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Went on an adventure with one of my best friends the other day, she is a beautiful bean and I couldn't put the camera away.
what I see is all I've known
land of grey and subtle tones
navigating light & dark
tethered by these beauty marks
This was not posed it was a candid pic, the light was coming though a sunroof of a kids business in St Louis. I just happened to look over he was there for maybe 15 seconds and then off to play again.
Jarel is exceedingly intelligent, introspectively quiet and incredibly ambitious. He has worked hard to achieve academic excellence in all his classes. In addition to his achievements, Jarel has a flare for the fine arts notably in visual arts and photography obtaining final marks of 100%.
He plans to combine his gift for art and strong academic success to attend BCIT this fall where he will study Architectural Sciences.
Throughout his high school years, he’s been active on the volleyball team; helped in musicals; and contributed to the Yearbook. In the community, Jarel was a member of the Langley Ukulele Ensemble; volunteered as a Day Camp Leader; and serves as a Sunday school teacher sharing kindness and truth to children.
If Jarel has any spare time, he enjoys travelling, sketching, playing tennis and reading. We look forward to seeing his marvelous creations in the future whether it’s an architectural structure or from his inspired art portfolio!
I don't think I've ever seen a more serious baby! She was with her South Asian Muslim mother and father in Times Square and they stopped to talk to each other or find their bearings and I made this shot. She turned her head a little as I took this photo, but it's not too blurry thanks to the brilliant sunlight. Her intense, intelligent expression has left me imagining that she's a future poet, perhaps to follow in the footsteps of the great Faiz Ahmed Faiz...
Art, Rock, & Talk
With Kate Myers and Wiitala Brothers
Saturday Feb. 26th
Chicago Art Department
Kate Myers’ music is passionate and introspective. Drawing influence from singer/songwriters of the past (Jim Croce, Bob Dylan) and of the present (Conor Oberst, Fiona Apple), she has been able to create a style that is completely and recognizably her own and that transcends the standard coffee shop singer/songwriter genre. Her songs are stories of pain, love, hope and the experience that she has collected through her travels, her family and her years.
Kate’s debut, self-titled album was released in 2004, her second album, “Blanket Sky” in 2006 and her most recent work, “Instant Clarification,” in 2008. She has performed on stages all over the USA and in Europe and is currently writing for her anticipated 4th release.
Wiitala Brothers
“The Wiitalas’ new Bad Blood could be qualified as minimalist indie pop-rock but it’s something much more effective than that might suggest. The duo’s stark guitars and lingering vocals tend to waft around, electrifying the air with their simplicity.”
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nacque un po' così questo percorso,per caso, per noia o per fortuna. la continua ricerca di risposte a domande sull'animo umano. i colori sono la soluzione per questa vita.
A woman is seated in the back of a car, her expression thoughtful and introspective. Soft sunlight filters through the trees, creating a serene atmosphere in the woods.
What is this sudden sadness that sometimes takes hold without apparent cause. A vice in my spokes, that speaks, but unlike this bicycle, it only speaks when I am not in motion, when I find myself without immediate direction, then the darkest memories sink down from my thoughts into my heart and cause me to pause yet further, which yet increases the shadow; stilled, motionless, watching my shadow lengthen as the sun goes down behind my back. You try to give it words, try to reach out but others will only say, "stop being so introspective" and then you begin to see yourself from another perspective, and again notice your movement before you yet willed it and it has passed and you can only then agree, 'yes, no need for introspection. what was that somber mood?'. Yet, though you've been released, those thoughts and moods tighten back into the coil of your subconscious, waiting to spring again when you next give pause. Then you move for fear, keep moving in order to survive. Don't dare stop. This is the fear and warning of others as well, who would rather not listen or try to understand, as though they know that darkness will spread from you to them in an instance should they feed, the same darkness which gives them cause to sound, "stop being so introspective". And so we all once again join the human race, the struggle and strive of survival: transition as a constant, and the the hope of someday, content.
Eric has a great sound, very fluid and overdriven with rich harmonics.
...and Tift was wonderful, again.
Traveling Alone is a great album, too, with some beautiful melodies. Lyrically strong, touching, and introspective.
"The quiet settling of the night, It always comes to this, You answer to yourself in the dark, That's where everyone lives." From Drifted Apart
"I skipped a stone and watched it go, The arc and then the undertow, Thinking a day is something like a prayer. So much to ask, you start it soft, Then the weighted locks come off, In the end, you just hope that someone's there." From Small Talk Relations
"I'm just looking for that sweet spot, Where I can love the way I want." From Sweet Spot
"An offering here in my winter coat, Touch my face and point me home. The ropes of time tangle the threads of hope, Where I throw my birds, dare I watch them go, I think I'll come apart, how deep they leave their mark.....
