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A poem by Lynn Kozma
Insignificant
as a beached shell
I feel
the indifferent succession
of days
monotonous as ocean waves.
Bleaching with age
I have lost the rage
at my own
unavoidable demise.
But the mind still conjures
eclectic shapes,
the life of things
not seen.
Words dance across the screen
in perfect conjugation-
messengers of a kind.
Death, I know your winter face.
We have met in random places-
legendary landscapes,
halls of sorrow;
I shall wear RED
tomorrow !
Sometimes you just have to realise how small we are and here for such a short time , remember to tread lightly and leave beautiful memories.
This insignificant headland is one of the most famous pieces of real estate on the planet. Who has not heard of the Cape of Good Hope? If you think that it's the southern-most tip of Africa, you are wrong by quite a long way. Cape Agulhas,150 km ESE has that distinction. But the Cape of Good Hope has a claim to a superlative - it's the south-westernmost tip of the continent. According to my GPS, it is located at S34°21′29″, E018°28′19″.
Although Bartolomeu Diaz rounded the cape in 1488, he and his sailors were not the first people to see it. Herodotus tells the tale of the 3-year saga of unknown and un-named Phoenecian sailors who circumnavigated Africa some 2600 years ago. About 2000 years ago, the Khoikhoi arrived here overland.
Diaz named this the Cabo das Tormentas, the "Cape of Storms". King John II of Portugal renamed it Cabo da Boa Esperança, the "Cape of Good Hope", because he thought that its discovery signalled great riches by opening a route to the east.
26 by 26 Challenge #14:
Photograph something you consider insignificant.
– Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth
Taking this rather literally, if you have signs, but they are not clear, or they are contradicted by more signs, they become insignificant
Translation of the blue signs (and any driver won't have time to read them all) , the bus company excepted, except loading and unloading and the last one tells you that you can go there to park at the Peugeot dealer
Oglers at the Olgas. Still one of the most truly awesome hikes I've done. Excepting the heat, a fairly easy hike, but just like nothing you've ever seen before. Will be back.
At Samruddhi, we pay attention to the seemingly insignificant details, which actually enhances the quality of home. Compared to an average villa, the doors here are bigger, shutters are thicker, internal height is higher and the rooms are more spacious. Lush green outfield, fresh air, modern facilities and serenity makes Lake Drive villas stand out among all the other properties located in Bangalore. Well furnished bedrooms with laminated wooden and vitrified tiles, superior marble and ceramic tiles flooring throughout the villa, huge balcony, wide glass windows, lush green surrounding and to add perfection to the whole property is the lake view.
The amenities offered by the Samruddhi Group are all top notch. Their club house offers facilities like: Swimming Pool, Gym, Lawn Tennis Court, Jogging Track, Temple, Amphitheatre, Children Play Area and more. For indoor games lover provision for Billiards, Chess, Carom, Table Tennis, etc. have also been done in full fashion. With other features like: Designer Street Lights, ample water and electricity supply, solar water heater facility in each villa, rain water harvesting pits, CCTV surveillance, intercom for visitors, proper sewage disposal, supermarket, ATM clinic pharmacy and more will surely make your life at Lake Drive more pleasurable than ever.
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grape 'Madeleine Angevine'
Family
Vitaceae
Genus
Vitis are vigorous deciduous climbing shrubs with tendrils and attractively lobed leaves, insignificant green flowers followed by often edible fruits; some have excellent autumn foliage colour
Details
'Madeleine Angevine' is a white wine and dessert grape particularly suited to cooler areas owing to its relatively late flowering and early ripening. This reliable, heavy cropper produces sweet, citrus-flavoured grapes
Source RHS
SISSINGHURST CASTLE
The poet's garden inspired by the land
Vita Sackville-West, the poet and writer, began the transforming of Sissinghurst Castle in the 1930s with her diplomat and author husband, Harold Nicolson. Harold's architectural planning of the garden rooms, and the colourful, abundant planting in the gardens by Vita, reflect the romance and intimacy of her poems and writings.
