Merry Mac Highway-Towable Chipper/Shredder - 249cc Briggs & Stratton Intek OHV Engine, 3 1/2in. Capacity, Model# 12PHT1100M

Hefty 249cc Briggs & Stratton Intek engine. As powerful as your needs. Handles tough clean up of fallen branches, prunings, and leaves with ease. Compact size lets you store it in area 2ft. square. Toughness, versatility, and speed are what this machine is about. You'll get dependable, professional-level operation, in a machine you can use year-round for clean-up, gardening, and landscaping. Tow behind ATVs or lawn tractors. U.S.A. Application: Chipper / shredder, Walk or Pull: Pull, Max. Cutting Thickness (in.): 3 1/2, Engine Type: OHV Intek, Engine: Briggs & Stratton, Chipper: Yes, Shredder: Yes, Displacement (cc): 249, HP: 10, Max. RPM: 2,700, Bagger Volume (bushels): 6 1/2, Material Type: Steel, Tire Size (in.): 4.10/3.50 x 4

Hefei, Anhui, April 2010 Fuji GA645zi, Ektacolor 160 I'm going through a rough patch in my ongoing love affair with photography. In my own photos I've become all too aware of their limitations, tired of a formulaic approach. I'm also increasingly failing to be inspired by the photography of others, far too many people relying on their various formulas and creative crutches, be they retro nostalgia, exoticism, arti-ness, software virtuosity, titillation, expensive equipment, journalistic convention or gallery-sales technique, etc etc. Four years of intense co-habitation with the medium, and I think I see through all of that now, or most of it. Stripped bare, there's often little to hold my interest. Far too much artifice, too much contrivance, too little authenticity, too much propaganda, be it political propaganda, commercial propaganda, journalistic integrity propaganda, good times propaganda, art-scene-self-gratification propaganda, the propaganda of photography itself, some kind of service in the name of some other larger cause, rather than photos which stand as independent entities. It's all mostly garbage, digital landfill. And this goes for prize-winning establishment 'elite' and their various hangers-on, as much as it does for the 'cross-section of life' on Flickr. What exactly is this monster we are building ? Delete your Flickr account. Throw away your prime lenses. I'm seeing now that photographs perform the same trick as organised religion; their only achievment is to generate some kind of vaguely tangible trace that people can believe in, either brutally or subtly depending on the viewer's tastes, but stripped bare, actually there's nothing there, its just us, wanting there to be something, and dressing these urges up in whatever clothes we see fit. For those who approached photogrpahy from an academic or indeed armchair standpoint, all this might seem self-evident, but for those like me who became enveloped in a photography, allowed its whims for a time to take over our very own nervous systems, it comes as more of a surprise. Could I in fact just let the rest of humanity busy themselves projecting their god-desiring urges onto other people's photographs while I ignore the whole lot, just as I ignore religion. I may in time devote my time and energy to something else altogether. In the meantime I'm increasingly find myself drawn to taking nihilistic photos of nothing, because really, that's all there is in any photo. The rest, the cameras, the film, the accessories, the camera industry, the right-place-right-time context, the academic analysis, the festivals, the histories, the greats behind the camera and celebrities in front of it, the magazines and teach-yourself manuals, the self-promotion, the self-referencing, the cheesy smiles, the v-signs, the reasuring click of a firm shutter, comments, faves, it's all just baggage, a circus. This accumulation of 'photographic culture', this sprawling unstoppable megalopolis called 'Photo City', has reached such an extent that it obscures us from seeing what a photograph actually is, or isn't. Photography vs The Photo. I'm sure disillusioned economists and priests have had their 'Finance vs Money' or 'Religion vs God' moments. Today it's my turn, I want to put the whole lot through the shredder.

Waste tyres are loaded into a shredder at McGrath's Materials Recycling Facility in Barking