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"Mantenere lo stato", maintaining the state [or status] is the main job of a monarch or republican leader acording to Machiavelli
Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction | Quentin Skinner | Talks at Google
The Prince
Il principe
De Principatibus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince
Discourses on Livy
Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourses_on_Livy
Niccolò Machiavelli
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
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State Monopolies Palace, waiting restoration
architect Duiliu Marcu
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/St...
Category: Palaces
Period: 1934-1941
Importance: A
LMI code: B-II-m-A-19871
Address: Calea Victoriei 152 sector 1
Location: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
District: Bucuresti
Region: Muntenia
Palatul Monopolurilor Statului
arhitect Duiliu Marcu
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Pa...
Categorie: Palate
Perioada: 1934-1941
Importanta: A
Cod LMI: B-II-m-A-19871
Adresa: Calea Victoriei 152 sector 1
Localitate: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
Judet: Bucuresti
Regiune: Muntenia
...an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts): Hamlet's soliloquy begins with “To be or not to be.”
I like that word. Maybe it has something to do with all of the soliloquies that I make... Yes, I'm admitting that I do talk to myself. Honestly, who doesn't? What's the big deal about talking to yourself anyway? I mean, you're probably doing it in your head constantly, why not verbalize it from time to time?
So, now that you all know that I'm certifiably insane (I know you all wondered about it but weren't quite sure... ;-) I just was messing around with my camera. I was wiggling it (on purpose for a change) and taking photos. Yes, I probably did talk to myself at some point during it. =) Anyway, I liked this. I figured I'd share it. =)
Nice idea, forms a comfy private space for dining and drinks. (And appropriate backdrop for some intellectual discourse, supposedly ;)
acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
the dialectical method is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
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Before any prolonged discourse takes place as to whether this is wheat or barley - here is a link for you to decide for yourselves. I must say as kids we were told that only the barley had the long 'hairs'. Nowadays, there are varieties of wheat that are very similar and it is not just the barley that has the long hairs... the important thing , it seems, is how and where they are attached. www.livingfield.co.uk/living-field-garden/living-exhibits...
The cold fingers of a winter storm grope across the Continental Divide and feel their way into Rocky Mountain National Park, as seen from the vantage point of the summit of Lily Mountain (9,734 ft; 2,967 m), near Estes Park, Colorado.
As I recall, the storm front was driven by a stiff, probing wind that seemed to revel in removing heat from the fingers. The wind was also bursting with wild, loud opinions with which it buffeted us, making any sort of normal discourse impossible. Truculent Uncle Wind, holding forth at great volume. The clouds moved swiftly, and given the angle of approach and the angle of the winter sun, the edge of the front closest to us mingled warm rays with wind-driven snow. Though the scene was captivating, lingering overly long felt unnecessary.
After some discourse regarding the effects of global warming on the planet (see my friend John's photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/johnfrisch/51368038468/in/dateposted/ ), I decided on posting a futuristic conceptual image of what the planet would look like.
I think I could live with that. Picture those evergreens replaced with Palm trees. Hmmm
Discourse ensued tonight between hubby and me. Hubby liked this version. “It looks more European,” he said. (He thinks anything that has a romantic, international look is bound to be appreciated by more people.) I thought the text overlay might be too heavy.
I liked the “simplicity” version in my comments because I’m trying to incorporate more minimalism/simplicity into my life these days and that image was symbolic for me.
I let hubby win. No argument. Keepin’ it simple.
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♫ Generation Wrekkked by Chuck D
Defining Civility - showing authentic respect for others requiring time, presence, and being willing to engage in genuine discourse with the intention to seek common ground. Ultimately, civility is a choice, a decision made every day with each encounter and interaction.
