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My idea for the Macro Mondays Theme - Inspired by a Song.
Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror
"Man in the Mirror", released in 1988.
It's the fourth song in the album 'Bad'.
The song was writen by Siedah Garrett and Glenn Ballard.
The movie Moonwalker (1988) starts with this song "Man in the Mirror".
Part of Lyrics:
I’m starting with the man in the mirror.
I’m asking him to change his ways.
And no message could have been any clearer.
If you wanna make the world a better place.
(If you wanna make the world a better place.)
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.
(Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.)
(Na, na, nah.....)
Beam me up, Scotty is a catch phrase that made its way into pop culture from the science fiction television series Star Trek. It comes from the command Captain Kirk gives his transporter chief, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, when he needs to transport back to the ship.
Photo taken deep in the forest of the nature reserve the Naarden Eng situated on the shores of the Gooimeerlake. It is located near the city of Naarden - The Netherlands.
Teleportatie of teleporteren is de fictieve techniek van de rechtstreekse verplaatsing van objecten van de ene plaats naar de andere, zonder dat het object de ruimte tussen beide plaatsen hoeft te doorkruisen. Min of meer op hetzelfde moment verdwijnt het object op de ene plaats en verschijnt het op de andere. Deze techniek is – tenminste bij de huidige stand van de natuurwetenschap – volstrekt denkbeeldig, maar het verschijnsel is zeer uitgebreid in gebruik in sciencefiction.
Het bekendste voorbeeld van teleportatie in sciencefiction is de transporter uit Star Trek Beam me up, Scotty
Drive/Ride by Shootings / Self-portrait - Man in the Mirror series in SW Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 25 February 2006 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Elvert Barnes RIDE-BY SHOOTING at elvertbarnes.com/RideByShooting.html
Nassau County Police . www.police.co.nassau.ny.us . National Police Motorcycle Rodeo . npmr.zoomshare.com . Competition . National Mall . 3rd Street between Jefferson and Madison Place . Washington DC . Saturday afternoon, 14 July 2007 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
United States Capitol Police . US Capitol . 1st Street just off Constitution Avenue, NE . WDC . Saturday, 21 January 2006
www.uscapitolpolice.gov/home.html
Cop Duty / Men At Work series
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
While this isn't a photo of me, It's still an amazing photo and song that explains how I'm feeling right now, and the changes I'm making in my life in 2010 and beyond.
Model: Chelsea K Vance
For 365 Days and 30 Songs in 30 Days.
"A Willow Deeply Scarred / Somebody's Broken Heart / And A Washed-Out Dream"
Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
This is random and horribly processed. I textured the shit outta this because I didn't know what to do... and my Photoshop isn't working correctly and of course I don't know enough about it to fix it. Whatev. Blah.
Textures by ~Essence of a Dream~ and Pink Sherbet Photography.
The man in the reflection had more questions than answers to the one on the other side...
Lower East Side,
New York City.
2013
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holey molly year 5 of 365 projects done :)
hope you all have a happy New Years and thanks for all of your support and kind words over the past year.
you guys ROCK with out your friendship i don't think i would have enjoyed it half as much :)
Vegas Day 2.
Yesterday we headed down the strip to see the Michael Jackson ONE show by Cirque du Soleil at Mandalay Bay. I've been a Michael Jackson fan my whole life and seeing this show was a dream come true. It was amazing to see the acrobats of a Cirque du Soleil mixed with the amazing choreography and music of Michael Jackson.
I've never seen a show like this. The highlight for me was when a holographic MJ danced to "Man in the Mirror" with the other dancers. You'd have to see it to believe it. This is the closest I'll ever get to seeing MJ in concert and it was better than I imagined it to be. So cool.
A post-and-run kind of morning, but I'm leaving you with some analog Hasselblad goodness :)
Image made a few weeks ago in the butterfly exhibit at Brookside Gardens in Maryland.
Jeudi 15 Juin 2017 – Concert de fin d’année et encore une bonne surprise. Le chef d’orchestre et prof de musique m’explique à la fin de la représentation, qu’il réécrit l’arrangement de chaque instrument en fonction du niveau de chaque enfant et de chaque morceau ! ils sont 26 en classe …
Who said a moment of vanity was only for the ladies?
Ridgewood, Queens,
New York
2015
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I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change...
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We've had many a wonderful meal here over the years...
The Gold Mirror
800 Taraval St.
San Francisco, CA.
I’m oppressive, because I’m part of oppressive society. I, in my privilege, have pointed out oppression. So I, in my privilege, have perpetuated oppression—thus proving myself to be an oppressor. My privilege is a stumbling block to the oppressed, which makes me an oppressor. In my privilege, I am a champion of the oppressed—an oxymoron. Since I am an oppressor, all that I have left to do is to loath my hypocritical self. Therefore I must not only hate society, but I must also hate myself. In the end my dialectic will cause my own downfall. My truth will be my destruction. Yet I don’t care, because I must follow my satanic cult to destruction. It is what consumes me, it is what I know best—destroy, destroy, destroy! Instead of selflessly helping poor neighbourhoods, I selfishly burn them down—rioting and looting. The end justifies the means! I selfishly demand, but I never selflessly give. My goal is to tear down society, not to build it up—yet in the process, I am tearing myself down. It is for the greater good!
I like to say “do not judge,” yet I make judgments about society—that it is bad and needs to be destroyed. I make judgments on people, whether they are good (oppressed) or bad (oppressors). Since I don’t believe in absolute truth, don’t believe my judgments/truths, because they are not true. I am an antiracist racist, and an antifascist fascist. Indeed, my truth is nothing but lies.
