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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Peter Stadniuk and Taylor Lee attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Alexandra Malek for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Tom Sateria and Dan Morissette attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Sr. Carol Keehan attends Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Dave Graulich and Kathy Graulich attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Alexandra Malek for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Sr. Carol Keehan and Kevin Lofton attend Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
Fisherman gathering the fish he caught that night. I spent an early morning on the shore. What struck me was how small the amounts of fish were in their nets. So much work and so little to show for it. A situation that probably will be getting worse in the future. In their nets they also catch baby fish, to small to sell. Fish that never would reproduce.
India is getting to feel the results of overfishing. It is emptying their seas right now. Especially the shrimps are getting scarcer and scarcer. And why? Because of the endless demands from the West. So sad...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - David Heath and Andy Brailo attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Clint Reilly, Wendy Jordan and Frank Jordan attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Paul Rubinstein and Mary Beth Wilding attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Alexandra Malek for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Atmosphere at Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Sr. Carol Keehan and Lloyd Dean attend Dignity Health Founadtion's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Paige Jackson and James Jackson attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Jorene Malin, Suzanne Aubry and Ray Aubry attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Victoria Lovato, Holly Gibbs and Ben Gibbs attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Atmosphere at Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Alexandra Malek for Drew Altizer Photography)
In the front yard of the Museum.
The plaque reads:
Casts of the footprint of the bipedal carnivorous dinosaur Megarosaurus from 168 million years old middle jurassic limestones of Oxfordshire.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Antoinette Myer and Kimberly Goode attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Alexandra Malek for Drew Altizer Photography)
Humankind has advanced pretty far, all things considered. We have self-driving cars. We’ve (kind of) developed male birth control. We invented Oreo pudding-filled donuts. But that pesky common cold? Still no cure.
Thankfully, there are certainly ways to kick this illness’ inevitable...
Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.
The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this.
In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk. The puppeteers, who are behind the prisoners, hold up puppets that cast shadows on the wall of the cave. The prisoners are unable to see these puppets, the real objects, that pass behind them. What the prisoners see and hear are shadows and echoes cast by objects that they do not see. Here is an illustration of Plato’s Cave:
From Great Dialogues of Plato: Complete Texts of the Republic, Apology, Crito Phaido, Ion, and Meno, Vol. 1. (Warmington and Rouse, eds.) New York, Signet Classics: 1999. p. 316.
Such prisoners would mistake appearance for reality. They would think the things they see on the wall (the shadows) were real; they would know nothing of the real causes of the shadows.
So when the prisoners talk, what are they talking about? If an object (a book, let us say) is carried past behind them, and it casts a shadow on the wall, and a prisoner says “I see a book,” what is he talking about?
He thinks he is talking about a book, but he is really talking about a shadow. But he uses the word “book.” What does that refer to?
Plato gives his answer at line (515b2). The text here has puzzled many editors, and it has been frequently emended. The translation in Grube/Reeve gets the point correctly:
“And if they could talk to one another, don’t you think they’d suppose that the names they used applied to the things they see passing before them?”
Plato’s point is that the prisoners would be mistaken. For they would be taking the terms in their language to refer to the shadows that pass before their eyes, rather than (as is correct, in Plato’s view) to the real things that cast the shadows.
If a prisoner says “That’s a book” he thinks that the word “book” refers to the very thing he is looking at. But he would be wrong. He’s only looking at a shadow. The real referent of the word “book” he cannot see. To see it, he would have to turn his head around.
Plato’s point: the general terms of our language are not “names” of the physical objects that we can see. They are actually names of things that we cannot see, things that we can only grasp with the mind.
When the prisoners are released, they can turn their heads and see the real objects. Then they realize their error. What can we do that is analogous to turning our heads and seeing the causes of the shadows? We can come to grasp the Forms with our minds.
Plato’s aim in the Republic is to describe what is necessary for us to achieve this reflective understanding. But even without it, it remains true that our very ability to think and to speak depends on the Forms. For the terms of the language we use get their meaning by “naming” the Forms that the objects we perceive participate in.
The prisoners may learn what a book is by their experience with shadows of books. But they would be mistaken if they thought that the word “book” refers to something that any of them has ever seen.
Likewise, we may acquire concepts by our perceptual experience of physical objects. But we would be mistaken if we thought that the concepts that we grasp were on the same level as the things we perceive.
As you emerge from the depths of the caves there is this bust of Dr Robert Broom - the man who found the skull of the famous "Mrs Ples"
Rub his hand for wisdom, and his nose for luck. But never both at the same time.
For more info on the importance of the Cradle of Humankind: www.maropeng.co.za/index.php/exhibition_guide/important/
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Ben Loanzon, Jolyna Loanzon, Annie Zhang and Dan Morrissette attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Alexandra Malek for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
Floating Codes is a site-specific light and sound installation that performs the inner workings and hidden aesthetics of artificial neural networks, the fundamental building blocks of machine learning systems. The exhibition space itself becomes an open neural network that processes information, its constant alternating environment (for example, the day-night cycle) including the presence of the visitors. The network consists of 250 custom artificial neurons (perceptrons) arranged in a hexagonal topological grid. These neurons are able to register light stimuli and react by sending out light pulses to communicate with other neurons in the space. Signals are looping, mutating, feedbacking, and canceling themselves, resulting in a complex and continuous altering of visual and acoustic movements. The installation places the visitors in the center of the computational dialog of the neural network.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Jed York attends Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Don Stracke and Norina Pang attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Anita Lee, George Shultz, Charlotte Shultz and Tania Lee attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Peggy Hires, Doug Hires, Pat Webb, and Al Webb attend Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
Oil on canvas
The painting embodies the tension between grief and hope after the war. Homer completed it following the surrender of Confederate General Robert E Lee and the assassination of President Lincoln. A discarded Union Army jacket at lower right identifies the farmer as a veteran. The 'new field' of the title reminds us of his old one, the battlefield. This return to productive, peaceful pursuits echoes the biblical passage from Isaiah 2:4, 'They shall beat their swords into plowshares'. While the harvest signifies renewal, the single-bladed scythe evokes the Grim Reaper.
[National Gallery]
Taken in the Exhibition
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
(September 2022 – January 2023)
[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.
From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.
After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.
Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.
With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.
[National Gallery]
Photo taken at the "STUDIO(dys)TOPIA – At the Peak of Humankind" Exhibition.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Chris Nowling and Brooke Nowling attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng, South Africa. Dec/2012. O Berço da Humanidade. África do Sul. Dez/2012
Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng, South Africa. Dec/2012. O Berço da Humanidade. África do Sul. Dez/2012