RAW series 17
There is a lot happening very fast in the world of the small birds. I don't think I "see" much of what passes for interaction between birds. It is only in those rare captures like this one when I get some insight on how, uh, pointed some of their discourse really is. How do I manage to catch these types of photos? Luck, providence... plays a part. I do position myself with a thought to the best available light, the most likely sites for birds to interact (hum bird psychology 101). and focus with as wide a "depth of field" as possible (which is nearly impossible, while trying to maintain a fast shutter speed)... those are my insights, for what they are worth! "happy hummer hunting!"
you can use link to View On Black
Pathos Discourse.
Iintsholongiselo zintsingiselo eziyinyaniso ezibalulekileyo iimfundiso ezibalulekileyo ezenza iingcamango zokugxekwa ngabantwana abangenandaba nabantwana,
την καθιέρωση αντίθετων απόψεων απομίμηση κριτικών που μετρούν τις ανησυχίες αναψυχής αναπαριστώντας την ευθύνη χωρίς νόημα μέτρα ακατάλληλες σκέψεις εξωφρενικά μαθήματα,
වෙනස් නොකළ චාංජනක ප්රාන්තවල කථාව පිළිබඳ දේවධර්මවාදී සීමාවන් නිරීක්ෂණය කළ නොහැකි මිථ්යා විශ්වාසයන් නොසලකා හැරීම,
punir os versos de sofrimento planos ruinosos reação impia sobre princípios enganando enganos da natureza profundas realidades ignorantes indícios adulterados
اشتباهات وحشتناک کنترل ارواح وحشتناک آینده جهان مضر بی حد و حصر جنون فرمان تبدیل فراموشی صحبت کردن,
有益な推論詩の語り言語軽蔑的な災害は、悪意のある言葉を追い抜く幸運な議論を議論する.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Tempio Bulguksa.
Sarira Stupa - Faccia 4.
Questo stupa è ospitato in un edificio protettivo sul retro della sala conferenze del Tempio Bulguksa (Hall of Discourse).
Si dice che lo stupa contenga la sarira di otto monaci buddisti o la sarira di una regina che entrò nel monachesimo buddista alla morte di suo marito, il re Heongang.
Composto da piedistallo, corpo principale e pietra di copertura ornamentale, questo stupa ricorda una lanterna di pietra.
Il piedistallo è composto da due pietre semicircolari, ciascuna scolpita con un disegno di fiore di loto sulla sua pietra ottagonale, collegate ad un pilastro a forma di tamburo recante un vivido disegno di nuvole.
Il corpo principale dello stupa è cilindrico ed è scolpito con motivi a quattro pilastri decorati con disegni floreali.
I quattro lati divisi dagli schemi polari hanno nicchie in rilievo con immagini di Buddha e bodhisattva.
Il tetto ha dodici angoli sui bordi della grondaia ma la sommità del tetto è esagonale.
Il tetto è in leggera pendenza; e rimane solo una parte del pinnacolo.
Lo stile profondamente bello e la delicata lavorazione dello stupa indicano che fu realizzato all'inizio della dinastia Goryeo pur conservando alcune caratteristiche dello stile Unificato Silla.
Nel 1905, lo stupa fu portato fuori dalla Corea al Parco Ueno Onshi a Tokyo dai giapponesi, e fu restituito alla Corea nel 1933.
Bulguksa Temple.
Sarira Stupa - Face 4.
This stupa is housed in a protective building at the back of Bulguksa Temple's lecture hall (Hall of Discourse).
It is said that the stupa contains either the sarira of eight Buddhist Monks or the sarira of a queen who entered the Buddhist monkhood upon the death of her husband, King Heongang.
Consisting of pedestal, main body and ornamental capstone, this stupa resembles a stone lantern.
The pedestal is composed of two semi-circular stones, each carved with a lotus flower design on its octagonal ground stone, that are connected with a drum-shaped pillar bearing a vivid cloud design.
The main body of the stupa is cylindrical, and is carved with four-pillar patterns decorated with flower designs.
The four sides divided by the pole patterns have niches embossed with images of Buddha and bodhisattvas.
The roof has twelve angles on the edges of the eaves but the top of the roof is hexagonal.
The roof slopes gently; and only part of the finial remains.
