Mural entitled "A Persistent Thread" by Jonny Alexander for "Murals in the Market" seen in Detroit, Michigan.

 

The artist explains the work as follows: This image is a personal interpretation of Detroit, where its been and where it's going. A narrative image you can read from left to right lends reference to Detroit's manufacturing past, it's present growth and it's future yet to be known. There is a banner that weaves its way through the whole image from past to future. It's meant to represent the cultural thread that has run through Detroit, with +80% of Detroit's population being black, I see this legacy as being the lifeblood that gives the city it's culture, vitality and creative energy. The banner serves as a reminder to the changing city to recognize and celebrate its cultural legacy.

 

Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "Arouse! For You Must Justify Me" by

Professor Tim Parsley aka @timparsley with the assistance of University of Saint Francis students, seen at 132 West Wayne Street in Ft Wayne, Indiana.

 

From two photos by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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This might have been entitled "The Invisible River" given that the Krazy Kataloguer describe it as "General View of the Dargle River" this despite the writing on the plate. Tom the Fiddler must have been quite the character, and his donkey was a great one to laugh as they moved about County Wicklow?

Photographer: Robert French

 

Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection

 

Date: Circa 1865 to before July 1887

 

NLI Ref: L_IMP_1491

 

You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

  

Mural entitled "The World is Big But You Can be Bigger" by Whitney Holbourn aka @whitneyholbourn, seen at 479 NW 23rd Street in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.

 

Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "Helloooo? Where'd all the time go?" by Emma Gilbert aka @emmagilbertart, seen at 536 Joseph Avenue SE in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

The artist states "This mural reflects my feelings about the fleeting nature of time and the sense of loss that comes with it. I often feel overwhelmed by how short the days are, struggling to balance quality time with family while still pursuing my dreams. It’s as though a ticking clock constantly looms over me, reminding me how quickly life passes. But the looming clock isn’t necessarily negative, as it reminds to call my family and friends more and motivates me to create art that inspires and uplifts communities while my body is still able."

 

Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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I entitled this Wicked Tree of Death due to what looks like skin hanging from the branches. In reality it's only bark but as it was blowing in the wind it looked quite horrific.

Mural entitled "Medicine Man" by Anthony aka @amp316, seen at 477 East 17th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "El Nahual" by Jari "Werc" Alvarez aka @w3rc seen in Yonkers, New York.

 

Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "Lost and Found" by CERA aka @cera_streetart for Tippecanoe Arts Foundation, seen at 115 South Range Street in Wolcott, Indiana.

 

Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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[ CPP Project example -- Fall 1997 ]

 

This is a part of an ongoing & experimental photo project of mine entitled "Corpse Photo-Poetics." (The particular piece was composed by myself & Melina, my former fiance, and was included in the Florida Emerging Artists exhibit @ the Arts On the Park Gallery in Lakeland, 1998).

 

CPP was first conceived of as a sort of abstraction a Surrealist game (known as "EXQUISITE CORPSE") while driving the lonely stretches of the 95 through the old American South (rural Georgia) in the spring of 1994. The project languished, a bit, for a while, but has been conferred new life due my ability to connect with other kind, creative souls here on Flickr! ^_^

 

I can't locate my formal description of the project, but I'll try to succinctly state its simplicity:

 

With E.C., partipants divide a piece of a paper into thirds or quaters, choosing, for instance, the human form. Each participant chooses a section of the form to complete, covering their work, leaving only lines to give the next player a starting point for the next section of the piece. The result can be something quite surprising and, sometimes even good! ;)

 

I chose to use double exposure photographs. The CPP images have mostly been produced directly in the camera (35mm). With no fixed form in mind, participants grab an image to be integrated with the photograph of another in the camera, and hopefully the result is just as surprising and, even good!

 

This is a randomly chosen example -- I have very few digital copies at this time, but will try to change that soon. I'm working on new methods and am always looking for new collaborators.

 

Let's see, thank you for taking a look, reading about this crazy project, & please LMK if you are interested. ;)

 

OK. Here's further description that I e-mailed to one recent participant, the amazing Ms. LaDonna Chaos:

 

Let’s see… I'll do my best to b-r-I-e-f-l-y describe the project off the top o' my chaotic head here.

 

Firstly, I've hand-picked only a few collaborators for this admittedly odd little project. I plan future gallery shows (a close friend is currently shopping it around NYC, for instance) and even [gasp> a coffee table book.

 

OK. But first, here' how it started:

 

In the 90s -- yes, WAY BACK THEN -- I began d-a-b-b-l-i-n-g in photography, and became QUICKLY fascinated w/ multiple exposures when an old Arette 35mm I tried had a broken winding mechanism, producing these wonderful, almost halucinatory double & triple exposures.

 

I began to then INTENTIONALLY use the double exposure technique (with a properly functioning camera this time) in my compositions.

 

OK. One day, whilst traveling the long, lonely stretches of the 95 through rural Georgia, it occurred to me to try abstractly applying the dAdAists' and surealists' exquisite corpse game to photography.

