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This weekend was set aside for the pursuit of ambition. I decided it perfectly plausible that I can change my entire life by sending out a few beautifully and wittily worded emails to choice and influential recipients in the art and literature worlds. They will see a ‘Flickr of something’ in me and hurriedly write back, begging for a meeting. So, I set about finding said influential recipients….. and I didn’t get much further.
During these, so called ‘weekends of ambition’ the first thing to do is to keep the Writers & Artists Yearbook 2010 firmly closed.
After half an hour leafing through it I had decided that it was probably simpler to have the creative part of my brain lobotomised so that I no longer feel any artistic yearnings. The chapter about the best lobotomy surgeon to consult is conveniently at the back of the book after you have looked through the rest and become thoroughly despondent.
The submission parameters are terrifying:
“Non-fiction German women’s issues only”
“Cricket themed poetry only, submit only via handwritten cricket pads”
“True stories of abused childhoods and violent erotica only, no cookbooks”
“Work must be printed, bound in hardback with dust jacket, already published and with a booker prize imminent.”
I hold the Sunday papers largely responsible for my extreme frustration; they feed me hope over my muesli. There will be, without fail two or three articles in the magazines telling you about an artist/singer/writer’s path to success. I always pore over this kind of article as though I am reading a treasure map, ‘Where is it, where is it?’ No, not the ‘X marks the spot’ but the oh so precious and only important bit where they tell you exactly how they made the transition from sitting in the corner of a greasy spoon ‘being creative and wishing’ to being signed up with some hot shot publisher, agent or gallery.
Guardian Weekend just the other day told of Carmen Herrera, an artist who became a success at the age of 94. We hear how she found her artistic direction, how her work was rejected from countless galleries, how she painted every day for hours, blah, blah, blah, cut to the chase….
‘After those first paintings were bought in 2004, word spread quickly and other pieces were sold. I was in shock for days. Now I have pieces in collections all over the world.’
Oh for god’s sake! Where was this work on display? I thought you said no one would show it. Who bought the pieces? How did word spread? Did you have an agent? How did you get an agent?! What the f**K?!!!!
So after burning The Writers and Artists Yearbook 2010, punching the bed 50 times and failing to send a single email to anybody of any importance I decided instead to go out.
Don’t whatever you do go into a branch of Hollister on one of your down days.
Remember that feeling at school when the popular, attractive kids made you feel like you had intruded on their private members club and tainted it with ugliness when you entered the common room? Want to relive it? Go to Hollister.
The California originated store’s signature interior look is ‘darkness’ and the desired atmosphere; a feeling of unwelcome intrusion on some kind of frat party.
I manage to get in without bashing my shins on the invisible vintage furniture but fail to avoid breaking through the middle of a gaggle of plaid shirted, pouty lipped girls and boys all busily flirting – the main part of their job description.
In fact this ploy works, they simultaneously intimidate whilst creating envy and longing in the oh so plain and uninteresting clientele. We all wish we could be in a world where the next opportunity to flirt by the denim cut offs is all that matters, and because of that feeling we buy 10 pairs of denim cut offs, convinced that they must be infused with this superficial magic.
Their cunning low light ploy is obvious, if you moan about the fact that you can’t see anything then you are too old to be in there. Similar to the blindfolding of racehorses as they go into the stalls it is also less stressful to fork out 50 quid on a t shirt if you can’t actually see it. I’m not sure why they actually have changing rooms as I could get changed in the corner of the shop without anyone seeing me and the only way I was actually able to judge how I looked when I did finally get into the equally dim changing room was by the disdainful sneer of the girl manning it. That must mean these jeans look bloody amazing! I’m having them!
I imagine a sight to behold at the end of the day when the shop shuts. 50 part-time models stagger out of the front doors blinking like pit ponies. They stumble home blue toed in flip flops with white sticks clacking, a long line, each holding onto the pubic mound surfing waistband of the model in front.
not Rich...not Poor...not a Preacher, nor a Teacher...not a poet or a prophet... whomever you may be... just Live Life the Best you can...& at the end of the day, you will SEE the only thing that really matters is the LOve in your Heart, and the Kindness & Compassion you shared and Gave Freely to Others ~
Show: Voltapagina - Circo Patuf
She emerges from the dark. Unseen until the very last moment. She moves with delicacy. She faces her new challenges with the innocent curiosity of a sweet child. She’s dragging an old trunk. Her baggage is heavy, but precious. She can’t read the incomprehensible instructions to inflate a huge balloon, but she is determined to succeed and she does so with a pure attitude. No matter what.
