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I can hear little clicks inside my dream.
Night drips its silver tap
down the back.
At 4 A.M. I wake. Thinking
- Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
NS 1700 leads Conrail OI-16 off NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line and onto the Amboy Secondary at ESSAY in South Amboy. ESSAY Tower may soon be torn down with the construction of the new Raritan Bay Draw Bridge.
J'ai vu une photo de cette plage avant et je rêvais d'y faire ce shoot.
Arrivée sur place il fallait enjamber 2m d'algues gelées et marcher sur des rochers gelés et glissants alors je l'ai fait en mode limace : assise et en glissant , trop la classe !
Je n'ai pas choisi l'endroit idéal je me suis posée où je pouvais et j'ai installé le trépied sur un rocher où il tenait bien puis j'ai essayé de règler le temps de pose qui me convenait tout en reflechissant au meilleur moment pour appuyer . Et LA grosse vague est arrivée permettant cet effet brumeux sur les rochers . Autant vous dire que je suis très attachée à cette photo ;)
PS : c'est la plage du matin où tu ne t'es pas levé Bruno ;)
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Invisible Cities: Essay of Desire by Debora Kaz, the September installation @ Nitroglobus main hall
In case you missed the (btw great) opening party yesterday, no problem you can visit the awesome installation by Debora for the coming weeks.
Please also read the review which were written about this installation by Inara Pey and Susann DeCuir.
Inara's review:
modemworld.me/2023/09/04/invisible-cities-an-essay-in-des...
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Susann's review:
mein-zweites-leben.blogspot.com/2023/09/ausstellungstipp-...
Thanks so much Inara and Susann!
LM to Nitroglobus: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/22...
I really have lost focus in school. I'd rather have fun and take pictures rather than do essays every week. Can anyone really blame me though?
I wish I was the kind of person that RIGHT when I got an assignment, I did it. Unfortunately, I'm the opposite of that person. I do the assignment the night before it's due.
So, either tomorrow or Wednesday, I'm going to be showing you something I bought from The High Museum of Art from the Salvador Dali exhibit. :) It'll be a part of my picture. I'll also talk a little more on the exhibit, because it was AMAZING. :)
I hope all is well with everyone!
QOTD: (since I'm procrastinating)
What is your favorite TV show, and what is your favorite website to go to? :)
My favorite TV show: Family Guy. But also shows like America's Next Top Model, because it inspires me when I model AND take pictures :)
My favorite website: Flickr is pretty awesome :D Lately I've liked WIMP.com check it out! :D
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My images in the extremely good O FLUXO issue 1: Circulating Forms of Reality.
Flip through the whole thing & buy it here (full of real nice visuals + great interviews and essays)
Sublime Essay.
Modo dicitur infinitum dissimilium partium aquae demonstrationes immobilem intermedia absurdas rationes animadverti mutationes,
попередні аргументи вниз напрямки труднощі регіони необхідні пересування довільні місця розумні позиції особливих величин чіткі лінії,
le divisioni percepiscono modi diversi di ostacolare le distinzioni che possiedono conseguenze che ruotano i sistemi all'interno delle parti simultanee del confine,
la légèreté infinie suppose que les masses tiennent grandes les grands poids proportionnels du raisonnement proportions inverses temps égal temps continuellement décroissant,
vernietigbare referenties toegepaste woorden predikeren moeilijkheden evenredige afmetingen maximale toepassingen mogelijke kwantiteit overwegingen,
発言位置の確認は世界の高度な制限障害アカウントセンターは自然な場所で異議を唱えます無関心な四肢は作家の重い事実を想定重い事実.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Epistolary Essay.
Rebel vitae determinationibus praecipitem effecerit cogens habet imaginem rerum artifex, discordiis determinationes iura praeclara,
εκδηλώσεις μυστικά επικίνδυνα δικαστήρια που ασκούν νόμους υπέροχες δηλώσεις μετρημένα ποιήματα εμπιστευτική φιγούρα φιλελεύθερη μεταρρύθμιση,
espião aventureiro escapando liberdades guilhotinas rápidas traduções coloquiais dividindo ruas verdadeiras escandalosas altas esticando paixões,
telynau mentrus siambrau pedal tywyllwch meddwl tybiedig dieithryn bwerau ennobled celf cymryd rhan yn aros i gyfrif dilemâu ffolineb anghynaladwy,
ambiții amabile explorând taverne intoxicații atenții interacțiuni intelectuale zile de investigație concepute superstiții dogme iluministe,
ראיות משכנעות תלונות נבל זיופים בוגדים מסקרנים הצעות יתרונות אדישים אדם חשוכת מרפא,
職業献身的な観光地優勝計画告白者の目仙人の思い出崩壊しつつある交渉想像された行書かれた通信文句やけど.
