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A Taoist walking Meditation
The simplest way to access transcendent reality is to walk.
Walk no where, with no purpose except to experience the walker in the process of walking .. one foot in front of the other ..
Look at no-thing .. don't become distracted by focusing on anything .. allow your vision to broaden .. and you will see everything .. all of the things you would have missed if your attention had become transfixed on some-thing.
Listen to no-thing .. don't become distracted by all of the sounds around you, but let them pass through you .. and as you do, you will hear things that you never would have before.
The same applies to your senses of feeling, taste, smell .. and the emotions that arise from within you ..
As you place one foot in front of the other, allow yourself to become aware of the whole mechanism of your walking - the pressure of the individual points on the ground, the flexing of the tendons and muscles, the movement of your skin, the way the weight transfers all of the way up your body and down again as you take another step ..
Even deeper results can be obtained by combining the sequence of the "breathing exercise" whilst you walk.
Be aware of the majesty of the inner orchestra responsible for each fluid motion .. and how each movement is part of the breath and each breath part of the beat of the Universal Heart.
Chaos only exists for those who do not understand The Streams of Consciousness that is Life_Be_ing_Life in the Moment of Living.
- This is just a re- edit of a previous photo i did.
Long time no talk!
Lots of exciting news has came my way these past few days.
Ive recently won 8 awards in the scholastics photography competition!
and one nominee for American Vision, which takes place in new york.
So its been pretty hectic getting everything together!
Im trying to get back on here, and i think its about time i start uploading more often again!
~Dejenee
Day 248, Sunday, September 5th, 2021
Make a Wish
I love making Pam smile, her day to day reality isn’t easy. Pam has a terminal illness called Chronic Variable Immune Deficiency, CVID. It makes fighting off even a simple cold a fight for life… you can imagine how scary Covid is. She has to inject immunoglobulin for 2 days every 2 weeks and it makes her feel pretty crappy. (If you are able, please consider donating plasma, it could save my sister’s life!) Gregg deals with PTSD from his combat experience in the Gulf War. They both help suicidal veterans find immediate and urgent help when they are at their low points. Surprising her with a birthday cake made her smile and made us feel very grateful to be able celebrate with her.
Nikon D750 | 20mm | f/3.2 | 1/320 | ISO 1600 | handheld
I am still working out my new camera and took a few practice shots of the kids in the pool during todays 38 degree heat. My 5 year old loves swimming under water and the reflection of her face in the wave caught my attention here
Lately, more than ever before, I happen to perceive the everyday, the so-called “ reality”, as conceptually distorted. Hence, in an effort to depict the widespread social and cultural distortions I perceive, I continue my quest, assembling or re-assembling lenses that can depict my inner perception accordingly.
In this case I am experimenting with an old and modified Bell and Howell projector lens.
The lens original focal length (f2.5) is a mere 2 inch, but after modification it covers a 4x5 format. When I say “cover” I am obviously not talking “corner to corner sharpness” as many of my esteemed colleagues appear keen to seek in their optics: quite the opposite, in fact. This prototype I built is only sharp in the very middle of the frame, hence the photograph needs to be composed accordingly.
The rest of the image looks more like an experiment with Psychotropic drugs as the level of distortion and funky, crazy bokeh exceeds any expectations of optical sobriety.
And that’s exactly what I am looking for.
I called this lens “the poor man’s PLASTICCA” as the center sharpness fading into the “unknown” softness recalls a bit that vintage and nowadays extremely expensive large format lens.
These are portrait experiments created with it, using a Speed Graflex at roughly 1/700th shutter speed. There is a yellow filter at the back of the lens and the image is recorded on x-ray film (green) rated at 200 ASA.
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Alpenexpress Enzian 28/12/2022 13h22
The sign of the rollercoaster classic of Europa-Park, the Alpenexpress Enzian.
Alpenexpress Enzian
Alpenexpress Enzian (formerly Grottenblitz) is a powered roller coaster with optional virtual reality manufactured by Mack Rides in Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. It is located in the Austria section of the park, and was built in 1984. Alpenexpress was the first roller coaster built at the park.
The Alpenexpress train has 10 cars which can accommodate 38 people (four per car, two per row). Each car is equipped with an electric motor which draws power from rails situated between the tracks. The motors drive wheels which run on a third rail in the center of the tracks. The ride is 250 metres in length and has a speed of approximately 45 kilometres per hour. It has a capacity of 1100 people per hour and a ride time of 1 minute 40 seconds.
Alpenexpress Coastiality is an optional, pay-per-ride virtual reality experience on Alpenexpress. The system was developed by Mack Rides and VR Coaster and was introduced in September 2015. Each ride at opening cost an extra â¬2 per person. Riders wear wireless Samsung Gear VR headsets with a selection of four experiences.
Initially the ride turns sharply right, then into a left-hand helix into the "Magic World of Diamonds", an artificial cave with a mine theme - this cave is shared with the Tirol Log Flume ride. The ride takes a sharp turn to the right out of the cave and back into the station. Normally the ride operates for two laps.
FACTS & FIGURES
Opened: 1984
Height: 6 meters
Length: 264 meters
Speed: 45 km/h
Duration: 1m40
Capacity: 1100 riders/hour
Trains: Single train with 10 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 40 riders per train.
[ Wikipdia 2019 ]
My friend Michael Naimark is exploring new ideas for virtual reality experiences, in collaboration with Google and other researchers. To discuss this work, we got together with two other colleagues, Steve Gano and Jim McKee -- with whom we worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, pushing the envelope on related questions.
