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...fiore dallo stelo forte e robusto... capace di superare anche i due metri di altezza.
Un fiore che si contraddistingue per la sua semplicità disarmante... è lui il fiore che guarda in faccia il sole. Non ha paura, è fiero di sé, ama senza pregiudizi, senza vergogna, con tenacia va avanti anche se non si sente sempre apprezzato. Piange per amore se necessario ma non abbandona il sole, non lo tradisce anche se viene tradito dal sole stesso perché di notte scompare dietro un orizzonte impalpabile.
Il sole non ama quando c'è la nebbia, quando c'è foschia, quando piove, ma il girasole sì. È un fiore dalle origini misteriose, legate a tradizioni millenarie, ma soprattutto è il simbolo della bella stagione e dell'estate: sarà per i suoi colori accesi ed estivi, sarà per la sua misteriosa vocazione a seguire sempre il sole, volgendo magicamente la corolla in una posizione di rispetto e venerazione.
this guy was attracting quite the crowd in the park with what seemed like a percussion workshop, mostly bongos, where you could happily join in if the feeling took you, great vibes
DISARM writing on the wall - Manhattan approach of the Manhattan Bridge, Lower East Side NYC.
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SANDCREATION GRAFICA CORELPAINT
visita il suo album
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Velvet vs. OceanBoy Production - Il mondo è Fuori MASH UP!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GQ-izWw9-w
Nella mia stanza io ascolto ancora musica
E intanto il mondo fuori esplode via satellite!
Nella mia stanza posso scegliere zero rumore
E immaginare che tra un pò saremo ancora qui!
Il mondo urla dietro alla porta
Disarmato nella tua stanza..
Nella mia stanza posso galleggiare tra i colori,
Immaginare che l'amore qui non svanirà!
Luci, fuori!
Colori, fuori!
Suoni, fouri!
Calore, fuori!
Noia, fuori!
Dolori, fuori!
Il mondo è fuori!
Il mondo è fuori!
Luci, fuori!
Colori, fuori!
Suoni, fuori!
Calore, fuori!
Noia, fuori!
Dolori, fuori!
Il mondo è fuori!
Il mondo è fuori!
Nella mia stanza io divento meno fragile
E torno a credere alle cose cui non credo più!
Il sole..
Il cuore..
L'amore..
Non sono soltanto parole per nuove canzoni!
Nella mia stanza io scopro che non sono solo
E osservo il mondo mentre esplode via satellite!
Luci, fuori!
Colori, fuori!
Suoni, fuori!
Calore, fuori!
Noia, fuori!
Dolori, fuori!
Il mondo è fuori!
Il mondo è fuori!
Luci, fuori!
Colori, fuori!
Suoni, fuori!
Calore, fuori!
Noia, fuori!
Dolori, fuori!
Il mondo è fuori!
Il mondo è fuori!
Il mondo urla dietro la porta..
Disarmato nella tua stanza.
L’eguaglianza delle opportunità, che ha trovato in Italia nel famoso discorso di Claudio Martelli sui “meriti e i bisogni” la sua formulazione più efficace, e nella pratica blairiana l’esperienza più organica, fonda una teoria della giustizia come teoria delle diseguaglianze legittime che porta a conseguenze disarmanti: una dissociazione tra giustizia distributiva e giustizia redistributiva, marginalizzando l’aspetto della redistribuzione; l’improponibilità del discorso sul livello minimo di risorse che una società democratica deve assicurare a tutti i suoi membri; una riduzione della questione sociale al tema della povertà, da affrontare attraverso la solidarietà umana piuttosto che attraverso la solidarietà di cittadinanza. In sostanza, un ritorno all’età delle leggi sui poveri, quelli che non arrivano alla fine del mese.
L’eguaglianza delle opportunità si è risolta, nel concreto, in un assecondamento più che in un contrasto delle dinamiche antiegualitarie della cosiddetta rivoluzione conservatrice. In verità, il vento della rivoluzione conservatrice, nel suo procedere, non ha incontrato ostacoli insormontabili. Una riformulazione dell’idea di eguaglianza diventa essenziale per il futuro della sinistra di matrice socialista. L’esplosione della grande crisi – è la crisi che dà, è la crisi che toglie e, ricorrendo a esempi domestici, ne sanno qualcosa Berlusconi e Bossi, ma anche Veltroni, che propone al Lingotto un partito liberal, mentre nel mondo esplode la più grande crisi del capitalismo – ripropone il discorso sull’eguaglianza in tutta la sua nettezza ed essenzialità.
