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Prompted by the upcoming release of IQ84 by Haruki Murakami, and the possibility of him winning the nobel prize for literature, I decided to talk a little bit about my favorite author (and other authors).
Here is a grainy impression of what my "real books" shelf has on it. This is the zone of the book shelf that I read from most often (if I'm not getting and/or reading something new, that is). This shelf is out in the living room which has crappity light for photos at night time, so I will try and replace this with a larger and more well lit photo tomorrow.
What you see here are basically some of my favorite books of all time, some of them have been for up to 15 years… for example "Lizard" and "Kitchen" have been favorites since my mid-teens, whereas "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" has been a favorite for about 12 years now (the Japanese version, as well… though I have to admit to only having read the missing chapters… there are chapters missing in the English adaptation, which is what prompted me to originally get the Japanese set back about 11 years ago).
There are also differences between the soft and hardcover versions of the Japanese, though I'll also admit I'm not skilled enough yet to be able to just SIT and ENJOY the books in Japanese yet (as one would with a book in their native language)… they are still mostly study aides, taken a few pages at a time when the mood strikes.
I have more books than this, obviously, but a lot of them are "guilty pleasure" books… no, not romance novels, I just mean books I read once but that didn't leave a very lasting impression on me. Also, all of my manga and most of my study books are in my office, and I have already done some talking about them on flickr a few times before. :) These here are gathered together because they are the most important to me, personally. I've read most of them more than once, and about half of them closer to 5 times. Wind-Up Bird I've read probably upwards of 7 full times over the last 12 years.
Starting with the books on top there, on the left first...
- "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" - Haruki Murakami
this is the only book in the picture that I haven't read yet. I started it but it is not like his usual, and I'm finding it a little hard to get rolling and interested. I kind of wish that "Underground" was in this picture instead (but it's currently next to my bed). "Underground" I first finished reading while on my honeymoon in Japan… which is quite possibly the best place to read it, as I was able to strongly visualize EXACTLY where many of the events (real events of the Sarin Gas Attack) took place on the Tokyo subway lines.
- "Idoru" - William Gibson
I actually wish "Robot Visions" by Isaac Asimov was here instead… but "Idoru" still an interesting book. It might bother people who really know their Japanese pop culture in depth, but as a quick bite to eat, I rather enjoy it from time to time.
- 異邦人 - アルベール・カミュ
"The Stranger" - Albert Camus… in Japanese, paperback.
- B級BANANA- 吉本ばなな
- パイナツプリン - 吉本ばなな
Two books (essays) by Banana Yoshimoto that I do not think have been translated to English. I used these for reading practice from time to time.
- ねじまき鳥クロニクル 〜泥棒かささぎ編
- ねじまき鳥クロニクル 〜予言する鳥編
- ねじまき鳥クロニクル 〜鳥刺し男編
- 村上春樹
The three books in the series "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami by favorite book(s) of all time), in Japanese, paperback. I also have the first two volumes in hardcover which I finally was able to find while in Japan. Additionally I picked up the French language paperback while I was in France a few years ago. I also have this book twice in English (one of which I bought for my husband before we lived together). I've also bought this book (in English) for several other people in my life as the years have gone by. It is the one book that I recommend to people that I am willing to put forward the money to assure they get a copy, lol.
Next to those is a stack of…
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Lizard
- Kitchen
- NP
- Asleep
- Goodbye Tsugumi
all by Banana Yoshimoto
Now the bottom, starting from the left…
- After Dark
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
- The Elephant Vanishes
- Kafka on the Shore
- Sputnik Sweetheart
- Norwegian Wood
- South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- A Wild Sheep Chase
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
all by Haruki Murakami… hey, I told you he was my favorite. lol
- The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Excellent, excellent book… I highly recommend this to basically everyone. lol
- 象の消滅 （短篇選集 1980-1991）- 村上春樹
"The Elephant Vanishes" short story anthology, by Haruki Murakami in Japanese, paperback
Apart from Wind-Up Bird... I would highly recommend "The Elephant Vanishes" to those who want to get a quick taste of Murakami's style before delving into one of his novels. Wind-Up bird is upward of 600 pages long, which is daunting for some folks... so if that bothers you, start with this book first, and see how it goes. :)
- ねじまき鳥クロニクル ～泥棒かささぎ編
- ねじまき鳥クロニクル ～予言する鳥編
- 村上春樹
again… the first two volumes of the hardcover of "Wind-Up Bird" in Japanese by Haruki Murakami
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
This was my first introduction to the work of Ayn Rand. The person who told me to read this book intended for me to see how "evil" and "bad" she was. I am always a skeptic, so went into reading it without thinking about what the person had told me about her. After this, and some additional research about her, I ended up discovering someone (her) who understood and could verbalize things I always felt but was not articulate enough myself to put into words. Oh... and by the way, she is not bad nor evil... she is exactly the opposite.
- "The God Delusion" - Richard Dawkins
I have several books by him, one of them I have misplaced, and the other two are by my bedside waiting to be re-read in one case, and read for the first time in another case. I highly recommend this book, also, to almost everyone.
Finally, one that is slightly cut off here…
"Cats Are Not Peas - a Calico History of Genetics" - Laura Gould
This book is one of the things that first got me deeply interested in genetics, and which I would also recommend to anyone who is interested in discovering basic genetics and / or loves cats, hehehe.
There are also several books that I wish could also be in this photo. Two of those, for example, being "The Dragons of Eden" and "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan... I highly, highly recommend both... again, to everyone.
Let’s go back to 1861 or 1862, a time after the initial burst of patriotism—perhaps fueled by an enthusiastic town rally and a stirring speech that prompted one to enlist, then the donning of a new uniform and receipt of weapons and equipment, studying military manuals, and endless hours of drill and instruction. The quintessential citizen-soldier in an infantry regiment was left to ponder existential questions that haunt almost every soldier who makes it onto a battlefield for the first time: How will I perform in combat? Will I find the courage to stand and fire my musket at the human beings opposite me? Will I flee? What will I do in the moment?
Willie Rexford, pictured here, answered these questions during the Peninsula Campaign, during which senior officers of his regiment, the 44th New York Infantry, mentioned him in two official reports—also known to students of the Civil War as after-action reports.