 

With my game -- CPP: Corpse Photo-Poetics -- two photographers each contribute a photo or exposure w/o knowing what the other person had done to see what kind of final composition or new form, if you will, they end up with.

 

Here's how we'd do this: I'll take a roll of pictures (none of them needing to be complete compositions, not necessarily), and when I'm finished, I'll rewind leaving the film leader extending from the roll so that it can be reloaded into another camera.

 

THEN, you'll indeed (or so I hope that you’ll want to =) load the roll into your camera and shoot over my set of images, producing (no doubt ;) some AbFAB double exposure photographs -- CPP's!!!

 

OK. I hope that made SOME sense. ;)

 

One thing to keep in mind is that many of these won't work out, but there will NO DOUBT be GEMS, my dear.

 

Well, I t-r-e-m-e-n-d-o-u-s-l-y look forward to discussing this further and to working with you on this!! I AM QUITE honored by your interest!!!

 

Incidentally, this is the primitive, FUN technique, but I will soon move to enact some refinements to the process. In any case, I just thought that we could have some fun for now in this still early stage of things. What do you reckon?

Mural entitled "Handmade Happiness" by Naomi Haverland aka @naomihaverland for the Fort Myers Mural Society Next Level Street Art Event, seen at 2330 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Drive in Fort Myers, Florida.

 

Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Excerpt from www.muralroutes.com: The design for the mural was created by the youth artists and images are based on youth perspectives and community input of envisioning rights and freedoms. Each youth artist was responsible for creating a panel sharing opinions regarding Freedom and ‘Entitlement’. Images of education, human rights leaders, and different stages of life, rights to owning property, and a unity tree are some of the dominant images present throughout the mural. Doves were used to unify the masterpiece. Vibrant colours enhance the images creating depth engaging all individuals who pass by.

 

The mural is part of Amnesty International’s Project Urban Canvas, a mural series celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and focuses on article #28 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights which states: “Every individual is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration can be fully realized”.

 

The mural was created in summer of 2008, with youth artists hired through the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board Focus on Youth program and the Ministry of Culture Summer Employment Program.

Mural entitled “Axis Mundi” by @mac_arte and @aiseborn seen on the wall of the Akron Civic Theatre at 128 South Main Street in Akron, Ohio.

 

Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "Tell Me You're in my Corner" by Jamia Calvin aka @miahthecreator for Blk Out Mural Festival, seen at 25 Highland Street in Highland Park, Michigan.

 

Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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A Tea for the Tillerman

 

Wickedly Delicious and Delightful

  

Years ago while doing research for a boring university project I stumbled across old archives for the Glamorgan Gazette from the pre-Great War 1900s.

 

A story entitled ‘Tea Party Misadventure’ caught my eye.

 

It was of interest mostly because my mum likes to put on elaborate dress-up tea parties of her own doing in our almost one-hectare backyard garden at home.

 

There was not much to this old story really, only reporting that at a certain fancy Tea held at the manor house recently the hostess and several guests reported jewels had turned up missing. I was suspiciously under the impression that they were wearing said jewels at the time, for no mention of them being nicked from rooms was made.

 

This piqued my curiosity because, due I’m sure to some quirk in my DNA, I get perilous shivers thinking some uncommon thief could be that skilled, he/she could undetected, nick the very jewels I’m wearing. Would love to know if I’m unique in that feeling.

 

That said ….

 

No mention of an investigation, the cause, or any outcome was given. Nor could I find a follow-up story.

 

I hate it when I cannot find answers to stories. And this one certainly piqued my rather offbeat interest over how something like that could occur.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Then, much more recently, I had been out with Ginny to see the movie “Cruella.” She had “commandeered” her older Brother’s twin 8-year-old daughters for the occasion.

 

The movie basically sets up how Cruella became a thief, starting out with these tendencies as a young child.

 

I will admit that as we sat drinking at the pub afterward later that same evening (after seeing the giggling twin girls off back to thief mum) my mind pictured some of my own Mum’s past fancy tea parties.

 

I soon combined third memories with that long ago newspaper story of ‘misadventure at a similar function.

 

Certain scenes of that movie clicked in my alcohol-induced mind as to how the ladies at the fancy tea may have lost their jewellery.

 

Soon I came up with the seeds of the fictional story below using bits of those tea parties and my ideas on how dropping in a resourceful thief amongst the dressed-up guests' midst them could play out the unanswered questions in the Glamorgan Gazette’s missing jewellery storyline. Sort of filling in the gaps.

 

The descriptions of that tea described below are taken from years of tea parties Mum has hosted. The details are accurate including the settings, clothing, and jewels worn by the hostess(Mum) and her guests, including Ginny and I at various times.

 

The character studies of Estella, the wooden bead lady, and the Shannons are also loosely based on past tea party guests.

 

I guess any posh affair of that sort if carried on for enough years will have its odd occurrences and occasional uninvited guests. Which we have…

 

And of course, the story as told is a work of fiction.

 

No actual robbery-related misadventures have ever occurred at one of my Mum’s teas. They were always known to be sensible affairs.

