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“…the immanent dialectic of this unity accords to each individual phenomenon the essence appropriate to it depending on its distance from the centre and its relative importance to the problem” – Lukacs
Holga 120PC, Ektar
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably a dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages of the Cinque Terre. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful.
Get the balance Right
jeanne
Greenday
Dialectic Movement
Vernissage
4[07_09]
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Pessi and Illusia is classic Finnish troll story from 1944 by Yrjö Kokko
This fantasy novel, which describes the friendship and love between a troll and an elf, was written while the author was on the frontline in 1944. It can be read as an allegory of war. War problems are mirrored in the relationship between pessimistic troll Pessi and optimistic elf Illusia, who comes from the land of the rainbow.
Illusia stays so long on earth that the sun sets and she can’t see the rainbow anymore. The next few days are so dry that the rainbow never appears. Then comes a spider that envies Illusia’s famous father, Illusion, and bits off Illusia’s wings. Now she can never get back on the rainbow...
The central topic is the relationship between nature and humans, as well as that between children and the war. Novel raises the problem of the dialectic of Good and Evil, of weak and strong, by resorting to the law of nature, where the stronger beings always dominate the weak ones. This problem is still of importance today and will continue to be so.
The drug trade destroys the vitality (moral fiber) of a nation. A great window into the activities of the New World Order cabal is viewed through the panes/pains of the opium wars. Indeed, the opium trade caused widespread addiction in China, wreaking havoc both socially and economically. The secret society Triad cult—the triad of Heaven, Earth, and Man—were recruited into the East India Company’s opium trade. Therefore, the notorious Triads helped the British aristocrats smuggle drugs into China. The Chinese emperor began to crackdown on the opium trade. Yet the British government came in with their military might to defend the opium trade. Oddly enough, the drug trade was backed by the guns of the British. Just think, the British government became the biggest drug dealer in the world. Organized crime: the British built extensive drug trafficking and black market networks. How gangster is that? British Intelligence also became an arm of the drug trade. Shocker: British Intelligence is also in the business of child sex trafficking. These criminal networks are run by wealthy families. This cabal is a network of wealthy families and secret societies. Can anyone one say, Illuminati? Out of the opium wars, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) was founded. “Who founded the Hongkong and Shanghai Corporation? The same circle of merchant banking, trading, and shipping families—centered around the British monarchy—who opened the East India Company’s opium trade as an instrument of British state policy during the previous century.” The earnings of the drug trade begin and end with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, from loans for buying opium seeds, to money laundering.
The British opium traders profited from the slave trade. They got into the cotton business. They bought slave-produced cotton, made it into cloth with the cheap labour of women and children in England, and then they exported it to India in exchange for opium.
British pharmaceutical companies began to produce morphine before the American Civil War. Both armies had large quantities of morphine. These pharmaceutical companies touted their morphine as a nonaddictive pain killer. They even claimed that it could cure opium addiction.
The opium cabal used the immigration system of America to bring in secret societies from various places, including China (the Triad gangs) and Italy (the Mafia). Many times, behind the scenes, Intelligence will be seen collaborating with the Mafia—to where they both look like the same entity. Al Capone was one of the cabal’s men. In the end, the cabal owned every mobster in America. If a gangster refused to work with the syndicate, they would kill him—the end. Saul Alinsky, who wrote Rules for Radicals, hung out with the Capone gang.
Prohibition in America made crime very profitable, and it was used to bring in large-scale organized crime. “Crime was reorganized from top to bottom into an integrated wholesale and retail distribution chain with well-defined marketing districts, quotas, and uniform pricing.” The same wealthy British families behind the opium drug trade in China, introduced prohibition and organized crime to America. They used the profits from prohibition to purchase gambling casinos, racetracks, and sporting venues. Prohibition was not organic. It’s the same old dialectic: problem, reaction, solution. Large sums of money were funnelled into organizations that produced paid agitators/protesters to stir the pot, like we see today. It worked, and they got their prohibition.
Clearly, World War I had demoralized society. America’s moral compass had shifted. It became more tolerant towards crime, even romanticizing mobsters. Organized crime caused tremendous corruption. The paid-off policemen, politicians, and other officials corrupted American institutions. So the institutions and officials became less trustworthy, which caused further demoralization in America. Moral decay had reached such levels that society was ripe for a climate fostering large-scale drug addiction. The cabal is also behind the push to decriminalize street drugs and to defund the police, which would greatly increase their profits. The legalizing of street drugs will produce more drug addicts (customers). From the Roaring Twenties and the rise of jazz, to rock ‘n’ roll, to rap music, from alcohol, to marijuana, to heroin and cocaine, the decline continues. Such a climate has increasingly fostered promiscuity and deviancy. Such a climate has also produced an increasingly adolescent population. What can be said about the British band, the Beatles, with their love of Eastern religion and LSD, which can be linked to British Intelligence and the Tavistock Institute? How many other rebellious bands/tools/pawns/poor role models could we mention? Too many! Just think: people have been conditioned to accept large amounts of occult symbolism in today’s music. The sheep just don’t care! Sway to the beat of the drums and to the rhythm of the music, open your subconscious to the lyrical incantations, dance repetitively, embrace the symbolism, partake in the sacred pagan drug ritual.