Pounds and ounces or kilos and grams? Who cares? Stand holders at Belém's Ver-o-Peso market have bigger problems, like how to fit this goliath catfish (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum) onto a scale.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
hand painted.. still dont own an airbrush.. using cans and brushes.
photo credit go's to: www.flickr.com/photos/andreacebukin
"Mind over matter" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_over_matter
check in detail: www.flickr.com/photos/breakone/5239665191/in/photostream/
2010
Mural at the Jardins de les Tres Xemeneies, Barcelona.
CATALÀ
Black Lives Matter (BLM) (en català: les vides dels negres són importants) és el nom d'un moviment activista sorgit als Estats Units a les comunitats afroamericanes i que realitza campanyes contra la violència racista exercida vers les persones negres que s'ha anat reproduint durant el mandat del president Barack Obama. BLM organitza regularment protestes entorn de les víctimes que han estat mortes per agents de policia estatunidencs. El grup també es manifesta de manera més general en contra de la brutalitat policial i per qüestions racials viscudes als Estats Units. VIQUIPÈDIA
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Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an organized movement favoring non-violent civil disobedience in protest against alleged incidents of police brutality against Afro-American people.[An organization known simply as "Black Lives Matter" exists as a decentralized network with over 30 chapters worldwide, while a larger Black Lives Matter movement exists consisting of various separate like-minded organizations such as Dream Defenders and Assata's Daughters. The broader movement and its related organizations typically advocate against police violence towards black people, as well as for various other policy changes considered to be related to black liberation.
In 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin in February 2012. The movement became nationally recognized for street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans: Michael Brown—resulting in protests and unrest in Ferguson, a city near St. Louis—and Eric Garner in New York City.Since the Ferguson protests, participants in the movement have demonstrated against the deaths of numerous other African Americans by police actions and/or while in police custody. In the summer of 2015, Black Lives Matter activists became involved in the 2016 United States presidential election.[10] The originators of the hashtag and call to action, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, expanded their project into a national network of over 30 local chapters between 2014 and 2016.[11] The overall Black Lives Matter movement, however, is a decentralized network and has no formal hierarchy. WIKIPEDIA
www.magd.ox.ac.uk/discover-magdalen/
To celebrate its 550th anniversary Magdalen College, Oxford has commissioned the Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger to create his first-ever dedicated permanent artwork.
Two years in development, the sculpture Y was unveiled on St Mary Magdalen Day 2008. William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester founded Magdalen College in 1458. It is one of the best-known colleges in the University of Oxford and is known internationally for its high academic standing.
The College has many fine buildings. The Cloisters, Chapel, Founder’s Tower and Hall were built in the Gothic style in the later part of the 15th century. The Great Tower, a pictorial symbol of Oxford, is famous for the May Day event when the College choir sings an ancient hymn at dawn. The Georgian New Buildings, which blend into the College Gardens and grounds, were completed in 1733. The buildings sit amid a hundred acres of lawns, woodlands and riverside walks, which are publicly accessible, and there is a deer herd that has been in existence for over 300 years.
Addison’s Walk, named after the great essayist of the 18th century and father of English journalism, is about a mile in length and goes by the River Cherwell around a great water meadow. Beyond the end of Addison’s Walk is a tranquil field known as Bat Willow Meadow, which is where the new commission is sited. Maps of the grounds of Magdalen College are available from the Porters’ Lodge or they can be downloaded from the Magdalen website.
Over the past twenty years Mark Wallinger has established an international reputation with major solo exhibitions in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Val-de-Marne, Frankfurt, Aarau, Basel, Milan, New York and Chicago.
His work encompasses a wide range of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation, and it takes art history, mythology, religion, politics, national identity and popular culture as its subject matter. Wallinger studied at Chelsea School of Art in 2001, and in Goldsmiths' College. He exhibited in Young British Artists II at the Saatchi Collection in 1993 and at the Royal Academy of Art's Sensation exhibition in 1997.
