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As I looked at the beauty of this, I also noted the complexity and the parallels in our technical world. The 'web' is appropriately named, a network of interconnected nodes and pathways. Just like the spider web, the 'internet web' has a nasty spider at the core of it. the tech giants (Google, Facebook, & Twitter) who are sucking information from its unwary users, just like the spider sucks the juices out of its ensnared prey. Own your data; it's yours, not theirs.
The fifth in this series and trying to find some kind of balanced shot in this chaotic scene is difficult to this is as close as I could get, hence the title.
The Sphere Within Sphere, also known as Sfera con Sfera, is a series of sculptures created by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro depicting an enormous metal sphere with a cracked surface revealing an intricate interior with another cracked sphere inside.
Arnaldo Pomodoro says that the inner ball represents the Earth and outer ball represents Christianity. The design of the internal layers which look like the gears or cogwheels of a complex machine symbolizes the fragility and complexity of the world.
This sphere is at Trinity College in Dublin Ireland but it can be found at other prime location around the world. Originally created for the Vatican Church in the 1960s, also at the Headquarters of the UN in New York, The Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, USA, The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus and the Tel Aviv University in Israel, to name a few.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the snowflakes which are 12mm in diameter and the stars and central green sequins which are 3mm in diameter. The central fir green sequins are special vintage 1920s celluloid sequins, which makes this a very special bauble. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the snowflakes until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
Woodland shots are without doubt my favourite type of landscape images, both to take and to view.
I find them very difficult to execute, but I guess that's part of the attraction. It's often hard to simplify the complexity of neighboring elements, however I quite like all the different lines and colours in this image.
Croxby, Lincolnshire Wolds.
The image looks a whole lot better if you click on it to view it large!
For some reason the first line of an old John Prine song popped into my head. This is actually a mixture of ice, water, leaves of grass, and part of a cottonwood leaf, all jumbled into a rich stew of nutrients that will feed the new growth in my backyard in the weeks to come. Shooting straight down and very close.
It's a departure from the spare look of my ice shots over the past few days. No elegant, clean lines here. Usually I try for simplification, which maybe I could have found in the leaf itself... but I have lots of close ups of leaves, and thought I'd try something different, organizing the visual elements around complexity instead. I built in a bit of structure by placing objects - the leaf, blades of grass - along the left, bottom, and right sides, leaving the top side open. This was intentional.
Tomorrow I'll be cranking up the wayback machine and revisiting some of my favourite wilderness backpacking adventures from years past. I am grateful to my younger self for being willing to place one foot in front of the other for as long as it took to get into these amazing places. It was a huge part of my life for a quarter century. Ask my knees and back - they'll tell you it's true!
This shot was made in my backyard at the peak of snowmelt in April. Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
"Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to non-linearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence.
The term is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those parts interact with each other in multiple ways, culminating in a higher order of emergence greater than the sum of its parts. The study of these complex linkages at various scales is the main goal of complex systems theory.
The intuitive criterion of complexity can be formulated as follows: a system would be more complex if more parts could be distinguished, and if more connections between them existed." (WP)
"La complexité caractérise le comportement d'un système ou d'un modèle dont les composants interagissent de multiples manières et suivent des règles locales, conduisant à la non-linéarité, au hasard, à la dynamique collective, à la hiérarchie et à l'émergence.
Le terme est généralement utilisé pour caractériser quelque chose comportant de nombreuses parties, où ces parties interagissent les unes avec les autres de multiples manières, aboutissant à un ordre d'émergence supérieur supérieur à la somme de ses parties. L’étude de ces liens complexes à différentes échelles constitue l’objectif principal de la théorie des systèmes complexes.
Le critère intuitif de complexité peut être formulé ainsi : un système serait plus complexe si plus de parties pouvaient être distinguées et s'il existait plus de connexions entre elles. » (WP)
Spent a lovely long weekend in an Auberge, South of Montreal in the townships. (thank you sister for hooking me up winter fun style) Took a number of shots while out on a snowshoeing adventure through thick forest and mini mountains. T'was a perfect day, with sun, no wind.
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Taken in our studio.
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I fell in love with this one and wore it everywhere for a few days!
Its a simple but elegant outfit with a short skirt. It comes with a transparency HUD, and is offered in the best ever range of textures, including a Christmassy one, in case you were planning on being unwrapped.
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Pose, set and lighting by Whims
looking for symmetry here, I didn't want that, I wanted to capture the many design levels, the absolute abundance of visual stimuli in the opulent choir gallery, which in case of doubt has no symmetry at all ... ;-) ...
fangt erst gar nicht an hier nach Symmetrie zu suchen, die wollte ich nicht, ich wollte die vielen Gestaltungsebenen, den absoluten Überfluss an visuellen Reizen einfangen in dem üppigen Chorumgang, der im Zweifelsfalle auch gar keine Symmetrie hat ...
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Sie ist eine der üppigsten Kirchen des Abendlandes ...
Der heilige Antonius setzte das Werk Franz von Assisis fort.