On June 27, 1862, at Gaines’ Mill, Willie and the 44th held the extreme left of the Union line. Led by Colonel James C. Rice, the 44th helped destroy bridges to delay Confederate artillery, built earthworks and abatis, and deployed skirmishers who reported enemy movements and inflicted steady losses. For hours, the 44th repulsed attacks, even as neighboring regiments gave way. When Confederates finally broke through the Union right and rear, the 44th fought fiercely from both sides of their works before being ordered to retreat. Their withdrawal under devastating fire was costly: five killed, twenty-two wounded, and twenty-nine missing. Willie numbered among those who were “specially and favorably noticed for gallant and meritorious conduct.”
Willie received the second mention for outstanding conduct just days later at Malvern Hill. The 44th held reserve positions early in the engagement before filing into a critical gap on the Union left as Confederate attacks intensified. Under heavy shelling, the regiment maintained formation and later advanced, pushing past multiple Union lines. The 44th charged to within 100 yards of the enemy, helping to break Confederate lines and capturing a battle flag marked “Seven Pines.” They held off a fresh enemy brigade until reinforcements arrived. Of the 225 men and officers engaged, the regiment lost 11 killed, 84 wounded, and four missing.
Born William Mangum Rexford in Norwich, N.Y., Willie numbered among the vast majority of American boys with no formal military education prior to his enlistment. He did, however, earn a college degree, graduating with the Class of 1860 from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., where he also became a Theta Delta Chi fraternity brother. He then returned home and studied law in the office of his father, attorney Benjamin Franklin Rexford.
Then war came. Willie marked his 20th birthday on the same day pro-secession mobs pelted Union soldiers from the 6th Massachusetts Infantry with bricks and rocks as they marched through Baltimore. The riot turned deadly before the troops completed their trek through the city and on to Washington. Willie remained in his father’s office through the spring and early summer, watching as the nascent Confederate states established control over their territory and federal forces moved to stop the movement.
Willie could remain at home no longer after President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to put an end to the Southern rebellion. In early August, he enlisted as a sergeant in the “People’s Ellsworth Regiment,” organized after the death and martyrdom of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth in May 1861, when Ellsworth hauled down a Confederate flag from the rooftop of a hotel in Alexandria, Va.
Willie is pictured here soon after his enlistment in his Zouave uniform, itself a tribute to Ellsworth, who had popularized the style before the war when he commanded the U.S. Zouave Cadets and led them on a popular drill tour through major U.S. cities. Willie appears ready for active campaigning with a cap box and Model 1840 noncommissioned officer’s sword attached to his waist belt, fastened with a Pattern 1851 eagle plate; a Model 1855 rifled-musket with bayonet; knapsack; and rolled blanket. His forage cap is marked with his company letter, D, and regimental number, 44.
This is how Willie looked when he distinguished himself in the battles of Gaines’ Mill and Malvern Hill. The praise he received in after-action reports marked him as a rising star in the regiment. In fact, his star did rise—but with other regiments.
In August 1862, about a month after Malvern Hill, Willie left the 44th to accept a captaincy in the new 114th New York Infantry, which had been raised in his hometown of Norwich and the surrounding Chenango and Madison counties. Before the end of the year, the regiment arrived in New Orleans, assigned to the Gulf Department commanded by Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks.
Willie experienced a brief tenure with the 114th. On the last day of 1862, he received a commission as major of the 131st New York Infantry, a regiment raised under the auspices of the New York City police and sent to Louisiana about the same time as the 114th. Now a senior commander, he spent the rest of the war in operations in Louisiana that included the Battle of Irish Bend and the Port Hudson Campaign, and in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley for the battles of Opequon Creek, Fisher’s Hill, and Cedar Creek.
At the September 19, 1864, engagement at Opequon Creek, also known as the Third Battle of Winchester, federal forces led by Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan defeated Lt. Gen. Jubal Early’s Confederates—the largest combat fought in the Shenandoah Valley during the war and the first in a series of defeats for Early’s army. The 131st, with Willie now lieutenant colonel, fought hard. Willie earned a brevet rank of colonel for his gallantry.
The 131st finished the waning months of the war in North Carolina and Georgia, where Willie served a stint as provost judge of the district of northern Georgia. The regiment mustered out of service at Savannah in July 1865.
A New York–based railroad contractor after the end of his service in 1865, Willie became involved in numerous organizations, including the American Geographical Society, the University Club, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Union College Alumni, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Engineers’ Club, and the Loyal Legion.
In 1897, more than three decades after the close of the war, veterans of the 131st held their first reunion at the Union League Club in New York City. Three of the regiment’s field officers attended—colonel and brevet brigadier general Nicholas W. Day, Maj. Augustus C. Tate, and Willie—as well as its brigade commander, colonel and brevet major general Edward L. Molineux. A newspaper report described the event: “In pleasant, informal addresses Gen. Molineux, Gen. Day, Col. Rexford and Major Tate recalled scenes of the ‘Louisiana lowlands, low,’ of Port Hudson, Bisland, of Winchester and Cedar Creek, and memories were stirred by the battle and camp pictures. It was late when the old veterans separated, determined that hereafter they must meet more frequently.”
Five years later, on a July morning in 1902, Willie collapsed after returning to his residence from a long walk and never regained consciousness. He was 61 years old and unmarried.
One admirer left behind an observation that might serve as Willie’s finest tribute: “Colonel Rexford is a true type of an American soldier; brave, cool, and determined. His promotions were fairly earned, and his service reflects great credit on himself and friends.”
PROMPT:
Create a high-quality photograph-like image in a 16:9 wide format that could be featured in a magazine article about the serene life in the countryside. The scene is set in a quaint village along a river in the northwest of Avignon, with an ancient Roman bridge not leading into a house but onto a path or similar structure, emphasizing the bridge's historical significance and rustic charm. Surround the area with old, weathered houses, including a café with a 'TABAC' sign, embodying a rustic and inviting atmosphere. Outside the café, depict two elderly men in well-worn summer attire, showing character and a life well-lived, and two young women, around 18 years old, in simple, slightly worn white summer dresses, engaging in a conversation with expressive and clear faces, highlighting the vibrant community spirit. The entire composition should exude warmth, authenticity, and a high level of detail, capturing the essence of a close-knit community's daily life in the countryside.