His Time and relative dimensions in space derived from a residency and was shown at Oxford University Museum of Natural History in 2001 and in the same year he represented Britain in the 49th Venice Biennale. The artist is best known for Ecce Homo, a life-size sculpture of Jesus Christ which inaugurated the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999, and State Britain, his 2007 re-creation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. He was a Turner Prize nominee in 1995 and won the award in 2007, and he is one of five internationally acclaimed artists who have been commissioned to produce proposals for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project, which will be one of the biggest artworks in the United Kingdom.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and particularly when it comes to art, Well I think this is crap, a big blue cockerel in Trafalgar Square to me, isn't art. It's a very popular piece though and drawers tourists and their cameras (and me...) from near by, maybe I'm not looking at it quite right.
Trafalgar Square, London
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Man was matter, that was Snowden`s secret.
Drop him out the window and he`ll fall.
Set fire to him and he`ll burn.
Bury him and he`ll rot like other kinds of garbage.
The spirit gone, man is garbage.
That was Snowden`s secret.
Ripeness was all.
I`m cold, Snowden said. I`m cold.
There, there, said Yossarian.
There, there.
Joseph Heller
Poznan, Poland
Stary Rynek
Spotted this guy playing a classical version of Metallic's "Nothing Else Matters" while wandering the Old Market square.....super cool version too! So much happening down here on the weekends right now....everyone is loving the sun! :) Besides....this guy has the best socks of all time!
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St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral and its many Onion Domes tower over Interstate 490 and Starkweather Avenue in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. Constructed in 1911, the Neo-Byzantine Revival-style building was designed by architect Frederick C. Baird and houses a congregation that was formed in 1896 by Russian immigrants whom had settled in Cleveland. Consecrated in 1913, the church has long been a center of the Russian community in the city, and landmark on the city’s west side, with thirteen onion domes representing Jesus Christ and his twelve apostles towering above the relatively restrained, Renaissance-inspired yellow-brick structure that is built in a Greek cross shape, a typical form taken by Orthodox Churches. Rededicated in 1954 after hosting several Sobors, a council of the Russian Orthodox Church used to decide on important matters within the church, owing to its large size and central, easily accessible location. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and remains one of the most iconic and unique structures in Cleveland, a testament to the city’s religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity, and its economic prowess during the early 20th Century.
Street musician Dominic Del Principe, Bethesda Terrace Arcade, Central Park, New York.
Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM (ambient light)
©2011 Patrick J Bayens
CPKC's "Every Child Matters" orange painted GE leads train 246 past the signals north of Touhy Ave. in Niles IL.
‘Omnis ars imitatio est naturae.’ Seneca
HAR HOLLANDS
Har Hollands (1956) graduated in 1983 from
the ‘Eindhoven University of Technology’,
at the department of ‘Architecture and Urban Planning’.
From 1984 till 1998, he worked as lighting designer
at the ‘Lighting Design and Application Centre’ of ‘Philips Lighting’.
In 1998 he started the office for architectural lighting:
‘Har Hollands Lichtarchitect’.
Pat Gorman has an interest in railroads and in ships, including the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic. The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg in April 1912 in the North Atlantic. Gorman, who once owned a hobby shop, decided to create an HO scale model of the Titanic, in part because he knew that certain items he needed, e.g., people, were easily available in HO scale, which is 1:87 (3.5 mm to 1 foot of the prototype)
Although the model remains a work in progress, it is substantially complete. It is shown sitting on a picnic table at Headlands Beach State Park near Mentor, Ohio. To show the size of Titanic, Gorman brought along an HO scale model of an F7 locomotive painted in the livery of the Bessemer & Lake Erie, one of his favorite railroads.
Printed Matter Post Card with Attached Business Reply Card - Canada Business Reply Card were commonly attached to post card mailed at the printed matter rate. In the example above, the business reply card remained attached to the printed matter card. The business reply post card rate for cards sent out as an enclosure with matter mailed to a Canadian address was 1/2 cent. The rate was introduced on April 12, 1924.
