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We are the reckless
We are the wild youth
Chasing visions of our futures
One day we'll reveal the truth
That one will die before he gets there
And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones
'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone
We're setting fire to our insides for fun
Collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked our home
It was a flood that wrecked…
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
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Have the day off of work today to drive my oldest to leave for college. Weirdest feeling ever. I wish him the very best of lucking making his future.
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.” ~William Allen White
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."~ Abraham Lincoln
-You didn't know I saw three futures
One alone, and one with you
And one with the love I knew I'd choose-
Song by Torres - Three Futures -
Hard to believe it's been two years since I shot one of these. It's been such a busy kick working on my film projects. I love the work, but certainly, the rewards are far less immediate than in photography. Instead of hours or days, it takes months, sometimes years, just to see one film project through from inception to completion… Sometimes, within this process, it feels like I’ve sacrificed my creativity to the administrative duties of MAKING the actual work.
This needs to change.
In the coming months, I hope to carve out more time for the work I care about. The creative work. Brainstorming, photography, writing. The stuff that makes me feel like I’m actually alive.
This photo serves as a gentle reminder of the idea that, no matter how powerless we feel, each day we have the power to change our future. The choices we make today will cause a ripple effect through the rest of our lives. Every day, we are choosing from a series of possible futures, whether we realize it or not.
Title taken from a fantastic article written by Derek Sivers. If you haven’t read any of his work yet, I highly recommend.
An early start to spend a little time around London's South Bank. There's a really interesting viewpoint underneath the Millennium Bridge and I found it kind of fascinating to look at the engineering that keeps this bridge relatively stable in the wind that can sometimes blow down the Thames... It was this morning but the bridge seemed unmoved.
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The "1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion" was a fictional building General Idea conceived to house their ultimate beauty pageant planned for 1984. However, in 1977 - confusingly before the Pavillion was even meant to be built - it dramatically burned to the ground. "Reconstructuring Futures" was intended as the green room of the "Pavillion", where pageant participants would lounge before taking to the stage. Paradoxically, it includes images of its own destruction: photographs depict General Idea's courageous escape from the burning site.
(1/2) Point Molate last night, at the Futures Past sculpture. I'd seen it a few times in daylight, but didn't realize it lit up at night. Very dim, but enough for colors to emanate with long exposure. Believe it or not, these were shot in near total darkness, but a bright moon was over my shoulder, illuminating the sky across 8-10s. Pt. Molate is hosting a handful of Burning Man sculptures, this one by artist Kate Raudenbush. "The inspiration you get from seeing a work of art that just makes you go, 'I can’t believe someone built this.'"
Thanks Flickr user Alvin Tenpo for hipping me to the fact that this lights up at night! I will return on a moonless night to try again.
The "1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion" was a fictional building General Idea conceived to house their ultimate beauty pageant planned for 1984. However, in 1977 - confusingly before the Pavillion was even meant to be built - it dramatically burned to the ground. "Reconstructuring Futures" was intended as the green room of the "Pavillion", where pageant participants would lounge before taking to the stage. Paradoxically, it includes images of its own destruction: photographs depict General Idea's courageous escape from the burning site.
Not a pretty picture - and this collaboration with Miss Boux, does no justice to her attractive looks!
However, I think it makes a good point!
Simon
The "1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion" was a fictional building General Idea conceived to house their ultimate beauty pageant planned for 1984. However, in 1977 - confusingly before the Pavillion was even meant to be built - it dramatically burned to the ground. "Reconstructuring Futures" was intended as the green room of the "Pavillion", where pageant participants would lounge before taking to the stage. Paradoxically, it includes images of its own destruction: photographs depict General Idea's courageous escape from the burning site.
Seated woman from Pexels here:
www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-woman-sitting-on-wood-4667802/
Waterfall Little Bredy, Dorset.
archive deep with time
futures past futures present…
breeze buffets branchlets
“The present is pregnant with the future; the future can be read in the past; the distant is expressed in the proximate.”
--Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason” (1714)
*in explore
Hong Kong Futures
Plant covered car-free
Interconnected rather than a grid
Pedestrian as priority
Electro cycles, velomotors, Segways
Kill the car
Create unique new urban experiences
Post modern
Read More: www.jjfbbennett.com/2019/07/hong-kong-scraper.html
A quick walk around the corner from the last shot. This is the Edinburgh Futures Institute, an old hospital restored to former glory for use in academia. Part of the Quartermile development by Foster + Partners has finally come to completion, long a construction site since before our time here (2010) it's good to have an area of the city redeveloped and new life breathed into it. Even if it really only benefits the wealthy, it's a nice bit of architecture.
5DSR + TSE 24L II