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One morning, after agitated dreams,Gregor Samsa woke up to find he had been transformed into a monstrous insect.....Created on acrylic painted canvas, collaged with paper that I
tinted with ink. I co-joined a Kafka with a large beetle image, and embellished it with real buttons.
Plaubel Makina 67 • Nikkor 1:2.8 80mm
Rollei RPX 25 @ 80 ISO developed in Caffenol CL 50min stand @ 20°C
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 at 2400dpi with Silverfast AI Studio 9
Praha • Česko
Caffenol CL
500 ml Filtered Water
8gr Anhydrous Washing Soda
5gr Vitamin C
20gr Instant coffee ("Cora")
10 slow inversions then let stand for 50 minutes
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing.
Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education he was employed with an insurance company, forcing him to relegate writing to his spare time. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote hundreds of letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained and formal relationship. He became engaged to several women but never married. He died in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.
Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: the story collections Betrachtung (Contemplation) and Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor), and individual stories (such as "Die Verwandlung") were published in literary magazines but received little public attention. Kafka's unfinished works, including his novels Der Process, Das Schloss and Amerika (also known as Der Verschollene, The Man Who Disappeared), were ordered by Kafka to be destroyed by his friend Max Brod, who nonetheless ignored his friend's direction and published them after Kafka's death. His work went on to influence a vast range of writers, critics, artists, and philosophers during the 20th century.
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I went on Google a hundred times today, but it wasn't till about an hour ago that I really stared at the logo imagery and realized it was meant to represent Gregor Samsa in one of the best things I read all year, the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. So happy 130th, Kafka! I wasn't planning on uploading tonight, but today is now a day worth remembering. Oh and the book is about a man who wakes up one day to discover that he turned into a bug overnight (it sounds silly but it's existential genius) and I realize this picture bears little resemblance to anything of the sort, but for some reason it's still kinda inspired by it
This creation by sculptor David Cerny has transcending metal layers rotating on an axis which re-form the face every 20-30 minutes , continuously, in such a manner that the bust faces a different direction every time. It's located in a small square but you can glimpse it from busy Narodni Street through a couple of narrow galleries.
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I met Kafka and he jumped over a building to get away from me.
My body turned into sugar, poured into tea I found the meaning of life
All I needed was ink to be a black boy.
I walk on the street looking for eyes that will caress my face.
I sang in the elevators believing I was going to heaven.
I got off at the 86th floor, walked down the corridor looking for fresh butts.
My comes turns into a silver dollar on the bed.
I look out the window and see nobody, I go down to the street,
look up at my window and see nobody.
So I talk to the fire hydrant, asking "Do you have bigger tears
then I do?"
Nobody around, I piss anywhere.
My Gabriel horns, my Gabriel horns: unfold the cheerfulies,
my gay jubilation.
First Poem
by Peter Orlovsky
Nov. 24th, 1957, Paris
I'm so excited to see Prague again! Please visit Alex's stream to see this amazing city
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"Description of a Struggle" is one of Kafka's longer minor works and is divided into three chapters. The second chapter is the longest and is itself split into several sections. The narrator leaps onto his acquaintance's back and rides him like a horse and imagines a landscape that responds to his every whim. (Adapted from Wikipedia)
I'll go back to Spain tomorrow :)
Edit: The statue has been processed in Topaz and Fractalius then copied and pasted as a new layer above the tree. The background layer had similar processing then a copy was made with reduced opacity and radial blurr applied to that keeping some leaf details under the "zoomed" layer. Hope this makes sense :)