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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)
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 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
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Yermiyah Khan attends CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Drew Altizer)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Lindsay Bolton and Michael Lopez 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 - Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Arthur Kobin for Drew Altizer Photography)
Prometheus
White marble sarcophagus
The scene on the sarcophagus depicts the creation of humankind by Prometheus.
Numerous deities are included in the scene.
Puteoli, from the mausoleum known as the mausoleum of Prometheus
Early 4th century AD
The Campania in the Roman era exhibition recently opened on the ground floor opposite the impressive Farnese collection. The 20 rooms are filled with sculptures and paintings from the 2nd century BC to the 3rd century that decorated public buildings in Naples and southern Italy (including some from Pompeii and Herculaneum).
→ See also Visit the National Museum of Archaeology in Naples for more on one of the finest collections of antiquities in the world, including the marvelous Farnese sculptures (including Hercules at Rest and the Farnese Toro) and the best artworks, mosaics, as well as frescoes from the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Taylor Studios designed, built, and installed the new permanent exhibits at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck, partnering with Lord Cultural Resources and Xibitz to complete the project.
The Innovation Gallery: Early Peoples begins with the story of humankind in North Dakota 12,000 years ago, and it continues to the modern Native peoples. North Dakota’s Native Peoples are recognized and celebrated as the state’s first cultural and technological innovators, adapting to a changing environment and successfully meeting social and political encounters.
Image © Herb N. Byers, Jr.
Taking a breather at the John Wood Infants School Disco/Fancy Dress. One little girl looks a ever-so-slightly argumentative?
[ This is the second disinterred Kodachrome ]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Scott Marlborough, Matt Betz and Hannah Spell 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 - Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Arthur Kobin for Drew Altizer Photography)
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There are two general directions for humankind to go:
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Those terms define a continuum that is an obvious metaphor for breathing as for life.
However, another sense of direction, another kind of continuum of life, is possible:
toward dissolution | toward integration
Human development and the rise and fall of civilizations move between these two poles:
dissolution
integration
These terms have to do with a universal process that underlies all of life-experiences:
entropy
Some describe entropy as a measure of disorder in a system. The thinking is that a high-order system, whether a human being, an ecosystem, or a galactic cluster, has a certain amount of energy that it expends during its lifetime. Energy moves from its “useful”, available state to its “used”, unavailable state.
Hosannah on the highest!
The Universe is Runnin’ Down!
Well, there’s another way of describing entropy, more akin to our immediate experience.It’s the movement toward differentiation.There’s a special meaning to that word. It means the appearance of new things that are different from the old things. Newfangled vs. oldfangled. Also, extant vs. emergent.
Diversity.
Diversity among things means diversity of the states of things. More stuff doing different stuff. New stuff coming from new combinations of the old stuff. Chemistry. Science, The Information Explosion — and subsequent information glut. Culture clashes. Social turmoil. Politics.
More of everything diversifying.
That’s another measure of entropy — and — another aspect of the Expanding Universe.
Bringing it back down to earth, it means that the unexpected happens. New problems. New solutions. New developments. More and more of it.
Formerly unified and coherent features of experience, such as a harmonious social order free of Communists, atheists or sexual deviants — or economic good times for oil men, money-men, chemical companies, or entrenched dictators, undergo unexpected changes, requiring human beings to undergo related unexpected changes. Things break down. They disintegrate. Very unpopular among some, and everyone is affected, more or less. Change.
And out of the debris of disintegration, a new order forms. The general trend, in Universe, is for the new order that forms to consist of a higher, more finely tuned, and better-adapted integrity. We can trace that kind of change by looking at the fossil record, as well as by looking at the extant biosphere. We can trace it by looking at the path of civilization. We can trace it by looking at the development of the Kosmos.
Entropy is not the running down of the Universe; it’s the running of the Universe. As Buckminster Fuller put it, “doing more and more with less and less” — until at last, doing absolutely everything with absolutely nothing — which is how the Universe began.
More states of existence emerge as things move from “usable” to “used”, from running to broken-down to newly integrated. That’s a definition of entropy. The “used” side of things is the material for the next generation of “usables” — one way or the other, whether by bacteria or by recycling programs. Conditions require a higher, more functional integrity. As things change, we must change.
Entropy, confronting us with unexpected disintegration, requires us to integrate in a new way. Entropy drives us.