I read a book many years ago about a Canadian military chaplain. During World War I, he could preach deep scriptural messages from the Bible and the men understood them. During World War II, this all changed. He needed to preach simpler messages due to the men’s lack of Christian foundations. We can see this continuing into the 50s. Many went to church in the 50s, but they didn’t really live out Christianity. Their Christian foundations had further eroded. This became apparent in the 60s, when the population started down the bell curve of moral decline. The cultural upheaval of the 60s led to church attendance declining in the 70s and onward. The people lost their roots. The Vietnam War further traumatized and demoralized America. Many Americans lost their sense of national pride. The results have been devastating. Indeed, America is now a divided nation. The young people had never gone through a Great Depression or a Great War. They were softer and less resilient. When compared to the previous generation, they were spoiled. The Vietnam war caused them great despair, and they moved from their previous carefree lives into drugs and hedonism. The antiwar movement was not organic either, and it also became part of the drug culture. The dope cabal also profited off American soldiers in Vietnam.
The illegal drug trade is controlled by a single world network; it is “the best-controlled production and distribution system of any commodity in international trade, illegal or legal.” The worldwide drug trade is worth about 500 billion per year. It is the biggest business in the world. As a whole, offshore banking is under the thumb of the opium cabal. They launder their profits through real estate, hotels, resorts, and restaurants, before transferring them to offshore banking operations. The funds are then shuffled around the world electronically through various bank accounts and corporate fronts, where gold and diamonds are purchased, sold and converted back into a bank balance, eliminating all traces of origin. The London bullion market is basically a subsidiary of the syndicate. They are also behind the international gold and diamond trade. “It is obvious, by now, that an operation of this scope could not exist without the political approval of the British government, nor without the gigantic supporting facilities of the world’s off-shore credit markets, the world’s gold and diamonds trade, and ‘hands-on’ management of the retail distribution, or organized crime aspects of the operation.” The various groups involved are so intermarried, interlocked, and intertwined with one another that they appear to be one single family.
The Far East drug trade is a British-Chinese partnership, and the senior partner is Britain (they control the money). By Britain, I mean wealthy families in Britain. The most prominent of these families is the Rothschild family. Cecil Rhodes was a legman of the Rothschilds; it appears that George Soros may also be a legman of the Rothschilds. The Rothschild family helped to launch Soros’s career. “From the very first days when Soros created his own investment fund in 1969, he owed his success to his relation to the Rothschild family banking network.” Here is a question to provoke thought, how are Rothschild & friends connected to the Federal Reserve—how are they connected to the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank? (I may write about these things in the future). Oh, wait, we shouldn’t talk about conspiracy theories. There is nothing to see here!
Throughout the years, much of the British aristocracy has publicly professed Christianity. Yet their religion is a mixture of paganism, Theosophy, and Rosicrucianism, which revolves around ancient Egyptian occultism. Evidence points to “broad opium use in ancient Egyptian society.” Expert Andrew J. Koh said, “Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian cultures and surrounding lands and was, to some degree, a fixture of daily life.” Drug potions were also used for magic rituals in ancient Egypt. Some things never change! The high priests of the cabal are subtly seducing the world into their drug-related mysticism, by which their unsuspecting slaves wonder around in drug-induced delusions, controlled by the religious propaganda of the temple—the media arm of the cult. Build that pyramid, build that ziggurat, build that Tower of Babel! “As long as a population is organized around superstition, magic, hallucinogenic drugs, and animal-like pursuit of immediate sensory gratification (‘if it feels good, do it’), it will remain incapable of acting on behalf of its own interests.”
“Aleister Crowley initiated Aldous Huxley into the use of mescaline [a psychedelic] in Berlin in the 1930s” “Aleister Crowley was the tutor of Aldous Huxley, the prophet of mind control, who later introduced the LSD cult into the United States during the 1950s.” Both Aleister Crowley and Aldous Huxley were linked to British Intelligence. Huxley wrote a book called The Doors of Perception, in which he talked about his psychedelic experiences with hallucinogenic drugs.
The syndicate, with its global networks, created an International Assassination Bureau. This globalist cabal was behind the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. The Kennedy’s are tied to the British aristocracy through marriage. Meaning, they are in the family. Therefore, when JFK was in office, his mob-family expected him to help further the family business. JFK, however, started to go astray. JFK forced the resignations of the three highest ranking CIA officials, one of which was CIA director Allen Dulles, who was the cabal’s man in charge. (Dulles was a cousin of the Rockefeller family). Kennedy began to deal with Moscow on friendlier terms. In 1963, Kennedy started to deal with Castro in a more flexible way. “In the days before Kennedy’s assassination he told the French journalist Jean Daniel in a White House meeting, to send a message to Castro that he was willing to lift the economic embargo against Cuba so long as the Cuban government stopped supporting leftist revolutionary movements throughout Latin America. Around this time he had also made a speech to the Inter-American Press Association where he suggested that normalization of relations with Cuba was possible.” The powers that be did not like these things. JFK was double-crossing the syndicate, so they whacked him. The cabal also terminated Robert Kennedy. They obviously saw him as a liability.
