Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

Exxon anounces record $45 Billion Profit

by // 1 Comment


Exxon/Mobil suffered through a poor 4th quarter but still ended the year with record profits. An industry analyst [ read between the lines, select one – bull shit artist, spin Dr. lying scum of the earth] said that this was a good sign that the economy was strong. The demand for oil was great and people were traveling. [ back and forth to their low paying job or unemployment ] see folks it really had nothing to do with the $4.25 a gallon gas. Trust Exxon they know what’s best. They are not [yet] needing a bail out.
The pump here is a CITGO pump, the company that gives oil to 200,000 poor households in 23 States so that US Citizens don’t freeze. The program administered by Joe Kennedy’s Citizen Energy.
“All of which raises the question: If Chavez [Citgo] can keep donating fuel even as his oil revenues tumble, why can’t any U.S. oil companies step up to do the same?” Tim Padgett. Time.com January 7th

Hygienic Art Opens Saturday the 31st

I have a photo in the show not this image But one Titled “Goldwomen and Sex American Sub-Prime Morality.” Check it out edition of 50 14×21

Mobil travelers on the road to More Money, Your Money?

Have a great weekend of Art one horse power. enjoy pjc

Winter lingers OK it is still January but todays weather

by // 2 Comments


Today’s weather is back to the normal of recent past winters, snow to sleet to freezing rain to rain. In concise meteorological terms ” A Shit Storm!” I despite my “love” for this season and all the metaphors it congers up have been enjoying the fresh powder of recent storms. Even out with the picture box capturing some beauty.
But it is the light that I love the silhouettes of trees abstracted against foreboding skies, the harsh cold of the bare trees. Soon the buds will peak out and youth will replace the aged bark of the oak with the smooth soft skin of the tulip. The maples will start to drip their sap with the promise of sweetness to follow. Fleece will be replaced by flesh, the smell of wet wool magically transformed to an amorous aroma of wildflowers mingling with cocoa butter as plants and animals leap into the fertile dance of spring. Change is coming to planet earth and my place in the cyber world.

For now that’s all I’ll say watch look comment, contribute, communicate, tell a friend.

Sweet Floral Nectar

Cocoa Butter

enjoy the winter light look forward to the replenishing season spring pjc

Prints for the People
Those of you on RSS feed come by the blog to read and contribute comments. I really want my work to encourage conversation.

What will we eat When the farmers are gone?

by // 2 Comments


In elementary school when I was a child we would sing a song with the refrain “the Farmer is the one who feeds us all” I think they still sing the song in school. But when I was 10 I knew the farmers. I played with their kids and sometimes helped with chores. But New England family farms are disappearing. In fact in the late fifties and early sixties I remember that some of my farm friends already had a second job to break even. As new developments encroached on pastures harvests decreased and the profit from produce dipped lower. The baby boomers and their new houses literally ate up the once fertile land. Now I’ll looking back fifty years and forward perhaps five. Hindsight is always twenty twenty and foresight is to often ruled by instant gratification/profit. Or put another way foresight is blind to tomorrow.

Now we have genetically engineered food and fewer Monarch butterflies, we have sick bees and Agra Business suing small farmers because the wind carried their genetically altered pollen into the farmers corn crop Copyright infringement. Hope the Honey Bees have a good Lawyer. Think you don’t eat genetically engineered food? Just read the labels at the market. Oh that’s right the USDA does not require labeling. ” The Farmer is the one who feeds us all?” Better living through Chemistry? enjoy pjc

Small Business not bailed out.

January Prints for the People
I know it says Sept at top.