The profoundly beautiful style and delicate workmanship of the stupa indicate that it was made in the early Goryeo Dynasty while retaining certain features of the Unified Silla style.
In 1905, the stupa was taken out of Korea to Ueno Onshi Park in Tokyo by the Japanese, and was returned to Korea in 1933.
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~ "#PHOTOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE" .... ~ "MAY 2022" ~ "VINTAGE SELFIE" ~ .... ~ 2022 ~
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~ "I sat behind a wall in my house, used a Lume Cube to light up my face. I put my camera on a 10 second timer, took several shots. I went into light room, used sepia tones, a dark vignette, added grain, turned the texture up and the clarity down. " .... ~
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Photo by my son Liam
Daisy - " so what kind of music do you like to listen to sir?"
Andrew - "Oh you don't have to call me sir, we're all equal here"
Tinkerbell - "so what do you make of this Brexit nonsense?"
Buttercup - "Oh don't bother him with that one Tinkerbell"
Daisy - "I like Pink Floyd"
Tinkerbell - "Phwoooaaar Daisy, did you just back one out??"
The impact, more than its inspiration, happened during a visit for an exam eye. A looping horror story played in the waiting room showing the cause and effects for vision impairnents.
A woman was escorted out of the building. She is captured center frame, but the discourse of images from the video show a large black circle for extreme vision disease spilled its lesson into the possibility of limited seeing.
I wonder why I am fascinated with backlight and silhouettes. I am thankful for a good eye exam report, but this delivery of high key makes for exposure, but also appreciation for things passing along the edges of periphery in shadow.
An inception for capture began with the concept of things under exposed, and the things we desire to expose, to elicit and pronounce an overexposure in exhibition for self-aggrandizement, and critical sharing to render flaws and repetition of things seen, and unseen, that we choose to covet from the Periphery.
Maybe the high key and silhouette are more similar than dissimilars by the act to squint. To squint, and look at a scene reveals its design in form. A silhouette, with light at its edges highlights form, to close our iris, and open understanding of applied meaning from the intended meaning. Or perhaps, maybe we squint as a physical act of reducing light for acuity in seeing, while selecting what shapes to register (and distinguish) as responsibility from fault of expecting and assuming what we see, from what we've seen.
It's the periphery that holds agreement as fleeting, while also an important element to support meaning inside a fully conceived and unhindered graphic expected to remain the standard for placement and carriage for impact of meaning.
I think I will consider a nap for my next visit to the eye doctor.
original painting by: Bill Rogers
When you find a riddle that dismantles all your pet theories, but you don't mind....or...beyond mere ape and mere woo lies a secret corridor. Find that.
Sometimes tempers can flare at OccupyWallStreet but with any civil discourse comes very strong opinions. And this being New York City many will not hesitate to express those opinions.
That's what so beautiful about this exercise in Democracy, so many opinions, so many ideas among the 99% yet they have found common ground on one issue "we are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent."
hada de rojo (fantasía de otoño)
"La gente necesita, además de dinero, una puesta al día de la fantasía, de la capacidad de representar el mundo. Todos manejamos programas de imagen y sonido para hacer cosas banales. Quizá llegue un momento en que los chavales puedan aplicar lo que aprenden con los aparatos al discurso político y a las relaciones sociales."
"People need, besides money, updating the fantasy, the ability to represent the world. All handle image and sound programs for trivial things. May come a time that kids can apply what they learn with the devices to political discourse and social relations."
Santiago Auserón (Spanish singer & songwriter)
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"All the World's a Stage" wrote Shakespeare. "All the world's a screen" may have wrote some film director during the 20th century. But if I had to pick a version to speak of today, I would choose "All the World's a Game".
It's pretty impressive to see the place the word “game” took in our discourse. Is the Sony a9 a gamechanger, asks DxO ? Some website give us 5 tips to improve our photography game. Of course, the consecration of the word, it’s invasion of the collective unconscious comes probably from the successful “Game Of Thrones” of HBO. The way characters use the concept of “Game” to speak about the over-corrupted political world should also warns us.