Oggi, al tempo dell’individuo, l’eguaglianza può essere riproposta in tutta la sua potenza di idea-forza nel produrre e nel vivere il Comune e i suoi corollari, i Beni Comuni, come perno dell’organizzazione sociale, della società. Siamo, come sostiene Pierre Rosanvallon, alla seconda crisi dell’eguaglianza, dopo di quella agli inizi del Novecento; alla prima, che la destra costruì attorno alle idee-forza del nazionalismo, della xenofobia, del protezionismo, la sinistra rispose con lo Stato sociale redistributivo. Nell’attualità, la risposta non può che essere più complessa: si tratta di passare dalla “solidarietà meccanica tra simili (di categoria, di etnia, di religione ecc) alla solidarietà organica tra singoli”, per usare la formula di Émile Durkeim.
Il quadro concettuale va riordinato quindi alla radice per rispondere alla stessa crisi: invece che meriti e bisogni, capacitazione e diritti, sul percorso indicato già dagli anni novanta da Martha Nussbaum, da Amartya Sen, da Bruno Trentin. L’affermazione dell’idea socialista nel ventunesimo secolo si giocherà attorno alla questione della democrazia integrale e del suo connotato egualitario; ma tale affermazione implica la costruzione di una macchina politica con molti motori – sindacato, cooperazione, autorganizzazione, movimento dei consumatori ecc –, che sappiano sprigionare nel loro operare quotidiano l’orwelliana air de l’égalité.
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in more ways than one.
i was going through a rough patch last september and felt i needed to document myself when i was most vulnerable and raw. i love this picture because every time i look at it, it reminds me how far ive come and also how far i have yet to go. yea, all that in one photo... does that make any sense?
im in a much better place now though... its a new year and its going to be a great one :)
When disarming of a Merr-Sonn Munitions Class-A Thermal Detonator goes bad, It goes bad in epic proportions! I don't even know if the Elite Bomb Squad's Ordnance Specialist's Unit shock proof armor can withstand a blast from this close of a distance.
"Desarmierung der U.Boote"
This photo was taken after the armistice and Germany was no longer allowed to have submarines.
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Happy New Year! If you are like me, you need music to survive. On the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, music is right there at the top with self actualization. If you don't have music, how do you understand yourself, come to terms with the past, present, and future? if you don't have music, how do you cope with the small and large tragedies that threaten to destroy you? A world without music is one in which I wouldn't be able to survive. So, now that it's officially 2016, here's my way of saying goodbye to 2015.
I will always make the caveat here that it would be impossible for me to listen to every record that came out every year. I have a limited amount of time and I have a full time job...listening to records would be an amazing full time job on it's own but it wouldn't pay the bills, of course, so for now I'll just do what I can.
2015 was an amazing year for independent music and creative thought. There are probably thousands of records out there I didn't hear that I would love. So, it's surprising to me that when I look at the top lists/Best of the year lists of many major publications, I'm left with a stale feeling. There are only so many times you can read recommendations for Kendrick Lamar and Courtney Barnett before you realize all the top ten lists are starting to sound almost exactly the same and that music journalists have become lazier than sloths.
My aim in creating these lists is a little different than most. I don't really care about the major label type of artists. They bore me. They are formulated to appeal to a wide variety of people and I don't consider myself part of this group, especially in terms of my musical tastes. I prefer the extraordinary, the experimental, and the weird. I like music that challenges me to think and feel instead of just maintains a certain boring status quo. At the same time, the top album here is incredibly accessible and it didn't get the recognition for end of year lists in the States that I thought it should.
Here's my Best Records of 2015 list:
1. FFS (Franz Ferdinand + Sparks): S/T
I've been a Franz Ferdinand fan for a long time-in fact, since they became a band. I saw them on their first US tour and have seen and photographed them several times since. Yet, Sparks is a much newer band for me to come around to. I tried listening to them a few years back and found their sound to be just way too sugary and too oriented in disco. I'll admit, I also saw photographs of them and Ronald Mael's mustache reminded me of Hitler and made me scared they might be anti-Semitic so I avoided them based on that. When I saw they collaborated with Franz Ferdinand, I looked more into the band and was reassured that the Mael brothers of Spark come from an Austrian Jewish descent. I found quite a few singles to love, though I still feel like they are better in moderation (I feel the same way about Abba, even though I think they are tremendously fun.)