 

I need to say that because mum still popularly puts them on, and I don't wish to scare anyone off. They are such fun.

 

The story below may seem far-fetched, but is it really? For something indeed quite odd had happened at that tea in Glamorgan to warrant a reporter’s story?

 

Next up :

Acte 1

 

My Tale

A Brief Characterization

 

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A Tea for the Tillerman

Acte 1

 

A Brief Characterization

  

Like her Mum before her(my Gamma), mine liked to hold these once a fortnight dress up “High” tea affairs with her friends. Held either inside the sunroom, or larger parties carried out in the backyard gardens during warmer months.

 

The invited were pretty much just ladies our mum knew, which was extensive. But during the summer months, these friends were more than welcome to also invite along daughters, relatives, and such.

 

They all would certainly get in the mood and have fun with the ongoing theme of a posh tea, trying to outdo one another in the dress-up department.

 

Elegant evening attire mixed in with cocktail dresses, silk and satin blouses with formal long skirts, and even the occasional repurposed wedding or bridesmaid gowns were the unwritten attire required to attend.

 

Copious displays of pearls and rhinestones were displayed with added panache. And many a real gemstone was snuck in to show its glitter and gleam off.

 

It was like they were expecting a member of the royal family to attend, Mum’s affair had grown to be simply that posh.

 

Tea (and stronger drink) was served and by the time the soirée died down by twilight, our yard(or house) contained a very happily cheerful lot. A laughing and huggy group of well-dressed, inebriated ladies.

 

A pickpockets dream, I always fancifully told myself as I watched it all play out many times.

 

This time it was no different, with soon giggling ladies, whom it became very apparent on the day of this tale, would have presented easy marks for the tomfoolery of someone without convictions (As the Culture Club song goes)!

 

Next up the Acte 2

 

Tea Party Misadventure

 

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[ CPP Project example - Winter 1997 II ]

 

This is a part of an ongoing & experimental photo project of mine entitled "Corpse Photo-Poetics." (This was composed by myself & Melina, my former fiance.) It was conceived as a sort of abstraction of the Surrealist game, "Exquisite Corpse."

 

I can't locate my formal description of the project, but I'll try to succinctly state its simplicity:

 

With E.C., partipants divide a piece of a paper into thirds or quaters, choosing, for instance, the human form. Each participant chooses a section of the form to complete, covering their work, leaving only lines to give the next player a starting point for the next section of the piece. The result can be something quite surprising and, sometimes even good! ;)

 

I chose to use double exposure photographs. The CPP images have mostly been produced directly in the camera (35mm). With no fixed for in mind, person grans an image to be integrated with the photograph of another in the camera, and hopefully the result is just as surprising and, even good!

 

This is a randomly chosen example -- I have very few digital copies at this time, but will try to change that soon. I'm working on new methods and am always looking for new collaborators.

 

Let's see, thank you for taking a look, reading about this crazy project & LMK if you are interested. ;)

 

OK. Here's further description that I e-mailed to one recent participant, the amazing Ms. LaDonna Chaos:

 

Let’s see… I'll do my best to b-r-I-e-f-l-y describe the project off the top o' my chaotic head here.

 

Firstly, I've hand-picked only a few collaborators for this admittedly odd little project. I plan future gallery shows (a close friend is currently shopping it around NYC, for instance) and even [gasp> a coffee table book.

 

OK. But first, here' how it started:

 

In the 90s -- yes, WAY BACK THEN -- I began d-a-b-b-l-i-n-g in photography, and became QUICKLY fascinated w/ multiple exposures when an old Arette 35mm I tried had a broken winding mechanism, producing these wonderful, almost halucinatory double & triple exposures.

 

I began to then INTENTIONALLY use the double exposure technique (with a properly functioning camera this time) in my compositions.

 

OK. One day, whilst traveling the long, lonely stretches of the 95 through rural Georgia, it occurred to me to try abstractly applying the dAdAists' and surealists' exquisite corpse game to photography.

 

With my game -- CPP: Corpse Photo-Poetics -- two photographers each contribute a photo or exposure w/o knowing what the other person had done to see what kind of final composition or new form, if you will, they end up with.

 

Here's how we'd do this: I'll take a roll of pictures (none of them needing to be complete compositions, not necessarily), and when I'm finished, I'll rewind leaving the film leader extending from the roll so that it can be reloaded into another camera.

 

THEN, you'll indeed (or so I hope that you’ll want to =) load the roll into your camera and shoot over my set of images, producing (no doubt ;) some AbFAB double exposure photographs -- CPP's!!!

 

OK. I hope that made SOME sense. ;)

 

One thing to keep in mind is that many of these won't work out, but there will NO DOUBT be GEMS, my dear.

 

Well, I t-r-e-m-e-n-d-o-u-s-l-y look forward to discussing this further and to working with you on this!! I AM QUITE honored by your interest!!!

 

Incidentally, this is the primitive, FUN technique, but I will soon move to enact some refinements to the process. In any case, I just thought that we could have some fun for now in this still early stage of things. What do you reckon?