Steve.D.Hammond.
My Christmas 2024 photo essay is about the United Kingdom's west coast route which links the cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow.
The natural starting point for my essay is London Euston, the southern terminus of the route. Opened in July 1837 by the London and Birmingham Railway, it was rebuilt by British Railways in 1968 when the southern end of the route was electrified.
This image captures how I remember Euston from my first visit: long rows of air conditioned coaches topped by class 86s or 87s. Euston was also the scene of of my first cab-ride: 87007 from one end of a platform to the other!
This image was taken one evening in the mid-1970s: the train on the left is for Manchester and 1P36 is for Blackpool. The others are probably for Birmingham, Liverpool and possibly Glasgow.
Photograph by an unknown photographer, now part of my collection.
I put together this photo essay from the visit to the Sri Veeramakaliamman Hindu Temple.
You can see it here here.
I'm still making my images using an old and simple 2009 version of photo manager software produced by ACDSee. And during the last two decades I've used it to produce 37,538 original image variations, only 4589 of which appear on Flickr - the rest sit on my hard-drive and now serve as an almost endless source of raw material for new abstracts. Not sure what to do about using AI to produce artwork. This old guy may just continue to use his 2009 copy of ACDSee. Cheers. H
Some great street in District federal/Mexico City. A black & white edit of a previous post. I love searching out street art when I travel, here is a blog I wrote about street art around the world for the Dezine online magazine:
Street Art Around the World Photo Blog
If you would like to use any of my photos please contact me and ask permission first.
If you want to look at more of my photography you can check my website and social media links below:
www.facebook.com/geraintrowlandphotography
www.instagram.com/geraint_rowland_photography/
Raw + ACR + texture
Thanks to my friend Kerstin Frank for the beautiful texture:
www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/
I love shooting still lifes incomplete ... simple, for catch your eye and then your thinking ..... leave space so you can create your dreams ...
Hasselblad 500 c/m
80mm Planar lens f/2.8
Kodak Portra 400VC
I think I found my next photo essay. Interesting cars with my hasselblad. A very easy target though. This will be a work in progress.
338/365/2023, 4721 days in a row
it has been over 30 years since I had to write an academic essay, to say it's not going well might be an understatement.
photo essay taken at Ironwood Hills in SL: /maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Yardley%20Manor/83/240/31
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, LondonWC2. ... founded in 1824.
" Art is the objectification of feelings. "
..........Susanne Katherina Langer ( 1895 - 1985 ).
.....U.S. philosopher.
.........." Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling. "
You can check. I did everything right,
I only made a mistake when I put feeling.
I just did silly things and
I got sick when I heard this crazy child's heart that insists on not hardening and refuses to get old.
Nikon D 750 visit France including Alsace "Obernai, Mount St. Odile and its region" some photo essays with Miss Alsace
Jenny Holzer, "Inflammatory Essays" (1979-1982), exposition "Pm pom pilou", Tri Postal, Lille, France, 2025.
At the start of this year when Graham’s 318 Coffee House in Geneva reopened after major renovations I popped in to tell the owner Bob how much I admired the new look. I mentioned that I especially enjoyed the meandering path that leads to the front door. I wondered aloud if it was deliberately made with such tight curves in order to slow folks down, as in some Japanese garden designs where paths can sometimes take an unexpected or abrupt turn in an effort to slow down the walker and make them more conscious of their surroundings. Bob replied that while that’s a beautiful principle that he was unfamiliar with, the real reason for the tight meander here is more functional: should the path from the sidewalk to the front door be a straight line, it would be too steep a grade for wheelchairs to make. I found this an interesting example of how our manufactured surroundings are a vibrant mix of both the aesthetic and the practical.
A short essay on historical archeology.
A 3 bracketed exposures hdr processed through Photomatix. The color version looks natural and realist, but personally I believe that with some exceptions bw fits better this specific genre. Not exactly my comfort zone, and probably it will not be my most popular image, but I can very well live with that.
Tech: ISO 200, f/9, 12mm.
Ensaio...
Vale do Sorraia - Coruche - Portugal
Pentax K-1 Marck II + Sigma EX DG 28mm f1:1.8 Aspherical
It has all been said before.