New Orleans District Attorney James Garrison launched an investigation, which led him to a corporation called Permindex. Garrison’s chief suspect in the Kennedy assassination was Col. Clay Shaw. “Shaw was the financial backer and controller of Lee Harvey Oswald during his lengthy stays in New Orleans, Garrison had established, and the District Attorney also had evidence that Shaw had been the safehouse channel out of the country (into Italy) for several unidentified persons believed to have been the real ‘triggers’ in the Kennedy assassination.” Shaw’s associates, who were going to testify, mysteriously died before they could give their testimonies. James Earl Ray, the ‘patsy’ in the Martin Luther King assassination, also frequently visited Shaw. Garrison was able to pin another half a dozen mysterious deaths to Permindex. Of course, the powers that be shut down the investigation and swept it under the rug.
After an assassination attempt on French President General Charles de Gaulle, French intelligence discovered that Permindex was involved in the plot. Permindex was linked to several other assassinations in Europe. British Intelligence was linked to Permindex. “The Permindex Assassination Bureau was responsible for carrying out the most important political assassinations of the century.” Permindex was connected to a network of money laundering archipelagos. Permindex was specifically sent laundered money for the purposes of terrorism and assassinations. High profile assassinations would cost upwards of 10 million dollars. Permindex was one facet of the cabal’s system.
The death of Abraham Lincoln can be “traced to British-controlled and British-funded networks by American military intelligence.” Indeed, the British aristocracy also had Abraham Lincoln assassinated. Lincoln’s greenback was debt-free money, which “sent shock waves throughout the global banking system.” The cabal, being a cartel of bankers, did not like it! The American government eventually passed the Resumption Act of 1875, a law that would “restore the gold standard by requiring the Treasury to redeem paper currency (greenbacks) for gold.” Backing up currency with gold is not a bad thing. The problem is this: the cabal of bankers were into gold speculation. Meaning this: the system was built off gold speculation. The system was a scam! It’s no different today, with all the financial market speculation. Indeed, the same group is running the show today. The cabal is also behind our financial crashes, including the Great Depression—don’t forget the Great Wars! Do you think America is in war after war for no reason? The United States military industrial complex is an arm of the cabal. Moving on! House Banking Committee Chairman Louis McFadden said this about the Great Depression: “It [the Depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.” Louis McFadden also stated: “When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is—the Fed has usurped the government.” America may have defeated the British in its revolution, yet America is run by British interests! Donald Trump himself is beholden to the Rothschild family. During his first administration, he appointed one of their men as Secretary of Commerce. Although the cabal is run by nerds, they are the original mobsters. If they help you, they expect a favour in return. When they come a calling, you’d better return the favour! If you don’t, they’ll kill you. This group of crooks are also involved in large-scale election tampering.
On account of the opium wars, China became the most established country in the drug trade. Besides China, numerous countries grow crops for the drug trade. Yet the British oligarchs at the top are involved with them all. According to End Time Bible Prophecy, there are three major players: The kings of the East (China and allies), the king of the North (Russia and allies), and then the Antichrist and his kingdom (Western Europe). There is a king of the South, but he is weak and not worth discussing. The Chinese Communist Party has made many blunders, thus China will eventually crash and burn. The CCP is backing itself into a corner, and it will need to do something drastic to retain power. They will have to go to war. When all else fails, go to war! The globalist banker cabal will eventually choose a leader, the Antichrist, to do their bidding. Two things are needed to take over the world: money and military might. First: the Antichrist will bring in a financial system, which the whole world will embrace. Second: the Antichrist will be a man of war. Ultimately, the three parties mentioned above will fight for world supremacy at the Battle of Armageddon. Of course, Jesus Christ will return to defeat them. Yay, team Jesus! In my next write-up, I would like to bring Russia into the equation. I hope to discuss the cabal and Russia.
America is where the drug trade makes its largest profits. However, money is not the only motive behind the drug trade in the US. From a Chinese standpoint, they want to utterly demoralize America. Their end goal is the destruction of America. The British elitists have various viewpoints. Some are still angry about the American Revolution. Therefore, they want to weaken America and take it back. Others are mad that Europe, through the Roman Empire, lost its empire. They want Europe to band together and retake its former empire. (The Antichrist’s kingdom is sometimes labelled by people as the revived Roman Empire). Of course, their end goal is to control the whole world. In order to usher in their New World Order, they need Americans to willingly give up their rights and freedoms. Obviously, by now, they know this will not happen. Therefore, they must destroy America. Although America has been a mighty superpower, no reference is made to it in End Time Bible Prophecy. Thus, America will be destroyed. It will be taken out of the picture. The cabal is old school, and their pecking order seems to be straight out of the Middle Ages. Interestingly, the Bible talks about ‘ten kings’ who will give their power and authority to the Beast—the Antichrist. Indeed, you would be wise to pay attention to these things. Repent and turn to Jesus Christ!