Mural entitled "Baile Folklórico" by Bill Louis aka @biltslouisart for the Sugar House Mural Project seen at 1045 2100 South in Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "RECOVERY" by Jay (CBLOXX) and Hayley Garner (AYLO) collectively known as Nomad.Clan aka @nomad.clan for Blkout Walls 2023, seen at 2121 Cass Avenue in Detroit, Michigan.

 

Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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This image was originally entitled, "Gregorian Monk at Prayer" and I love it.

 

These large caterpillars were common in the trees in the apartment complex when I first moved in. The damage they inflicted, however, earned the wrath of management and a regular dose of insecticides.

 

Eyespots (markings that resemble vertebrate eyes) have evolved many times in Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths). The fact that this adaptation has arisen independently so often in this group indicates the general effectiveness of this anti-predator startle defence.

 

Taken September 28, 2012.

Home studio

Pu'er, Yunnan, China

 

(The enforced hiatus from photo-taking due to the predictably unpredictable weather continues, so I intend to continue some reposts though this time of what I consider my favourite twenty images (in no particular order and in batches of five). I have now surpassed 10000 images in my photostream, so have plenty to choose from. Invariably, these will not be images that have been particularly well received on their initial appearance in my photostream, but have significance to me maybe because of the circumstances related to their capture, as images I have a sentimental, nostalgic and/or emotional connection to or perhaps just what I consider to be a good shot.)

 

see comments for additional view....

Officially entitled 'The Leviathan' , this sculpture, known as The Plymouth Prawn sits on top of a pole near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth's Barbican.

Created by Brian Fell and unveiled in 1996 it is made from copper painted mild steel and represents sea creatures landed by Plymouth's fisherman.

It has a cormorant’s feet, a plesiosaurus’s tail, the fin of a John Dory, a lobster’s claws and the head of an angler fish but no actual prawn !

Mural entitled "Godlike" depicting Neptune and Zeus by Shae Petersen aka @srilart at 3267 South 300 West in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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"entitled: Movie Night".

From Here to Eternity (1953) is famous for its eight Academy Awards, its iconic beach scene, and the method-acting approach of Montgomery Clift. Clift learned to box and play the bugle for his role as Prewitt, and the iconic beach scene with Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr was a last-minute idea from the director. The film was based on a 1951 novel by James Jones, and its success revitalized Frank Sinatra's film career, earning him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor! The more you know.....

 

Mural entitled "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcloud" by Joe Miller aka @thejoemiller and SUNNI aka @sunismysymbol, seen at 1118 North Cherry in the Goose Island area of Chicago, Illinois.

 

Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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"Seabirds" from the 2018 EP entitled An Extended Play

Music and lyrics by Pizzagirl

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kwYOFmOfi8

 

Well I take my glasses off when I see a beautiful thing

I see it better, see it better, see it better

Just because I'm different skin

Do you think I matter?

Do you think, do you think at all?

 

Do you feel angry if I do something or say something?

I wonder which ones which

Don't tell me about my body

Don't tell me about my body

When you see it twitch

When you see it twitch

We're just a matter of matter

But I know you’re something else

I love the way things have a double life

 

We're just a matter of matter

But I know you’re something else

I love the way things have a double life

But if you look hard enough you will never find it

 

Because the seabirds, they're in my body

Because the seabirds, they're in my head

I wish the seabirds were all around me

I wish the seabirds would leave me dead

Seabirds, seabirds

 

There's this stream right under this bridge

And I go everyday everyday

The water is thin just like your skin

And it's cold and it's cold and it's pale

 

We run for meters on bathroom tiles

And we've walked on solid ground

Well I like your body, I like your body

I like the sound, like the sound, like the sound

Like the sound, like the sound, like the sound

Like the sound, like the sound, like the sound

 

We're just a matter of matter

But I know you’re something else

I love the way things have a double life

We're just a matter of matter

But I know you’re something else

I love the way things have a double life

But if you look hard enough you will never find it

And if you look hard enough you will never try

 

I wish the seabirds were in my body

I wish the seabirds were in my head

I wish the seabirds were all around me

I wish the seabirds would leave me dead

I wish the seabirds were in my body

I wish the seabirds were in my head

I wish the seabirds were all around me

I wish the seabirds would leave me dead

 

I've been absolutely obsessed with this song from the very first time I heard it. Lyrically and musically brilliant.

  

Thank you for your support.

www.buymeacoffee.com/jamesinoregon

© 2016 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott

 

The weather has made a major shift on us. It was only a week ago I took the photo entitled "The Beaver Dam" (look back five uploads to see it). This is the exact same spot a week later. It's amazing how much a landscape can rapidly change - just add snow. I shot the image with the same equipment (the very interesting Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero D lens), and I just released a video answering the question as to whether this lens actually has zero distortion. You can see it here: bit.ly/2gkLkvN

 

Technical Information: Canon EOS 6D + Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero D, Processed in Adobe Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, and Alien Skin Exposure X (use code "dustinabbott" to get 10% off)

 

Want to know more about me or make contact? Take a look at my website and find a lot of ways t

A statue entitled The Prospector, sculpted by Alonzo Victor Lewis, serves as the centerpiece of the grounds of the Sitka Pioneer Home. The sculpture was supposed to be modeled after real-life pioneer William Clark "Skagway Bill" Fonda, a resident of Skagway and originally of Fonda, New York. This statue is the larger of two models that Lewis created. The smaller of the pair sits in Seattle's Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park in Pioneer Square. After more than three tons of clay and 21 years of fundraising, the sculpture was finally shipped to Sitka in time for its dedication at 1949's Alaska Day.