Sissinghurst Castle was the backdrop for a diverse history; from the astonishing time as a prison in the 1700s, to being a home to the women’s land army. It was also a family home to some fascinating people who lived here or came to stay. Today you can take in the ruined architecture of the extensive original buildings, vast panoramic views from the top of the Tower, the current working farm and the 450-acre wider estate along with Vita and Harold's gardens.
I took this photo on the huge anti-austerity march in central London on June 20 organised by the People's Assembly Against Austerity, of a disabled campaigner pointing out that welfare cuts for the disabled (driven by targets, not by need) and sanctions for the unemployed (which cut all financial support to some of the country's most vulnerable people, often for the most insignificant reasons) are leading to preventable deaths, as some of the most vulnerable people in society are driven to destitution, despair and suicide.
Although the weather was indifferent, the turnout wasn't, and around 250,000 people marched from the Bank of England to Parliament Square to show the many, many reasons ordinary, hard-working British people have for despising the Tory government, who, in May's General Election, won over 50% of the seats, with just over 36% of the votes, cast, and the support of less than a quarter of those eligible to vote.
The Tories' austerity programme, which has involved massive cuts to the public sector and to the welfare state, including the NHS, and attacks on the unemployed and the disabled, is driven not by need but by a malignant ideology - the desire to privatise almost everything (but not their own salaries, of course) for the benefit of the private sector, often using taxpayers' money to achieve their ends, and often benefitting them directly, as they are involved in the companies making a profit.
Although the Tories' austerity policies have been disastrous economically, so that it has cost more to ruin the lives of millions of people than to have left them alone, the message has still not got through to the majority of the British people. I can only hope that events like this will help to wake up the millions of people who stand to have their lives further impoverished by the Tories, and who need to make a stand if we are not to descend into an increasingly divided country, with an ever-growing gulf between the rich and the poor over the next five years.
For an article about the death of David Clapson, whose benefits had been stopped as a result of missing one meeting at the Jobcentre, see: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/09/david-claps...
See a list of welfare reform deaths here: blacktrianglecampaign.org/2014/10/21/uk-welfare-reform-de...
See the MPs' report, calling for full independent review of benefit sanctions: www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/comm...
For my most recent article about austerity, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2015/06/12/photos-london-protes...
And for my most recent photos, see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/sets/72157652100358663
For my archive of articles about the Tories since 2010, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/battle-for-britain-fig...
And for articles since this year's General Election, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/battle-for-britain-fig...
For the People's Assembly Against Austerity, see: www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/
For the Facebook page for the event, see: www.facebook.com/events/460624807433119/
Please also read the economist Paul Krugman's article, 'The Austerity Delusion': www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr/29/t...
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
This unique early first-century AD frescoed ceiling is located within an insignificant looking Biclinium, or two-benched dining room, cut into the rock in the heart of Little Petra (El Barid).
Known as the Painted Biclinium (No. 849) inside is the only surviving example of Nabatean wall painting.
The ceiling of the alcove at the back of the chamber is painted with a delicate tracery of vines with bunches of grapes hanging from the branches. Inhabiting this leafy and flowered world are a variety of birds, some in flight, others resting on branches, a cherub-like figure of Eros with his bow and arrow, and a flute-playing Pan.
(Damaged caused by Bedouin fires, and 2000 years of weathering)
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Desde la Aiguille du Midi (Chamonix). A primeras horas de la mañana los alpinistas parten por la una de las cresta del macizo del Mont-Blac, con sus proyectos y objetivos, en un entorno cuya grandeza y majestuosidad deja sin respiración.
Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, Chile
(October 25, 2013)
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These trees look fairly insignificant when approaching from the farm, but once you've crossed the stream they look like this! I had to shoot between the wires in the fence to get the low angle. John said it was one of the best photos he'd seen for some time of the Buttermere Pines!
He’s a famous film director , I was just a an insignificant extra , but he saw something in me I , something I’d suppressed , the look of a girl ! Whilst on set he is always so demanding , has an aura about him , he approached me , he asked if I’d , just for one particular scene , dress as a girl , to this day I don’t know why , but I sad “Yes , for you I’d love to “ fatal words you might think , but that was the turning point of my young life , now dominated by him and my need to be his woman , whilst , as he insists , still being me under this sensual , female , facade , happiness can come in the strangest of ways , I’ve just accepted his marriage proposal ! ( one day the full story will be told )
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Since 2009, Daniel Kerkhoff, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., has been creating his own artist-in-residencies in communities in Ghana, Ecuador, and Vietnam.
