A day in the life of Hypocrisy . . Err I mean Asheville . . No wait it was Hypocrisy . .

Its seems that this weekend its upon us once again, no not the wretched drum circle, or Bele Chere, no its the new waste of effort and misleading 36 hours of "A day in the life of Asheville".  Its where one over-rated photographer rallies the other over-rated photographers to go out and capture Asheville on Film or disks in their camera's.  Then the 1st over-rated photographer makes a book or website or something,  but I do know this.  Now I AM NOT saying that all the photographers in this town are over-rated, but any tom, dick or mary with a camera is considered a talented photographer, and if I said it once I have said it a MILLION times, taking a picture and making it black and white does not add meaning, get over yourself.

This is not going to show the true Asheville, these photographers are never going to step foot out of downtown Asheville other than to take pictures in the Colony of Haywood Street, maybe the River Arts Building (The call it a district but its 4 buildings grouped together, painted bright and in disrepair, not really a district), North Asheville, and maybe Montford.  Asheville is a large city, the largest city in between Knoxville TN, and Greensboro NC, its really not a small mountain hamlet of diversity that it claims to be.

The places that the Asheville lover's won't take pictures will be, Oakley, Oteen, Sondley, Haw Creek, Arden (Yes Arden is in the city limits), Skyland, Tunnel Road, Kennilworth, Riverside area and Beaucatcher area.  You know why?, They are not located down town.  All the pictures will be are portraits on not locals but transients, the trustafarians, the non-locals.  This does not portay Asheville in its true form, it portrays Asheville faux-culture of hippies, rusty art and fads its collected from previous times. 

No I am not impressed with this, if this was a city wide activity then maybe it would be a good idea, but right now its just down town, and I will tell you as a tax paying citizen of Asheville NC of 33 years our downtown is NOTHING to brag about.  Street musicians, panhandlers, drum circles, and mobs of transients loitering on the sidewalk is going to portray the land of apples, the land of the sky in a positive light?  No its just going to attract more weirdo's and people that do not care about the locals to live up the Faux "Paris of the South" moniker.  Our downtown is full of Bars, a couple of clubs and coffee shops where is the diversity???  Its not existent when you look at proof, if you listen to a downtown worshipper they would claim it was the most diverse place on earth.  Now before you think I'm a local hick, your wrong, I am very diverse in many ways with a very open mind, I like several people in the area is tired being treated like crap because we don't like what our town has become.

Asheville is NOT Paris, Asheville is NOT this orgasmic hippy commune where you can do as you please.  We have laws, structure and we have locals that are treaded on a regular basis.  Take the ever so lovely Pigdemic article from our local mountain rag that promotes openness, and kindness, with a progressive stance, so they can make fun of the locals, open minded huh?

This really exposes what most of the non-locals think of the locals, and you know what I say, to hell with them.  

The culture here is more rich, and wonderful and more open an caring then ANY of his trustafarian garbage that is pushed down our throat on a regular basis.   All of our "Local" craftsmen are are pushed out and forced to struggle for water colored rorshack looking inkblots, B/W photography of crap that wasn't interesting before the b/w effect,  Twisted rusty art littering the down town area, drum circles and so forth.  

People this is NOT the real Asheville . . . .