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... far more than Art imitates Life. You just need the right Stage Set, right?
Macro Monday project – 05/27/13
“SET”
From the Burj Khalifa (originally named the Burj Dubai), the highest building in the world, the city of Dubai looks more like an architectural model than the real thing. The observation deck on the 124th floor - 442m from the ground - is merely half way up the building (828m).
Dubai, UAE, 2010
i found a version of my last RL vintage car, a 1964 Lincoln Continental, mint condition pale yellow with suicide doors. it was my last and favorite car in RL...
Ministry / Jesus Built My Hotrod...
I suggest hibernation
Cause bears have it made
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpY4frpheWw
I went completly crazy with photoshop filters, layers, curves, grain, levels.
Four hours later I was looking at the series.
Thought to myself: "Mwah"
Posted the original
I watched them appear and twinkle their love. I love to sit still, let twinkling darkness surround me, let night spill until there's nothing left but peace. Every-time I sleep under them my soul feels reborn.
Nature is the best medicine for soul.
The darkness is here to heal all the wounds these artificial burning lights have left on our skin. Humans have polluted the night sky too and live in a cycle of need and greed of materialistic things over and over. It's sad to see how so many people die without really living life.
I will be sharing more pictures from my treks and travels. Keep chasing the dream lovelies.
Study of a vine and its movements- this is actually in our indoor tortoise habitat! It may be a squash vine or maybe pumpkin? Or gourd? I don't know. This vine has decided to reach out and grab things! As you can see, it's got a strangle hold on a bead curtain that hangs on the wall behind the habitat! It's almost scary how it moves and twines up in the beads and everything! I hope it doesn't decide to come upstairs!! :)
Representing hope and freedom in San Diego, a 25 foot, 6,000 pound statue named, UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, by world-renowned artist, J. Seward Johnson, is a three-dimensional interpretation of a photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Sailor, Carl Muscarello, kissing a nurse, Edith Shain, in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, 1945, following the announcement of V-J Day.
Edith Shain, the nurse memorialized in Eisenstaedt’s photo, states, "There is so much romance in the statue; it gives such a feeling of hope to all who look at it."
“This statue brings back so many memories of peace, love and happiness. During the moment of the kiss I don’t remember much, it happened so fast and it happened at the perfect time. I didn’t even look at the Sailor who was kissing me,” Shain continued. “I closed my eyes and enjoyed the moment like any woman would have done.”
Only difference between miniatures and Lindsey’s Louboutins is…….she would never leave her shoes like this.
Based on the size to cost ratio, these minis cost almost as much as an actually pair, lol.
I was struck by the similarity in the posture of the woman and the way her coat resembled the winged arms of the man standing in the painting.
The painting "Souvenir I" by artist Kerry James Marshall memorializes those who were killed in the Civil-Rights movement. A large banner portrays John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy. Across the top of the painting are additional smaller portraits of Medgar Evers; the four children killed in a bombing of a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama; Freedom Riders Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner murdered in Mississippi; Malcolm X and Black Panthers Mark Clark and Fred Hampton.
Met Breuer, New York
I could not resist releasing shutters when I saw that these children were trying to get across the steppingstones. The elder sister herself must be a little bit afraid to jump much less the younger brother. But he must imitate and even excel her.
A rock stack at the waters edge of Jackson Lake seems to be imitating the Tetons in the distance.
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
-Oscar Wilde, (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
Life imitates art, Berczy Park dog fountain, Toronto.
Olympus PEN-F
Panasonic Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 II
ISO200, f/4, 1/200 sec
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I love clouds. I have a folder full of dozens and dozens of images of nothing but clouds. In fact, I have a set here on Flickr. ;-) Photographing just clouds has taught me a lot about how to look at them, which in turn has taught me a lot about how to pair them up with landscapes.
I remember this morning on Steptoe quite well. It was the type of morning that a lot of photographers would pass on.... I had a perfect case study in such behavior just that morning in fact. But some of us hung out, in part because in some form or another we all realized that light is light. Sometimes that light is a brilliant sunrise, and sometimes it is drab, gray and cloudy. But it is all still light. Photography isn't waiting for nature to serve you up a dish of epic sunrise. Photography is making use of light, brilliant or soft, epic or more mundane. The two key ingredients to photography, after all, are time and light. Considering that makes light half of everything you are really concerned about, then it makes sense to use all the light you can get through that lens of yours. ;-)
All that aside though, I just like this image because of its laid-back simplicity, its quiet, its unassuming nature. The rolling clouds over the rolling hills has a nice synchronicity to it, makes me think of the ocean in fact, or in a way, two of them.