Prompt
digital art of a blonde woman laughing, being carried by a steampunk robot, intricate mechanical details, glowing lights, dystopian cityscape background, rain, planets in the sky BREAK science fiction, cyberpunk, dystopian, intricate details, dramatic lighting BREAK professional artwork, detailed rendering BREAK 8k uhd, sharp focus, high quality, trending on artstation, award winning
Prompt: A vintage rusty model A truck, parked by an old barn, a sign on the windshield " Used - 4 Sale ", a detailed watercolor painting with muted colors, in the style of Norman Rockwell and Artgerm, full view shot, --ar 4:3 --v 6.1
Prompt: a side view of two chestnut mares, one adult, one foal, running through dusty trail, flowing manes, shallow depth of field, natural lighting, cinematic, rule of thirds, 8k photo, Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, color pencil art --ar 14:11 --v 6.1
this AI digital fine art was created using Midjourney AI v 6.1
P99 MPT (ex BV18 FPO, AB13 EYT, BV18 FPO, V90 VTC)
2018 Volvo FH500 Globetrotter XL
Prompt Transport, North Common, Bristol
Buckingham, 17 November 2022
New as a Volvo demonstrator
created with prompts using recraftai
inspired by childhood dream of a spooky barn boatride featuring animatronic and costumed characters loosely themed on 70s vintage fast food motifs.
I should mention that this was not a nightmare, but a thoroughly fun child's dream where we were riding through a spooky barn on boats and being served hamburgers, fries, shakes and other common fast food items.
One of the earliest dreams I can recall.
Week Thirty-Nine ~ Reflected Sky
Our lyrical prompt for Week 39 of The Photographer Within's P52 was from Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra and the lyrics we had to shoot were: "Fly me to the moon." The 121st Annual Comal County Fair was this weekend, and it’s such a big local event that the schools close down on Friday, calling it “Fair Day,” and students get in for free until 6 p.m. The kids thoroughly enjoyed the fair, especially after Dominic won a goldfish and Anna won a parakeet playing midway games! Finn the goldfish is now living in a new 5-gallon tank on Dominic’s dresser. Sky the budgerigar is happily chirping in his new birdcage and goes wherever Anna goes. Anna is completely enchanted with Sky. She spent all day on Sunday talking to him and playing him music videos (he especially likes Katy Perry). I think the kids are ready for the responsibility of our new additions to the family. What a great weekend!
(I owned budgies growing up, so I know what's involved in caring for them.)
Palaikythro (Greek: Παλαίκυθρο, Turkish: Balıkesir) is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, located 6 km south of Kythrea, on the main Nicosia-Famagusta highway. The village is under de facto control of Northern Cyprus.
Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus. It is recognised only by Turkey, and its territory is considered by all other states to be part of the Republic of Cyprus.
Northern Cyprus extends from the tip of the Karpass Peninsula in the northeast to Morphou Bay, Cape Kormakitis and its westernmost point, the Kokkina exclave in the west. Its southernmost point is the village of Louroujina. A buffer zone under the control of the United Nations stretches between Northern Cyprus and the rest of the island and divides Nicosia, the island's largest city and capital of both sides.
A coup d'état in 1974, performed as part of an attempt to annex the island to Greece, prompted the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This resulted in the eviction of much of the north's Greek Cypriot population, the flight of Turkish Cypriots from the south, and the partitioning of the island, leading to a unilateral declaration of independence by the north in 1983. Due to its lack of recognition, Northern Cyprus is heavily dependent on Turkey for economic, political and military support.
Attempts to reach a solution to the Cyprus dispute have been unsuccessful. The Turkish Army maintains a large force in Northern Cyprus with the support and approval of the TRNC government, while the Republic of Cyprus, the European Union as a whole, and the international community regard it as an occupation force. This military presence has been denounced in several United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Northern Cyprus is a semi-presidential, democratic republic with a cultural heritage incorporating various influences and an economy that is dominated by the services sector. The economy has seen growth through the 2000s and 2010s, with the GNP per capita more than tripling in the 2000s, but is held back by an international embargo due to the official closure of the ports in Northern Cyprus by the Republic of Cyprus. The official language is Turkish, with a distinct local dialect being spoken. The vast majority of the population consists of Sunni Muslims, while religious attitudes are mostly moderate and secular. Northern Cyprus is an observer state of ECO and OIC under the name "Turkish Cypriot State", PACE under the name "Turkish Cypriot Community", and Organization of Turkic States with its own name.
Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, marked mid-20th century Cyprus. These included the Cyprus Emergency of 1955–59 during British rule, the post-independence Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, and the Cyprus crisis of 1967. Hostilities culminated in the 1974 de facto division of the island along the Green Line following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The region has been relatively peaceful since then, but the Cyprus dispute has continued, with various attempts to solve it diplomatically having been generally unsuccessful.
Cyprus, an island lying in the eastern Mediterranean, hosted a population of Greeks and Turks (four-fifths and one-fifth, respectively), who lived under British rule in the late nineteenth-century and the first half of the twentieth-century. Christian Orthodox Church of Cyprus played a prominent political role among the Greek Cypriot community, a privilege that it acquired during the Ottoman Empire with the employment of the millet system, which gave the archbishop an unofficial ethnarch status.
The repeated rejections by the British of Greek Cypriot demands for enosis, union with Greece, led to armed resistance, organised by the National Organization of Cypriot Struggle, or EOKA. EOKA, led by the Greek-Cypriot commander George Grivas, systematically targeted British colonial authorities. One of the effects of EOKA's campaign was to alter the Turkish position from demanding full reincorporation into Turkey to a demand for taksim (partition). EOKA's mission and activities caused a "Cretan syndrome" (see Turkish Resistance Organisation) within the Turkish Cypriot community, as its members feared that they would be forced to leave the island in such a case as had been the case with Cretan Turks. As such, they preferred the continuation of British colonial rule and then taksim, the division of the island. Due to the Turkish Cypriots' support for the British, EOKA's leader, Georgios Grivas, declared them to be enemies. The fact that the Turks were a minority was, according to Nihat Erim, to be addressed by the transfer of thousands of Turks from mainland Turkey so that Greek Cypriots would cease to be the majority. When Erim visited Cyprus as the Turkish representative, he was advised by Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the then Governor of Cyprus, that Turkey should send educated Turks to settle in Cyprus.
Turkey actively promoted the idea that on the island of Cyprus two distinctive communities existed, and sidestepped its former claim that "the people of Cyprus were all Turkish subjects". In doing so, Turkey's aim to have self-determination of two to-be equal communities in effect led to de jure partition of the island.[citation needed] This could be justified to the international community against the will of the majority Greek population of the island. Dr. Fazil Küçük in 1954 had already proposed Cyprus be divided in two at the 35° parallel.