I came across this scene while exploring the Brewster projects with friends in 2012 when in Detroit. Brewster Projects was a public housing project that had some very notable residents: Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard, Loni Love, Smokey Robinson, and Etterlene DeBarge, who were on the Motown label located just down the street. Fredrick Douglass was a famous abolitionist, and the housing complex was named after him and was located on Brewster Street.
The area was abandoned in 2008, four years before I shot this; however, demolition had not started. The only thing left today is the activity centre, which was a part of the whole complex. Detroit is more about exploring tensions such as this and less about the ruins of the failed industry of the 1970's and 1980s. Detroit has so many interesting and thought-provoking contradictions like this, no matter where you drive, I really feel it's one of the most interesting cities in the world to see.
Finding Dora lynched on the courts (this was not set up in any way, nor is it AI) was a strange sight. A lovable, innocent child's character was symbolically taken out in a city that represents the pinnacle of American utopia turned dystopia. America has an obsession with everything shiny, new, and innocent, and these things exist right next to the rot, where you can see both at the same time. Beautiful and progressive or Damaged and backward. Everything is bigger, shinier, faster as long as you are going forward. There is no totality, just distracting fragments that no longer coalesce. The one thing that feels constant today is how ready people are to doom scroll into the next nightmare.
Detroit is unique in this regard; it's probably the one place you could clearly teach Hegel's dialectical method with easy success. I really wonder what someone like Hegel would think of this city - or the times we even currently live in.
"Detroit gives a sense of epoch of civilization in a way that you don't get in cities like New York. It's obvious when looking at it that what doesn't work." - Grace Lee Boggs
Detroit is the one city where I was able to bridge my images with Hegelian philosophy, which I learned over 20 years ago.
Kathy Toth
kathytoth.ca
www.flickr.com/photos/artiquated/albums/
Date: August 04, 2012
Location: Brewster Douglass Projects, Detroit, MI.
Print Sizes: 8" x 10", 11" x 14" and 16" x 24"
This image was originally known as "Dora does Detroit" in some of my early prints and "Phenomenology of Detroit" later.
Traditionally the egg symbolised the world and perfection. Eggs continue the dialectic between soft and hard and evoke intrauterine memories. Eggs form part of a series of works that Salvador Dalí painted in 1932 with the same theme: soft fried eggs. These eggs reminded the artist of eyes and even of a woman’s breasts. However, from 1940 onwards, Dalí’s work took a turn and it seems that eggs then referred to the artist’s rebirth. The idea of Salvador Dalí’s rebirth is present in the eggs he used to decorate the outside of his house at Portlligat and Torre Galatea, at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres.
503CX, 4.0/50 FLE, Kodak Portra 400 VC, V600, Affinity Photo
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Portugal, Óbidos, St. Mary's church, Portal
Vanitas painting including frame , size about 40 X 50 cm. (used a little photoshop to make up for a bad picture.
A sprig of grass, discarded pliers, and boulders, found on the shore of Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana
...or natural dialectics ;-)
We wouldn`t exist without our sun, but how could the sun show it`s magic power without the existence of flora and fauna ;-)
Several layers to accomplish a painterly finish including a canvas.
After PP I added a flare.
book
Pleasures by B. Brecht
"First look from morning's window
The rediscovered book
Fascinated faces
Snow, the change of the seasons
The newspaper
The dog
Dialectics
Showering, swimming
Old music
Comfortable shoes
Comprehension
New music
Writing, planting
Traveling
Singing
Being friendly"
503CX, CF 4.0/50 FLE, Kodak Portra 400 VC, V600, Affinity Photo
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Portugal, Óbidos, St. Mary's church, Portal
Manarola (Manaea in the local dialect) is a small town, a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is the second smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful.
Manarola was celebrated in paintings by the artists Llewelyn Lloyd (1879-1949) ("I ponti di Manarola" [:The Bridges of Manarola, 1904] and "Tramonto a Manarola" [:Sunset at Manarola, 1904] and Antonio Discovolo (1874–1956).
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Manarola (Manaea in the local dialect) is a small town, a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is the second smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful.
Manarola was celebrated in paintings by the artists Llewelyn Lloyd (1879-1949) ("I ponti di Manarola" [:The Bridges of Manarola, 1904] and "Tramonto a Manarola" [:Sunset at Manarola, 1904] and Antonio Discovolo (1874–1956).
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I toasted my computer making this video. I am currently posting this from a Linux computer. I won’t be able to do much in the next while.