Here is a faith based statement: you can choose your own gender. Indeed, it takes blind faith to believe such a statement! You are woke puritans, spreading the gospel of your neo-Marxist/Antichrist religion. You are religious fanatics. You believe that your prescribed doctrine is unquestionably true. You are absolutists, who like to police people. “Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.” Your diversity is all about ideological conformity. Indeed, you collectivists love conformity!
You hate hierarchies, but you yourselves have your own woke hierarchies (hierarchies of victimhood/victim status). Your hierarchies cause resentment, which produces hateful bullies/oppressors/tyrants like Lenin, Stalin, and Mao (your heroes). You tear down one hierarchy, only to replace it with a hierarchy that is much worse. Your hierarchy revolves around hate (oppression) and revolution (rebellion), so when you come to power you murder millions of people (genocide). You are bitter, so you hate. You hate, so you kill. Your hierarchy will eventually bring in the Antichrist; then many more will die at the hands of your oppressive hierarchy. Can anyone say: genocide!?!
Our Hegelian dialectic moves on, pushing the moral boundaries of society farther down the rabbit hole of depravity. Society must be torn down, so that we can reBuild it Back Better. Order out of chaos! We will build a New World Order, replacing humans (oppressors) with transhumans. The goal: transhumans will eventually evolve into a raceless and genderless slave race, without families or cultures—equality for all! We will all be equally enslaved by our elite oppressors! Survival of the fittest! “There’s a sucker born every minute!” Humans/oppressors are obsolete and must go. They must become extinct. Artificial Intelligence must reign supreme; through it we will have eternal consciousness…godhood...bahahahaha!
We are the oppressors, and mother earth is the oppressed. We are nothing but poison to the earth. Woohoo—Net Zero Emissions, a mass cult suicide! Since all humans are oppressors, we must all go, we must all be replaced. Climate change—the real enemy is humanity itself. Transhumanism is the future. Eventually humans will be no more, and we will no longer oppress the earth. Artificial Intelligence must replace us.
Where is this cultural revolution headed? Just read the Bible! The oppressors who hate humanity will embrace transhumanism—the destruction of humanity. 666 take the Mark, worship the Beast! Your cult is of the spirit of Antichrist, and it will produce an Antichrist. Freedom bad! Authoritarianism good! You think that you are inclusive, but you are not inclusive when it comes to God and His laws. You suppress the truth, because you are an oppressor. You suppress freedom, yet the Bible says: “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” Indeed, you don’t know what freedom is. That’s why you have embraced your bondage. You are nothing but a slave to your truth, your selfishness, your sin!
Revelation 13:4 “And they worshiped the Dragon (Satan) because he had given authority to the Beast (Antichrist), and they worshiped the Beast, saying, ‘Who is like the Beast, and who is able to make war with him?’”
In the end it’s a spiritual decision: whom will you serve? Will you serve Jesus or the oppressor? I already know your answer, because you are drawn to oppression like a moth to light—that’s why you oppress others. Like Satan, your goal is to destroy society and humanity. In the end your plans will go to hell, and so will you.
Your woke religious dogma is broke—you oppressors are oppressing our society.
Repent, for the Day of the Lord is near!
a very modern knights tale......both my boys posed for me for a series of shots with these lights and I loved them all, one looks like a model and the other is so photogenic and looks like a battle weary knight....photography is his job and in this image he is the man you see in the mirror......as for the one with the model looks, he will be appearing soon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66SZAnUvM-U
I Miss You <3
The 2 last minutes of this fantastic tribute
really show what Michael was able to do
and let feel to his audience.
Simply Outstanding.
Thanks Mac for this spectacular video.
Wide awake and flashing fur...
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If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day
To let it go
And so to fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm not sleeping"
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Bad - U2
When he turned 26, back in 1986, Frank H Jump was told he was HIV + and he probably wouldn't have much to live... What he did next in the next few decades was nothing short of extraordinary...
I can't be any prouder of my 2nd story (photo essay/text) from my "Extraordinary Everyday New Yorkers" project on the new Beacon Reader journalistic platform.
It is an absolute pleasure to be able to share the inspiring story of Frank H Jump, artist, teacher, activist, SURVIVOR and wonderful husband and son... the week he turns 54 years old, after living with HIV for 30 years, a situation he turned around from the start to inspire him to live life fully and create a legacy he would be remembered by, which he did with his extraordinary project "The Fading Ad campaign".
My story on Frank can be found HERE:
www.beaconreader.com/sion-fullana/the-man-who-would-not-f...
PS: Unfortunately, the full story is only available for Beacon Reader subscribers. To those who aren't subscribed yet, consider supporting the project, please! For $5, you would get a full month access to the 60+ writers on Beacon from 30 countries around the world, including the possibility of reading my two stories so far on the platform, this one and "The Dog Whisperer" plus the third one to come at the end of this month!
Brooklyn,
New York City
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About a year ago I heard all this balking from my friends when I complained that I was unhappy with my body. Many retorts telling me to STOP complaining. www.flickr.com/photos/ajarda/2687125073/in/set-7215760153...
They were right. !
I shut up and
started DOING SOMETHING about my concerns and ya know what -
I am NOT complaining now!
I feel GREAT. *smile* VERY happy with my trainer, my diet, and being 40.
THRILLED. BLESSED. HAPPY
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Sunday 7 June 2009
Astoria, Queens, New York City
40 years old
(almost 10 years earlier www.flickr.com/photos/ajarda/1084641606/in/set-7215760153...
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