DOME CREEK, between Penny and Crescent Spur on the southwest side of the Fraser River in central British Columbia, provides a year-round destination for hiking, hunting, snowshoeing and snowmobiling. The scattered community of about 40 permanent residents clusters the railway line and the actual creek. The creek and town are similarly named after Dome Mountain. The recreational facility, which occupies the former school building, houses the community hall, a public library and a museum, with a small rustic post office nearby.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia Directory) - DOME CREEK - a Post Office and lumbering settlement at Mile 1190 G.T.P. west at junction of Dome Creek and Fraser River, in Fort George Provincial Electoral District. Nearest station is Bend on the G.T. P. Railway, distant 2 miles, and nearest telegraph G.T. P. at McBride, 55 miles, with local telephones. The population in 1918 was 250. Local resources: Lumbering and homesteading. After the railway construction phase, the population dwindled to 150 by 1921 and to 100 by 1927, revised to 125 by 1929.
The DOME CREEK Post Office was established - 1 May 1916.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the DOME CREEK Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
Addressed to: Miss Shelia Robinson / Dome Creek, B.C. (by this time she married to Darrow Casey) it was re-addressed to her as - Mrs. Darrow Casey / Anyox, B.C. (Anyox was a small company-owned mining town in British Columbia, Canada. Today it is a ghost town, abandoned and largely destroyed. It is located on the shores of Granby Bay in coastal Observatory Inlet, about 60 kilometres southeast of Stewart, British Columbia, and about 20 kilometres, across wilderness, east of the tip of the Alaska Panhandle.)
i don't think it was sent to Shelia in Anyox - her sister Norah Robinson still living in Dome Creek answered the questions and returned it to / - Alberta College, / 10041 - 101st Street, / Edmonton, Alberta.
- sent from - / EDMONTON / 6 PM / JUN 17 / 1933 / ALTA. / - EDMONTON / EXHIBITION / JULY 17TH TO 22ND / - duplex cancel (Coutts E-35)
- arrived at - / DOME CREEK / JUN 18 / 33 / B.C / - split ring arrival backstamp - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 20 March 1916 - (RF B).
- sent reply from - / DOME CREEK / JUN 20 / 33 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 20 March 1916 - (RF B).
Henry (usually stated as Harry) Robinson (1883–1973) & Martha Alice (1886–1965) Robinson homesteaded around 1920. Their children were Nora (c. 1910–?), Sheila (c.1911–1995), Montgomery (Montie) (1912–90), Kathleen (1913–82), William (Bill) (1917–96), Myrtle (c.1919–2014), Eileen (1920–92), Patricia (Pat) Ann, Mary M., Lyona (1925–2012), and Iona (1925–82).
Sheila Robinson married Darrow Casey (1908–84), and they settled in Trail. They were married - 11 March 1931 in Prince Rupert, B.C. - LINK to their marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/e6...
Shelah Elizabeth Maude (nee Robinson) Casey
(b. 9 November 1911 in Nakusp, British Columbia – d. 5 April 1995 at age 83 in Trail, British Columbia) - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/f1...
Her husband - Darrow Casey
(b. 30 May 1908 in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada – d. 16 October 1984 at age 76 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada / Trail, British Columbia) - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/1b...
Her sister - Nora H. Robinson married Fred H. Stephens - 11 October 1937 in King, Washington, USA.
Clipped from - Quesnel Cariboo Observer - Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada - 1 July 1939 - LINK to a newspaper article on - Fred H. Stephens - www.newspapers.com/clip/102194599/fred-h-stephens-norah-n...
These young Indigenous women helped organise a rally in support of the families of First Nations peoples whose children were stolen from them and placed in what are ironically called "residential schools" that operated in Canada from 1838 until as recently as 1996. These schools were designed to assimilate First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, aged 4-16, into "western" civilisation.
In essence, they were concentration camps in which these children were abused, undernourished, fed rotting food and received little to no health care if they became sick. An unknown number died and they are slowly being discovered in unmarked graves. Most often, families were not informed their children had died. The total discovered so far has been 1148. These schools were financed by the federal government and administered by "christian churches".
This is a shameful period of Canada's history and all Canadians should be disgusted, outraged and angered by this, for all intents and purposes, government and religious genocide. There have been calls to prosecute the government, as well as the christian churches for crimes against humanity.