Somehow, though, the dark and seductive qualities of Franz Ferdinand paired with the up tempo disco pop qualities of Sparks make for some of the most interesting sounds and song compositions. This is catchiness to the extreme and each song will get stuck in your head in different ways and at different moments of the day. Think of the best singles by the band Queen and you'll be close to how great this is. The album is fun, to be sure, but it's also more than that. How many albums will you find "martyr" rhyming with "Sartre" for instance? Also have to say, even though I have decided not to do a top shows list this year, this was definitely one of my favorites!
Listen here: www.ffsmusic.com/
More photos I took of their set at the Vic Theater in Chicago here:
www.thelineofbestfit.com/photos/live-photo-gallery/ffs-at...
2. Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell
I was shocked when I didn't find this album on more best of lists. Sufjan has created some delicate music before in the past but this is him at his best-it has the same gentleness he created with Seven Swans with the more clever songwriting we saw in Come on Feel the Illinoise. It has become my favorite album of his to be sure and the sense of honesty is both disarming and alarming at the same time. Some of the lyrics really take you to the edge in many ways, "Fourth of July" especially. When someone bares all like Sufjan has here, it deserves a listen!
music.sufjan.com/album/carrie-lowell
3. Low: Ones and Sixes
You'll have a hard time finding a band that is as sincere and as hard working as Low is for as long as they have been creating music. Low hasn't ever, in fact, released a dud album. Each one of them has their gems and their strengths and Ones and Sixes is no different. Low, as always, ask questions of the listener. Sometimes, they give answers and sometimes they encourage you to think for yourself. There are times when Low is bare and deep and other times when Alan Sparhawk's and Mimi Parker's vocals together provide a lushness not unlike the sublime feeling of sinking your teeth into a deep dark chocolate truffle. If you're not already a fan of the band, I highly recommend you invest some time and energy into listening to their most recent as well as, honestly, any and all of their 11 releases. I've never been disappointed.
Low was also another band I greatly enjoyed seeing live in Chicago this year and they are coming to Evanston to Space January 30th..looking forward to it!
Low backstage and live in Chicago earlier this year: www.thelineofbestfit.com/photos/live-photo-gallery/low-ba...
4. Julia Kent: Asperities
If you took the music inside my soul, it would sound very much like Julia Kent's cello playing. There are no words and yet she creates the words I can't express sometimes and provides relief for me by doing so. Some words are used too often...still others haven't been invented yet. Thank you, Julia Kent, for providing the catharsis that comes from feeling the pain of the universe and still wanting to be a part of it and create inside it.
5. GY!BE (Godspeed You! Black Emperor): Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
I'm really looking forward to seeing Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Thalia Hall in Chicago on Valentine's Day in 2016 because I find turbulence and emotional chaos pretty romantic. Ok, so now that you have a little too much information about me, if you like other Godspeed You! Black Emperor records, you're sure to like this one as well. It's an instrumental maelstrom to be sure from start to finish but it's well worth the journey. You feel like with each GY!BE, you're looking at apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic collapsed cities, half turned into dust and while you're sifting through the ashes, you gain insight into the former humanity of it all. I'm not saying that you should only listen to GY!BE at the end of the world but it sure would be a great soundtrack for it. In any case, the ensemble is always gloriously effective at creating a mood and sustaining it and this is definitely no exception. I'm pretty sure Efrim Menuck is one of those people who will never sell out and I like that people like him exist in this world. Tra la la...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMgDyd2E6_8
6. Django Django: Born Under Saturn
Life is complicated..I mean, really complicated...and there are a great deal of sounds But what Django Django does is organize all the greatest sounds and make them melodic and interesting and...at the same time...not overstimulating. When I listen to Django Django, I hear catchy yet careful songs filled with intricate and interesting sounds that make the temporal lobes of my brain so extremely happy, I start to feel like I am actually floating in the atmosphere. And, if being a cloud weren't enough, you can actually dance to this stuff...highly recommended!