Lindley Dan, from Notre Dame University, spotted the roots of intercommunal violence to different visions among the two communities of Cyprus (enosis for Greek Cypriots, taksim for Turkish Cypriots). Also, Lindlay wrote that "the merging of church, schools/education, and politics in divisive and nationalistic ways" had played a crucial role in creation of havoc in Cyprus' history. Attalides Michael also pointed to the opposing nationalisms as the cause of the Cyprus problem.
By the mid-1950's, the "Cyprus is Turkish" party, movement, and slogan gained force in both Cyprus and Turkey. In a 1954 editorial, Turkish Cypriot leader Dr. Fazil Kuchuk expressed the sentiment that the Turkish youth had grown up with the idea that "as soon as Great Britain leaves the island, it will be taken over by the Turks", and that "Turkey cannot tolerate otherwise". This perspective contributed to the willingness of Turkish Cypriots to align themselves with the British, who started recruiting Turkish Cypriots into the police force that patrolled Cyprus to fight EOKA, a Greek Cypriot nationalist organisation that sought to rid the island of British rule.
EOKA targeted colonial authorities, including police, but Georgios Grivas, the leader of EOKA, did not initially wish to open up a new front by fighting Turkish Cypriots and reassured them that EOKA would not harm their people. In 1956, some Turkish Cypriot policemen were killed by EOKA members and this provoked some intercommunal violence in the spring and summer, but these attacks on policemen were not motivated by the fact that they were Turkish Cypriots.
However, in January 1957, Grivas changed his policy as his forces in the mountains became increasingly pressured by the British Crown forces. In order to divert the attention of the Crown forces, EOKA members started to target Turkish Cypriot policemen intentionally in the towns, so that Turkish Cypriots would riot against the Greek Cypriots and the security forces would have to be diverted to the towns to restore order. The killing of a Turkish Cypriot policeman on 19 January, when a power station was bombed, and the injury of three others, provoked three days of intercommunal violence in Nicosia. The two communities targeted each other in reprisals, at least one Greek Cypriot was killed and the British Army was deployed in the streets. Greek Cypriot stores were burned and their neighbourhoods attacked. Following the events, the Greek Cypriot leadership spread the propaganda that the riots had merely been an act of Turkish Cypriot aggression. Such events created chaos and drove the communities apart both in Cyprus and in Turkey.
On 22 October 1957 Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot replaced Sir John Harding as the British Governor of Cyprus. Foot suggested five to seven years of self-government before any final decision. His plan rejected both enosis and taksim. The Turkish Cypriot response to this plan was a series of anti-British demonstrations in Nicosia on 27 and 28 January 1958 rejecting the proposed plan because the plan did not include partition. The British then withdrew the plan.
In 1957, Black Gang, a Turkish Cypriot pro-taksim paramilitary organisation, was formed to patrol a Turkish Cypriot enclave, the Tahtakale district of Nicosia, against activities of EOKA. The organisation later attempted to grow into a national scale, but failed to gain public support.
By 1958, signs of dissatisfaction with the British increased on both sides, with a group of Turkish Cypriots forming Volkan (later renamed to the Turkish Resistance Organisation) paramilitary group to promote partition and the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as dictated by the Menderes plan. Volkan initially consisted of roughly 100 members, with the stated aim of raising awareness in Turkey of the Cyprus issue and courting military training and support for Turkish Cypriot fighters from the Turkish government.
In June 1958, the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, was expected to propose a plan to resolve the Cyprus issue. In light of the new development, the Turks rioted in Nicosia to promote the idea that Greek and Turkish Cypriots could not live together and therefore any plan that did not include partition would not be viable. This violence was soon followed by bombing, Greek Cypriot deaths and looting of Greek Cypriot-owned shops and houses. Greek and Turkish Cypriots started to flee mixed population villages where they were a minority in search of safety. This was effectively the beginning of the segregation of the two communities. On 7 June 1958, a bomb exploded at the entrance of the Turkish Embassy in Cyprus. Following the bombing, Turkish Cypriots looted Greek Cypriot properties. On 26 June 1984, the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, admitted on British channel ITV that the bomb was placed by the Turks themselves in order to create tension. On 9 January 1995, Rauf Denktaş repeated his claim to the famous Turkish newspaper Milliyet in Turkey.
The crisis reached a climax on 12 June 1958, when eight Greeks, out of an armed group of thirty five arrested by soldiers of the Royal Horse Guards on suspicion of preparing an attack on the Turkish quarter of Skylloura, were killed in a suspected attack by Turkish Cypriot locals, near the village of Geunyeli, having been ordered to walk back to their village of Kondemenos.
After the EOKA campaign had begun, the British government successfully began to turn the Cyprus issue from a British colonial problem into a Greek-Turkish issue. British diplomacy exerted backstage influence on the Adnan Menderes government, with the aim of making Turkey active in Cyprus. For the British, the attempt had a twofold objective. The EOKA campaign would be silenced as quickly as possible, and Turkish Cypriots would not side with Greek Cypriots against the British colonial claims over the island, which would thus remain under the British. The Turkish Cypriot leadership visited Menderes to discuss the Cyprus issue. When asked how the Turkish Cypriots should respond to the Greek Cypriot claim of enosis, Menderes replied: "You should go to the British foreign minister and request the status quo be prolonged, Cyprus to remain as a British colony". When the Turkish Cypriots visited the British Foreign Secretary and requested for Cyprus to remain a colony, he replied: "You should not be asking for colonialism at this day and age, you should be asking for Cyprus be returned to Turkey, its former owner".
As Turkish Cypriots began to look to Turkey for protection, Greek Cypriots soon understood that enosis was extremely unlikely. The Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios III, now set independence for the island as his objective.
Britain resolved to solve the dispute by creating an independent Cyprus. In 1959, all involved parties signed the Zurich Agreements: Britain, Turkey, Greece, and the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, Makarios and Dr. Fazil Kucuk, respectively. The new constitution drew heavily on the ethnic composition of the island. The President would be a Greek Cypriot, and the Vice-President a Turkish Cypriot with an equal veto. The contribution to the public service would be set at a ratio of 70:30, and the Supreme Court would consist of an equal number of judges from both communities as well as an independent judge who was not Greek, Turkish or British. The Zurich Agreements were supplemented by a number of treaties. The Treaty of Guarantee stated that secession or union with any state was forbidden, and that Greece, Turkey and Britain would be given guarantor status to intervene if that was violated. The Treaty of Alliance allowed for two small Greek and Turkish military contingents to be stationed on the island, and the Treaty of Establishment gave Britain sovereignty over two bases in Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
On 15 August 1960, the Colony of Cyprus became fully independent as the Republic of Cyprus. The new republic remained within the Commonwealth of Nations.
