Faces of Mahmoud - Photoshop series pt.1

The Origin of Life - Abiogenesis - Dr. Jack Szostak

The Hajj Limerick

The Hajj (Moslem pilgrimage to Mecca) is notorious for the number of
dead it leaves in it's wake due to the zealous nature of the participants.
In 2006, nearly four-hundred pilgrims were killed in the stoning of the
devil ritual at the al-Jamarat site. The cause of the tragedy? Spilled

luggage on the roadside causing a stampede, which inspired

The Hajj Limerick.

There once was a pilgrim named Al-hassan,
who journeyed to Mecca from Pakistan,
he picked up a pebble to aim at the devil,
and tripped on his Louis Vuitton.

Call me insensitive, but I take inspiration from wherever I find it.

A Nietzsche moment

Below is Nietzsche's definition of truth. I think he influenced me somewhere along the way. Absolutely brilliant!

What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms -- in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.  We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors - in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all...

'On truth and lie in an extra-moral sense,' The Viking Portable Nietzsche, p.46-7, Walter Kaufmann transl.