This picture is of a monument dedicated to William Cooper, who in his lifetime achieved much. Please see his Wiki page, try typing in William Cooper Australian, and in contrast here is a link to a national Australian education page adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cooper-william-5773 . Interesting reading when doing a critical comparison, and one of many stimuli for this dairy entry.
(Musings from my diary.)
Despite my office 365-word processor giving me 100% editorial rating after correcting this writing, l recorrected my diary entry, so that it scores lower. I recorrected my dairy entry after rereading it, so it was more accurate. l think office 365-word is incredible, and l will admit that it did help me, but l needed to write my observations as untainted as possible… If that is at all achievable. This is not an argumentative essay, and office 365 had me talking in absolutes, defining a majority when I was discussing the influence of a minority over the majority. A personal consideration of current day hypocrisy and war.
Well, it is my diary!
Why is it so important to be apolitical when reporting on politics?
Personally, l feel that if a person reads the above question and does not know, they might have missed critically observing the last ten or so years of social division, and extremism, from both the right and left. Extremism that has cost lives and revealed ugly truths. I think as an Australian looking from geographical isolation at the world, everything might be a lot easier while viewing it all at a distance, and with hindsight. It leaves me a bit ignorant, but l think that helps with my objectivity.
Why did it happen? The causation was like a hydra, with multiple self-replicating heads, and it was like watching a social media battle between school children who had never been hurt in the real world. Not the type of hurt that you get when you metaphorically fall, skin your knee, and get back up, but the type you get when you enter a fight, get brutalised, and lose. Bones and tissue crushed by an opponent driven by a hatred so strong that they would injure you, another human being. Was it caused by people who had never learned that to enter a fight is to risk everything? That to fight is a last resort? This lack of political and social experience cost some their friends, loved ones, and others, members of their families. But it raised in me a question. Despite the efforts of the well-meaning, what did they achieve?
America the crucible for everything, descended into something that some would call near anarchy. Some on the left assumed both fascist and anarchist tendencies that go back to the 1930s, all the while not reading the social and political history of pre-World War Two Germany. That would have been militaristic and did not serve the narrative. A narrative produced to generate a political outcome. Could they have committed the errors of the past if they had read it? Given to wide a birth, media extremists influenced millions with emotive prompting. On the other hand, some on the right looking for relief from the relentless onslaught, sold out. Losing patience, self-fortitude, and political integrity. They reduced the work of their group’s past into a parody. Debasing the history of men and woman who had really made a positive impact. Like two spoilt children in the new education system, no one could suggest or admit that they had done wrong, while the media produced single sided political narratives, but in general did not report.
Political moderates and swinging voters pondered when it would end, while living in perpetual despair. Watching a school yard fight that had descended into a riot, one that involved the media as a cheer squad for two opposing sides. The radicalized media would not allow moderates to be objective, you had to be either a right-wing neo fascist or a left-wing neo fascist, with the spectre of your personal anarchy to drive your decision. You had to take a side. The mainstream media had descended into a form of politically opportunistic rhetoric, as if it had learnt the lessons of the sixties, but this time, it was not a foreign war, it was a form of civil war at home. One thankfully that lacked major armed war fare. Thankfully, the military were not involved. All credit due, but it left western law prostrate. The law could not be consensually blind. It was not a peaceful protest, people did not thread flowers down barrels of guns pointed at them in acts of peace, and monks did not self-immolate, producing images that moved millions to peace. Some asking for peace and equality, did the opposite, mostly peaceful protestors tried to immolate others. They tried repeatedly to incinerate living humans. It was shocking. The sixties saw the west implement peaceful protest, and we all saw how effective it was at causing change, but in the last decade those that referenced the sixties insighted indirectly by narrative omission the used Molotov cocktails and violence. Peaceful protest is notoriously difficult to combat, as the law was and is hamstrung with misdemeanours, aided by the images of people not harming others. But this new form of western protest differed. Who needs a little naked burnt Vietnamese girl running down the road to achieve peace, when you can try to incinerate a people, to force for peace? Simultaneously, the right with extraordinarily little representation outside of the lumbering behemoth of Fox, surrendered to social media, a place where the Kardashians once ruled. Quite a historical event. History was made, if you realise that one of the reasons for the development of the internet, was as a military defence system. One designed and built to defend communications, if all else failed. It was a war in which both sides lost, but extremism gained power. Media integrity on both sides was and is running ragged, with no one prepared to fly their flags at half-mast, to mourn the distress of western communications. Distress caused by the media’s dissemination of radicalized neo right-wing and neo left-wing politically biased narratives. Narratives enforced by wilful omissions of blatant historical truths and current day conduct.
