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Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by
You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good
Take a break from all that doomscrolling, grab a cold drink and sit outside in the cooler evening air and chat to friends. Maybe treat yourself to something new. Be well everyone <3
⦿ [Gild] - Mondo wing_Earring FATPACK Swallow -Gauged S(m)
At the Men Only Event June/July 2023
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⦿ PanDEMONium Ink // flight tattoo - EvoX only (for full view follow Flickr link below.)
At the Men Only Event June/July 2023
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⦿ [SPARVO] - Lincoln Necklace
At the Men Only Event June/July 2023
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Head: Lelutka Skyler
Body: Legacy
Pose and shape my own
Additional credits in my blog
Film: Rollei Superpan 200 @ 800 ISO | Develop: D-76 (stock) 18:30 mins @ 20°C | Scan: Plustek OpticFilm 8200i
The sun lights up Bell Butte (r) and an unnamed butte in Valley of the Gods, with Monument Valley on the horizon. The hazy atmosphere was due in part to the numerous vehicles driving the local dirt roads, seeking a place to watch the annular eclipse of the sun.
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, with good light and cooperative subjects throughout 2024!
some advice for 2024 shared from readers of the NYT:
We are all juggling so many balls. Differentiate between glass balls and rubber balls — and don’t be afraid to drop the rubber balls.
Wait as long as possible to get your kids a phone
Instead of calling someone out, call them in: Invite them into a judgment-free conversation with the intention of promoting understanding
Every time you receive a box containing something you bought online, fill it with items to donate
Nothing good is happening on your phone past 8 p.m
Just book the trip
Be a fountain, not a drain
Wear a watch. This way I pick up my phone half as often. How many times do you pick up yours to check the time and get sidetracked by 30 minutes of doomscrolling?
Walk at least a little way down into the Grand Canyon; don’t just stay up on the rim
Although the Industrial Revolution increased life expectancy, it also produced many negative consequences. As a result, we live in a society that has lost much of its roots and moral grounding. Therefore, we live unfulfilling lives. As technology continues to advance, we will witness more social disruption. We now live in an industrial-technological system, which we will not be able to turn back. As this system marches forward, we will lose our dignity and freedom—even our humanity.
We have become a society of leisure; we have become decadent. As a result, we have become bored, hedonistic, and demoralized. An individual must have meaningful goals in life, which they can ‘autonomously’ work toward—goals with real adversity and reward. In accomplishing such goals, a person finds fulfillment. In our modern society, we have lost much of our autonomy. We have been trained to be obedient to the system. We must follow ever-increasing bureaucratic rules and regulations. Nowadays, experts tell us what to do and how to think. We are cogs of the machine—we are under the direction and control of the system. Yet this is not healthy for human beings. We must have our own independence, so that we can build our lives by our own initiative. If there is little room for a person to exercise autonomy, they will feel insignificant. If they have the autonomy to attain meaningful goals, they will gain self-confidence. A society that cannot make/create/set or fulfill meaningful goals will become demoralized; they will suffer from low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority; they will suffer from depression, anxiety, and guilt; they will become frustrated, hostile, and unfriendly; they will become bored and pursue hedonistic pleasures in order to cope.
Many young people today lack goals. They cannot see themselves attaining enough financial stability to marry a spouse or raise a family. They cannot see themselves owning a house or having a future to look forward to. This results in demoralization and defeatism.
In the past, people had to truly survive. This took serious effort. They had to make tools and weapons. They had to hunt down an animal, kill it, butcher it, get it home, cook it, and eat it. How manly and satisfying! A man would find fulfillment in a lifetime of roaming and exploring the land, hunting wild game for his family. He would have many adventures. Yet in our modern society, it takes minimal effort to attain one’s basic needs. Today, we work dead-end jobs that are unsatisfying. They provide us with a paycheck, but they don’t provide us with real fulfillment. We then try to find fulfillment in hobbies and other leisure activities, which will not bring us real fulfillment. What is worse, we spend our spare time sitting around staring at screens. The human body is not built to live a sedentary life. The human brain is not built to doomscroll. Living sedentary lives and doomscrolling obviously leads to unhappiness. Such activities are less satisfying than accomplishing meaningful goals such as buying land, clearing the land of trees by hand, using the trees to build a house by hand, carrying ones wife over the threshold, raising a family, working the land and raising livestock, thus conquering the land and continuing ones posterity. This in itself is Biblical. Why do you think, when Christ returns, He will divide up the land among the people (as it was done in the Old Testament)? It is so that man will work his ‘own’ land. Then man will work in nature, where he will be happiest. God made nature for man, not man for nature. The goal of the globalist agenda is to further divide man from nature; it is an antichrist agenda. Their goal is transhumanism, which will dehumanize mankind and further divide him from nature. Moreover, transhumanism will divide man from God.
