Brinworld: Streisand sues amateur coastal photographer at californiacoastline.org

Tyler Durden camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Fri May 30 19:03:46 PDT 2003


Tim May wrote...

"The second irony is that just today I took my first flying lesson..."

Ah. Preparing to hand-deliver that "hoped for" DC nuke, eh? Well, at least 
you'd be putting your money where your mouth is for a change.

-TD



>From: Tim May <timcmay at got.net>
>To: cypherpunks at lne.com
>Subject: Re: Brinworld: Streisand sues amateur coastal photographer at   
>californiacoastline.org
>Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:30:05 -0700
>
>A couple of ironies here...
>
>On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 01:46  PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>
>>Barbra Streisand has filed a lawsuit against an amateur photographer,
>>claiming he is violating her privacy by displaying a picture of her
>>bluff-top Malibu estate on a Web site designed to document erosion and
>>excessive development along California's 1,150-mile coastline.
>>
>>The lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Santa Monica, besides seeking $10
>>million in damages, asks retired software engineer Kenneth Adelman to
>>remove the image of Streisand's mansion from the 12,000 photos he has
>>posted on http://www.californiacoastline.org. Adelman and his wife,
>>Gabrielle, have been snapping pictures for months from their helicopter
>>to show the splendors of the coastline and what they consider
>>environmental threats.
>
>Adelman is a resident of the same small town I live in, Corralitos. He has 
>gained a lot of justifiable fame for his clever idea of digitally 
>photographing, with accurate GPS readings, the entire California coastline. 
>One can imagine all sorts of uses, including doing image comparisons, 
>calculations of rates of sand movement, vegetation changes (e.g., in sand 
>dunes), and, of course, various kinds of economic development.
>
>The second irony is that just today I took my first flying lesson, in a 
>Diamond Katana composite/carbon single-prop plane. I took off from the 
>Watsonville Airport, which is, I assume, the home airport of Adelman.
>
>(I don't know if I'll continue all the way with flying, but I have a second 
>lesson coming up in a few days.)
>
>--Tim May
>"Ben Franklin warned us that those who would trade liberty for a little bit 
>of temporary security deserve neither. This is the path we are now racing 
>down, with American flags fluttering."-- Tim May, on events following 
>9/11/2001

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