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I cancelled my TV subscription service some six years ago.
I just had it with all the superficial shows, putting a lot of garbage into my brain.
Although there were and are a few Dutch programs I love(d) to watch.
Thanks to the great internet I can watch my favorite talkshows or well made
documentary-like programs online. Some in real-time, some a few hours later.
If I want to watch a movie I go to the cinema or watch it on DVD. That's why I still have a television set in my living room.
If I want to see some Reality TV I open up the curtains before the large window of my appartment.
A view on a little train station with trains that come and go; a highway with trucks, cars, busses and motorbikes.
Pedestrians going to or coming from work, walking their dog or themselves.
A variety of life, just in front of my appartment, with of course the two big chestnut trees.
There's enough to see, enough to enjoy!
Yeah, I know that cropped like this, a pair of photographs on a blank wall looks small. It's my way of giving the big picture: the wondrously soft and sympathetic lighting of the gallery, and the dark, contrast-heavy topic and technique of an already rising star with a camera. These pieces depict the plight of men in Sydney's Domain in the 1930s.
I cannot do better than Jack Kennedy's words:
For art is the great democrat calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or colour
At the same time as country people were struggling to survive, the city was no better off. But Max Dupain was not of this class. His father operated a successful gymnasium business, mixing with Sydney's intelligentsia — including the Cotton family. Freda du Faur — the first woman to ascend Aoraki/Mount Cook — met her partner through training at the Dupain gym, and her father was a mover and shaker in protecting Kuringai Chase, while patronising the arts via his involvement with the Art Gallery of New South Wales. We all know that Max Dupain loved the outdoors and nature, so this thread ran through his culture.
At a time when public secondary education wasn't a given — filtered by qualification on primary school outcomes — young Max — already busy with his cameras — got a privileged education at the Sydney Grammar School. On his leaving in 1930 in the midst of the Great Depression, he wrote in the school magazine:
To-day I became an Old Boy and, of course, I'm feeling the worse for wear in my strange environment amongst "the stunted forms and weedy" of city industry, where things seem foreign and unnatural... good-bye, Old School ... fare thee well!
His sampling of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson's Clancy of the Overflow gives voice to his leanings towards his intellectual side.
Governor Lachlan Macquarie set aside the land occupied by The Domain as part of the public estate in the early 1800s. Today, it remains largely unchanged: green sward and great trees, a refuge behind the noisy machinery of a city. Heading over Sydney's heaving spine, these desolate souls might have given up the daily anxiety of "The Hungry Mile" where unemployed men queued for day labour jobs as stevedores on the docks of Barangaroo, at Darling Harbour. What a contrast; those docks now gone, replaced by glass playgrounds for the rich, patrolled by security staff against the horrid notion that someone of the wrong class, not entitled, might come there and hazard to point a camera at it.
By emphasising the dual location of perception and cognition Overlaid Realities merges the sensory experience of the museum with the environment of the ‘other’, hosting participatory relationships, whilst converging interdependent processes.
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Valerie from Malaysian Dreamgirl online reality show. Catch more of this model at www.malaysiandreamgirl.tv
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Dachau, Germany (May 1945)
A group of survivors sits outside a barracks in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.
(credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Kathleen Quinn)
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I never really understood the difference between dreams and reality. I've always thought they were both realities, and the mind is left to choose to dub which ever one the dream.
My dreams are my reality. You?
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The concept is inspired by an ad that I had seen in a magazine a few years back. I don't remember which magazine it was or what product it was promoting, but the image stuck in my mind.
Update:
Some of my friends have interpreted this picture in a different way than what I had intended. They think what I'm trying to say is that the worst is behind us and that there are good times ahead, maybe as an analogy to the fading recession.
The other way to look at it, and this is my view, is that we are far too complacent about the environment and that we take things lightly. While we know that something needs to be done, we think that the environment will not change dramatically in the near future and that we have plenty of time, and so we delay taking action. But in reality climate changes may occur sooner and with more intensity than we anticipate.
I would like to know what was your initial reaction when you saw this picture? Which one of the two thoughts came to your mind first, or did you interpret this in a different way? Please let me know.
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Credits: The concept and the picture of drought are not mine. I did this to improve my skills with GIMP (more work needed on that), and to highlight the issue of climate change.
Update: Just saw this wonderful video by Annie Leonard on the flow of materials from extraction to disposal and the wastage inherent in this linear system.
Check it out on www.storyofstuff.com
Even though I am not a big fan of mid-day pictures, this scene was too good to pass up. While I would have loved to wait 3-4 hours for sunset, the harsh reality was I still had over 200 miles to drive before sundown.
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Photograph taken in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 06:17am on September 7th 2011 off Beacon Avenue and 1st Street, beside Beacon Park and the old wooden fish market, looking over towards Mt Baker in Washington State, USA, from beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Mount Baker is also known as Koma Kulshan or Kulshan, an active glaciated andesitic Stratovolcano in the North Cascades of Washington State. She towers over three thousand two hundred and eighty metres high and last erupted back in 1880
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A firefighter stands between a fire truck, and a police car. Oklahoma State University students with the help of Stillwater and OSU emergency services host the program "Reality Check" at the Kerr-Drummond Resident hall on March 9th, 2011. Photos by Mitchell Alcala