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Eric Anthony Dorsa
Dragged Out of the Closet
When Eric came out of the closet as a gay man and again as a drag queen, he simply opened a door. What he thought were identities he soon realized were, in reality, masks he wore in order to leave his closet and face a cruel world that had put him there in the first place. When those masks came off, he was left with the same fear, shame, and isolation he had always felt. Which left him with a choice—either accept himself without the masks and labels, or live with the reality that these masks were, in fact, wearing him. Once he decided to leave the closet without any masks and labels, he came to a powerful realization. He was
no longer stepping into his perception of a cruel world that demanded he remain in a closet; he was stepping into his life—one that had been waiting for him all along and in which he fully belonged.
friday 20th february 2015
on realization and time
we concluded part 3 by comprehending that any primitive alter-universe has an ‘elementary moment’ - a pattern which governs how its constituent differentials extend and understand each other.
we also comprehended that at the ‘moment of realization’, each is real as the auto-understanding of the other.
in other words, by being constitutionally nothing but a differential extending of the other, each realizes its own exteriority as a spacing from the other. in this way each understands space.
our task is now to show how the constituent differentials understand time - as progressive reiterations of the moment of realization - as moments of presence.
saturday 21st february 2015
elementary moment:
the pattern of differential extending of an alter-universe.
(graphic)
moment of realization:
the differentials realize their pattern, becoming spatially real for each other.
(graphic)
first moment of presence:
(auto-reiteration of the moment of realization)
the beginning of time for a spatial alter-universe,
for which each presents itself for the first moment of time
to the other as the other
but - so
each differential auto-understands as a spatiality-with the other (by extending constitutionally as the other) but pure singleness extends instantaneously, so the other which the one is spatially real as, is already spatially real as its ownmost other ...which is the one.
in other words, for a moment of presence in a violet-red, two-fold alter-universe, violet is real as that which red is already real as - which is violet. (and the same is true for red-violet) this is what we mean by the instantaneous symmetrical entanglement of pure singleness; and although a moment of time seems to pass for red and violet as an accumulative alternation of their spatial realities, this moment is only how each understands and realizes the presence of the other
pure singleness does not extend spatio-temporally, and is not effected. hence their entanglement extends into itself instantaneously.
sunday 22nd february 2015
eight moments of a violet-red alter-universe.
elementary :
violet red
realizing :
violet is (real as red) but red is already (real as violet)
red is (real as violet) but violet is already (real as red)
first present:
so (real as red) is presently (real as (real as violet))
so (real as violet) is presently (real as (real as red))
second present:
but (real as violet) is already (real as (real as red)) so (real as (real as violet)) is presently (real as (real as (real as red)))
but (real as red) is already (real as (real as violet)) so (real as (real as red)) is presently (real as (real as (real as violet)))
third present:
but (real as (real as red)) is already (real as (real as (real as violet))) so (real as(real as (real as red)) is presently (real as(real as (real as (real as violet)))
but (real as(real as violet))
is already (real as(real as (real as red)))so (real as (real as (real as violet))) is presently (real as(real as (real as (real as red)))
to abbreviate the rest…
fourth present:
but (((violet))) is already ((((red)))) so ((((violet)))) is presently (((((red)))))
but (((red))) is already ((((violet)))) so ((((red)))) is presently (((((violet)))))
fifth present:
but ((((red)))) is already (((((violet))))) so (((((red))))) is presently ((((((violet))))))
but ((((violet)))) is already (((((red))))) so (((((violet))))) is presently ((((((red))))))
sixth, seventh, etc., red and violet continue accumulating the momentary spatial realities of each other as the time of their alter-universe.
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Goofball idiots wearing the Republican banner have opened their mouths about women's issues and were called to task for it. Rightly so. But to think the 'other' party is free of guilt is being naive. They've acquired your services in the promotion of their own agenda. Think! Genuine Right Memes™
Taken from a beautiful garden (Self Realization Fellowship Hermitage & Meditation Garden) above the cliffs at Encinitas. The garden is open to the public and is a must see if in the San Diego area.