This famous fresco depicting the ladies of the court from the Palace of Knossos can be found at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, a museum located in Heraklion on Crete. It is one of the greatest museums in Greece and the best in the world for Minoan art, as it contains the most notable and complete collection of artifacts of the Minoan civilization of Crete. Crete is Greece's largest island and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean.
The highly sophisticated Minoans which were Europe's first great civilization built the Palace of Knossos, the legendary home of King Minos which is connected with thrilling legends, such as the myth of the Labyrinth, with the Minotaur and the story of Daidalos and Ikaros.
The museum began in 1883 as a simple collection of antiquities. A dedicated building was constructed from 1904 to 1912 at the instigation of two Cretan archaeologists, Iosif Hatzidakis and Stefanos Xanthoudidis. After three destructive earthquakes in 1926, 1930, and 1935, the museum nearly collapsed. The director of the Heraklion Museum was then Spyridon Marinatos, who made great efforts to find funds and persuade the locals and the central government alike that a new solid building was needed. In 1935, Marinatos succeeded in engaging Patroklos Karantinos to build a sturdy structure that has withstood both natural disasters and the bombing that accompanied the German invasion in 1941. Although the museum was damaged during World War II, the collection survived intact and again became accessible to the public in 1952. A new wing was added in 1964.
The Herakleion Archaeological Museum is one of the largest and most important museums in Greece, and among the most important museums in Europe. It houses representative artifacts from all the periods of Cretan prehistory and history, covering a chronological span of over 5,500 years from the Neolithic period to Roman times. The singularly important Minoan collection contains unique examples of Minoan art, many of them true masterpieces.
The Herakleion Museum is rightly considered as the museum of Minoan culture par excellence worldwide. The museum, located in the town centre, was built between 1937 and 1940 by architect Patroklos Karantinos on a site previously occupied by the Roman Catholic monastery of Saint-Francis which was destroyed by earthquake in 1856. The museum's antiseismic building is an important example of modernist architecture and was awarded a Bauhaus commendation. Karantinos applied the principles of modern architecture to the specific needs of a museum by providing good lighting from the skylights above and along the top of the walls, and facilitating the easy flow of large groups of people. He also anticipated future extensions to the museum. The colours and construction materials, such as the veined polychrome marbles, recall certain Minoan wall-paintings which imitate marble revetment. The two-storeyed building has large exhibition spaces, laboratories, a drawing room, a library, offices and a special department, the so-called Scientific Collection, where numerous finds are stored and studied. The museum shop, run by the Archaeological Receipts Fund, sells museum copies, books, postcards and slides. There is also a cafe.
The Herakleion Archaeological Museum is a Special Regional Service of the Ministry of Culture and its purpose is to acquire, safeguard, conserve, record, study, publish, display and promote Cretan artefacts from the Prehistoric to the Late Roman periods. The museum organizes temporary exhibitions in Greece and abroad, collaborates with scientific and scholarly institutions, and houses a variety of cultural events.
For more information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklion_Archaeological_Museum
Crete (Greek: Κρήτη, Kríti ['kriti]; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη, Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.The capital and the largest city of Crete is Heraklion. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits (such as its own poetry, and music). Crete was once the center of the Minoan civilization (c. 2700–1420 BC), which is currently regarded as the earliest recorded civilization in Europe.
The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian city of Mari dating from the 18th century BC, repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible (Caphtor). It was also known in ancient Egyptian as Keftiu, strongly suggesting some form similar to both was the Minoan name for the island.
The current name of Crete is thought to be first attested in Mycenaean Greek texts written in Linear B, through the words ke-re-te (*Krētes; later Greek: Κρῆτες, plural of Κρής),[4] and ke-re-si-jo (*Krēsijos; later Greek: Κρήσιος), "Cretan". In Ancient Greek, the name Crete (Κρήτη) first appears in Homer's Odyssey.[8] Its etymology is unknown. One speculative proposal derives it from a hypothetical Luvian word *kursatta (cf. kursawar "island", kursattar "cutting, sliver").[9] In Latin, it became Creta.
The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš (Arabic: اقريطش < (της) Κρήτης), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندقRabḍ al-Ḫandaq (modern Iraklion), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ (Khandhax) or Χάνδακας (Khandhakas), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia. Under Ottoman rule, in Ottoman Turkish, Crete was called Girit (كريت).
For more information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete
Overgrown farmland in a suburb of St. Louis hosts deer, coyotes, foxes, hawks, owls, snakes, turtles and other species which have adapted to urban life. (Which has nothing to do with the title I chose, but I couldn't resist the pun!)