Many are the brainwashed, many are the sheep
Many are the zombies, many are asleep
Their socialist traditions are full of conceit
Their detestable religion of Marxism is on the creep
It attacks the brain like an antichrist parasite
It hides in the mind of the host; it has won the fight
Yes, the devil is in the details of the dialectic
darkness fills their soul; they are helpless, so pathetic
Many bow to the system; they will bow to the Beast
Many will take the Mark of their great high priest
Their spiritual contagion is full of deceit
They love their wicked ways, what they sow they will reap
It’s a mind virus, it holds them captive in its chains
Dawn of the living dead; they embrace their sin and stains
They adore the Image of the Beast in their romance
Nanobots flooding their veins; they are in a trance
Come for the ride, the world’s getting hazy
You cannot hide, the herd’s getting crazy
You must fight, be strong and steady
As prophesied, it’s going to get deadly
False peace, a rider on a white horse
Violence, a rider on a red horse
Famine, a rider on a black horse
Death and hell, riding on a pale horse
Wikipedia: The Cinque Terre (Italian pronunciation: [ˌtʃinkwe ˈtɛrːe]) is a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera. It is in the Liguria region of Italy, to the west of the city of La Spezia. "The Five Lands" is composed of five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. The coastline, the five villages, and the surrounding hillsides are all part of the Cinque Terre National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the centuries, people have carefully built terraces on the rugged, steep landscape right up to the cliffs that overlook the sea. Part of its charm is the lack of visible corporate development. Paths, trains and boats connect the villages, and cars cannot reach them from the outside. The Cinque Terre area is a very popular tourist destination. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town.
Manarola (Manaea in the local dialect) is a small town, a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is the second smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns. Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town. Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. Manarola is one of the five villages. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful. Manarola was celebrated in paintings by the artists Llewelyn Lloyd (1879-1949) ("I ponti di Manarola" [:The Bridges of Manarola, 1904] and "Tramonto a Manarola" [:Sunset at Manarola, 1904] and Antonio Discovolo (1874–1956).
Manarola (Manaea in the local dialect) is a small town, a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is the second smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful.
Manarola was celebrated in paintings by the artists Llewelyn Lloyd (1879-1949) ("I ponti di Manarola" [:The Bridges of Manarola, 1904] and "Tramonto a Manarola" [:Sunset at Manarola, 1904] and Antonio Discovolo (1874–1956).
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In Explore: Highest position: 152 on Saturday, November 14, 2015.
Manarola. Cinque Terre.
Manarola (Manaea in the local dialect) is a small town, a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is the second smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists.Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful.
I am pleased to announce that my work titled "Self-portrait With Mirrors" from "The Art Of Reflection" series has been selected for in person judging, and curated into the 32nd Annual "No Big Heads", national juried self-portrait competition of limited size at the University of Alaska Anchorage. It will be exhibited along with twenty-eight other self-portraits at the Hugh McPeck Gallery in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A. from October 12th through November 3rd, 2017.
I'm thrilled to see my work among award winners with a Honorable Mention from the Juror.
ABOUT THE COMPETITION
The No Big Heads Self Portrait Exhibition is open to all artists. Works must be no larger than 12 inches by 12 inches in any direction, including framing and hanging materials.
JUROR: Christina Seely
Interested in human understandings of time and the natural world, Christina Seely’s expedition based work explores global systems, both built and natural, and finds its home in the conversation between the photographic image and our contemporary relationship with the planet.
Embedded in the work is a dialectic between the surface documentation of representative media and the complex reality that lies beyond that surface – how beauty can suggest the simple and ideal while both subtly reflecting and obscuring an often darker more complicated truth.
An experiential examination of our relationship to time and the natural world makes up the root of her practice. While the work culminates in photographic, textual, collaborative and performative translations it is guided by both the potentials of the photographic medium as an artistic tool and its deconstruction as a dominating cultural syntax.
AWARDS
$1000 for Best of Show
$1000 in other cash prizes
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All artist accepted into the exhibition were announced on October 11th after Christina Seely's lecture in Arts room 150.
The Opening reception was held on October 12th, 2017.
I got the acceptance notification only on October 13th by e-mail.
A colourful Halloween Tribute for the 31st Oct 2024
The juxtaposition of dominant reds with intense blues and biting yellows is not merely a chromatic exercise but an intentional invocation of in depth physical dynamics.
The red, historically emblematic of revolutionary zeal, is here transmuted into an image of territorial encroachment, symbolizing the blood of land workers who toiled here in harsh conditions.
The compositional tension between this red and the contrasting yellow and blue functions as a visual dialectic, evoking the material conflicts of occupation and sovereignty that are as much corporeal as they are ideological.
Música (abrir en nueva pestaña) / Music (Open link in new tab): Mike Oldfield - Jewel in the Crown.