I may be wrong on the exact origin of the expression, but I am pretty sure it is related to video games. Please note that I am not saying that there was no game before in a lot of social realm (real new human mechanisms are quite rare). What I am saying is that the thing became recently quite explicit and … inhibited (décomplexé, we would say in French).
If you ever played a little bit seriously, you know that a video game is two things. Firstly, it’s a set of possibilities determined by a set of rules/algorithms. Most of the time, you can discover these “rules of the inner world” by playing or even by reading the manual. Secondly, and more importantly, a game is a set of hidden regularities that haven’t necessary been planned by developers, but that you can exploit to hack, in a certain way, the in-game rules. These things are not directly available in-game, so you find them outside, on forums, on website and so on.*
One thing is undeniable: once you discover this metagame aspect, your in-game efficiency increase … A LOT. It’s also undeniable that if you had pleasure just playing without caring of the outside-game rules, this will ruin your “naive” experience. In some way, you’ll lose you innocence. Every serious gamer confess for time to time how nostalgic he is of his first games, when he was a noob: he was so ineffective, everything was so hard, but it was so fun !
What is particularly disturbing with the expansion of the “Game” word outside the realm of video games – in politics, professional life, love, music, art, photography – is that it carries with it the same fundamental idea: there is a gap between the explicit and the implicit rules. There’s the rules we pretend to follow, but we know that they are part of an illusion. And there’s the rules that we pretend not to follow, but we know that it’s the only thing that matters.
Let’s be frank: if All the world’s a Game, there must be winners (serious gamers) and losers (noobs). The real gamers-winners, are the ones who master the hidden rules while being effective in pretending not doing so. In other words, to win, you have to learn how to cheat. By the way, cheating is not really cheating anymore: it’s just the real understanding of how to play.
Why do I write this on a photography social website? Because Flickr, Instagram, and any other photography platform can be perfectly described as games. Exactly like video games, there’s the official in-game rules: we are here to share images, we can get exposure in proportion of our talent, and we can give and receive constructive critique in order to improve our technique together in a happy world. But there’s also the hidden exploits: we can choose the time we post to get a lot of favs, we can give meaningless comments with the chance to get some attention back, we can randomly follow people without even watching one of their picture hoping that they’ll follow back, … **
This cynical topic came to my mind when I was shooting the Milky Way by the Etang de la Gruère last week. I was quite disorganized : all I had – apart my tripod and my camera – was my smartphone with less than 50% of battery. It was my only source of light, and I realized quite soon that I would not find my way back in the darkness. It was cold, I forgot to take a jacket: in brief, it was quite uncomfortable.
During the 17 seconds of every shot, I had time to think about what I was doing: why do I go out to take nightscapes? Why do I play fair? Couldn’t I use always the same shots (that I could take once for all) and create some fake foreground in Photoshop? After all, isn’t that what most people do on Instagram? The competition is so fierce that “real” nightshots have no chance! Cheating is just the way of playing properly: am I that naive to think that a simple nightshot without the silhouette of a naked-young-woman-holding-a-flashlight-as-if-she-was-painting-the milyway-that-finally-turns-out-to-be-a-swarm-of-butterflies-eaten-by-a-wolf-howling-in-a-blood-moon could still interest someone in 2017 ??! What a noob I am! I felt so stupid with my wet shoes and my torn up pants ! Photography is over, it’s all about artwork now !