Die Basilika des Heiligen Antonius (italienisch: Basilica di Sant’Antonio, regional oft auch nur Basilica del Santo oder einfach Santo) in Padua ist eines der berühmtesten und meistbesuchten Heiligtümer Italiens, meint meine Freundin Wiki ...
Sie gehört zu den weltweit acht internationalen Heiligtümern.
Sie ist päpstliche Basilika und Basilica minor. Sie ist der erste große Kirchenbau mit Gewölbe in der Terraferma und wurde zwischen 1232 und etwa 1310 mit romanischen wie gotischen Stilelementen errichtet, um das Grab des heiligen Antonius von Padua († 1231 in Arcella, heute Stadtteil von Padua) aufzunehmen.
Die Basilika ist 118 m lang und 32,5 m breit, das kurze Querhaus 55 m breit. Die größte Innenhöhe beträgt 38,5 m.
Die Kirche hat ein dreischiffiges Langhaus, einen polygonalen Chor, Chorumgang und Kapellenkranz im Osten.
Langhaus und breites Querschiff sind im typischen Baustil italienischer Bettelordenskirchen.
Der Umgangschor, der Kapellenkranz (ähnlich San Francesco in Bologna) und das dem Querhaus eingefügte Zwischenjoch sind französischen Ursprungs.
Die 37 m hohe und 28 m breite Fassade, der älteste Teil des Kirchenbaus, vereint venezianisch-byzantinische, lombardische-romanische und gotische Elemente.
Die acht Kuppeln ähnlich dem 5-Kuppel-System des Markusdoms im nahegelegenen Venedig, die zwei schlanken, sechseckigen und 68 m hohen Glockentürme und zwei minarettartige Türmchen sind typische Merkmale des byzantinischen Baustils. Der Engel auf der kegelförmigen Kuppel über der Vierung thront in 72 m Höhe. Zwei weitere Fensterrosen an den Seiten des Hochaltars beleuchten das Kircheninnere.
Zuvor habe ich eine solch verworrene Komplexität kaum erlebt. Das Gebäudeensemble besitzt alleine drei Kreuzgänge und Kapellen mit berühmtesten Fresken wie einem Chor mit Kunst Donatellos.
Padua (italienisch Padova, lateinisch Patavium) ist eine italienische Gemeinde und Hauptstadt der gleichnamigen Provinz Padua.
Sie liegt am Rande der Po-Ebene, 30 km westlich von Venedig, am Fluss Bacchiglione und hat 206.651 Einwohner.
Mit dem botanischen Garten und mit mehreren über die Altstadt verteilten Freskenzyklen des 14. Jahrhunderts besitzt Padua zwei Einträge in der Liste des Weltkulturerbes der UNESCO. Die Stadt beheimatet zudem mit der Universität Padua (Gründung im Jahr 1222) eine der ältesten europäischen und die nach Bologna (gegründet 1088) und Modena (gegründet 1175) drittälteste Universität Italiens.
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It is one of the most lavish churches in the Occident.
Saint Anthony continued the work of Francis of Assisi.
The Basilica of Saint Anthony (Italian: Basilica di Sant’Antonio, regionally often just Basilica del Santo or simply Santo) in Padua is one of the most famous and most visited shrines in Italy, says my friend Wiki...
It is one of the eight international shrines in the world.
It is a papal basilica and a minor basilica. It is the first large church building with a vault in the terraferma and was built between 1232 and around 1310 with Romanesque and Gothic style elements to accommodate the tomb of Saint Anthony of Padua (died 1231 in Arcella, now a district of Padua).
The basilica is 118 m long and 32.5 m wide, the short transept is 55 m wide. The greatest interior height is 38.5 m.
The church has a three-aisled nave, a polygonal choir, ambulatory and a ring of chapels in the east.
The nave and wide transept are in the typical architectural style of Italian mendicant churches.
The ambulatory choir, the ring of chapels (similar to San Francesco in Bologna) and the intermediate bay inserted into the transept are of French origin.
The 37 m high and 28 m wide facade, the oldest part of the church building, combines Venetian-Byzantine, Lombard-Romanesque and Gothic elements.
The eight domes similar to the 5-dome system of St. Mark's Basilica in nearby Venice, the two slender, hexagonal and 68 m high bell towers and two minaret-like turrets are typical features of the Byzantine architectural style. The angel on the conical dome above the crossing sits enthroned at a height of 72 m. Two more rose windows on the sides of the high altar illuminate the interior of the church.
I have rarely seen such confusing complexity before. The building ensemble alone has three cloisters and chapels with famous frescoes such as a choir with art by Donatello.
Padua (Italian: Padova, Latin: Patavium) is an Italian municipality and capital of the province of Padua of the same name. It lies on the edge of the Po Valley, 30 km west of Venice, on the Bacchiglione River and has 206,651 inhabitants.
With the botanical garden and several 14th-century fresco cycles spread across the old town, Padua has two entries on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The city is also home to the University of Padua (founded in 1222), one of the oldest European universities and the third oldest in Italy after Bologna (founded in 1088) and Modena (founded in 1175).
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Detail of ground level walkway within Keeling House, a modernist apartment block in Bethnal Green, East London. Designed by Denys Lasdun and completed in 1957.