Capitalism Hurts
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I call this 'capitalism' as this depicts the world we live in today. Many sad people who are having difficult times keeping up with the cost of living today. Many holding multiple jobs to keep a roof over their heads. What has become of us. Taken in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Wonderland sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. I went inside the sculpture to get this view. It's a female face.
Facade decor of the Rukovishnikovs' museum-estate in Nizhny Novgorod. Russia.
The beginning of work can be roughly dated to 1875. Presumably, all work was completed in 1879 or early 1880. Researchers draw attention to the fact that the building was not erected from scratch, but was, in fact, a reconstruction of an old estate. The conclusion was confirmed by an analysis of the floor plans of the two buildings and research carried out during the restoration process. In the western part, the palace almost completely retains the planning structure of the old house.
The main house, built in the spirit of an Italian palazzo with stylized shapes and baroque details, occupies the eastern corner of the estate. Richly decorated with stucco and sculptural images, the three-story mansion faces the Upper Volzhskaya embankment with its main facade and acts as an accent in its development.
The design drawings of the existing building have not been found in the archives today. Researchers are aware of other projects for rebuilding the old mansion of S. Vezlomtsev. Dated in May 1875, the project envisaged the addition of an additional floor to the house at the mezzanine level. It was no coincidence that the eclectic style was chosen for the future construction, the success of which was explained by the rapid development of capitalism and the aesthetic tastes of large industrialists and merchants of the post-reform period. The merchants sought to "emphasize the dominance of money, their will and influence with loud cumbersomeness." The demand for eclecticism was explained by the desire of the bourgeoisie to assert itself in Russian society, which gave rise to a kind of cult of luxury. All this applied to the Rukavishnikovs.
Tribute to Hirst's Shark :)
Infos:
"The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" the title of one of the most famous works of the English artist Damien Hirst (1991). It represents a shark as if suspended in a huge formalin aquarium. Not durable, these works deteriorate over time and need to be replaced.
For Hirst, the shark represents both a terrible aesthetic of nature and a figure of capitalism. Hirst is a “symptomatic” artist who speaks to us, in his own way, of the evils of our time.
« L’impossibilité physique de la mort dans l’esprit du vivant », ainsi pourrions-nous traduire le titre d’une des œuvres les plus connues de l’artiste anglais Damien Hirst (1991). Cette dernière représente un requin comme suspendu dans un immense aquarium de formol. Non pérennes, ces œuvres se détériorent avec le temps et demandent à être remplacées.
Pour Hirst, le requin représente à la fois une esthétique de la nature terrible et une figure du capitalisme. Hirst est un artiste « symptomatique » qui nous parle, à sa manière, des maux de notre époque.
Hanford, Ca.
And, on the day before Thanksgiving, I tender my suggestion for objects for which we are grateful.
Merry Thanksgiving all.
Capitalism is like cancer. Once it enters a host country's economy, it will spread and devour labor, the environment, and any other impediment to the growth of profit. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. However, the world cannot continue to get richer as the earth becomes poorer. Just as the only inevitability in life is death, the only inevitability about our capitalist way of life, is the death of our planet [and our civilization].
Garikai Chengu
Definition: a small elite securing and extracting ("raking in") an excessive slice of the economic cake without investing in the common good. In the UK, this has created a high-inequality, high-poverty cycle. This cycle is the responsibility of the British Tory Party and, consequentially, the rake ought to be its visual signature - not the tree. Fuji X-Pro1, 7Artisans lens at F16 plus a 16mm macro extension tube.
"... savage capitalism has taught the logic of profit at any cost ..."
Pope Francis, 2013
For 12 years I've been driving this curve on my way to walk by the Rogue River. It was always shaded beneath a sea of tall dark trees.
Now it suddenly looks like this! It's hard to describe how disorienting and visceral this shock is! But maybe I don't have to describe it because most people alive today probably have experience with similar things in one form or another.
Clearcutting is widespread in my area. The sickening sight of it is unavoidable if you live here. Satellite images show checkerboard forests. Logging trucks rumble through town all year long.
You don't have to be a scientist to know how wrong this is, how cruel, how deadly. You can feel it in your body. It's total devastation.
Typically, herbicides are then sprayed to discourage unwanted (unprofitable) plants from growing. Rain will wash some of the chemicals down into streams, like the nearby Rogue River, along with soil and debris. Wildlife is obviously severely disturbed and harmed. Only one type of tree will be planted to make a new tree plantation, not a living diverse forest. The original forest had probably been cut down more than 100 years ago.
Conquerors like to label indigenous people as "savages," but who is the real savage? It's those who disrespect what is sacred. It's those who celebrate death and destruction.
Bucharest / Wallachia / Romania
Album of Romania: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157711998...
Entry for the Bio-Cup 2023 Preliminaries.
Tale as old as time; guy who have lot a water. Based off the "Injustice" cartoon by BAYSAL
Street Photography in Havana, Cuba. I like the juxtaposition of the USA stars & strips shorts against the backdrop of the Cuban flag street art and the image of Che Guevara. What would Che say...
Here is a blog I have written on my website with more Cuban Street Portraits, check it out:
www.geraintrowland.co.uk/blog/2017/12/12/street-portraits...
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Best on Black
The self inflicted pain of allowing
an economic system to ruin our
lives.
It's supposed to be the tool. Not us.
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
Karl Marx
• Flock cameras photograph your license plate and bumper stickers when you are traveling, shopping, visiting friends in your car.
• Facebook gathers information about your beliefs, hopes and fears. This information is sold to whoever will pay for it.. They feed you the news they want you to see.
• Instagram shows you images it wants you to see in order to persuade you to believe what it wants you to believe.
• Google search tracks you wherever you go on the internet and sells that information to whoever is willing to pay for it. You are not Google's customer. If you are a Google user, you are the raw material that Google harvests.
• Your cellphone tracks your location wherever you go, knows how long you were there and tracks your exact location in buildings, on the water, in the air, under the ground.
This information is used to sway you to the benefit of billionaires. This is done without our knowledge or permission and often against the law. It is not inevitable. We can fight back. We must demand our right to privacy. We have a right to sanctuary.
Vlorë, Albania 2024
And here is the second chapter of my Albanian series.
Vlorë, a seaside resort ideally located on the Adriatic coast, facing Italy, is home to the country's second port after Durrës.
After the violence of the socialist dictatorship, crushed today by an equally brutal savage capitalism, she dreams of a greatness that she cannot assume.
Welcome to a paradise that sometimes takes on post-apocalyptic looks.