Kidding apart, it’s not always easy to keep faith in photography when it comes so close to a game. After all, no one really came for this in the first place. It’s something that come insidiously. It’s simply related to the old cognitive mechanisms of rewarding in our brain. We like to receiving attention – even meaningless – from other people. Nothing’s more normal. The question is why do we stay ? Of course, there’s a part of addiction and laziness, but there’s something more. If the game is not fun when you know too well how it really goes, it’s neither fun to play alone … I don’t think I would still find motivation practicing alone. In some way, I really want to test my picture on public opinion. I need emulation. That’s what keeps me wanting to improve. However, what ruins the experience is that you realize that the only way to “be serious” now is to practice things you don’t approve and that would take crazy amount of time …
Maybe I have the wrong conception of “being serious”, it’s maybe time to find some other sort of motivation. If you really red that far – thank you for that - I would love to know how you cope with “the Game” …
*(Pokemon on Game Boy gave a good example in the 90’ : everyone – below 30 years old – remember the good old days wandering around and training their favorite creatures, sometimes up to level 100 ! The Pokemon was so powerful then, it killed everything in one single shot. What most people didn’t knew is that it was possible to take control on the way creatures received new skills at every level (which seemed random according to in-game rules) : rather than having a big fat jack-of-all-trade, you could have a specialized beast that had huge lacks in some skills, but was top rated on others. Of course, because these skills were well chosen, the guys who applied this strategy were unbeatable.)
**(The award-game is an excellent illustration of this : There’s no in-game awards on Flickr, but gamers figured out a way to create a game-in-the-game from outside. Everybody knows that the small texts that accompany awards are meaningless, but everyone pretend it is sincere. All in all, it’s just a way to get more exposure and more followers. That’s how it goes, everybody knows …).
The Republican Party is sadly in crisis. Donald Trump is simply the latest result of their failed strategies. I say "sad" because I have come to expect American political discourse and debate to come from a wide spectrum of thought —you know, "the big tent" both parties have championed over the years. This is the "American Exceptionalism" I believed in. Unfortunately, Republicans have failed to deliver to their base: smaller government and lower taxes. Instead, they have obstructed just about every proposal brought forward, even from within their own party! And, you would think by now they would realize this won't work. These are the people we've elected? I think we can do better. We need elected officials who work together to move this country forward. While the country is trying to effectively fight terrorists, we fight each other.
Instead, stop this circus. Work with Democrats to create programs to retrain people who have lost their jobs to technology and globalization. The proper role of government is to help its citizens. GOP, you have done absolutely nothing but engender anger amongst us. Do the job we elected you to do and we'll be fine. Continue on this path and you will surely implode. And, you will become a relic of a bygone era, just like the illustration in this poster.
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Nice idea, forms a comfy private space for dining and drinks. (And appropriate backdrop for some intellectual discourse, supposedly ;)
Nice idea, forms a comfy private space for dining and drinks. (And appropriate backdrop for some intellectual discourse, supposedly ;)
Recently I had the honor and pleasure to juror the "5th Annual Drawing Discourse Exhibition" at the University of North Carolina Asheville. There were over 1,100 entries and I was tasked with choosing 30+/- works. The quality of the work was very high and I could have easily chosen any of the top 300 to be in the exhibition. It was the most difficult exhibition jurying I've experienced narrowing it down to 37 works.
In January I was able to travel to Asheville to see the work in the exhibition and meet a number of the artists. UNC Asheville professor (and extraordinary artist) Tamie Beldue - the person behind this series of exhibitions - was a wonderful host and is to be commended for her work in bringing these exhibitions together.
Tamie also put together the excellent catalogue for the exhibition which is now on-line via Blurb. It includes some rambling thoughts on the exhibition and contemporary drawing by yours truly. You can check it out at the following link. And if you like it buy it or have your local library order it. (Of course I am completely impartial.)
www.blurb.com/books/5108449-drawing-discourse
Here are some of the amazing artists in the show: Serena Potter, Janvier Rollande, David Stanger, Sue Bryan, Elena Peteva, Krystal Harper, Evie Woltil Richner, Chris LaPorte, Julie Comnick, David Allison, Zoe Hawk, Gillian Lambert, Anthony Pessler, Rachael Davis, Laura Lark, Aaron Bernard, Jeffrey Fichera, Justin Sorenson and Camille Demarinis.
“In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly coextensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to sister, of wife to husband, are there pertinent, but quite otherwise. Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own. Now this convention, which good sense demands, destroys the high freedom of great conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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