Embedding himself in a community, he develops multiple connections through creating art (installations), writing poetic journals, making art with children, curating exhibitions, working with artists, assisting art libraries and community libraries, documenting walks and the community, and just being a part of everyday life.
Along with painting, collage, art installations, photography, and writing, his art practice involves connecting, sharing, and weaving people and places.
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”.
Assisting and creating libraries is part of my art practice.
During my art residencies, I continue to bring books and materials, art work, maps, magazines and journals, CDs, DVDs, and photos to the community centers in Adugyama, Ashanti Region Ghana and Sisid-anejo, Cañar, Ecuador. I also give a variety of art books, journals, and materials to fellow artists and art spaces.
In Accra, Ghana, I bring art books and magazines to The Nubuke Foundation and The Center for Contemporary Art, Ghana. In Cuenca, Ecuador, I'm connected to In-Arte Contemporáneo and bring art magazines and information. In Hanoi, I have provided various art publications and books to Cuci Fine Art, Chay Art, and Chaap Collective.
I bring art publications, art work, and music created by friends and colleagues of mine. I document their work in these different communities, creating another form of connection and awareness.
I consider this a weaving project, a form of sharing that can have many on-going effects. –Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“Playing Catch, Giving and Receiving”
You are invited to play catch with my prints. Two dimensional prints that hang on the wall are transformed into three dimensional balls, a form of sculpture that is also performance and participatory.
Playing catch is a common past time that's relaxing and connecting. It is an act of giving (throwing) and receiving (catching) involving a ball, and, in this case, prints transformed into a ball (sculpture).
Instead of viewing the stationary print on a wall or a sculpture on the floor, it is viewed moving through time and space, dependent on the participants and their actions.
It is visual, transformative, therapeutic, sharing, interactive, and connecting, simple and playful actions of giving and receiving.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
“The Insignificant is Significant”, A Library and Art Installation, a continuation of the series, “The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)”
“Walking the Path, Prints on Prints”
You are invited to walk on my prints, using them as a path.
It’s another way of experiencing art like a stepping stone meditation,
a different awareness may take place on an intentional walk, slower,
deliberate, a winding pathway, your prints touching these prints.
You become, in a way, the performer, the participant, the collaborator,
your soles connecting and becoming a part of these prints, adding steps,
humbling, engaging, liberating, creating another connection.
The title of this series is: "Paper Trail, A4 (All Over the Place)" from "The Quiet and Ugly Artist (Hanoi, 1965-2015)". These prints are collages made from my daily life in Hanoi -- collections of receipts, maps, brochures, business cards, food wrappers and waste.
They are my journal, a record of my consumption and daily activities, stamped with symbols that reflect my connection with Hanoi. They are painted over,
fragments remain revealed, information becomes cloudy, is lost and buried, like memory and history.
I created these collages during my artist-in-residency in Hanoi from
February 6, 2015 to October 26, 2015.
Walking is an important part of my art residencies. I document a familiar route in the community I’m living in by walking slowly, taking photos, and picking up “treasures”.
--Daniel Kerkhoff, www.danielkerkhoff.com
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Douglas Adams
From the outside the 'mountain' looks insignificant apart from ruined and derelict windmill on its top and the mine head located a little distance from the hill. The landscape is barren except from some unhealthy, grey looking heather and a few thorny shrubs. But the dull exterior hides an interior that is more colourful than any other.