(Please see English text below)
Construido en el año 2011 según el proyecto del Estudio Barozzi Veiga, en un privilegiado emplazamiento en primera línea frente a la Playa de Las Delicias de Águilas (Murcia), el auditorio "Infanta Doña Elena" se engloba en una innovadora tipología muy extendida en la arquitectura española de los últimos años, en la que se pretende establecer una relación de la arquitectura con las particularidades del lugar concreto de su emplazamiento.
El Estudio Barozzi Veiga desarrolla así una dialéctica, sobria y potente reflexión entre lo artificial y lo natural, configurando el proyecto en función de la tensión de los espacios que lo rodean: por un lado, hacia la ciudad (artificio) el edificio muestra una imagen ordenada y diáfana; por otro, hacia el mar (naturaleza, paisaje) se comporta de manera más orgánica, para lo que curva sus superficies, simulando la forma de una ola.
El resultado es pues la original construcción que puede contemplarse en la imagen, con una volumetría facetada esculpida en planos cóncavos con enormes ventanales con vistas al mar, todo ello en un brillante blanco que reluce al sol y que responde perfectamente a esas tensiones paisajísticas de su privilegiado emplazamiento.
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This elegantly sculpted and strikingly curvaceous project by Estudio Barozzi Veiga was built in 2011 on a privileged site in front of "Las Delicias" beach of Águilas (Murcia, Spain). The Auditorium and Congress Palace "Infanta Doña Elena" is included within an innovative very widespread tendency in Spanish architecture in the last years, which tries to relate architecture to the specific particularities and singularities of its location site.
In the architect's own words, the project is a natural response to the particular stimulus, offered by the location. On one hand the need to respect the urban tissue that growths inside, on the other, the one’s to preserve the expressive hue of the natural landscape.
It is through this contrast, that we define and articulate tensions that allow the project to organize itself while a coherent response to the constraints of place. The building is a dialectic reflection, simple but at the same time strong, between the urban artificiality and the organic naturalness.
Thus, the building results in a large mass, shaped in function of the tensions that proceeds from the different character of the spaces surround it. Tangent to the town, the facades are clean, orderly and paused, while tangent to the sea, the facades translate the surrounding space and the configuration offered by the landscape and geography, through large and concave surfaces, that provides a direct and intensive relation with the surrounding natural environment.
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Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably a dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages of the Cinque Terre. Most of the houses are bright and colourful. Manarola was celebrated in paintings by Antonio Discovolo (1874–1956).
Tiger and Turtle nimmt über die in ihm angelegte Dialektik von Geschwindigkeit und Stillstand Bezug auf die Umbruchsituation in der Region und deren Wandel durch Rückbau und Umstrukturierung. Indem die Skulptur die dem Bild der Achterbahn anhaftenden Erwartungen ad absurdum führt, reflektiert sie ihre eigene Rolle als potentielles überregionales Wahrzeichen, welches zwangsläufig als Bild vereinnahmt wird. Sie stellt der Logik des ewigen Wachstums eine absurd‐widersprüchliche Struktur entgegen, die sich einer eindeutigen Interpretation widersetzt.“
– Heike Mutter und Ulrich Genth: PM der Künstler vom 19. November 2011 auf phaenomedia.org
Tiger and Turtle, through the dialectic of speed and stillness, is referring to the upheaval situation in the region and its change through dismantling and restructuring. By sculpturing the absurdity of the image of the roller coaster, the sculpture reflects its own role as a potential supraregional landmark, which is inevitably taken as an image. It counteracts the logic of eternal growth with an absurdly contradictory structure that opposes a clear interpretation. "
- Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth: PM of the artists of 19 November 2011 on phaenomedia.org
503CX, CF 4.0/50 FLE, Kodak Portra 400 VC, V600, Affinity Photo
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Portugal, Óbidos, St. Mary's church, Portal
Logic can either operate as part of an intellection, or else, on the contrary, put itself at the service of an error; moreover unintelligence can diminish or even nullify logic, so that philosophy can in fact become the vehicle of almost anything: it can be an Aristotelianism carrying ontological insights, just as it can degenerate into an "existentialism" in which logic has become a mere shadow of itself, a blind and unreal operation.
Indeed, what can be said of a "metaphysic" which idiotically posits man at the centre of the Real, like a sack of coal, and which operates with such blatantly subjective and conjectural concepts as "worry" and "anguish"? When unintelligence (and the variety we mean here is in no wise incompatible with what passes for intelligence in "worldly" circles) and passion prostitute logic, it is impossible to escape from that mental satanism which is so frequently to be found in contemporary thought.
The validity of a logical demonstration thus depends on the knowledge which we, as demonstrators, have of the subject in view, and it is evidently wrong to take as our starting-point not this direct knowledge but pure and simple logic.
When man has no "visionary" knowledge of Being, and merely "thinks" with his "brain" instead of "seeing" with his "heart", all his logic is useless to him, because it starts out from an initial fallacy. Moreover, the validity of a demonstration must be distinguished from its dialectical efficacy; the latter evidently depends on the intuitive disposition available for the recognition of truth when demonstrated, and therefore on an intellectual capacity.
