ghost train digest

i once smoked far too much by myself late at night and was listening to the wall and when this track came on i nearly peed my pants

badgerlips:

GREGORY BRIGHT: SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR A MURDER HE DID NOT COMMIT
“Greg spent twenty-seven-and-a-half years in the Louisiana State Prison System for a crime he did not commit. Greg was convicted in 1975 of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. At the time Greg was twenty years old.
Greg’s conviction was based solely on the testimony of a single supposed eyewitness. The jury never heard from the Coroner, who would have testified that the time of death did not coincide with the time that the witness claimed that she saw the murder. Nor did the jury know that the eyewitness was a paranoid schizophrenic who suffered from auditory and visual hallucinations, who was medicating her mental illness with heroin, who gave the police information in exchange for cash, and was testifying under a false name to conceal her own problems with the law.
In 2002, Greg was granted a hearing at which The Innocence Project of New Orleans demonstrated not only the problems with the single eyewitness, but also that the State had concealed a police report describing alternate suspects. Greg’s conviction was overturned and he was granted a new trial. On June 24th, 2003, after twenty-seven-and-a-half years, Greg was released after the Orleans Parish District Attorney dropped all charges. He left prison with nothing but a ten dollar check from the State of Louisiana, and a garbage bag full of legal paperwork.
Greg is now rebuilding his life. He and three other exonerates have created a series of monologues detailing their experiences called, “Voices of Innocence.” So far, “Voices of Innocence” has been performed at Harvard University, Tulane University and at the University of Illinois College of Law.”
In his ongoing series of portraits of exonerated death row and life-sentenced prisoners, Bolick captures the intensity of his subjects through his use of color and painting style. The large scale of many of these paintings - nearly seven feet tall in some cases - symbolizes the enormity of unfairness in the U.S. justice system.

GREGORY BRIGHT: SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR A MURDER HE DID NOT COMMIT
“Greg spent twenty-seven-and-a-half years in the Louisiana State Prison System for a crime he did not commit. Greg was convicted in 1975 of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. At the time Greg was twenty years old.
Greg’s conviction was based solely on the testimony of a single supposed eyewitness. The jury never heard from the Coroner, who would have testified that the time of death did not coincide with the time that the witness claimed that she saw the murder. Nor did the jury know that the eyewitness was a paranoid schizophrenic who suffered from auditory and visual hallucinations, who was medicating her mental illness with heroin, who gave the police information in exchange for cash, and was testifying under a false name to conceal her own problems with the law.
In 2002, Greg was granted a hearing at which The Innocence Project of New Orleans demonstrated not only the problems with the single eyewitness, but also that the State had concealed a police report describing alternate suspects. Greg’s conviction was overturned and he was granted a new trial. On June 24th, 2003, after twenty-seven-and-a-half years, Greg was released after the Orleans Parish District Attorney dropped all charges. He left prison with nothing but a ten dollar check from the State of Louisiana, and a garbage bag full of legal paperwork.
Greg is now rebuilding his life. He and three other exonerates have created a series of monologues detailing their experiences called, “Voices of Innocence.” So far, “Voices of Innocence” has been performed at Harvard University, Tulane University and at the University of Illinois College of Law.”
In his ongoing series of portraits of exonerated death row and life-sentenced prisoners, Bolick captures the intensity of his subjects through his use of color and painting style. The large scale of many of these paintings - nearly seven feet tall in some cases - symbolizes the enormity of unfairness in the U.S. justice system.

tastycakesart:

“In A Forest Far Far Away” by Orrin Taylor

Orrin, your art is so wonderful.

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I’m going to have the art day next week where I reblog art from followers who liked that post about art blogs last week, I think it was lol

So yeah I’m going to do that next week at some point because I work the rest of this week and have so much schoolwork and then this weekend I’m visiting my best friend Julia at Allegheny College woooooo! Any of you go there?

I’ll post those movie links later for those of you who feel like watching some dope movies online for free, just make sure you reblog them so lotsa people can also enjoy them :)

And I am going to be making that etsy/ebay blog, starting it up next week as well

I think that’s itttt

Back to tumbling

If you follow me and your tumblr consists of your own drawings or art or illustrations or comics or doodles

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Please like this!

I’d really like to take a look at your pages to follow some of you!

I figure I could use the amount of followers that follows this blog to help get some of your stuff out there at least somewhat :)

Maybe I’ll do a day where I only post people’s art! Wouldn’t that be rad? I think so.

I’d mainly prefer to follow back blogs that post the above stated regularly, even if your whole blog isn’t about your drawings. Just so that there is somewhat of a steady flow of drawings :)

But even if not, I’ll still look at every single one of your pages!