That’s one half of the picture.
The other half is, what of all the human faculties that are not needed by the current state of affairs? This includes all the ways we’ve learned and adopted, in the past, all inherited cultural development, all the old-time, traditional ways we remember that don’t help the new integration. What happens to them?
If they don’t take over, there is a healthy alternative: they dissolve, or at least become much looser.
In psychological language, habits are allowed to become extinct, and what was uptight becomes more laid back. Groovy.
The extinction of, or liberation from, The Unnecessary liberates resources for application into The New Necessary integration for new conditions, as they emerge. [Thomas Hanna’s book, Bodies in Revolt, comes to mind.] The caterpillar dissolves before integrating into the new form, we call a butterfly.
Entropy/Dissolution.
Integration.
The biggest challenge human beings face is that of letting go of the old well enough to become the new. Memory is the key. The Old sticks around because it is tenaciously Remembered, as a matter of survival or convenience.
What if what we remembered could be brought under our own control? What if we could make internal adjustments that kept the old ways available, but not longer in control, so we are free enough to change as we see fit, instead of remaining stuck in unresolved quandaries?
What if there were something we could do to make room for new insights, new understanding, new ways of doing things, new ways of seeing things? What if the elements of new ability were already present, but we couldn’t bring ourselves to act in a new way? What if we couldn’t see them?
Well, what, if we could?
What if our very sense of identity prevented it?
What if we could shape our own identity, over time, through healthy dissolution of old patterns and new integration into healthier patterns?
THE KEY TO
The Ultimate Structure of all
Senses of Identity-~oOo~-
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INOCULATION ETERNITY is a story about a place called Eternity. It is my imagination about what life might have been like before humankind ever existed. We all have this hope that when we die we go to a perfect place called Heaven. In this book I paint a picture of a similar place where there is no time, sickness or war. Its essence beholds perfection and pure happiness. The entire story evolves around the life of Archangel Lucifer, who is the Master of Ceremony for the Gathering.
The Gathering could be likened to a church service, but far greater. Its purpose is to recharge everyone's spirit in what I reference in the book as life's resurgence. Everything was perfect until something happens at the latest Gathering service. This something has to do with Lucifer. It begins a wind of change that rocks the core of Eternity and everyone's existence. You will witness how Lucifer's unleashed emotions assimilate negative potential. As the story progresses, readers will witness how many of Eternity's inhabitants who are witnessing the changes, become determined to understand what is happening. Amongst them evolves a certain sect of creatures who begin to enjoy their newfound knowledge. Different sensations are experienced as new emotions surface, which were hidden from them since the beginning of their existence.
Gabriel, who is another principal character is one determined to understand what is happening. Prior to these dysphonic eruptions everything was all good. Now another realm appears on the horizon. His concern for Lucifer and scientific interests beckon him to go in search of a remedy.
Ancient of Days' is my version of God. He is the center of all moral consciousness and the animator for life. He doesn't even attempt to explain what is happening or what has caused the eruption in the first place. Some begin to wonder why. His expression of love for His creation is to stand back and allow them the freedom to choose their own destiny. It is His desire that they trust Him. He encourages them to govern themselves. He lends them support and intervenes only when it is absolutely necessary. With an infinite space ahead of them, He is in no hurry to stop what appears to be a disaster.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Boyz II Men attends Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Arthur Kobin for Drew Altizer Photography)
Photo showing an impression of the New Views of Humankind exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center.
Credit: Martin Hieslmair
A memorial to the space shuttle Challenger and her crew, lost in the service of humankind on January 28th, 1986.
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Say to me no more Apollo,
Say to me the job is done.
And I say your words are hollow
And our work has just begun.
Say to me we need the money
Just to feed the poor,
And I say, 'Gee that's funny,
It's for them that we explore.'
Say to me we should be fighting,
Say to me the world's at war.
And I say we are uniting
People tired of war and more.
Say to me there's too much danger
Say we could be lost.
And I say I am no stranger
to danger, that's the cost.
Say to me our world is dying,
Ready for it's last hurrah.
And I cry, keep on trying,
We must find our Shangri-la.
Say to me no more Apollo,
Say to me the job is done.
And I say your words are hollow
And our work has just begun.
And our work has just begun.
-Apollo Lost; Cynthia McQuillin