The Spandau Citadel (German: Zitadelle Spandau) is a fortress in Berlin, Germany, one of the best-preserved Renaissance military structures of Europe. Built from 1559–94 atop a medieval fort on an island near the meeting of the Havel and the Spree, it was designed to protect the town of Spandau, which is now part of Berlin. In recent years it has been used as a museum and has become a popular tourist spot. Furthermore, the inner courtyard of the Citadel has served as an open air concert venue in the summertime since 2005.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandau_Citadel

Mural entitled "Fish Bowl" by Sarah Joncas aka @sara_joncas for Long Beach Walls 2016, seen at 100 West 8th Street in Long Beach, California.

 

Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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This is a part of an ongoing & experimental photo project of mine entitled "Corpse Photo-Poetics." It was conceived as a sort of abstraction of the Surrealist game, "Exquisite Corpse."

 

Here is a solid example that comes complete with more detailed information on the project.

 

These are average examples that have been sitting in a stack of photos on a shelf for a very long time.

 

This image was done w/ in collaboration with my brother Mark @ Disney's Epcot in FL. Bizarre place. I lived in FL for a while, and was given a one-year pass as a birthday present. Surreal. But it's actually easy to get addicted to this alternate universe. Even though I wrote a comedy routine inspired by the late/great Bill Hicks about The Magic Kingdom as a police state ;), I must admit that I enjoyed myself. I liked going to Epcot just for dinner. Strange, I know...

 

OH, what I like best about this is that the print looked so horrible. The original photo had just all sorts of seemingly terminal exposure problems. BUT, I gave it a quick Photoshop treatment -- I still consider it more of a sketch -- and I actually almost like it. ;)

 

Anyway, I still really want to post a solid portfolio of CPP images. There are some very good pieces, some of them already in digital form. I just need to find the suckers. D'OH.

 

For now, I hope that you like this humble offering. ^_^

Collection entitled "From The North"

Ilford fp4 4x5

Crown Graphic

www.deathbysushi.org

Self portrait created for club competition entitled "proverbs and sayings". This is a composite of 4 images (I hope you don't really think I have an egg inside my head!).

1) Me with spoon in setting

2) Setting without me

3) Close up of egg and yolk using exactly the same lighting set-up

4) Close up of top of egg upturned using same lighting set up.

These 4 layers were then intertwined in Photoshop CS2 mainly using layer masks with a few additional bits of jiggery pokery.

I tried using my 17-55mm lens first but just couldn't get the angle I wanted so used my Sigma 10-20mm lens to achieve the results I wanted.

Strobist information (see set up in other photo farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4435115174_8cc50208a5_b.jpg (not sure how I link this properly) SB800 Manual mode in 24inch softbox high camera left attached using 10m cable to camera. This then triggered SB600 low camera right also set to manual mode also in 24 inch softbox.

EXPLORE Worthy, Playing with Textures #21 (featuring Borealnz)

 

Featured texture with thanks, from Borealnz.

 

With thanks to Lenabem-Anna for her texture entitled "Texture 111" found here:

www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/5464390692/

 

and, her second texture entitled "Background - Sun" found here:

www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/5730908806/

 

Sweet young woman is from pinkpaint entitled "White Corset2" and found here:

browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=white+corset2#/drt2he

self entitled people having a drink and taking up all the pavement space so that pedestrians had to walk in the road.

My art show, entitled Broadcast, will be happening on April 25 at Resistor Gallery in Toronto.

 

See the full details right here.

 

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Mural entitled "The Blossoming of Trust" by Huariu aka @huariu, seen at 937 Orange Street in Jacksonville, Florida.

 

Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "Love Each Other" by Chris Chanyang Shim (Royyal Dog 심찬양 ) aka @royyaldog, seen at 1499 Seaton Street in Los Angeles, California.

Mural entitled "Rhythm is Gonna Get You" by Mr. Kas aka @kasartofficial, seen on the wall of Paul Lawrence Dunbar School at 505 NW 20th Street in Miami Florida.

 

Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "Skyrider" by @spuds_spudbomb seen at 1500 Mill Street in Greensboro, North Carolina.

 

Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "Nou se Caribbean" by Oliver A. Ganthier (OliGa) aka @oligarts, seen at 520 NW 27th Street in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.

 

Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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This piece is developed from an earlier work and emerged out of my decision to reinterpret some earlier landscapes using a style I developed for my 'English Fenland Perspectives' www.flickr.com/photos/david_lewis_baker_arts/sets/7215761....

 

Original here: www.flickr.com/photos/david_lewis_baker_arts/1434433533/i...