The result was that America regardless of political persuasion had failed to successfully defend the constitution, not the second amendment, but the principle of the constitution. It was America’s greatest failing over the last ten years, but they were not alone in this failure. With the use of the internet and the world media, the world failed to defend the principle of a document that 620,000 lost their lives for, and it destabilized the world. A document that was purported by some in the world media as an antiquated inadequate document, neglecting the principle that all men are equal before the law, but not created equal. This consideration made me reflect heavily on me experience of university. The adage was, “…That the best you can do, is stand on the shoulders of giants….” And I wondered how a person could neglect the work and sacrifice of those that had built humanity. Institutions promoted as being pacifist and educated, institutions built to serve everyone, now indirectly instigated violence. In this new form of civil war, where was Hans Blix to say no weapons of mass destruction are to be found? Was this modern achievement, achieved by children, now adults, whose parents had lied to them? Where these the children that had been told they could do anything, or become anyone? It raised in me the rhetorical questions, did the neo right, and neo left media, use a military grade apparatus to wage a war? And had everyone forgot that the pen is mightier than the sword, and thus just as dangerous?
History education starts at school, and I personally had experienced the new education system as a stepfather here in Australia. When it comes to educating children, the new system that fails no one, has become a system that has already failed. How can you learn history, and think critically, if you cannot read? I considered the potential political motives for the instigation of an education system that does not indiscriminately educate, but selectively indoctrinates. I thought that it was an effective tool for maintaining power. It is something l heard about the church. Someone had told me that the church had only allowed priests to read the bible in Latin. It is said that this practice allowed those in positions of power to quote verse, and interpret codes of conduct, for those under them. It kept those who could not read Latin ignorant. This is an activity, that has now been banned by the church. It appears that the new education system has now adopted a similar practice. As a result, the education system, now has a new ignorant flock to shepherd. What happens when the history channel algorithms or sponsored feeds, have turned into a political shill? Yes, even history, is not apolitical. I think someone, somewhere, had read the adage, that “…those that win the war, write the history…” Ironically, someone was ignorant enough, not to know that it was not a term of endearment, nor did this fact entitle the writer a position of everlasting power. Ironically, people postured one position, and then did the reverse. Some in the media left and right, assumed what some would call, a militaristic imperialistic mode, using their viewers, fans, and their audience as cannon fodder. Driving them with politically vested rhetoric and association, to achieve a political end. Both sides looked for someone to blame other than themselves, or looked for someone other than themselves to pay.
Fascists once did this, now neo liberals and neo conservatives in the media looked for a group to classify as mentally deficient or ill. The mob had to become the populous, classifying the opposition as inferior. Someone to other, someone internally to blame for all the world’s problems. The language from both sides was remarkably familiar. It had all happened before. But on the media chanted like zealots, willingly oblivious to history like a petulant child, and it resulted in deaths. Instead of reporting, the media sold themselves to become a self-pontified populist political cheer squad of indoctrination. In this communications war, some in the media’s right, and some in the media’s left, had surrendered to a form of self-serving political prostitution. It produced 1930s like self-cannibalism. The radicalized political media’s appetite to feed their opposing mob’s zest, could not be quenched. They ate their own, seeing who could jeer the loudest, while destroying the integrity of all the institutions that surrounded them. Neo right, and neo left, used 1930s fascist language and influence, while relying on others to apply anarchy as the vector for change, thus negating any personal responsibility for death and violence.
I think back, and to be honest, what the west in the majority lacked, was apolitical reporting. The result over the last ten years, was that we had all lost. In a political war of words where the media became the protagonists, the west did not just sacrifice its integrity and dignity, the west surrendered lives.
For $200 I enrolled in a photography class called Photo Essays hoping to get inspired to photograph something other than my cats and with some sort of purpose or objective in mind. It seems that "photo essay", according to my teacher, is just a bunch of pictures with the same theme. After looking at some of my pictures he told me that my passion was clearly my cats. My assignment? The project I'm supposed to work on for eight weeks? Take pictures of my cats.
Below in the comments is an example of why I don't have more pictures of Ella in my photostream. She gets all coy whenever I pull out my camera.
1. sunrise, 2. sunrise 2, 3. wildlife photographer, 4. dunes 2, 5. dunes, 6. american holly, 7. pitch pine, 8. beach heather, 9. red fox