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A deserted urban sim...like many deserted urban centres...the state of the world is altering each day - Mopire City - slurl [ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mopire/121/151/1102 ]
Oh yes, Shakespeare has been enjoying the tree!
The smashed ball count continues....But he's happy. Hamish is just glad he's deaf!
Now let's eat till we hurt! Ho Ho Ho!
The engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia) is a geometrid moth with a pattern mimicking lichen - which makes it easier to blend in.
Unfortunately, looking like that and then land on the side of my yellow house does make you stand out a little more, right?
This moth was actually a little too large for me to shoot it straight from the top with the MP-E65 mm lens as it can't focus at less than 1:1 mag. Have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52894995855/ for how I solved that and got a shot of the entire specimen.
There’s long been a philosophical question of whether art is more likely to imitate life (mimesis) or life is more likely to imitate art (anti-mimesis).
Oscar Wilde a champion of anti-mimesis, opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay, written as a Platonic dialogue, Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realise that energy.
The title of this portrait arose from the evolution of the piece itself. I've been coming to cat-sit in London since 2015 and this is my third stay. I noticed this graffiti in Crouch End the very first time I came, but somehow all the best intention of pulling together a portrait dissolved during the trip and once again it was left an unrealised idea.
This year I promised myself I would attempt it, even if it didn't work, I would at least try. It took 30 mins of trying to find something I liked. This composition is something I have done before several times during this project.
Originally I wasn't wearing my yellow coat, but after 30 mins of shooting it was getting cold and starting to rain so I didn't care. It was then I realised that I was actually dressed to match the graffiti which has happened before in the past :) Sometimes Art can imitate life :)
This was a process. I set up the table display with an empty canvas on the easel. Took the photo, printed it, mounted it to the canvas, then took this photo. I used a filter, just because I liked the effect. "Art Imitating Art" on a different level.
In the background is the sculpture by artist Duane After Buffalo. These teepee sculptures are located approximately 2 miles south of St. Mary on Highway 89, Montana USA.
Made with 3-D printing technology, this statue on exhibit at Washington DC's Renwick Gallery is a full-size replica of an 1843 statue by Hiram Powers called "Greek Slave"
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
~Oscar Wilde
Thunderstorms and heavy rains forecast for south Florida til Sunday, so I need this glorious reminder of how The Sunshine State should look like.
BTW, my hand-me-down smartphone took this photo, rivaling the output of my hunnert dolla cameras. 😛
Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)
reflected in
Spaghetti serving spoon (Servientes cochleari var. spaghetti)
Taken for Crazy Tuesday 09 Nov 21 "Spoon reflections"
Imitating sumi-e by Teisai Hokuba
I wanted to try this for a certain time, but had no appropriate mood for playing with large free strokes imitating a semi-dry ink brush
Prismacolor chisel-tip markers, 80% and 40% ND
WMSR 501 brings up the rear of a passenger consist deadheading between the yard at Ridgeley, WV and the station at Cumberland, MD. The unit began life as PRR 2249, also working for Penn Central and Conrail before coming to WMSR in the 90s. It was originally painted by the WMSR in a paint scheme tribute to my beloved Baltimore Orioles, but certainly looked better after it was repainted to represent a fictitious class of WM GP30s and renumbered to 501. If I remember correctly, the artwork for the unit's lettering was scaled up from an O scale Western Maryland Champ decal set, which I always thought was pretty cool.