 

This series of conceptual works (entitled English Landscape Symmetries) is based upon fractured images of fenland landscapes and Derbyshire treescapes, and are meditations upon scientific observations of reiterating patterns in nature which often manifest forms of symmetry of form out of what at first sight appears as complete chaos. Series here: www.flickr.com/photos/david_lewis_baker_arts/sets/7215761....

  

Mural entitled "The Sun's Dying Breath" by Allie Grimm aka @a.l.grime for Creating Legends Mural Festival, seen at 825 Braddock Avenue in Braddock, Pennsylvania.

 

Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Mural entitled "Lace Em Up" by Zach Curtis aka @zachcurtisartwork for Rensselaer Art Walk 2023, seen at 170 South Grace in Rensselaer, Indiana.

 

Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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Lady Elizabeth Asquith, daughter of the 1st Earl of Oxford, British PM married Prince Antoine Bibescu, diplomat at the Romanian Legation in London and settled at the family seat of Mogosoaia near Bucharest.

She figures in an Anthology, (now available as an E-Book) entitled:

"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"

www(dot)blouseroumaine(dot)com/orderthebook_p1(dot)html

 

Elizabeth Asquith (1897 - 1948) was the daughter of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. In 1919 she married Prince Antoine Bibesco a flamboyant Romanian diplomat in London and the wedding ceremony took place at the Greek Orthodox church of Sait Sophia in London and at St Margaret's Westminster.

 

On seeing the inevitable happen that his daughter Elizabeth would marry into a Romanian family, the British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford, (1852-1928) inquired cautiously of his future son-in-law:

 

“It seems that you have considerable estates in Romania?”

to which the young diplomat, Prince Antoine Bibesco (1878-1952) answered:

“It takes the Orient Express one day to go through me”.

www(dot)blouseroumaine(dot)com

 

Antoine was a friend of Marcel Proust whom he asked to be his daughter's Godfather: this was Priscilla Bibesco who died in Paris in 2004 in an apartment in l'Ile St Louis, overlooking Notre Dame. This was originally Antoine and Elizabeth's flat in Paris, where they moved after they married: it was decorated with immense canvasses by Vuillard.

Priscilla Bibesco. Elizabeth's daughter was a neighbour and cousin of Princess Marthe Bibesco, who kept a coveted literary salon.

 

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco was known as a witty writer of short stories, essays novels plays and poetry. A collection of her papers are kept in the Bodleyan library, Oxford.

 

Elizabeth had a brief liaison with Katherine Mansfield's husband - John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) at which point Mansfield wrote Asquith a waspish letter:

“I am afraid you must stop writing these little love letters to my husband while he and I live together. It is one of those things which is not done in our world.

You are very young. Won’t you ask your husband to explain to you the impossibility of such a situation.

Please don’t you have to make me write to you again. I do not like scolding people and I simply hate to teach them manners.” (Frank and Anita Kermode op.cit. 496).

At that time Murry (1889-1957) was 33, a socialist and pacifist, an influential literary critic, an Editor of the Athaeneum and friend of notable literary figures such as T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. Katherine Mansfield was an established writer, gaining praise for her recently published volume, ironically entitled 'Bliss' (1920), whilst Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco was an aspiring writer. Miss Mansfield did not object to her socialist husband’s affair with an aristocrat, rather to the irritation of seeing these love letters whilst she and Murry still lived under the same roof.

www(dot)blouseroumaine(dot)com

 

"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"

 

Presented and Selected by Constantin ROMAN

 

Anthology E-BOOK (11BM)

 

DISTRIBUTION: Online with credit card

 

COST: $ 54.99, £34.99 (ca Euros 35.50)

 

LINK: www(dot)blouseroumaine(dot)com/orderthebook_p1(dot)html

 

CONTENTS:

 

2,250,000 words,

 

over 1,000 pages,

 

ca 160 illustrations in text

 

160 critical biographies,

 

58 social categories/professions,

 

600 quotations (mostly translated into English for the first time),

 

circa 3,000 bibliographical references (including URLs and credits)

 

6 Indexes (alphabetical, by profession, timeline, quotation Index, place

 

index and name index)

 

AUTHOR: Constantin Roman is a Scholar with a Doctorate from Cambridge and a Member of the Society of Authors (London). He is an International Adviser, Guest Speaker, Professor Honoris Causa and Commander of the Order of Merit.