And here in my winter coat, How you pretend there's something that you don't know, In the stillness down where a blackbird sings, Its song of nothing and everything. The counting stops and starts. How deep it leaves its mark." From Marks
From Traveling Companion.
"Is this the only way it happens
The stormy noise of all our passions
Finally lays its burden down
Makes its peace somehow
With the quiet virtues of the everyday.
No matter how I play it
One thing stays the same
Time will cover over
my meaning and my pain
With just a country cemetery grave." From Country Cemetery
"So hot out here
Nobody's out
I'm throwin' leaves
At cars that pass
A vacant lot
A thunderstorm
Somebody callin'
Somebody home.
Never did fit in
Always wanted out
Like an empty street
the Southern downtown." From Southern Downtown
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
Spent some coyote-human introspective time with this coyote at Grand Portage State Park, Minnesota. This little song dog has got some seriously "dogged perseverance". Its front left paw is missing, from the wrist joint down, probably gnawed off to escape a trap. Its tail seems to be missing the tip. Not so noticeable is an injury of the left rear leg, which it favored while walking. Its most remarkable trait was running, when it held its left rear paw completely off the ground, running on only its two right legs! I've seen plenty of canids running on three legs, but this is the first quadruped I've ever seen run on two legs...both on the same side!
By Team Macho
9 x 12 in. alkyd on panel
From Narwhal's Hibernation Sickness:
www.narwhalartprojects.com/events-exhibitions/hibernation...
Fitzgerald's unique take on the increasingly popular immigrant saga juxtaposes an introspective look into the repressive lifestyle experienced by Tamila Soroush, 27, in Iran with the nearly unreal freedom she finds while in Tucson on a three-month visa. Sent by her parents in the hope that she can "wake up her luck" and stay in America like her older sister, Tami has three months to find a husband and avoid returning to Iran. One of the Iranian suitors her sister and brother-in-law have lined up turns out to be obsessive-compulsive; the second is a gay control freak. Beyond these awkward matchmaking scenes, Tami forges her own strong friendships with the students in her ESL class, including Nadia, a Russian refugee abused by her bigoted husband, and the outrageously provocative Eva, who introduces Tami to country line dancing. Tami also captures the heart of Ike, a Starbucks server who encourages her pursuit of photography and sends her flowers, despite her sister's objections. A fun, romantic, and thought-provoking debut novel from a promising author.
By Deborah Donovan
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It was quite an introspective week for me. Steve Job's passing affected me more than I imagined. It was nice to have a saturation of positive ideas and inspiration in the media as opposed to the usual complaining, fighting, and vapid coverage of celebrities. It was good to hear and read his thoughts and caused me to reflect on my own creativity and what I'm contributing to the world.
Also, both Sam Weber and Justin Gerard came out to Utah to do lectures and demos at BYU and UVU respectively. Both were quite gracious with their time and ideas. It was a kick in the pants I needed to shift my work into a higher gear.
Both said a lot about working in the illustration industry and how to be successful but there were two key themes that resonated with me:
Live a full life and set aside time for personal work.
To put it simply: turn off your TV and XBox and go create something. After that, go outside and be with people.
Because I try my best to live these tenets myself it was nice to hear a couple of successful illustrators saying the same thing.
'You need to take an introspective look at yourself to find out, 'What is your purpose?' Mine is to ensure the values which make this country great are preserved.'
-MAJ Alfred Anderson, two-time recipient of the Army Commendation Medal (one w/ V device), is one of 25 Soldier Heroes chosen to represent the Army Reserve at the 2011 U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
This lady is a Make-Up Artist and Hairstylist I work with for my portrait sessions. Recently she applied with a model agency for older women so she can be booked for photo shoots and walk-on parts. She needed pictures for her portfolio so last week we took some.
Canon 6D with Sigma 85mm f1.4
Processed with Lightroom, Photoshop CS6 and Alien Skin Exposure 6.
Black-and-White Colobus, Portrait No. 2
Niabi Zoo, Coal Valley, Illinois
The expression of this particular colobus seems to evoke despair, but the colobus also struck me as an introspective individual with a great deal of maturity and wisdom. It appeared to have the personality of a chieftain or a sage of myths and legends.
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Sigma AF 400mm f/5.6 APO (non-macro, non-HSM, 72mm front filter threads)
F-stop: f/5.6
Exposure time: 1/1600 sec
ISO speed: ISO-1250 (I amped this up when I took photos at the low-light areas of the aviary, but I forgot to bring it down when I moved to the colobus exhibit)
Exposure bias: -1 step (to avoid blowing out the highlights)
Focal length: 400mm
35mm eq. focal length: 600mm
Handling: Used tripod as a monopod
Priority: Aperture Priority
Photoediting, Photoshop Elements 5: Adjusted lighting and color levels, cleaned up with cloning and blurring, and applied noise reduction