Don Sutherland's favorite articles

Fifty years ago – August 15-17, 1969 – “three days of peace and music” at Woodstock in the tiny New York town of Bethel that had expected “no more than 50,000 people” [1] marked an epochal spiritual and cultural moment in global history when more than 400,000 people came together to enjoy music and spread peace and love among each other despite soaking rains, cramped space, and scarce provisions of food and water. Even though the crowd wa…

When I wished two Muslim friends “Happy Eid al-adha” a holiday that commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, Isaac to God, I was asked by a Christian friend to explain the holiday. When I did so, he commented, “then Mohammad’s claims of having a vision from the Angel Gabriel were a lie.” Even though it was not out of malice, he was confused and even grew more so when I explained Muslims view Jesus and Mary with high regard. “So he took parts from other religions to create his!…

Sparked by significant warming in mid September highlighted by a record 91° F reading on September 24th that smashed the previous mark of 89° F set in 1959, the New York City metro region experienced a two-month mini-Spring that lasted until the morning of November 10th when the mercury plunged from a balmy 50° F at the start of the day to a record low of 24° F on the morning of November 11th (breaking the 1933 mark of 29° F). During this two-month period, “fueled by surges of warm air from t…

We are a Community - of Friends who happen to take photos. But, the main thing is the Friendships .. reaching to help someone who has a card not working or just doesn't have a card. This is Friendship .. helping each other. This is who we are !

Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, it’s glorious, it’s the end of the world. Run for your lives! [1] With temperatures consistently breaking 50º F and 60º F and a peak high of 70º F on the 24th, February 2017 with a mean temperature of 41.6º F set a new record for the warmest February in history in the New York metro area. The previous mark of 40.9º F had bee…

Freunde, nehmt daran teil, es ist ein Versuch wert ! Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt. aNNa* 27.01.2017 Bitte füllt das Formular aus !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hier der LINK: >> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6seHpaFHBCwoypXg6SyzywEm8KgDoxDlp6ZNKvqMh2XK13w/viewform

[EN] Hello to you all, Since the announcement of ipernity upcoming shutdown, many of you have expressed their support and their willingness to help. An initiative stands out among the proposals we have received, the taking over of ipernity by a non-profit organization open to all users, the "Ipernity Members Association". This association (whose creation is planned) invites us today to inform you about a survey the aim of which is to know how many people want to support this initiative and…

[EN] Hello to you all, The ipernity team presents to you all our very best wishes for the new year! Since the announcement of ipernity’s shutdown, we received many proposals and messages of support either from users and businesses. With the help of several community members, especially Claus-Peter , Paul ( autofantasia ), Eric Desjours , and, William Sutherland , the idea that ipernity could be managed by the community has made its way and seems to be the most realistic solution.…

Paul... (autofantasia https://www.ipernity.com/home/autofantasia ) has done a large amount of work getting this together www.ipernity.com/doc/autofantasia/43992640 Please read and comment..,and fav.... we NEED to get this to No1 Explore so people SEE it and read. Pass it along to your contacts as well please..... Many thanks

All of the uncertainty over the future of ipernity and the ongoing discussions about how to secure its finances got me thinking about what this great site has to offer and more importantly just how much we’d be willing, or need, to pay to keep it afloat. In the past I’ve said I’d happily pay twice the current subscription fees and I’ve seen lots of other members make similar statements, but recent developments seem to indicate that based on current membership numbers even that level of undert…

[EN] Time flies as they say! Fall is already here and we have this impression that the year started yesterday. This summer we solved some bugs (especially the Flickr album importer) and we are still working on the adds. We warmly welcome the new users coming from Panoramio. We know that it is never easy to leave a house for another. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us via Help & Contact , we are at your disposal! See you soon, The ipernity Team PS: you can always…

[EN] As you may know (or not), the whole Team is located in the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. Yesterday, during the celebrations of Bastille Day, an attack happened in Nice, many people were killed or injured. We just wanted to let you know that if our heart aches, the ipernity Team is safe. We also wanted to express our solidarity with the people touched. [FR] Comme vous le savez peut-être, l'ensemble de l'équipe habite les Alpes-Maritimes. Suites aux évènements tragiques qui…

On November 4th all Panoramio support activities will be discontinued. Access to the photos will be possible for another year, but comment and likes will not be possible. More here: www.panoramio.com/maps-faq Although I knew that this would happen eventually, it comes to me as shock. However, we may see some of our old friends here sooner or later.

Happy Birthday ipernity (cool surprise at the end of article)

Many times the decision to exhibit or permit a public exhibit of photographs featuring the nude (aesthetic or erotic) art is not an easy decision since the delineation between legitimate art and pornography may appear to be blurred. Examples of this paradox exist when one considers the sculptures at the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple in Khajurâho, India, 19th century Japanese Shunga art, and the jury finding that a collection of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) featured in The Perfec…

[EN] Hello everyone, As we noted in our previous article we are willing to deploy ipernity on social networks starting with Facebook . To do this, we need you ! We created a group to give you the opportunity to share your photos with us. However, there are some rules : The share button must be enabled: check your settings HERE Format: ideally 1024 x 768 pixels; landscape; square No frame (or as thin as possible) Recent or popular images Ideally licensed CC No graphi…

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Based on an increasing pool of scientific evidence, it is likely Mars was once “covered by oceans and lakes and was layered by a thick atmosphere, very much similar to Earth.” [1] In addition, per scientific studies, Mars had all the ingredients necessary for life: an abundance of water, an energy source, sufficient presence of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorous, all with the proper “atomic charge” and a stable environment capable of supporting life for at least a billion years…

When my brother, Don called me to let me know the temperature in NYC had dropped to –1º F, I had just left church with plans to take a few local photographs. Prior to mass, I had documented a pair of blooming dandelions and several crocuses in the –3º F cold in my neighborhood. Knowing that the temperature had fallen below zero F only a handful of times in NYC during my life (this was only the 7th time to be exact) and it hadn’t done so for a record drought of 22+ years, I decided to race to…

[EN] Dear friends, 2016 is a special year because - some will surely remember - in less than four months ipernity will celebrate its 10th anniversary ! The first ipernity Beta version was launched on May 15, 2006 and it was one of the rarest place - perhaps the first - which proposed the sharing of any type of content (photo / audio / video / file / ...) with relatives and archiving your data on long term. Originally, ipernity was not designed to share pictures only, but as a sh…