Are you spending hundreds of hours of effort in SECOND LIFE to make insignificant amounts of money selling virtual clothes, experimenting with changing your gender or species, getting into random conversations with strangers from around the world, or having pseudo-anonymous sex with strangers (and let's not kid ourselves, sex is a huge draw into Real Life as it is in Second Life)? Either if you would define yourself as a complete noob (like I am) or an SL's hardcore enthusiast why don't you consider to TELEPORT yourself to COLORS OF LIFE? Thanks to our friends from WDT we got a flying gallery and a chill out island ruled by an extravagant queen and inhabited by damn funny and smart avatars. Are you getting interested or curious? So why don't you take a look with your own real eyes:) And if you feel lost or uncomfortable just because you are still wearing those lame pair of cheap blue jeans search for ALICE MASTROIANNI, GIGI ROFFO or poke MILA TATHAM, if you'll not find her busy building the "NEW" NEW YORK:)
TELEPORT NOW slurl.com/secondlife/WDT Planet/47/115/54
in the grand scheme of things this tiny drop of water is quite insignificant and when we look at the vastness of the universe man to is like this tiny drop of water.
Psalm 8
1 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen-- Even the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth
From South Africa. Insignificant flowers but it has really vibrant foliage all year long. Right about this time it's putting out lots of new growth. Anybody ever propagate this from cuttings?
Ever tried to take a photo of a butterfly in flight! with an iPhone! Hmmm I ran about 500m across rocks for this fella. I like that it is minimalistic and small in a corner.
The seemingly insignificant town of Kerma may have been largely left behind by the rest of the world today, but that wasn’t always the case. This is one of the oldest inhabited towns in Africa and a place of immense historical importance. The area around Kerma has been occupied for at least 8000-10,000 years, but the town reached its peak around 1800 BC - 1600 BC when it was capital of the Kingdom of Kush and an important trade centre during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom. It was
at this time that Kerma’s kings built two giant mud-brick temples, known as deffufas; the oldest, and arguably
largest, mud brick buildings on the continent. The western deffufa (pictured) stood about 19m high and stretched 50m long. Nobody is really certain what it was used for but most agree it served a religious purpose. . About 3km away is the smaller, eastern deffufa. This is
thought to have been a royal cemetery. Around the kings tombs archeologists have discovered some 30,000 other graves. Many of the people buried in these graves appear to have been ritually sacrificed in order to accompany their king to the underworld. Encircling the human graves, archeologists have also unearthed around 5000 cattle skulls, which indicates just how important cattle was to the people who once lived here. In addition to the two deffufas there are a number of other historic sites around the town including Duki Gail; a little understood site containing the remains of a huge temple with two metre thick walls.
What happens when a planet falls to earth......?
Not a lot by the looks of it.
Dog toy found on Lossie beach or a small blue green planetoid, Mostly Harmless (cheers Douglas A).
Ceramic plaque. Grater function is doubtful as insignificant wear on these objects has been observed. Our hypothesis is that these instruments were used for removing fish scales or used for ritual purposes. Red pigment on outer rim. Intact. Measures 9 1/2". Esmeraldas region, Ecuador. 600BC/400AD. Also, this item has been published in Prima Dell America 4000 Anni Di Arte Precolombiana a Cura Di Giuliana Zanetti, p.253.
it may seem simple, insignificant, or even trivial... but today I finally made the switch! A step in a new direction. The beginning of a new era. A walk in faith, towards new horizons, the Promised Land...
I've used my pink purse for quite some time now... and frankly, I love it. But it's time for one of those radical changes. An outward sign of an inner shift. Most girls might translate that into a sassy haircut. However, one [of the many] thing[s] I got out of the [abandoned] relationship is a love of my hair... an awareness of it's beauty... and frankly, I'm going to sport it, in all it's glory!
This lovely creation was made for me by miss Tracy Prybyla (in an exchange of creativity, I made her a hat & swirly scarf set long ago), but I didn't get it into my hands until more recently. Now, I have been holding onto it for a bit, waiting for the right moment to make the switch.
I officially started the HoodRiver end of the new employee processes... so my new job is in motion.
Today was the 27th. Muy importante for me... pressing forward in my own love for that day/number, is something I have to do.
And, Oddly enough, I actually got this from Tracy just as my eyes were being opened to all that was about to occur *shudders*
On a happier note: the pretty flower is from Miss Elizabeth. I stopped by to see here after worship practice (another awesome happenstance/providential-thang: I wore my ChrisTomlin tee, and they introduced one of my fave songs from the album at practice!) and she picked one for me, and one for [the other] Elizabeth (by proxy, she was on the phone!)
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