The new constitution brought dissatisfaction to Greek Cypriots, who felt it to be highly unjust for them for historical, demographic and contributional reasons. Although 80% of the island's population were Greek Cypriots and these indigenous people had lived on the island for thousands of years and paid 94% of taxes, the new constitution was giving the 17% of the population that was Turkish Cypriots, who paid 6% of taxes, around 30% of government jobs and 40% of national security jobs.
Within three years tensions between the two communities in administrative affairs began to show. In particular disputes over separate municipalities and taxation created a deadlock in government. A constitutional court ruled in 1963 Makarios had failed to uphold article 173 of the constitution which called for the establishment of separate municipalities for Turkish Cypriots. Makarios subsequently declared his intention to ignore the judgement, resulting in the West German judge resigning from his position. Makarios proposed thirteen amendments to the constitution, which would have had the effect of resolving most of the issues in the Greek Cypriot favour. Under the proposals, the President and Vice-President would lose their veto, the separate municipalities as sought after by the Turkish Cypriots would be abandoned, the need for separate majorities by both communities in passing legislation would be discarded and the civil service contribution would be set at actual population ratios (82:18) instead of the slightly higher figure for Turkish Cypriots.
The intention behind the amendments has long been called into question. The Akritas plan, written in the height of the constitutional dispute by the Greek Cypriot interior minister Polycarpos Georkadjis, called for the removal of undesirable elements of the constitution so as to allow power-sharing to work. The plan envisaged a swift retaliatory attack on Turkish Cypriot strongholds should Turkish Cypriots resort to violence to resist the measures, stating "In the event of a planned or staged Turkish attack, it is imperative to overcome it by force in the shortest possible time, because if we succeed in gaining command of the situation (in one or two days), no outside, intervention would be either justified or possible." Whether Makarios's proposals were part of the Akritas plan is unclear, however it remains that sentiment towards enosis had not completely disappeared with independence. Makarios described independence as "a step on the road to enosis".[31] Preparations for conflict were not entirely absent from Turkish Cypriots either, with right wing elements still believing taksim (partition) the best safeguard against enosis.
Greek Cypriots however believe the amendments were a necessity stemming from a perceived attempt by Turkish Cypriots to frustrate the working of government. Turkish Cypriots saw it as a means to reduce their status within the state from one of co-founder to that of minority, seeing it as a first step towards enosis. The security situation deteriorated rapidly.
Main articles: Bloody Christmas (1963) and Battle of Tillyria
An armed conflict was triggered after December 21, 1963, a period remembered by Turkish Cypriots as Bloody Christmas, when a Greek Cypriot policemen that had been called to help deal with a taxi driver refusing officers already on the scene access to check the identification documents of his customers, took out his gun upon arrival and shot and killed the taxi driver and his partner. Eric Solsten summarised the events as follows: "a Greek Cypriot police patrol, ostensibly checking identification documents, stopped a Turkish Cypriot couple on the edge of the Turkish quarter. A hostile crowd gathered, shots were fired, and two Turkish Cypriots were killed."
In the morning after the shooting, crowds gathered in protest in Northern Nicosia, likely encouraged by the TMT, without incident. On the evening of the 22nd, gunfire broke out, communication lines to the Turkish neighbourhoods were cut, and the Greek Cypriot police occupied the nearby airport. On the 23rd, a ceasefire was negotiated, but did not hold. Fighting, including automatic weapons fire, between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and militias increased in Nicosia and Larnaca. A force of Greek Cypriot irregulars led by Nikos Sampson entered the Nicosia suburb of Omorphita and engaged in heavy firing on armed, as well as by some accounts unarmed, Turkish Cypriots. The Omorphita clash has been described by Turkish Cypriots as a massacre, while this view has generally not been acknowledged by Greek Cypriots.
Further ceasefires were arranged between the two sides, but also failed. By Christmas Eve, the 24th, Britain, Greece, and Turkey had joined talks, with all sides calling for a truce. On Christmas day, Turkish fighter jets overflew Nicosia in a show of support. Finally it was agreed to allow a force of 2,700 British soldiers to help enforce a ceasefire. In the next days, a "buffer zone" was created in Nicosia, and a British officer marked a line on a map with green ink, separating the two sides of the city, which was the beginning of the "Green Line". Fighting continued across the island for the next several weeks.
In total 364 Turkish Cypriots and 174 Greek Cypriots were killed during the violence. 25,000 Turkish Cypriots from 103-109 villages fled and were displaced into enclaves and thousands of Turkish Cypriot houses were ransacked or completely destroyed.
Contemporary newspapers also reported on the forceful exodus of the Turkish Cypriots from their homes. According to The Times in 1964, threats, shootings and attempts of arson were committed against the Turkish Cypriots to force them out of their homes. The Daily Express wrote that "25,000 Turks have already been forced to leave their homes". The Guardian reported a massacre of Turks at Limassol on 16 February 1964.
Turkey had by now readied its fleet and its fighter jets appeared over Nicosia. Turkey was dissuaded from direct involvement by the creation of a United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in 1964. Despite the negotiated ceasefire in Nicosia, attacks on the Turkish Cypriot persisted, particularly in Limassol. Concerned about the possibility of a Turkish invasion, Makarios undertook the creation of a Greek Cypriot conscript-based army called the "National Guard". A general from Greece took charge of the army, whilst a further 20,000 well-equipped officers and men were smuggled from Greece into Cyprus. Turkey threatened to intervene once more, but was prevented by a strongly worded letter from the American President Lyndon B. Johnson, anxious to avoid a conflict between NATO allies Greece and Turkey at the height of the Cold War.
Turkish Cypriots had by now established an important bridgehead at Kokkina, provided with arms, volunteers and materials from Turkey and abroad. Seeing this incursion of foreign weapons and troops as a major threat, the Cypriot government invited George Grivas to return from Greece as commander of the Greek troops on the island and launch a major attack on the bridgehead. Turkey retaliated by dispatching its fighter jets to bomb Greek positions, causing Makarios to threaten an attack on every Turkish Cypriot village on the island if the bombings did not cease. The conflict had now drawn in Greece and Turkey, with both countries amassing troops on their Thracian borders. Efforts at mediation by Dean Acheson, a former U.S. Secretary of State, and UN-appointed mediator Galo Plaza had failed, all the while the division of the two communities becoming more apparent. Greek Cypriot forces were estimated at some 30,000, including the National Guard and the large contingent from Greece. Defending the Turkish Cypriot enclaves was a force of approximately 5,000 irregulars, led by a Turkish colonel, but lacking the equipment and organisation of the Greek forces.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1964, U Thant, reported the damage during the conflicts:
UNFICYP carried out a detailed survey of all damage to properties throughout the island during the disturbances; it shows that in 109 villages, most of them Turkish-Cypriot or mixed villages, 527 houses have been destroyed while 2,000 others have suffered damage from looting.