  

INDEX BY PROSFESSION: 58 CATEGORIES by Call, Profession or Social Status

 

Academics (22), Actresses (9), Anti-Communist Fighters (14), Architects/Interior Designers (2), Art Critics (9), Artist Book Binders (1), Ballerinas (6), Charity Workers/Benefactors (20), Communist Public Figures (2), Courtesans (3), Designers (2), Diplomats (4), Essayists (11), Ethnographers (6), Exiles & First-generation Romanians born abroad (87), Explorers (1), Feminists (12), Folk Singers (1), Gymnasts, Dressage Riders (2), Historians (5), Honorary Romanian Women (15), Illustrators (3), Journalists (13), Lawyers (4), Librarians (3), Linguists (2), Literary Critics (1), Media (15), Medical Doctors/Nurses (5), Memoir Writers (16), Missionaries and Nuns (4), Mountainéers (2), Museographers (1), Musical Instruments Makers (1), Novelists (24), Opera Singers (16), Painters (14), Peasant Farmers (6), Philosophers and Philosophy Graduates (4), Pianists (6), Pilots (4), Playwrights (5), Poets (29), Political Prisoners (30), Politicians (5), Revolutionaries (2), Royals and Aristocrats (34), Scientists (8), Sculptors (4), Slave (1), Socialites/Hostesses (20), Spouses/Relations of Public Figures (51), Spies (2), Tapestry Weavers (4), Translators (25), Unknown Illustrious (6), Violinists (4), Workers (3)

 

NOTE:

Most of the above 160 Romanian women, in the best tradition of versatility, are true polymaths and therefore nearly each one of them falls in more than just one category, often three or more. This explains why adding the numbers of the 57 individual categories bears no relation to the actual total of the above 160 women included in Blouse Roumaine.

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LIST OF 160 CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES (each supported by Quotations and Bibliography)

 

AA *Gabriela Adamesteanu *Florenta Albu *Nina Arbore *Elena Arnàutoiu *Ioana Raluca Voicu-Arnàutoiu, *Laurentia Arnàutoiu *Mariea Plop - Arnàutoiu *Ana Aslan *Lady Elizabeth Asquith Bibescu

 

BB *Lauren Bacall *Lady Florence Baker *Zoe Bàlàceanu *Ecaterina Bàlàcioiu-Lovinescu *Victorine de Bellio *Pss. Marta Bibescu *Adriana Bittel *Maria Prodan Bjørnson *Ana Blandiana *Yvonne Blondel *Lola Bobescu *Smaranda Bràescu *Elena Bràtianu *Élise Bràtianu *Ioana Bràtianu *Elena Bràtianu- Racottà *Letitzia Bucur

 

CC *Anne-Marie Callimachi *Georgeta Cancicov *Madeleine Cancicov *Pss. Alexandra Cantacuzino *Pss.Maria Cantacuzino (Madame Puvis de Chavannes) *Pss. Maruca Cantacuzino-Enesco* Pss. Catherine Caradja *Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu *Marta Caraion-Blanc, *Nina Cassian, *Otilia Cazimir *Elena Ceausescu *Maria Cebotari *Ioana Celibidache *Hélène Chrissoveloni (Mme Paul Morand)*Alice Cocea *Irina Codreanu *Lizica Codreanu *Alina Cojocaru *Nadia Comàneci *Denisa Comànescu *Lena Constante *Silvia Constantinescu *Doina Cornea *Hortense Cornu *Viorica Cortez*Otilia Cosmutzà *Sandra Cotovu *Ileana Cotrubas *Carmen-Daniela Cràsnaru *Mioara Cremene *Florica Cristoforeanu *Pss. Elena Cuza

 

DD *Hariclea Darclée *Cella Delavrancea *Alina Diaconú *Varinca Diaconú *Anca Diamandy *Marie Ana Dràgescu *Rodica Dràghincescu *Bucura Dumbravà *Natalia Dumitrescu

 

EE *Micaela Eleutheriade *Queen Elisabeth of Romania (‘Carmen Sylva’) *Alexandra Enescu *Mica Ertegün

 

FF *Lizi Florescu, *Maria Forescu *Nicoleta Franck *Aurora Fúlgida

 

GG *Angela Gheorghiu *Pss Grigore Ghica *Pss. Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy) *Veturia Goga *Maria Golescu *Nadia Gray *Olga Greceanu *Pss. Helen of Greece *Nicole Valéry-Grossu *Carmen Groza

 

HH *Virginia Andreescu Haret *Clara Haskil *Lucia Hossu-Longin

 

II *Pss. Ileana of Romania *Ana Ipàtescu *Marie-France Ionesco *Dora d’Istria *Rodica Iulian

 

JJ *Doina Jela *Lucretia Jurj

 

KK *Mite Kremnitz

 

LL *Marie-Jeanne Lecca *Madeleine Lipatti *Monica Lovinescu *Elena Lupescu

 

MM *Maria Mailat *Ileana Màlàncioiu *Ionela Manolesco *Lilly Marcou *Silvia Marcovici *Queen Marie of Romania *Ioana A. Marin *Ioana Meitani *Gabriela Melinescu *Veronica Micle *Nelly Miricioiu *Herta Müller *Alina Mungiu-Pippidi *Agnes Kelly Murgoci

 

NN *Mabel Nandris *Anita Nandris-Cudla *Lucia Negoità *Mariana Nicolesco *Countess Anna de Noailles *Ana Novac

 

OO *Helen O’Brien *Oana Orlea

 

PP *Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu *Milita Pàtrascu *Ana Pauker *Marta Petreu *Cornelia Pillat *Magdalena Popa *Elvira Popescu

 