7. Gwenno: Y Dydd Olaf
Gwenno Mererid Saunders used to be Gwenno Pipette, which was a band I saw and loved awhile back (super catchy and fun!) The difference here is that she sings in Welsh and it's a bit more psychedelic as well. It's not as accessible as Joy Formidable but it's a little less weird than Super Furry Animals. All in all, it's a great and memorable record that has fantastic melodies extending beyond the wall hit by so many contemporary musicians.
Check it out and decide for yourself!: www.gwenno.info/
8. Cinchel: The Timing was Right for a Walk in the Woods
"Capital letters don't mean anything..they are useless," said my husband Cinchel while I complained that the album title on his Bandcamp was not acknowledging the proper capitalization of a title. That pretty much sums up my husband... he won't let any kind of pre-determined structure define him unlike myself who finds grammar and spelling rather organizing and comforting amidst the chaos of the modern world and all of it's endless rambling words and punctuation.
I digress...Cinchel is my husband and I am lucky to have him in my life. Every day or almost every day, I get to experience a part of him playing in the same room I am editing photos and each day he seems to come into his own a little bit. It's always an interesting dynamic..although we have very different day jobs, two artists living together under the same roof, struggling to create amidst a 40-60 hour work week. Life gets intense, complicated, draining, and will kill you if you let it. Cinchel is the optimist and he always finds a way to try to cheer me up...he doesn't seem to think about atrocities in the world like genocide as constantly as I do or, if he does, it doesn't let it get to him. Our cats definitely help.
We survive to create or do we create or survive? Either way, it's a bit of a symbiotic relationship. Cinchel is extremely prolific and puts gals like me to shame in that way...and, even more so, he provides the quality behind the quantity which is a rarity in this modern world. Check out his albums here and, if you don't connect to the above one in question, there is a little variety amongst his works-all well worth hearing:
9. Richard Skelton: Memorious Earth
This too shall pass and by this I mean us and the planet we live on. But, the thing about this particular funeral is that we'll all be dead and won't be able to witness it. Memorious Earth has a sort of dark emotional tone befitting of a eulogy and, at the same time, an homage to the sadness inherent in us as a species. It's what we admit is inescapable, passed down genetically and only growing stronger within our DNA as deep feeling humans. This is a little bit of a challenge to listen to but it's necessary when experiencing the loss of each moment in our lives when we made a different choice or couldn't make a choice, when we failed ourselves and our families, when we couldn't be what we dreamed we were and everything was lost slowly but surely.
aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/memorious-earth-2
10. Ian William Craig: Cradle for the Wanting
If you were to hear angels singing to you at the end of your life while you drifted in and out of consciousness, it would probably sound a little like this.
And then, your transported across different dimensions that you didn't know existed before. The static in the atmosphere threatens to interfere but you refuse to let it have it's way. Instead, you float and make the clouds your playthings, elevated by quite a different sort of wavelength.
Craig's Cradle for the Waiting is uplifting and beautiful, a little slice of a postmodern heaven that is flawless because it has small impenetrable flaws like little cracks in the universe where the static creeps in so it just seems more realistic that way.
soundcloud.com/recitalprogram/ian-william-craig-habit-worn
11. Helen: The Original Faces
Anyone who is familiar with the music of Grouper is aware of the breathy and often drifty vocals of lead singer Liz Harris. With Helen, the songs pack more of a punch relative to her and they are aided by a poppy shoegaze texture that makes them as lush as they are loving. There are times even I have to admit I'm not in the mood for the lackadaisical stylings of Harris in Grouper but Helen is definitely easier to get behind. It also makes me think Harris might be developing more self confidence and a sense of an artist...wish she would come to Chicago to play and also, this time around, use a little more light.