Logic is nothing but the science of mental co-ordination and of arriving at rational conclusions; it cannot, therefore, attain the transcendent through its own resources; a supralogical -not an illogical- dialectic, based on symbolism and analogy, and therefore descriptive rather than ratiocinative, may be harder for some people to assimilate, but it conforms more closely to transcendent Reality.
Contemporary philosophy, on the other hand, really amounts to a decapitated logic: what is intellectually evident it calls "prejudice"; wishing to free itself from servitude to the mental, it sinks into infralogic; shutting itself off from the intellectual light above, it exposes itself to the obscurity of the lowest "subconscious" beneath.
Philosophic scepticism takes itself for a healthy attitude and for an absence of "prejudices", whereas it is in fact something completely artificial; it proceeds, not from real knowledge, but from sheer ignorance, and for this reason it is as alien to intelligence as it is to reality.
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Frithjof Schuon
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
Ezekiel 31:15 “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day that it descended into Sheol, I shut down its water supplies, covered over its deep water, and shut down its rivers. As a result its abundant water sources dried up, and I caused Lebanon to mourn for it. All the trees of the field wilted because of it.’”
“The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!” –
Donald J. Trump
Shutting off the water: this is the United Nations’ Agenda 21—sustainable development—in action in California. You know their dialectic: problem, reaction, solution. Their manufactured problem (PSYOP)—the boogeyman in the closet—is climate change. Their solution: net-zero. They will cut off fossil fuels and lock me away in my 15-munite city neighbourhood (gulag archipelago): good-bye freedom of movement. They will silence my pro-fossil fuel speech, labeling it as mal-dis-mis information: good-bye free speech. Then comes the climate lockdowns: good-bye freedom of assembly. The end result: I will own nothing and be happy. All of us will be equally poor. Equality for all! Anti-civilization…anti-human…woohoo!
In this post-Christian era, the rise of nihilism will lead to an authoritarian system that revolves around surveillance and data: digital IDs, biometrics, digital currencies, and social credit scores. Nihilistic Darwinism will ensue, resulting in genocide: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.” People already accept social Darwinism: euthanasia and abortion. What about covid? Oh, I guess you are too dumb to understand that one! What happened during covid was an eye-opener. Nowadays people lack moral fortitude. They are fearful and cowardly. They can be easily whipped up into an authoritarian mode. They have lost all commonsense and discernment. Their consciences have been seared.
Deconstructing the moral foundations of the West will only destroy it. When this happens, you can kiss democracy and free market capitalism good-bye! At the moment, we only have a resemblance—a counterfeit—of the two. We, however, will soon lose both. Once gone, they will be lost forever—the boot on the face of humanity. As for me: my hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ! God’s moral laws are perfect! If you disagree, you are a sinner…buahahaha!
Here Paola appears in a old shed carrying a pair of baby booties with a hydraulic cart, in a metaphor about the weight - even if composed of love - of the responsibility of raising a child.
On the same diagonal line of life appears very discreetly the Darwin´s book "The Origin of Species" which reflects our dialectical-materialist view of motherhood.
The mother-to-be is heading toward the light, which is her naturally way.
She is also naked, but not completely because of boots, which also metaphorically ironizes the hypocritical view of pregnant woman.
The main focus is on the wall in the background, representing the aridity of the pregnant woman's walk.
The picture has no colors, because gestation is not a colorful phase for women, despite the male vision preaching the opposite; it is a complicated time in a woman's life, with difficulty walking, nausea, hormonal changes, medical monitoring and anxiety - both in relation to childbirth and the health of her child.
Manarola, Italy
Cinque Terre
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The one thing I really liked about visiting Cinque Terre was all the available places to take incredible shots both by land and from the water. On our last day in the Cinque Terre region we saw all the villages by boat sailing down along the coast.
Manarola (Manaea in the local dialect) is a small town, a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is the second smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful. Manarola was celebrated in paintings by Antonio Discovolo (1874-1956). - From Wikipedia
The ancient Porta Ticinese is one of the three medieval gates of the city that still exist in modern Milan, together with the medieval Porta Nuova in Manzoni street and the Pusterla di Sant'Ambrogio. Originally built in the twelfth century, the structure of Porta Ticinese was restored in 1861 by Camillo Boito, who inserted two lateral arches next to the only original access.
The medieval Porta Ticinese is sited near the Basilica of Saint Lawrence and the homonymous Saint Lawrence columns. Among the city's population it was commonly referred to as "Porta Cicca" or "porta Snesa". The first is the adaptation of the Spanish word "chica", meaning little girl, since the gate was the only one having just one access, whereas the latter is a dialectical form of its name.
There is another gate also called "Porta Ticinese" in the same district of Milan. This other gate is more recent, having been originally built in the 16th century and then replaced in the 19th century.
Preparing for a macro/still life series of these fallen Croton leaves in bright morning light, with my usual Fujifilm gear—X-S10, 70-300mm, 2X TC. Waiting for the glass to warm up so I can wipe off the condensate. Maybe some of the resulting shots will get posted, eventually.
