clark and fullerton during the storm
Building a Solar Panel
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Earthship literature for sale
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Tire and bottle walls of earthships
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An earthship bathroom
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An exterior of a modern earthship
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An interior of a bottle wall bathroom
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an interoro botanical cell, for greywater treatment
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an unfinished earthship
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an unfinished earthship
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an unfinished earthship
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an operable skylight
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Tire walls
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Scupper / Silt Catch
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Indoor Cistern
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Water Organizing Module
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pressure tank
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Power Organizing Module
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Battery Room
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Can and bottle wall
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Oiled Mud wall
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Greywater pump
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Walden_Pond_at_Dusk_December_24,_2012
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Walden_Pond_at_Dusk_December_24,_2012
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Walden_Pond_at_Dusk_December_24,_2012
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powder horn and gun in the Concord Museum
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2nd Amendment in NYC
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Ground Zero
Miscellaneous Images
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I shot this outside the berghoff restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, it took 10 minutes for one person to be isolated for the shot. i felt like a sniper.
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Ancient Anthropomorphism
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a Modemhead
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Lincoln Park Beaver Lodge in the Ice
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a burned telephone pole
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A 'Concrete smiley face', this is actually 2 holes in the ground for holding 2 chain link fence doors at a Lowes Construction supply store in San Francisco.
Out of Focus Green Backgrounds
Deleted images
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The UN
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An example of a flyer created by Sharkula
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An example of a flyer created by Sharkula
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synesthesia advertisement for online ordering of pizza, the smell of which will evoke images of friendly people eating pizza.
Interesting articles on Wikipedia
Although I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account are exclusively in my individual, personal capacity.
Category:User-created public domain images
Category:Lists of unsolved problems
Category:Uncracked codes and ciphers
This user hopes that in light of massive media coverage of the blackout that SOPA and PIPA will not become a law. |
The Photographer's Barnstar | |
For your wonderful photojournalism during the great blackout, I award you this star. Guerillero | My Talk 07:00, 19 January 2012 (UTC) |