The situation worsened in 1967, when a military junta overthrew the democratically elected government of Greece, and began applying pressure on Makarios to achieve enosis. Makarios, not wishing to become part of a military dictatorship or trigger a Turkish invasion, began to distance himself from the goal of enosis. This caused tensions with the junta in Greece as well as George Grivas in Cyprus. Grivas's control over the National Guard and Greek contingent was seen as a threat to Makarios's position, who now feared a possible coup.[citation needed] The National Guard and Cyprus Police began patrolling the Turkish Cypriot enclaves of Ayios Theodoros and Kophinou, and on November 15 engaged in heavy fighting with the Turkish Cypriots.
By the time of his withdrawal 26 Turkish Cypriots had been killed. Turkey replied with an ultimatum demanding that Grivas be removed from the island, that the troops smuggled from Greece in excess of the limits of the Treaty of Alliance be removed, and that the economic blockades on the Turkish Cypriot enclaves be lifted. Grivas was recalled by the Athens Junta and the 12,000 Greek troops were withdrawn. Makarios now attempted to consolidate his position by reducing the number of National Guard troops, and by creating a paramilitary force loyal to Cypriot independence. In 1968, acknowledging that enosis was now all but impossible, Makarios stated, "A solution by necessity must be sought within the limits of what is feasible which does not always coincide with the limits of what is desirable."
After 1967 tensions between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots subsided. Instead, the main source of tension on the island came from factions within the Greek Cypriot community. Although Makarios had effectively abandoned enosis in favour of an 'attainable solution', many others continued to believe that the only legitimate political aspiration for Greek Cypriots was union with Greece.
On his arrival, Grivas began by establishing a nationalist paramilitary group known as the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B or EOKA-B), drawing comparisons with the EOKA struggle for enosis under the British colonial administration of the 1950s.
The military junta in Athens saw Makarios as an obstacle. Makarios's failure to disband the National Guard, whose officer class was dominated by mainland Greeks, had meant the junta had practical control over the Cypriot military establishment, leaving Makarios isolated and a vulnerable target.
During the first Turkish invasion, Turkish troops invaded Cyprus territory on 20 July 1974, invoking its rights under the Treaty of Guarantee. This expansion of Turkish-occupied zone violated International Law as well as the Charter of the United Nations. Turkish troops managed to capture 3% of the island which was accompanied by the burning of the Turkish Cypriot quarter, as well as the raping and killing of women and children. A temporary cease-fire followed which was mitigated by the UN Security Council. Subsequently, the Greek military Junta collapsed on July 23, 1974, and peace talks commenced in which a democratic government was installed. The Resolution 353 was broken after Turkey attacked a second time and managed to get a hold of 37% of Cyprus territory. The Island of Cyprus was appointed a Buffer Zone by the United Nations, which divided the island into two zones through the 'Green Line' and put an end to the Turkish invasion. Although Turkey announced that the occupied areas of Cyprus to be called the Federated Turkish State in 1975, it is not legitimised on a worldwide political scale. The United Nations called for the international recognition of independence for the Republic of Cyprus in the Security Council Resolution 367.
In the years after the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus one can observe a history of failed talks between the two parties. The 1983 declaration of the independent Turkish Republic of Cyprus resulted in a rise of inter-communal tensions and made it increasingly hard to find mutual understanding. With Cyprus' interest of a possible EU membership and a new UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1997 new hopes arose for a fresh start. International involvement from sides of the US and UK, wanting a solution to the Cyprus dispute prior to the EU accession led to political pressures for new talks. The believe that an accession without a solution would threaten Greek-Turkish relations and acknowledge the partition of the island would direct the coming negotiations.
Over the course of two years a concrete plan, the Annan plan was formulated. In 2004 the fifth version agreed upon from both sides and with the endorsement of Turkey, US, UK and EU then was presented to the public and was given a referendum in both Cypriot communities to assure the legitimisation of the resolution. The Turkish Cypriots voted with 65% for the plan, however the Greek Cypriots voted with a 76% majority against. The Annan plan contained multiple important topics. Firstly it established a confederation of two separate states called the United Cyprus Republic. Both communities would have autonomous states combined under one unified government. The members of parliament would be chosen according to the percentage in population numbers to ensure a just involvement from both communities. The paper proposed a demilitarisation of the island over the next years. Furthermore it agreed upon a number of 45000 Turkish settlers that could remain on the island. These settlers became a very important issue concerning peace talks. Originally the Turkish government encouraged Turks to settle in Cyprus providing transfer and property, to establish a counterpart to the Greek Cypriot population due to their 1 to 5 minority. With the economic situation many Turkish-Cypriot decided to leave the island, however their departure is made up by incoming Turkish settlers leaving the population ratio between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots stable. However all these points where criticised and as seen in the vote rejected mainly by the Greek Cypriots. These name the dissolution of the „Republic of Cyprus", economic consequences of a reunion and the remaining Turkish settlers as reason. Many claim that the plan was indeed drawing more from Turkish-Cypriot demands then Greek-Cypriot interests. Taking in consideration that the US wanted to keep Turkey as a strategic partner in future Middle Eastern conflicts.
A week after the failed referendum the Republic of Cyprus joined the EU. In multiple instances the EU tried to promote trade with Northern Cyprus but without internationally recognised ports this spiked a grand debate. Both side endure their intention of negotiations, however without the prospect of any new compromises or agreements the UN is unwilling to start the process again. Since 2004 negotiations took place in numbers but without any results, both sides are strongly holding on to their position without an agreeable solution in sight that would suit both parties.
Prompt: In the artistic style of artist James Bama, an older weathered farmer, rugged face, thick grey beard, red flannel shirt, overalls, worn baseball cap, seated against textured weathered wall, faded American flag backdrop, Holding a white westie puppy, ears up, serious contemplative expression, --ar 3:4 --v 6.1
digital fine art created using midjourney AI v 6.1
A sample of what the inside pages of the book look like.