Happy Mono Monday!
23 Aug 2021; 10:30 CDT; B&W conversion in post
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Construido en el año 2011 según el proyecto del Estudio Barozzi Veiga, en un privilegiado emplazamiento en primera línea frente a la Playa de Las Delicias de Águilas (Murcia), el auditorio "Infanta Doña Elena" se engloba en una innovadora tipología muy extendida en la arquitectura española de los últimos años, en la que se pretende establecer una relación de la arquitectura con las particularidades del lugar concreto de su emplazamiento.
El Estudio Barozzi Veiga desarrolla así una dialéctica, sobria y potente reflexión entre lo artificial y lo natural, configurando el proyecto en función de la tensión de los espacios que lo rodean: por un lado, hacia la ciudad (artificio) el edificio muestra una imagen ordenada y diáfana; por otro, hacia el mar (naturaleza, paisaje) se comporta de manera más orgánica, para lo que curva sus superficies, simulando la forma de una ola o evocando a una vela al viento...
El resultado es pues la original construcción que puede contemplarse en la imagen, con una volumetría facetada esculpida en planos cóncavos con enormes ventanales con vistas al mar, todo ello en un brillante blanco que reluce al sol y que responde perfectamente a esas tensiones paisajísticas de su privilegiado emplazamiento.
Tomada con la veterana cámara compacta de mi esposa, una Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ-10, que era lo único que tenía a mano para fotografiar en la playa 😃
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This elegantly sculpted and strikingly curvaceous project by Estudio Barozzi Veiga was built in 2011 on a privileged site in front of "Las Delicias" beach of Águilas (Murcia, Spain). The Auditorium and Congress Palace "Infanta Doña Elena" is included within an innovative very widespread tendency in Spanish architecture in the last years, which try to relate architecture to the specific particularities and singularities of its location site.
In the architect's own words, the project is a natural response to the particular stimulus, offered by the location. On one hand the need to respect the urban tissue that grows inside, on the other, the one’s to preserve the expressive hue of the natural landscape.
It is through this contrast, that we define and articulate tensions that allow the project to organize itself while a coherent response to the constraints of place. The building is a dialectic reflection, simple but at the same time strong, between the urban artificiality and the organic naturalness.
Thus, the building results in a large mass, shaped in function of the tensions that proceeds from the different characters of the spaces surround it. Tangent to the town, the facades are clean, orderly, and paused, while tangent to the sea, the facades translate the surrounding space and the configuration offered by the landscape and geography, through large and concave surfaces, that provides a direct and intensive relation with the surrounding natural environment.
Taken with my wife's veteran compact camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ-10, which was the only thing on hand to shoot on the beach 😃
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Utagawa Hiroshige (Edo, 1797 - Edo, 12 October 1858) The Kinryūsan temple at Asakusa in snow (around 1848-49) - Boston Museum of Fine Arts - exhibition “Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui: Journey through a Changing Japan” - Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin
Assieme a Hokusai è considerato uno tra i principali paesaggisti giapponesi dell'Ottocento e fra i più celebri rappresentanti della corrente artistica Ukiyo-e. La produzione artistica di Hiroshige annovera diversi generi, tra cui stampe di attori, guerrieri, cortigiane, ma l'oggetto principale della sua arte fu la natura nelle sue molteplici espressioni. La contemplazione della natura e la successiva rappresentazione in chiave morfologicamente armonica, è ciò che distingue Hiroshige dagli altri pittori-incisori del suo tempo, creando una dialettica tra il finito e l'infinito, ossia il sentimento umano scaturente dall'ascolto quasi religioso della natura e il respiro del cosmo. Nell'arco di tutta la sua vita Hiroshige creò circa 400 incisioni. La serie più famosa di Hiroshige è "Le 100 vedute famose di Edo". Hiroshige ebbe straordinaria influenza sulla pittura europea di fine Ottocento. Principalmente tale influenza si manifestò sull'impressionismo e post-impressionismo, venendo imitato da diversi artisti, tra cui Claude Monet e Vincent van Gogh.
Together with Hokusai he is considered one of the main Japanese landscape painters of the nineteenth century and among the most famous representatives of the Ukiyo-e artistic movement. Hiroshige's artistic production includes several genres, including prints of actors, warriors, courtesans, but the main object of his art was nature in its multiple expressions. The contemplation of nature and the subsequent morphologically harmonic representation is what distinguishes Hiroshige from the other painters-engravers of his time, creating a dialectic between the finite and the infinite, that is the human feeling arising from the almost religious listening of nature and the breath of the cosmos. Throughout his life Hiroshige created about 400 engravings. Hiroshige's most famous series is "Edo's 100 Famous Views". Hiroshige had extraordinary influence on European painting of the late nineteenth century. Mainly this influence manifested itself on impressionism and post-impressionism, being imitated by several artists, including Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town. -Wiki