Religion is a funny thing

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  Definition of man

  noun (plural men /mɛn/)

  - a human being of either sex; a person:
  God cares for all men
• (also Man) [in singular] human beings in general; the human race:places untouched by the ravages of man
  
  Definition of mankind
  

  -/manˈkʌɪnd/ human beings considered collectively; the human race:

  
  
  Leviticus 18:22
  
  Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
  
  
  There's a few crazy things I dont understand. So does this mean lesbians are going to heave? The King James Bible version just mentions mankind not laying with mankind. Or does this mean that the all encompassing collective of the human race isn't allowed to lay with each other.
  
  At the point of God telling moses that mankind should not lie with mankind as womankind, then that kind of says we shouldn't have been around past the times of Moses.

Tomato Battle PDX

So yesterday just like most days and nights I am off to photograph an event, but yesterday had to be the most epic event I have been to by far. It consisted of tons of tomatoes and people willing to get brutally destroyed by them! It was the Tomato Battle PDX edition. I traveled all the way out to McTanahan's Brewery Co. where hundreds of people gathered in the heat to drink, listen to music, compete in a costume contest and then pelt each other with tomatoes. The rivers ran red that day, with the juice of tomatoes.

Here is how the creators describe it:

"he Tomato Battle unifies as many as 5,000 fruit-chucking fanatics for an afternoon of dancing to music, sipping libations, and flinging 300,000 pounds of roma tomatoes at one another. Mosh in a ketchup-covered fray that marries the traditions of Spain’s La Tomatina tomato-throwing festival and Germany’s Oktoberfest. Festivities commence at noon with registration and opening, followed by live entertainment and a costume contest. At 4:00 p.m., soldiers donning bathing suits, safety goggles, and well-treaded shoes converge on piles of past-ripe tomatoes and set about pelting people with fruits like sentient apple trees avenging the initial-carving of amorous teenagers. Beats and beer flow until past 7 p.m., when ruddy troops lay down their arms and rinse themselves clean of pulp and juice. An extra set of clothes is highly recommended.
All of the tomatoes used during the exhibition will have been previously marked for disposal, making the Tomato Battle an efficient and entertaining use of nonedible waste."

300,000 pounds dammit! So much damn fruit being flug in the air and each other. I saw a few people that had been crying and tons who had welts all over their bodies. It was a good day!

Photoshoot with April O'Neil for Mod Whore

Model: April O'Neil
Clothing: Shirt by Mod Whore
Photograph: Kyle Helstein of Happy Robot Photography

Drunkard loves Batman!

During the Superhero Pub Crawl some greatness happened. A drunkard, who I think really thought Batman is a real person, absolutely had the best day of his life! Local Batman enthusiast walked across the Burnside bridge trailed b a procession of superhero enthusiasts. During which, a drunk or possibly cracked out shirtless man walked up and quite possibly met what he thought was the real Batman. the drunkard kept hugging Batman and started to cry asking, "Where have you been Batman!!"

At one point, Frogman kept telling the drunkard that he was only a man and to calm down. He didn't tell him this in any negative fashion, just that he needed to settle down. He was getting quite physical with the man dressed as the Dark Knight. But the photos I took seemed to be the favorite of all the photos shown so far of the pub crawl.

It was a very good time!

If Ohio is for lovers than Portland is for the uneducated.

As I walk up and down Hawthorne talking to people about education, and being said no to time and time again, I have realized that the baby boomers and the people of my generation are okay wife along with uneducated people the rest of their lives. They are okay with whining about how poor the education system is here and giving opinions on how we should change it. But when I mention the changes we could make to help the next generation be literate in more ways than one they smile and look at me with such a blank stare.

Is everyone in this town so self obsessed that they can't for a moment think of the implications that not having educated people in this town would be?

But of course these self absorbed yuppies and hipsters must get to their hair appointments or their jobs at the local thrift store and boutique. Or even the coffee shop where they work part time Nd the rest of the time spent reading books about the world and whining about the problems than taking any action.

Is this what our people have become?

Portland Gay Pride Parade

I freakin love Pride Parades. Especially the Portland Gay Pride Parade! Today, China Town and the water front were packed with thousands of people in support of Gay Pride. I snapped off about a thousand photos of the parade and here are some for everyone to enjoy!