A pre-industrial society is predominantly rural. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the population of cities vastly increased. A technological society changes rapidly, thus there is less stability. These changes affect all aspects of society and cause the breakdown of traditional values. Breaking down traditional values causes the breakdown of societal bonds. An individual’s loyalty changes: it must not be first to their family or community, but first and foremost to the system. Indeed, individuals must be tools of the system. This makes us less independent and autonomous, because we become reliant on the system. The system is constantly changing, and we are taught to obey its changing rules and regulations. Yet these regulations are laid down by others. We have little to no input in the making of these rules. They are made by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, corporations and organizations. This makes us feel powerless, which gives us a sense of hopelessness. Can you see why society has become so frustrated, insecure, humiliated, and angry? The more unfulfilled a society becomes, the more restless it becomes. Restlessness causes friction, and friction causes factions. Thus, a society breaks into factions. A society of impoverished relationships makes for a toxic society. Science will give us the tools to alter the material world, but our relationships with one another and with nature will be destroyed.
As society advances technologically, we lose more freedoms. People can’t even put down their phones, let alone toss them away to fight the system. People don’t want to sacrifice what they have become addicted to and dependent on. Yet they will replace their current technology with something more advanced. They will go from cell phones to wearable technology to microchips. With the promise of eliminating diseases and gaining super intelligence, much of society will give up freedom to be genetically engineered and microchipped. Even though, such a step will never be reversed. Humans will be modified to suit the needs of the system. They will become one with robotic technology.
Many people are not concerned about these dystopian scenarios. Yet technologies such as robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology pose a great threat to humanity. These technologies will be used as tools to redesign the world. Self-replicating technologies will cause great damage to the biosphere. In the end, self-replicating technology will be impossible to control.
Artificial Intelligence will replace human creativity. In the future, the internet will be accessed only by your personal AI assistant. You will ask your AI assistant questions, and it will surf the internet for you. You will not go on Youtube to watch videos. You will ask AI to make the kind of videos you desire to watch. There will be no human content creators. Get used to AI art, AI videos, AI music, AI articles, AI slop! That is what you will be fed. Many who want to fight the system will eventually become passive, and they will no longer resist. They will be sucked into the system and become zombified. They will become docile slaves of the system. It desires complete control over everything on earth, both man and nature. Humanity will then be reduced to the status of domestic animals. Of course, this will be for the good of the planet!
If university students are using AI to write papers, AI will replace them in their future jobs. If teachers and professors are using AI to write curriculum and mark papers, AI will replace them. If the younger generation has no work ethic, they will be replaced by subsidized foreign workers, then both will be replaced by AI. If generation Alpha can’t read, then AI will replace them. The (dangerous) foreign semi-truck drivers on our roads will be replaced by AI self-driving trucks. AI in the schools, AI in the hospitals, replace, replace, replace. The politicians make many terrible decisions, thus they will be replaced by AI.
Moving on! The more society moves away from the traditions of marriage and family, the more unfulfilled and unhappy society will become. Radical leftists feel the least fulfillment, because they long to destroy society and its traditions. How happy can one be if they want to destroy their roots? They are constantly deconstructing themselves, it’s the Maoist way—how else can you brainwash yourself? Therefore, they feel guilt and self-hatred. They gain an inferiority complex. They have a love-hate relationship with themselves. On one hand they loathe themselves, but on the other hand they selfishly desire power. For this reason, they are self-loathing narcissists. They feel unfulfilled and powerless. Therefore, they seek power to bring about fulfillment. They feel weak and helpless, so they desire to feel strong and competent. It’s a coping mechanism. They also hate anything that appears strong, moral, and successful. They hate America, Western civilization, capitalism, the family, patriarchy, whites, males, heterosexuals, the rich, the middleclass, and even rationality. They despise all who are more beautiful, talented, intelligent, or successful than them. Envy does not equate to fulfillment or happiness. Side note: social media causes much envy and unhappiness.
