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and its discontents.
at this very moment, there are radioactive isotypes coursing through my bloodstream. i agreed to have said radioactivity injected into my veins for the purposes of a diagnostic bone scan to investigate my hip fracture.
for some reason, the entire event has motivated me to read freud.
Detail (it's a *really neat* detail) and BTS on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DJI9P8gx59k/?img_index=1
An image stuck in my head for over year was of a teenage-ish girl in a post-apocalyptic world in the basement of an abandoned office building, slinking back in a chair and staring down at the unfortunate soul stumbling across her path. Holding a scythe because she's Death.
So many random inspirations fade while others are lost to the realization that not every image needs to be made. Something about her stuck; I wanted to bring that beautiful girl to life.
Why this one? Unknown. Maybe the fact that death lurks anywhere and everywhere. Perhaps processing anxiety around natural disasters-- more the extreme suffering and fear of *not* dying in that case. Or the death sentence that was existing in the Bay Area (as in, if you live somewhere and never move, welp, that's where you'll expire. Fun thought if you're stuck in a place turning you into a hollowed-out husk of a human).
Then the eternal negotiation between the concept and the execution. Under the rule that there are no rules-- inspiration is not an obligation to replicate.
There's that magical point in your ArTIStic JoURney where you focus less on raw skill and creating images with wider appeal-- if anyone at all understands what makes sense in your head, great. If not, better yet!
Style influenced by the album covers for FLA's "Artificial Soldier" and "Mechanical Soul" :).
Yup, that house is made of tin.. located in the Tin City at Port Stephens' sand dunes. The tour guide told us that the movies "Mad Max" and "Sahara" were filmed here..
This place is amazing.. so full of interesting things. And apparently further down the sand, there's a shipwreck too, but we didn't have time to see it. Maybe i'll be luckier next time.. =)
I thought about erasing the car from the picture, but i decided not to coz i think it spices up the picture a bit more.. ^,^
So I started this and mostly finished it over winter break. After being home for a month for the summer I finally found time to finish it and take a few pictures, as can be expected, the quality sucks. I'm going to try to build some more this summer before I have to go back to school.
Canadian Museum Of Civilization
Beavers
2003
Basswood, metal
1,692 airplanes, each 14.73 x 8.8 x 2.54 cm
The vacant picnic shelter looked very lonely in the night. Evidence of civilization can be reassuring. On this night, it made me feel cold and removed.
Canon5d2+samyang14mm f2,8 iso500 10s
A night spent on the bank of the lake... the nights become cold finally, a lot of moisture in the air which freezes before the sunrise and appear as a mist during night, providing fascinating views over the lake's surface.
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Tomada en Murcia (España) en una sesión fotográfica junto a Mariano Belmar, Pedro Díaz Molins y José Baleriola.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
1/320"
f11
ISO 400
Canon 70-200mm @ 70mm
No Filters
Silver Efex Pro 2
So I started this and mostly finished it over winter break. After being home for a month for the summer I finally found time to finish it and take a few pictures, as can be expected, the quality sucks. I'm going to try to build some more this summer before I have to go back to school.
Izamal was one of the biggest cities in the area during the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization period. Within the city there were two large pyramids. After the Spanish conquest of Yucatán in the 16th century a Spanish colonial city was founded atop the existing Maya one; however it was decided that it would take a prohibitively large amount of work to level these two huge pyramids and so the Spanish contented themselves with placing a small Christian temple atop the great pyramid and building a large Franciscan Monastery atop the acropolis. The church was named after San Antonio de Padua. Most of the cut stone from the Pre-Columbian city was reused to build the Spanish churches, monastery, and surrounding buildings.
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The Ile de la Cité is the cradle of Parisian civilization. It was here that the Parisii tribe lived. The Île de la Cité is one of two natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris (the other being Île Saint-Louis). It is the centre of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded.
Canon 1DsMkIII, 16-35mm 2.8L, ISO 50, f14, 0.8s. Sepia conversion in CS3.
2 Minute Exposure - Composition suggested by Null Packet.
This made Explore on 2009-05-18! My first! :)
(Or was it 2009-05-13? I don't understand Expore!)
Highest position: 10 on Friday, May 15, 2009
Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala. It was the capital city of a major Classic period kingdom from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. The city was located in the extreme southeast of the Mesoamerican cultural region, on the frontier with the Isthmo-Colombian cultural region, and was almost surrounded by non-Maya peoples. In this fertile valley now lies a city of about 3000, a small airport, and a winding road.
Copán was occupied for more than two thousand years, from the Early Preclassic period right through to the Postclassic. The city developed a distinctive sculptural style within the tradition of the lowland Maya, perhaps to emphasize the Maya ethnicity of the city's rulers.
The city has a historical record that spans the greater part of the Classic period and has been reconstructed in detail by archaeologists and epigraphers. Copán, probably called Oxwitik by the Maya, was a powerful city ruling a vast kingdom within the southern Maya area. The city suffered a major political disaster in AD 738 when Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil, one of the greatest kings in Copán's dynastic history, was captured and executed by his former vassal, the king of Quiriguá. This unexpected defeat resulted in a 17-year hiatus at the city, during which time Copán may have been subject to Quiriguá in a reversal of fortunes.
A significant portion of the eastern side of the acropolis has been eroded away by the Copán River, although the river has since been diverted in order to protect the site from further damage.
This night was perfect. We hiked up Cascade and although it was freezing, it was the best hike I have ever been on. The stars were amazing and I loved every second. Also we had the most amazing breakfast the next morning.
Explore #49 - 03.05.2009
On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
A vast similitude interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms,
All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d,
And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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