PHILOSOPHICAL METAL
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Lake Great Prespa, Florina, Macedonia, Greece.
Near this location, Lake Prespa joins Lake Little Prespa.
A protected area which is National Park, Natura 2000, Ramsar site, Transboundary Park.
I mentioned yesterday the philosophical importance of seeing the world as a subject in relation to us. The camera becomes an extension of our body. Here is an example. I was taking some farm photographs when this beautiful creature came right up to me.
[Make sure you enlarge its beautiful face.]
Japanese gardens are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance. Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers. By the Edo period, the Japanese garden had its own distinct appearance.
The Auburn Botanic Gardens are a botanical garden located in Auburn (a suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1977 and covers an area of 9.7 hectares. There are two lakes, a waterfall and bridges. Duck River winds through the garden. The garden is maintained by Cumberland Council. It is open daily, and there is a small entry fee on weekends. The Japanese gardens, which have hosted couples from overseas, are one of the main attractions. 12554
The rock sees the waves coming and stands firm.
The waves, blind to the rock, eventually win out and wear the rock down.
When I start getting philosophic, I need more raktajino.
Pacifica, California.
Why do we find it so important to measure the passage of time? Can we not just appreciate the time that we have? See the beauty and enjoy the goodness that lies in the moment as we live it and stop living by clocks and calenders and we may all have more time to enjoy.
Japanese gardens are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance. Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers. By the Edo period, the Japanese garden had its own distinct appearance. 17338
Inspired by the poetic and philosophical novel The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, published in 1943. The book has been translated into over 505 different languages and dialects worldwide, being the second most translated work ever published, trailing only the Bible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
Photo taken from my neighbour's flower garden, Clarence-Rockland, Easter Ontario, Canada
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Inspiré du roman poétique et philosophique Le Petit Prince d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, publié en 1943. Le livre a été traduit dans plus de 505 langues et dialectes différents dans le monde, étant le deuxième ouvrage le plus traduit jamais publié, derrière la Bible.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Petit_Prince
Photo prise du jardin fleuri de mon voisin, Clarence-Rockland, Easter Ontario, Canada
Philosophical reconstruction by Franco Raggi in 2006 for Attese Edizioni. As seen at the Ceramics Museum in Savona, Italy.
Drune Whitechapel
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Wikipedia:
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Wilde then expanded that text into a novel published as a book in April 1891.
The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and records every one of Dorian's sins.
It's all here, the light and dark side of life, of us. The bud, stands for potential. The petals, protection or a cage? Tell me more little flower.
The Philosophical Hall at the Strahov Monastery, Prague, Czechia (the Czech Republic's official short name as of 2016)
(unless you made and paid for a reservation months beforehand, you are not allowed inside and can only admire the room from the doorway; photos can be taken only if you pay extra for a photo permit; best viewed enlarged for details)
Abbot Vaclav Mayer, during the last quarter of the 18th century, decided to build new library premises for the numerous acquisitions so he ordered the Philosophical Hall to be built by the naturalized Italian architect Johann Ignaz Palliardi. The hall is 32 meters long, 10 meters wide and 14 meters high, flanked on all sides by rich walnut wood bookcases. The highest shelves are only accessible from the gallery which is accessed by secret spiral staircases in both corners, masked by false book covers.
The ceiling was painted by Viennese artist Anton Maulbertsch over a period of 6 months, aided by only one assistant. The painting called The Spiritual Development of Mankind depicts the development of religion and science, guided by Divine Providence in the center of the painting, surrounded by virtues.
In the 19th century, Napoleon Bonaparte's wife Marie Louise visited the library and donated a four-volume work on Louvre museum paintings and Versailles gardens. The gift was stored in the tall bookcase that dominates the left side of the hall. On the top of the bookcase, there is a marble bust of Francis I, Emperor of Austria and Marie Louise's father.
The total number of volumes in the hall exceeds 50,000 works. In 2010, the Philosophical Hall was completely restored.
A philosophical and impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet …!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach …!!!
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Un safari photo philosophique et impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés ...!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau …!!!
Some people can subconsciously prevent you from becoming your best self.
Everything you do in this life- where you go, what you say, what you do and who you do it with is the result of your thoughts.
A big reason people fight is because people identify with their thoughts. When we were growing up, most of us believed that thoughts come from the inside. We thought that they were innately a part of us and that we *are* our thoughts. We started building our whole identities around our own little internal monologues.