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5.Desire
As an initial disclaimer for this piece, the heart that I used is an animal heart that I got from a biological classroom supply company. It was part of some sort of a classroom dissection kit, and I wanted to use it to really communicate this concept effectively.
For this prompt I not only defined desire, but also illustrated the ramifications of desire. In actuality desire has a very open definition, and when looking through the definitions given for desire in the dictionary, I felt that they were so rigid that they were almost untrue. Desire really has no rigid definition, it's not entirely a verb or a noun, nor is it purely an emotion or an object. Desire is so complex that it cannot be labeled in one way. So for this prompt I have created a book with photos to illustrate a less rigid, yet still defined definition of the basic similarities of most examples of desire, and the ramifications of desire. I chose to specifically concentrate more on the emotional aspects of desire, viewed in a slightly humanized way. My book is designed to also illustrate the ramifications of each aspect of desire, while the poem defines it. I also chose to make the cover text reflective and almost reminiscent of a mirror to depict how personal definitions of desire reflect upon the individual.
Specifically the first page is intended to illustrate how desire will consume you, and the very serious results of this. I felt the heart was fitting because in both a very trite and a more serious symbology, it depicts giving up your life, which is the emotional aftermath of when desire consumes and creates "reaping feelings" as I said. I felt this part of my definition had the most serious ramifications, so therefore the photo used to illustrate it needed to be equally serious to depict and communicate this accurately. The second page is intended to depict how desire leaves us with humanized ideas of actuality, and the conclusion of this is that we are left somewhat isolated with a distorted vision of events. The third page is intended to follow this same concept in that desire makes us break apart our visions of events to create objective pasts. It is actually proven by many scientific experiments that our memory is mostly made up of small series that we continue to tell ourselves, and I feel that desire is a factor that changes how we choose to remember things. The result of this is a distorted view of the past, which can constantly change us. The fourth page is intended to depict how desire is really just a series of lies that we create, which will leave aspects of our lives empty. This creates an empty and isolated life, which is depicted by the symbolism of blood for life, used in a scene that represents isolation. I also feel that it depicts the rituals that a vapid lifestyle creates. For my last page I wanted to define what desire is confined by, which is the "cage" humanity lives in. This metaphorical cage is defined by both social aspects and mortality, which are essentially most of what also creates and confines desire. This creates the reality that whether we embrace or resent desire we are all bound by the same fragility. So to depict this I wanted to illustrate it somewhat literally, while also alluding back to my concept on the first page.
Prompt: United States Navy poster, bold white lettering "loose tweets sink fleets", --ar 3:5 --personalize m3lgrn9
Prompt #2 from Janel of "Run with Scissors" Journal prompts
Journal Prompt Number 2: What is the BEST part of your day?
Is it working out?
Is it "quitting time" at work?
Is it dinner with the fam?
What is it?
You can write about it, draw it, sketch it, doodle it, anything you like!
The best part of my day was doing RVA Crafts and going to Dinner with my mom at Red Robin.
This aerial photograph shows the pure car and truck carrier RCC Prestige berthed alongside the quay at Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour on the south side of the River Yare entrance. The vessel, built in 2011, measures about 168 metres in length with a beam of just over 28 metres and has a gross tonnage of around 36,800. She sails under the Bahamas flag and is associated with Ray Car Carriers, with Prestige Ray Ltd recorded as owner and Stamco Ship Management as technical manager.
Designed specifically for roll-on roll-off operations, RCC Prestige carries thousands of vehicles on multiple enclosed decks. Cargo is driven on and off via internal ramps rather than lifted by crane, allowing for fast turnaround in port. Ships of this class typically carry close to 4,000 cars, with adjustable deck heights to accommodate vans, plant and other wheeled machinery. The extensive vehicle compounds visible behind the ship show how this trade operates in practice, with tightly organised rows of cars awaiting export or distribution.
The setting is Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour, a major modern addition to the town’s long maritime history. Great Yarmouth has been a significant port for centuries, originally built on fishing, particularly herring, and later expanding into coastal trade, shipbuilding and North Sea industries. By the early 21st century, however, the limitations of the older river port prompted the development of a new deep-water facility.
Construction of the Outer Harbour began in 2007 and it officially opened in 2009. The project, costing in the region of £75–80 million, involved the construction of substantial breakwaters extending into the North Sea, extensive dredging and the creation of new quay space capable of handling larger, deeper-draught vessels. The harbour provides around 11 metres of water depth and several hundred metres of berthing, allowing it to accommodate a wide range of commercial shipping.
The port operates under a trust port structure, with Great Yarmouth Port Authority acting as the statutory harbour authority. Day-to-day operations are carried out by Peel Ports, which acquired the operating company in 2015 and now runs the port under a long-term lease arrangement.
Since its opening, the Outer Harbour has played a key role in reshaping Great Yarmouth’s economy. While early ambitions included container traffic and ferry services, the port has instead developed into an important base for offshore energy, including oil, gas and, increasingly, wind farm construction and maintenance in the southern North Sea. It also handles a wide range of cargoes such as aggregates, steel, project cargo and vehicles, as seen here.
In this image, RCC Prestige represents the global automotive logistics network, linking manufacturing centres with markets across Europe and beyond. At the same time, the surrounding port infrastructure reflects the modern identity of Great Yarmouth as a working industrial harbour, combining centuries of maritime tradition with large-scale 21st-century investment and the demands of a changing energy and transport landscape.
Prompt: Imagine Photorealism of beautiful Bessie Coleman in the middle of 1919 race riot in Chicago. She is clutching the hands of two small black children as violence between black and white men with sticks, bricks and knives occurs all around her. Clothing should be of 1920s --ar 5:4 --p nd587mj --v 6.1
Prompt: In the artistic style of Alan Fearnley, a group of men holding fishing poles, fishing out at sea on a commercial fishing boat impressionistic painting rendering --ar 3:4 --v 6.1
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Prompt: vintage two older women walking a west highland highland white terrier puppy, ears up, from American dream suburbia --ar 1:1 --v 6.1
Stamp scanned from a catalog (#106) published by the Geo. J. Mayer Co. of Indianapolis, Indiana in the early 1940s.
Prompt in DALL-E
Enhance the image of a historical book titled "Old Paris - The Seine". The book is open with elaborate and intricate 3D images springing out from the pages, vividly depicting scenes of the Seine in old Paris, with rich details and textures. The emerging images are surrounded by a denser mist, contributing to a mysterious and enchanting atmosphere. The background is dark and moody, contrasting with the bright, lifelike 3D illustrations. The ultra-realistic overall composition is replete with fine details that offer an immersive glimpse into the historical life by the Seine.