RR *Ruxandra Racovitzà *Elisabeta Rizea *Eugenia Roman *Stella Roman *Queen Ana de România, *Pss. Margarita de România *Maria Rosetti *Elisabeth Roudinesco

 

SS *Annie Samuelli *Sylvia Sidney *Henriette-Yvonne Stahl *Countess Leopold Starszensky *Elena Stefoi *Pss. Marina Stirbey *Sanda Stolojan *Cecilia Cutzescu-Storck

 

TT *Maria Tànase *Aretia Tàtàrescu *Monica Theodorescu *Elena Theodorini

 

UU *Viorica Ursuleac

 

VV *Elena Vàcàrescu *Leontina Vàduva *Ana Velescu *Marioara Ventura *Anca Visdei *Wanda Sachelarie Vladimirescu *Alice Steriade Voinescu

 

WW *Sabina Wurmbrand

 

ZZ *Virginia Zeani

  

Waiting for iPhone 3g - Jul 18, 2008 - 095

 

Note: this photo has been published in an Aug 12, 2008 (German) blog article entitled Der Apple Club." And it was published as an illustration in an undated (Dec 2009) "Only Jewelry" blog, in a posting titled "Apple anklet." And on Jun 6, 2010, the photo was published in a German blog titled "Für eine neue Esskultur: Wohlbefinden ersetzt Wohlstand." It was also published in a May 31, 2011 neue-lebensmittel blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written for this Flickr page.

 

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On the corner of Fifth Avenue and 60th Street -- i.e., at the opposite end of the block where the iPhone fans were waiting in line -- this young couple staked out a spot with a sign that said "Feed us." I gave them some money; I hope they did use it to buy some food ...

 

But after a while, some nearby cops decided that it wasn't really appropriate for the couple to be panhandling in quite such a dramatic fashion. So they very politely asked them to gather up their stuff and move on ... which they couple did, without much objection...

 

Roughly three weeks after I originally uploaded this photo, it had been viewed so many times that it is now among the top-ten "most viewed" of all 10,000+ public photos on my Flickr site -- and three people have marked it as a "favorite". I'm flattered by the attention, but also humbled: I have no idea what it is that makes the photo so popular. The couple shown here had nothing to do with the main focus of this collection of photos -- i.e., people waiting in line to get a new Apple iPhone3G -- and probably had no interest at all in the phone. I now wish I had spoken to them, to find out who they were, where they came from, what they were planning to do when they left (as they did shortly after this picture was taken, because the cops shooed them away). And now, three weeks later, I have no idea where they have gone, or what they are doing ... or whether anyone actually did feed them.

 

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Silly me: after the iPhone 3g had been out for a full week, I thought I could stroll right into the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue & 59th Street in mid-town Manhattan, and simply buy one without any muss, fuss, bother, or delay.

 

But when I arrived at 11 AM, I found a line of approximately 150 people waiting outside in the broiling sun, not seeming to move forward at all; it turned out that the Apple store "concierge" folks were letting them in in groups of ten, when the previous ten had been taken care of. When I asked the woman how long she had been waiting, she said, "Four hours" -- she had arrived at 7 AM, having already determined that the AT&T stores were sold out throughout New Jersey and Connecticut.

 

Well, I'm a gadget freak and a Mac fan, but there's a limit to my passion for such things; four hours was just too much. So instead, I decided to take a bunch of pictures of the people who were in the line. Of course, I have no idea whethere the people queued up in front of Apple stores in other cities (or at other stores here in NYC) are similar to this group ... but I'm inclined to think that they are. And if that's true, then the demographics of this group -- in terms of age, gender, nationality, ethnic groups, etc. -- is particularly intriguing. I saw only one guy dressed in a corporate uniform of suit and tie; Apple may be trying to break into the "enterprise" market, but that's not who was standing in line for all those hours in the sun...

Mural entitled “Mother’s Bouquet” by Louise Jones aka @0uizi seen at the corner of 7th and Vine in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.

 

Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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These cattle were lolling with perfect nonchalance in the middle of the street. It took two passengers several minutes to gently persuade them to rise so we could pass. One encounters cattle often on streets and sidewalks. The females tend to be very sweet natured. Some people touch them seeking a blessing.

Realizing it was already June, and seeing that it was overcast today, I knew it was the perfect time to go shoot some pics at my favorite rose garden! The day was indeed perfect, and I couldn't get enough of these roses they've entitled, "Pure Poetry." This is just the beginning of my posts for today's roses, but I would imagine you will see many more of this particular rose! Hope you enjoy as much as I do!

 

Rose Garden

Point Defiance Park

Tacoma, Washington

060718

 

© Copyright 2018 MEA Images, Merle E. Arbeen, All Rights Reserved. If you would like a copy of this, please feel free to contact me through my FlickrMail, Facebook, or Yahoo email account. Thank you.

 

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This photograph has achieved the following highest awards:

 

DSLR Autofocus, Premier Gallery

DSLR Autofocus, Hall of Fame (11)

DSLR Autofocus, MASTER of Photography (13)

DSLR Autofocus, GRANDMASTER of Photography (8)