www.kranky.net/artists/helen.html
12. William Basinski: Cascade
Cascade is an album that makes you also think a little bit about the dreamland that only exists between your waking life and your sleeping life. If you could create a level of subconscious with it's own soundtrack and inject a little bit of Cascade, you'd probably become a much more well balanced individual. This record leads to interesting dreams but also has a level of reassurance that is perfect for experiencing at the end of a long day. If it seems strange to describe an album as perfect to fall asleep to, realize you're reading the words of someone who has struggled on and off with insomnia for the last 20 years and is finally optimistic about my ability to fall asleep on a more regular basis. If you need an album like this, consider it a gift to you and to humanity. I'm so happy Basinski is alive and creating music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5s-KLGVcTI
13. Sóley: Ask the Deep
Some people might thing that 13 is an unlucky number but maybe those people would still be enlightened by the music of Sóley Stefánsdóttir or Sóley for short. She put out some wonderful music with Seabear and Sin Fang and, now that she's a solo artist, she continues to show tremendous growth in her own singular journey as a musician. Sóley is creative and surely is contributing to positive aspects of our collective consciousness. There's something quite magical in Iceland that makes empowered female artists like her, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir and so many more. Of course, Bjork also put out a great album called Vulnicura that didn't make this list but also comes highly recommended. I don't really feel the need to talk about albums you've probably already heard and heard of, though.
14. Allah-Las: Worship the Sun
Oh, I love garage rock and I crave garage rock to feel in this nice happy place sometimes when I need something with a little more structure than experimental drone music (which granted still has a substantial place in my life). Allah-Las probably aren't reinventing any wheels here but it's just so darn catchy and well put together that I love listening to this record. It takes me back to my former life as a sixties flower child when I didn't have a care in the world and I lay in the sun like a cat and listened to music all day. In some ways, this sounds like a found record from this period, in fact, instead of a 2015 release. There's a sense of authenticity to the sound even if the production is better than many records that came out in this decade. It would fit well on a Nuggets box set. Oh California, keep your wonderful music coming to this side of the country!
15. Wand: 1000 Days
Wand actually put out two albums this year and both are fantastic. Their first release of 2015, Golem, is much more heavy hitting than this lighter and brighter release. There's more of a psychedelic pop music influence here and it's quite weird as well as wonderful. These are songs to relish in, a grand adventure to an enlightened level of consciousness. You'll feel like you're on a blissful carpet ride you won't want to end for many moments! At other moments, there is still the heft of the former album Golem but it isn't as overpowering.
Honorable mentions:
Some other even more challenging and creative releases by female artists I liked this year:
Jenny Hval: Apocalypse Girl: jennyhval.com/
Holly Herndon: Platform: www.hollyherndon.com/
(Slightly more accessible): Briana Marela: All Around Us: www.brianamarela.com/
Douaumont-Vaux (55)
Fort Douaumont, briefly called Fort Gérard, is a fortified structure located in the commune of Douaumont-Vaux, department of Meuse. It is one of the forts of the stronghold of Verdun, part of the Séré de Rivières system.
Built between 1884 and 1886 and modernized between 1901 and 1913, the fort was one of the emblematic sites of the Battle of Verdun in 1916: taken by German troops in February, it was taken over by the French in October of the same year. Since the end of World War I , its ruins have attracted tourists; since 1970 it has been listed as a historical monument.
The fort was built on some of the highest ground in the area and the fort was continually reinforced until 1913. It has a total surface area of 30,000 m2 (36,000 sq yd) and is approximately 400 m (440 yd) long, with two subterranean levels protected by a steel reinforced concrete roof 12 m (13 yd) thick resting on a sand cushion. These improvements had been completed by 1903. The entrance to the fort was at the rear. Two main tunnels ran east–west, one above the other, with barrack rooms and corridors to outlying parts of the fort branched off of the main tunnels. The fort was equipped with numerous armed posts, a 155 mm rotating/retractable gun turret, a 75 mm gun rotating/retractable gun turret, four other 75 mm guns in flanking "Bourges Casemates" that swept the intervals and several machine-gun turrets. Entry into the moat around the fort was interdicted by Hotchkiss anti-personnel revolving cannons located in wall casemates or "Coffres" present at each corner.
With hindsight, Douaumont was much better prepared to withstand the heaviest bombardments than the Belgian forts that had been crushed by German 420 mm Gamma howitzers in 1914. The German invasion of Belgium in 1914 had forced military planners to radically rethink the utility of fortification in war. The Belgian forts had been quickly destroyed by German artillery and easily overrun. In August 1915, General Joseph Joffre approved the reduction of the garrison at Douaumont and at other Verdun forts. Douaumont was stripped of all its weaponry except for the two turreted guns that were too difficult to remove: a 155 mm and a 75 mm gun. The two "Casemates de Bourges" bunkers, one on each side of the fort, were disarmed of their four 75s. The garrison was mostly middle-aged reservists, under the command of the city's military governor and not the field army.