A blissful art journaling prompt...
"I know this, for sure... "
make it a statement about something I know with certainty - that guides my decisions and shapes my life. An easy one for me - how lucky I am!
06/07/2015
Stunning storm structure associated with remnant sub-severe thunderstorms in extreme southern Champaign County, Illinois yesterday evening. I was mostly impressed with the inflow feeding into the storm!
I was shooting lightning from this location (see "Stack of Lightning..." / previous photo) and primarily was focused on getting the good bolts. I was somewhat pleased with the lightning activity, despite that I was having ISO issues and properly exposing the storm structure, given it was so dark, and the bolts were too bright.
I ended up with this shot here after shooting quite a few, thus taking up space on the memory card, I called it quits at this location and went south towards northern Coles County near home because an approaching line of severe thunderstorms (a squall line) was soon coming into my area. I made it past Villa Grove, and blasted by the IL-133/IL-130 intersection just in time as I was paged and heard on my VHF radio that the Coles EMA needed spotters. I was out of course, so I instantly came across my radio and said where I was heading. My final goal location was east of Humboldt, that was actually on IL-130 north of Charleston lol. Things got intense way too quick, and the sky was a pitch black color. I knew we were under a severe thunderstorm warning, although I got a weird feeling that a tornado warning was going to be issued, and of all locations, it ended up smack dab right east and west of my hometown, Ashmore. The warning went off on my VHF radio and the EOC said that he was going to sound the tornado sirens for Ashmore. At that point, I was kind of worried because there was a ton of precipitation, mostly heavy rain and gusty winds coming from these storms which immediately prevented us spotters from seeing anything. Lightning didn't really help much, there was too much rain. All while that was going on I didn't even care that as soon as I left Villa Grove that Douglas and Champaign Counties would get tornado warnings. I was mad at myself for not coming south sooner, so I could have been in Ashmore and near home in time before the tornado warning was issued. There were two areas of rotation (radar indicated) by the National Weather Service in Lincoln, IL heading east from Loxa towards Ashmore that ended up prompting the tornado warning. I was still north of Charleston and decided to leave my spotting location to head home to Ashmore and check out the town, make sure no trees or stuff was in the road. Turns out we had some minor wind damage; a couple powerlines were downed by wind and a couple tree limbs fell in the road. Charleston ended up with downed powerlines too, and loss of power (as did some spots in Ashmore). Ameren has their hands full tonight, as they have been working in wet conditions to restore power to people across Central Illinois.
So I probably typed way too much for these images, but all is good and I ended up home in one piece. Everyone in Ashmore was fine, thankfully there is only spotty damage from wind gusts and hopefully nothing more. I don't think we had a tornado touchdown or anything, it was radar detected rotation only. Successfully shot my first wedding, and some storms on the same day, I totally can't complain :D
Enjoy, thanks for reading.
Ok so the picture of this is so terrible, but this is what the cardboard closet I made looks like when it's been opened up. The actual print looked 10x better than these pictures for real.
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3. A panoramic view of your closet.
For this prompt I chose to depict multiple panoramic views of what I feel to be my closet. To preface this I'll just explain that when I was about 8 years old my parents decided to move our family from our nice Connecticut town, to the middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania. Needless to say I've resented this move for the last 9 or so years, and it has taken me a while to come to terms with it. This is partially because I've just been really stubborn about it, and also because I feel so much more attached to Connecticut. It was kind of like the home that I'd spent my entire life up until that point accepting, was torn from me. Pennsylvania just isn't me, and for a multitude of other reasons I've hated it here. So for me I feel that Pennsylvania, and where I live, is a closed and defined space, making it my closet. I've specifically made this fold out closet to reference a moving box, which is also why I chose to draw the closet doors in black marker. One door is colored, which is to represent my depiction of reality initially during this move, compared to my reality of it now. Specifically, the right door is colored, because the realtor of our house gave my brother and I gifts for our trip to Pennsylvania, and she gave me a sketch pad that I drew in all the way on the drive from Connecticut to Pennsylvania. I remember that I used to draw on the moving boxes to kind of idealize our move in my own way. However now when I look at these same boxes all I see are the same sharpied-on instructions of which room they belong to, and no longer a blank canvas. This is to give an alternate panoramic view, as in how the events are visualized mentally. The picture inside is of my back yard, and I specifically made it to show the view of my back yard that I see from my bedroom window. It is also cropped to a cinematic aspect ratio, to depict how I view life cinematically, and also to present a truly unbroken view of my closet. I have excluded and fabricated nothing; this is a raw vision of my yard, and me. I'm specifically not even wearing contact lenses, because I want to make this as true and unbroken as possible. A closet is typically a place where our impediments are hidden, and because of this I felt that nothing of this view should be fabricated or left out, which made this view feel very cinematic to me. So as a whole this represents an accurate panoramic view of my closet on multiple levels.
Prompt: floral, vines, berry, butterfly’s ,soft, colorful, light, realistic, watercolor, in the artistic style of Marjolein Bastin --stylize 250 --v 6.1
Prompt: a blue heron bird walking on a beach, ocean waves, sunshine, daylight --ar 4:5 --profile 2wxm36j
Digital fine art was created using Midjourney AI and Photoshop
For the 30 day assignment ive chosen 30 lyricless songs to illustrate some sort of landscape or scene for based on its vibes. i mostly do figures so this will be a challenge. if i need a break i'll also do some prompts from the other list i made as well. yeehaw
Prompt: three U.S. Soldiers in the trenches having a Thanksgiving meal, in the style of a watercolor art, --ar 1:1 --v 6.1
Day 146 - 365 Velvet 56 Project
Went on a scavenger hunt for numbers today thanks to a photography prompt. Found some good ones.
Holy crow, that was a long prompt break. About 7 weeks left in my year at home and 49 prompts left...that's 49 prompts in 49 days?! Oh...oh boy. I better get MOVING!
Also, if you'd like a copy of that silly game board IM me! It doesn't work obviously, but it made me laugh while I was putting it together.
Highlight your name many times in the midst of your design.
I chose to use a lot of line design because I love it so much lately.
I also chose to draw some of the things that I like as well in there!!
Have fun, be creative, don't stress, just jump right in!!
The point, for me, was to cover every possible white space with pen.