The far left wants society to take care of them, because they are lazy and lack confidence. They feel strong only as a member of a large group or movement. They like to be abusive to those who disagree with them, because they have masochistic tendencies. The Marxist ideology is an authoritarian ideology, which is masochistic in nature, because it revolves around revolution. The far left may act empathetic, but they are apathetic. Indeed, a study on this topic found that radical leftists were apathetic and narcissistic. Their goals revolve around revolution and power. Their insecurity causes them to feel hostile, and their revolution helps them to vent their hostility. They don’t care about diplomacy, so they act hostile. With them, it is all or nothing: they want revolution, they want power. How can you have a rational conversation with individuals who don’t want dialogue? They use minorities as an excuse for revolution. They hide behind minorities, using them to shield their intentions of revolution. They go into poor black communities to fight for poor black people, yet they burn down black businesses and ruin their local economy. The communist must fight for the revolution, for everything opposed to the revolution is a sin. The communist tries to find fulfillment in the act of rebellion; he tries to find fulfillment in the act of revolution. He, however, is never satisfied. Thus, the revolution moves onward.
For the radical, activism is a vent for their pent-up emotions. Activism produces unity among the young militants, creating a bond between like-minded people. Losers can feel accepted, like they belong. Many of these communist agitators are from middle and upper middleclass homes. They have had an easy but unfulfilling life. They are the most radicalized, because they feel the most unfulfilled. They have become so demoralized that they have become nihilistic. Their life seems to have no meaning. They have lost their moral compass. They rely on emotions rather than on reason. They rely on feelings rather than on facts. “Their political activism is thus only a reaction to the more basic fear that the times are against them, that a new world is emerging without either their assistance or their leadership.” These activists will gradually accept more deviant subcultures as they further divorce themselves from reality. “The supreme irony of that loose and volatile sociopolitical phenomenon of contemporary middleclass America named the New Left is that it is itself the creation of the technetronic revolution as well as a reaction against it.” “The New Left was able to draw on the deep-rooted traditions of American populism, Quaker pacifism, and the pre-World War II largely immigrant-imported socialism and communism.” (The ‘New Left’ refers to the leftist movement of the 60s).
Paying for your child’s first car, college tuition, wedding, or house down payment will give them little sense of accomplishment. Giving children everything not only spoils them but also makes life boring. There must be ups and downs for life to be interesting. Bad times can produce growth and maturity, that is, if a person desires to learn from life. Especially if they want to build a strong moral character. The rewards of being cogs in the system produce great boredom. These middleclass kids have a self-indulgent lifestyle that contradicts their professed anti-materialism. Their material existence tends to depend on their parents. Their ideological infantilism stems from obsolete nineteenth-century criticisms of capitalism. They are spoiled kids who are rebelling against middleclass society. These activists offer no real response to the dilemmas of our age. Their revolutionary movement is really an escapist movement. It is a way of coping with their unfulfilled lives. They supposedly desire to change society, but they really want to create a refuge (safe space) from society. Their activism is a psychological safety valve, in which they can blow off steam. They escape their boring lives through activism, so they can feel a sense of freedom and self-gratification. They pat each other on the back, because they are supposedly fighting against their capitalist enemy. However, this is really a form of group therapy.
The woke activists on the ground are the canaries in the coal mine. They are indicators of the problems of our society as a whole. Through them, we have the best lens on society’s anxiety, uncertainty, vulnerability, and dissatisfaction. Side note: we can see the incoming collectivist system through the lens of the United Nations. They want to eradicate poverty. Yet they hide behind poverty, using it to shield their intentions of ruling the world. With communism, it’s all about gaining power. Communism is meant to go worldwide. Collectivism seeks to bind together the entire world (both man and nature) into a unified whole.