Sources:
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_de_Douaumont
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Douaumont
For more information on the battle of Verdun, see Wikipedia.
Digulleville, Normandie, France.
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"Disarm you with a smile
And cut you like you want me to
Cut that little child
Inside of me and such a part of you
Ooh, the years burn
I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you
Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn
I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my voice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you"
The Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream, 1992
Me gradué de 4to medio por fin! (la semana pasada en realidad )
:) me dieron el diploma de alumna destacada en el taller de artes y
salí con un lindo prom general de 63 jajaja bueno y eso...
quedan 19 días para Australia.
Saludos a todooos.
During the last days, I have thought a lot about the word ”disarmed”, the theme for this week's Self Portrait Sunday. What does it mean to me personally? My first thought was that my main ”weapon” to cope with and make some sense of both myself and the world around me, is my creativity. Creating is my passion - it gives me so much joy, it's therapeutic, elevates my mind and helps me to develop. Without it, navigating through life would be harder, much less enjoyable, it would feel much less meaningful and loose a great deal – if not all – of it’s color.
If You Could See Me Now
Song by The Script
Oh, if you could see me now
Oh, if you could see me now
It was February 14, Valentine's Day
The roses came, but they took you away
Tattooed on my arm is a charm to disarm all the harm
Gotta keep myself calm but the truth is you're gone
And I'll never get to show you these songs
Dad, you should see the tours that I'm on
I see you standing there next to Mom
Both singing along, yeah, arm in arm
And there are days when I'm losing my faith
Because the man wasn't good, he was great
He'd say music was the home for your pain
And explain, I was young, he would say
"Take that rage, put it on a page
Take the page to the stage
Blow the roof off the place"
I'm tryna make you proud
Do everything you did
I hope you're up there with God
Saying, "That's my kid"
I still look for your face in the crowd
Oh, if you could see me now
(Oh, if you could see me now)
Would you stand in disgrace or take a bow?
Oh, if you could see me now
(Oh, if you could see me now)
Yeah
(Oh, if you could see me now)
Yeah
If you could see me now, would you recognize me?
Would you pat me on the back or would you criticize me?
Would you follow every line on my tear-stained face?
Put your hand on a heart that was cold as the day you were taken away?
I know it's been a while but I could see you clear as day
Right now, I wish I could hear you say
"I drink too much and I smoke too much Dutch"
But if you can't see me now that shit's a must
You used to say I won't know a winner 'til it crossed me
Like I won't know real love 'til I've loved then I've lost it
So if you've lost a sister, someone's lost a mom
And if you've lost a dad, then someone's lost a son
And they're all missing now, and they're all missing now
So if you get a second to look down at me now
Mom, dad, I'm just missing you now
I still look for your face in the crowd
Oh, if you could see me now
(Oh, if you could see me now)
If you could see me now
Would you stand in disgrace or take a bow?
Oh, if you could see me now
(Oh, if you could see me now)
Ooh, would you call me a saint or a sinner?
Would you love me a loser or a winner?
(Oh, oh)
When I see my face in the mirror
We look so alike that it makes me shiver
I still look for your face in the crowd
Oh, if you could see me now
(Oh, if you could see me now)
Would you stand in disgrace or take a bow?
Oh, if you could see me now
(Oh, if you could see me now)
(Yo, I'm just missing you now)
I still look for your face in the crowd
Oh, if you could see me now
(Oh, if you could see me now)
Would you stand in disgrace or take a bow?
Oh, if you could see me now
(Oh, if you could see me now)
Oh, oh, oh
AI/DIGITAL
Calava lieve e lei
assente di disarmante stupore
fissava piccoli punti fatati
che dolci si posavano
scomparendo poi
su piccole grassocce mani.
Rotting gently in the yard at Swindon Works is the hulk of D1031 Western Rifleman.
These were pictures taken during the 'Scrap a Western day' at Swindon Works, my wife and I went with the intention of getting some arty shots for our Photographic Society competitions. Although these are 35mm negatives and were originally 'straight' this is how the picture was presented in the 1976/77 season of inter-club competitions.
This image was taken from the balcony of a TOAD (a GWR brake van) it was pushed against D1031 and the frame of the van framed the Western. For choice more of the frame would be included but we only had a 35mm wide angle lens at the time so this is as far back as it was possible to go.