And the bigger the idea, the more of your identity it represents. This is why politics and religion are such hotly debated topics, because they're such big ideas. If I say your political idea is a bad idea, and you base your identity on that idea, then effectively what you're hearing is that I'm calling you a bad person. You think that I'm attacking you, not the idea.
Something that might be even more common is that people just straight up attack the individual as a proxy for attacking that person's idea.
Somewhere along the way, a few people started realizing they had it all wrong.
In practice, a much better way to think about it is that the universe has an infinite number of streams of thoughts, so to speak, that our brains can kind of tap into like different radio stations. With this analogy, we no longer have to view ourselves as a series of thoughts but rather as an empty vessel by which thoughts pass through. Now we're like the DJ of a radio station, not the individual song. The self is merely an observer. It was this distinction that sparked one of the most famous philosophical debates of all time, which is, I think therefore I am versus I *do* therefore I am.
Spolier alert, you should pick the latter.
In this analogy, the self is determined by our ability to pick and choose different ideas from different streams of thoughts and combine them to form new ideas. Sort of like picking ingredients to make a sandwich.
This is different from the first paradigm, in which we would just take everything from the same stream and hope that the sandwich turns out good anyways.
Therapists know that this works, that's why when people come in complaining about depression, they're told to use the term "negative intrusive thoughts".
The idea is actually pretty simple. If you don't take ownership of the idea and instead you assign a label to it, then you can categorize it as something that life just happened to send your way but something that you're also allowed to throw away. You don't have to hold on to it because it's not actually a part of you. It's just a shitty song on the radio station.
So how does this all relate to other people holding you back?
To be continued..
Credited to Austin Ambrozi on TikTok
The two main halls of the Strahov Library in Prague house about 200,000 volumes. This is the Philosophical Hall, which is 32 m long, 22 m wide and 14 m high. The ceiling fresco by Viennese painter Anton Maulbertsch was painted over six months in 1794. It is called "Intellectual Progress of Mankind" and is a concise depiction of developments in science and religion, their mutual impact on each other, and quests for knowledge from the oldest times until the time the hall was built.
Created for the PANO-Vision Group's "Kick Out the Winter Blues" contest. Our first semi-annual challenge.
www.flickr.com/groups/2892788@N23/discuss/72157689531935342/
"Eidos Kai Tin Emfanisi" ( according to Google Translate ) comes out to mean "Being and Appearance". Several layers of duality here with a reference to the duality of early Greek Philosophy as depicted by Raphael in his classic painting, "The School of Athens". In the centre of the frame we see Plato on the left pointing upward toward the transcendent world of ideal form, while his brightest student, Aristotle points out toward the manifest world sense of perception. Here, in a nutshell is the essence of all Western philosophical dialgoue - Being or Appearance ?
A single Pano-Sabotage photograph, processed in several different ways, layered, Gaussian blurred and cropped along with the inclusion of text as a drawing element and a black and white reproduction of Raphael's "School of Athens".
www.sartle.com/artwork/the-school-of-athens-raphael
Image created Jan 25, 2018
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Philosophical morning.
(A vida é unha cuestión de tons. Aproveitemos para tentar de desenvolvelos. Dende a nosa dotación xenética 🙈 e antes de que se produza a morte 😎)
"Many of us seem to carry time, all its weight,
into the present, see it not, call it our fate…”
-- William J. Jr. Atfield
Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be. But half the bee has got to be, vis-à-vis its entity – d'you see? But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee when half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury?"
Gallery of Novobirzhevoy Gostiny Dvor (1800-1815 years, architect Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi). Philosophy Faculty of St. Petersburg State University (in the building since 1934). Vasilevsky Island. St. Petersburg. December 3, 2016.
Галерея Новобиржевого Гостиного двора (1800 - 1815 годы, архитектор Джакомо Кваренги). Философский факультет Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета (в этом здании с 1934 года). Васильевский остров. Санкт-Петербург. 3 декабря 2016 года.
Canon EOS 600D,
Samyang 8mm f/3.5 AS IF UMC Fish-eye CS II.
A truly philosophical statement from a sadly unknown artist.
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It is hard not to get just a little philosophical at times like this. If a photographer is not present in a forest, will the leaves turn color anyway? This is no more idiotic of a sentence than asking the more familiar philosophical question, "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is present, does it make a sound?
I prefer the more modern question, "If a tree falls in the forest, is it the man's fault?"