Neo-Marxism went through the dialectic with postmodernism and produced wokeism. Some think that post-postmodernism will have a more spiritual element to it. I think that wokeism will go through the dialectic with some sort of religious spiritualism, which will produce antichristism. Wokeism is authoritarian in nature, yet it has a quasi-religious character. Post-postmodernism will lead to an authoritarian system with a spiritual flavour. Man must be grounded to a one-world religion to be grounded to a one-world government. Woke socialism must have a spiritual awakening, so to speak. Wokeism must awaken further in its social enlightenment in order to transcend to the next level of social consciousness. This dialectic enlightenment will mix socialism with a spiritual experience. It will lead to transhumanism. The coming socialist leader—the antichrist—will combine socialism, religion, and transhumanism. Modernity, with its globalization, technology, and social(ist) change, has produced a society that lacks fulfillment. Although technology will bring less fulfillment to humanity, the technological system will lead it forward on a leash. I can see one of the marketing strategies for the Mark of the Beast: we live in stressful times, take the microchip and become numb to the stresses of reality. The soma of the Brave New World Order will give you fulfillment. You will be modified to suit the needs of the system. Warning: do not follow the world system!
Revelation 18:4 “Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ‘Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.’”
1 John 4:4 “Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].”
1 John 2:15-17 “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Romans 8:7 “For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.”
Galatians 5:25 “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”
Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.”
In a sinful world, no individual can experience perfect fulfillment. When I’m in eternity with the Lord, I’ll know perfect fulfillment!
Take in the endless bad news while you're sleeping. Gives you more time during the day to get things done.
Santa Clara County, California
Since I can’t visit any parks this pandemic spring, I’ve been doing some macro photography in my back yard and along the streets in my neighborhood. I find I can get into the same therapeutic flow state looking for subjects as I can hiking along park trails. Much better than sitting at home, doomscrolling.
Revelation 18:5 “For her sins are piled up to the sky, and God has called to mind her unrighteous deeds.”
“Global burden of mental disorders in children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021”
“These findings highlight the increased burden of mental disorders among children and adolescents during the pandemic, emphasizing the need for targeted post-pandemic mental health support.”
www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/ar...
Shocker, trauma-based mind control causes mental problems. How about the gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia that is plaguing children, on account of the gender theory (cultural Marxism) that they are taught in school? They are taught that there are more than two genders. Trauma-based mind control: there is more than one way to skin a cat! Indeed, mental disorders are rising among children. Don’t forget Doomscrolling! Doomscrolling: “The concept was coined around 2020, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
1/52 - 3,2,1, Start - 52 Weeks: The 2025 Edition
I'm not one for resolutions, but I do have some goals:
1. Read more books and less doomscrolling
2. More photography and more watercolor painting
3. More traveling
Spent the morning doomscrolling through the news. All gloom and doom. Depressing. I think I'll join the cat and hide under the covers.
Sundbergs konditori, since 1785. Järntorget, in the old town. Not sure about the spelling on that sign, though.
Smoothie time at Hagaparken again. At least for me. The blonde girl figured that a cigarette was the way to go while doomscrolling at Stora Pelousen.
Nice Summer day. I brief stop, sat down on the circular bench for a bite to eat and some doomscrolling.
Sat down on the bench for some doomscrolling while at the cemetery. Noticed a mushroom and realized that I had forgotten to photograph any fly agaric there this Autumn, and it looked too late now so I didn't even bother to give it a go.
Almhöjden. Probably the place I take most photos of when visiting the cemetery. What I like to call The Meditation Hill. I can often be found up there, to the right, sitting on the grass doomscrolling. As one does these days.
This series "Post-Nature" uses my original photography layered with discarded man-made plastic detritus to reflect our collective disregard for the Earth as we doomscroll and bingewatch the Fall of Rome on reality tv. We have so distanced ourselves from mother nature that, shrink-wrapped as we are, we forget that we are her children, made of the same raw materials as the trees, the rivers, the stars.
Surely there’s some obscure old word in an ancient language for this feeling that those of us alive and awake at this moment in time have...to hold both beauty and heartbreak in the palm of one hand.
Microplastic pollution has reached every part of the planet, from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans. People are already known to consume the tiny particles via food and water, and to breathe them in.
Their effect in the body is yet unknown but scientists say there is an urgent need to assess the issue, particularly for infants. In October, scientists revealed that babies fed formula milk in plastic bottles are swallowing millions of particles a day.
Microplastic particles have been revealed in the placentas of unborn babies for the first time, which the researchers said was “a matter of great concern”.