D1031 Western Rifleman was built at Crewe and entered traffic 20/12/1963. The loco was withdrawn01/02/1975 and cut 06/10/1976, it ran 1,096,000 miles in service
Copyright Geoff Dowling 01/05/1976: All rights reserved
Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone
(thesmashingpumpkins)
Alright, this may be one of the boldest and most ambitious photography-slash-Photoshop-slash-art projects I've taken on. You HAVE to check out the blog to see the back story of this image: blog.davebrosha.com/2012/03/21/venus-disarming-cupid/
A new series, where the lines blur between reality and paint.
Mondello (Pa)
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Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Disarm
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
Disarm you with a smile
And cut you like you want me to
Cut that little child
Inside of me and such a part of you
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn
I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you
Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn
I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my voice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
Songwriters: William Patrick Corgan
Disarm lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd
...by adhering to the Mystery in everything, man becomes free. It is there where he can find the satisfaction of his desire for totality. Our greatness, as Leopardi reminded us, is to feel the desire for the infinite vibrate within us. But to be aware of the nature of our desire is to understand that we are not able to answer it. Just as people receive the desire for totality, so they must receive the fulfillment of this desire. The fulfillment exists, and it is God himself who awakens in us the original depth of our desire. We should not resist, we should surrender. Without such surrender to the only One able to fulfill our desire and to bring about freedom, desire becomes corrupted and freedom loses its way, without an ultimate object.
-Disarming Beauty ESSAYS ON FAITH, TRUTH, AND FREEDOM, JULIÁN CARRÓN Foreword by Javier Prades
Street photography! Wandering the city, camera around the neck, eyes wide open ready for that interesting human moment that will inevitably present itself. Simple or complex, quiet or volatile, provocative or disarming, whatever it may be.......a little girl dancing unselfconsciously while her toddler brother tries desperately to mimic her steps; a homeless lost soul deep in the throes of self destruction ; an unknown musician searing your heart, and his own, with his weeping guitar. Photography, like any art form, is about passion. If the subject inspires at the moment of perceiving it, whether it be an aged couple kissing in the park not caring who's watching, a pan-handler's eyes warily following each person that passes him by as if he were invisible or a cool dude taking a swig from a water bottle....so laid-back his actions seem to be in slow motion.....if it stirs emotion we want the lens of the camera to capture it...all of it...see what I see, feel what I feel. Don't think it's got much to do with fancy equipment & a lot to do with the burning desire to record a moment of humanity in all its truth, its pain, its lessons, its glory.
It's not illegal to take photos of people in public....is it ethical or moral is another story. Some cultures hold the belief (some would say primitively) that the soul, as an entity, is stolen when a photograph is taken. Not my belief but certainly the very act of capturing someone's image unbeknownst to them and displaying it publicly could be seen as stealing their right to privacy... and even their dignity if candid photography where to record & publish a compromising unguarded moment that could cause embarrassment. What do you think? Are you comfortable shooting street candids? Where's the line?
Paris Bordone -
Allegoy; Mars, Venus, Flora and Cupid [~ 1560] -
Vienna KHM
Here the power of love is presented in the picture at an ironic distance, overpowering even Mars, the God of War. Mars, already stripped of most of his weapons – Venus leans with satisfaction against a mirror to the left – seems to look indignantly at Cupid, the originator of his defencelessness; Mars has punished Cupid by taking away his bow and arrow. The aggressive, restless colouring, the artificial body postures and fashionable accessories, and the contradiction between openly depicted eroticism and the composition’s lack of context are typical of this Mannerist phase of Venetian painting.
For some reason, this Red Deer stag has had his antlers removed.
UPDATE I thought it was too early for these stags to shed their antlers naturally (which they do every year) - but it appears it isn't, so it just looks like he's got a head start. He must be feeling rather light-headed!
Deuteronomy 20:1-4
"When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you. "When you are approaching the battle, the priest shall come near and speak to the people. "He shall say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremble before them,
for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'
2 Chronicles 20:15
and he said, "Listen, all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: thus says the LORD to you, 'Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God's.
1 Corinthians 15:57
but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Psalm 20:7-8
Some boast in chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in the name of the LORD, our God. They have bowed down and fallen, But we have risen and stood upright.
2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.
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tx Glenda www.flickr.com/photos/glendahall for inspiring this.