We started with a tour of the historic Sentinel Building in North Beach, home of American Zoetrope -- where Francis Coppola worked on many cinematic masterpieces like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We checked out the underground screening room and sound mixing room where some of that work took place, then headed upstairs to Michael and Jim’s studios, for a wonderful conversation about the new VR frontier.
Michael and his colleagues are researching how people are represented in virtual reality. Their first experiment at Google’s “Big Chairs” Park led to some helpful guidelines on how to film people for VR, by using different camera angles and distances.
They’re also investigating ‘hyper-images’ that resemble a group of people, but that are shot at different times and composited together to create both ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ pictures. To enable more experiments like these, Michael is developing ‘IMU VR’, a new type of camera that could make it easier for communities to tell their stories in VR. More on this later.
It was great to reconnect with my colleagues and brainstorm these ideas together. It felt like the good old days, and the creative juices were flowing all over again ...
Learn more about Michael Naimark’s work:
View more photos about Virtual Reality:
People might say social media is not real. This is not real. That’s not real. I would say anything that makes one a happy person is real 💙
"..and now colours too. Hmm...Disturbing"
This is my second attempt to escape reality and to save a capture from damnation as well.
Originally intended to be used as an additional photo in a reply to comments on the Mellow Yellow photo, but after having uploaded it, I found it deserved to have a life of it's own.
Again inspiration by Julie and a piece of music, I until recently hadn't listened to in 30 years...
Textures by Lala Mártin
...and finally
Photo by Louise
Photographed in Key Biscayne - off Miami, Florida
We have had a few days of windy conditions and clouds, which makes interesting long-exposure photos. I tried my luck and went down to Key Biscayne to shoot a sunset. I got stuck in traffic and the drive took me so much longer than anticipated.
It was getting darker quickly when I finally got to my familiar spot. An older man was sitting in a chair smoking a cigar and enjoying the remaining light of the sunset. He suddenly said: "You just missed everything," while I was setting up. "It's all over!" he continued. "We'll see! Now that I'm seeing this I have something different in mind," I replied. "I think my reality perception might be different than yours. I wish you could see what this will look like when I'm done." We continued chatting for the next ten to fifteen minutes I spent shooting this scene. Afterwards it was really over.
If this would be my blog, I would post a view of what he was "seeing." Kind of a "before" and "after" viewing.
I shot this image for a combination of post production work using HDR and long-exposure. I wrote about this work in previous postings. The water was choppy and the foreground in total darkness. The cloud's movement was interesting. In this case the long exposure layer of the image was captured for about 200s at f/11. The HDR part was obtained from a 7-capture sequence ranging from -3 to +3 stops. All post work done in CS6.
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Il Mondo Parallelo, sottostante, retrostante la maschera.
Quello in cui vorremmo vivere, ma che troviamo solo specchiato guardando nella purezza della Natura.
#nature #lovenature #meditation #landscape #landscapeshunter #reflection #reality #dream #hope
There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein
I need to realize in reality, you really dont care about me at all.
there will always be something that you care about more and I am not one of those things. I will never be
when I learned
that my uncle
had lost his mind
it was around the time
I was finding mine
what a wrench to the heart
what a strange way to start
stalled out when reality
refused to play its part
in your underwear in the snow
what a strange way to go
waiting on a voice
to tell you where to grow
but spring will not commit
to the subtlety of sanity
reality, the bore
spread eagle on the forest floor
gotta be a preacher or a busker
gotta reach right out
and touch her as she sleeps
the spirit of the silence
you can't keep
~ ~ ~
October 7, 2025
South Tremont, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6540 of my daily journal.
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My friend Michael Naimark is exploring new ideas for virtual reality experiences, in collaboration with Google and other researchers. To discuss this work, we got together with two other colleagues, Steve Gano and Jim McKee -- with whom we worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, pushing the envelope on related questions.
We started with a tour of the historic Sentinel Building in North Beach, home of American Zoetrope -- where Francis Coppola worked on many cinematic masterpieces like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We checked out the underground screening room and sound mixing room where some of that work took place, then headed upstairs to Michael and Jim’s studios, for a wonderful conversation about the new VR frontier.
Michael and his colleagues are researching how people are represented in virtual reality. Their first experiment at Google’s “Big Chairs” Park led to some helpful guidelines on how to film people for VR, by using different camera angles and distances.
They’re also investigating ‘hyper-images’ that resemble a group of people, but that are shot at different times and composited together to create both ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ pictures. To enable more experiments like these, Michael is developing ‘IMU VR’, a new type of camera that could make it easier for communities to tell their stories in VR. More on this later.
It was great to reconnect with my colleagues and brainstorm these ideas together. It felt like the good old days, and the creative juices were flowing all over again ...
Learn more about Michael Naimark’s work:
View more photos about Virtual Reality:
Happy new year to all of you... :D
This being my first pic for the year.. :)
I think the title would be enough to make you think about the world that we live in... where everything is materialistic...
the values and morals... just seen in the book...
the toughts.. controlled by other individuals.. mostly by those who are above us...
Being in control and used by others...
Seeing what the others want us to see, rather than what you want to see...
The world has turned into an augmented reality by that few people and we are living on their signal feeds...
we need to break free..
It 's official: whenever in a new city, you'll ALWAYS get lost, at least once!!
Thanks for the maps around, always pointing us in the good direction. :-)
Plaça Catalunya,
Barcelona, Spain
No se trata de un recorte de la foto que subí anteriormente. Es una imagen distinta, tomada desde más cerca ;^)