“It is like having a cyborg baby: no longer composed only of human cells, but a mixture of biological and inorganic entities,” said Antonio Ragusa, director of obstetrics and gynecology at the San Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli hospital in Rome, and who led the study published in the journal Environment International.
I usually stop here on my way home. The square Södermalmstorg at Nya Slussen. Many benches to choose from, as well as a few comfy chairs, perfect for reading and doomscrolling.
There's plenty of news to "watch" at Detroit's Heidlberg Project....just choose your flavor. Seen in April 2022.
Since the opening of this square in early June, I pretty much stop here every time I bike home from the city. I usually drink my smoothie while doomscrolling or chatting with my brother in Barcelona.
Been distracted by events this past week (whoever came up with the term “doomscrolling” got it right) so decided to do a small side project as a brief refuge.
Decided to get one of the enlargers (an Omega B-7) that came to me via the estate hoard off my shop floor by making a baseboard for it. Pulled out a 16” x 48” sheet of mahogany solid-core plywood I picked up at Rockler long ago (so long ago it was still called “The Woodworker’s Store”) for $4 because it was badly damaged at one end and cut off a 16" x 24" section. A bit of scraping and sanding and with the addition of the remnants of a can of poly I had sitting around from some outdoor project (not normally a fan) and I fairly quickly had a decent blank to use. Added some rubber non-skid feet and set out to figure out how the enlarger should be mounted.
Fortunately most of the necessary bits had shown up in various containers that came with the pile of stuff (including in the bottom of some old Kodak hard rubber tanks, covered in motor oil, yecch) so with some cleanup and some internet research I was able to figure it out. Good thing, because rather than the simple flange with bolts that the D-II uses, it has an odd Rube Goldberg-esque set up composed of many small pieces. One critical one, a small chip of what feels like cast iron but may be cast steel was missing, but I managed to find a mending strap at the hardware store that I used to fabricate a replacement.
There are still some non-critical pieces missing (small spacers that mount under the bolts and I assume keep the tiny flange of the enlarger base centered), but I was able to get it mounted. Have spent 3-4 hours thoroughly cleaning it (it was filthy and has many many crevices, all those old toothbrushes I saved sure came in handy) and am nearly ready to restore it to functionality. Now it just needs calibration; I've leveled the baseboard and the negative stage, but haven't adjusted the lamp housing yet. The lamp house is functional and even had a working bulb in it.
It had a couple lenses, but the mounting plates appeared to be home-brewed, and not particularly well. Fortunately I have mounting plates from the D-II that fit just fine. Unfortunately the negative holders don't appear to be exactly the same; the ones I have might kind of work, but perhaps I'll pick up one or two of the correct size.
To be honest, I don’t really need it (already have its big brother, the D-II) but maybe it will be handy to have a second setup. Or maybe I’ll give it to some local youngster interested in learning to print...
(Oh, and it did have some masking tape wrapped around various parts to no obvious effect, which is very consistent with the rest of the items in this collection!)
Visitors to the Heidelberg Project in East Detroit can view plenty of "news" on the tube. Seen in April 2022
The way-out street art in Detroit's Heidelberg project features some "Good news" amid the doom. Seen in 2022.
This series "Post-Nature" uses my original photography layered with discarded man-made plastic detritus to reflect our collective disregard for the Earth as we doomscroll and bingewatch the Fall of Rome on reality tv. We have so distanced ourselves from mother nature that, shrink-wrapped as we are, we forget that we are her children, made of the same raw materials as the trees, the rivers, the stars.
Surely there’s some obscure old word in an ancient language for this feeling that those of us alive and awake at this moment in time have...to hold both beauty and heartbreak in the palm of one hand.
Microplastic pollution has reached every part of the planet, from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans. People are already known to consume the tiny particles via food and water, and to breathe them in.
Their effect in the body is yet unknown but scientists say there is an urgent need to assess the issue, particularly for infants. In October, scientists revealed that babies fed formula milk in plastic bottles are swallowing millions of particles a day.
Microplastic particles have been revealed in the placentas of unborn babies for the first time, which the researchers said was “a matter of great concern”.
“It is like having a cyborg baby: no longer composed only of human cells, but a mixture of biological and inorganic entities,” said Antonio Ragusa, director of obstetrics and gynecology at the San Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli hospital in Rome, and who led the study published in the journal Environment International.