We the people are but the puppets of our needs and whims. We worship god for whatever he gave us and for the ability he bestowed us with.
The image above depicts an event when the god is giving a strong punch to the person who is involved in the immersion. He is being pulled up by the almighty for the filth he is spreading in the river.
We should stop spreading filth here and there and worship god so that we attain peace and prosperity. This should not be done at the cost of many lives who unknowingly suffer from the dirt caused by the people.
Disclaimer: I have not tried to hurt anyone's religious sentiment. I have just endeavored to convey a message (mentioned above)
Encinitas, California
The Self-Realization Fellowship Encinitas Hermitage, and Meditation Gardens is a monastic ashram and meditation gardens in Encinitas, California, United States created by Paramahansa Yogananda. Its golden lotus towers rise above the white wall along Highway 101 near Swami's Seaside Park.
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"I was ill with cancer and had lot of fear. After attending the Self realization ceremony, felt really good. At times of fear, an internal voice came saying that you are a pure Soul.The illness is still not cured completely but i am not affected by anything as much as before. I am so grateful that this light of Pure soul within me acquired through Self-Realization has helped a lot.
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Sword Art Online: HOLLOW REALIZATION reached America in 2016
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Project realization: 2017
Architect: @Gillespies, London
Project: Since 1779, The Piece Hall has stood proudly at the heart of Halifax. Originally built to support the trading of ‘pieces’ of cloth, it has been a meeting point of Halifax’s commercial, civic and cultural life for almost 250 years. In an ambitious and exciting new chapter, The Piece Hall has been reimagined as a new cultural and commercial centre. The Piece Hall has recently undergone a £19 million conservation and transformation programme.
I just came to the realization that skiing is just not my thing. Some people may be experts. I am not one of them. I wish, but I don't think I will.
Just the thought of having two uncontrollable long sticks attached to my legs is scary. Maybe Snowboarding. I should try that on my next trip there.
But I would love to learn cross country skiing - if only to get to Glacier Point and witness a sunset.
So that is why when I went to Badger Pass when it opened for the season right after fresh snowfall, I opted not to ski and instead went around shooting photographs. Not only was I trying to shoot some amazing cloud formations, I was looking keenly at the groomed tracks of the snowcat and patterns left by skiers above.
I loved the swishy patterns formed by skiers on a rather steep slope and was changing my lens to shoot it when a group of skiers crossed the path leading to other unwanted trails.
So I did the best I could
Badger Pass
Yosemite National Park
CA USA
This video shares historical information about the family, childhood, education, and early adult life of Pujya Niruma. It highlights her meeting with Pujya Dadashri.
To know more visit here at:
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This is another shot taken from an out look point at the Self-Realization Fellowship Meditation Gardens, Encinitas, CA
Now serving as the Self-Realization Fellowship, this Spanish Colonial Revival building was built in 1920. It is on the corner of Chapman and Pomona, Fullerton, CA
I set out on Sunday with three digital cameras and a bunch of friends for a couple of days of jetskiing and camping. We all had a great time, but my hopes of returning with loads of interesting images were dashed on Tuesday when I uploaded them and found that none were worthy of more than a blog...
Realization: Thierry Chekroun @ Jack Holt
Hair: Rachel, Moa and Mary @ Jack Holt Team
Photo: Jean Philippe Darbois, Héloise Peyre
Make-up: Sophie Nominé Bouteille
Artistic Direction: Laure Delvigo
Styling: Marine Sion
Tratto da: Estetica Hair Magazine
The beautiful, tranquil, and awe-inspiring Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles), California
It's been weird...
Totally weird.
Things have been pretty much slow this time around.
Waiting for winter break to get over very soon.
But i lie down realizing so many things.. Its the phase that has turned on to me..
But hoping for better time ahead..
: )
< Realization of “Birth and Life“, monumental sculpture in stainless steel for the Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences in Niigata, Japan. Three elements : “The Life” 285 x 130 x 125, “Growth” 305 x 80 x 65, “Together” 105 x 185 x 105.
< Réalise «Naissance et Vie» à : Niigata university of pharmacy and applied sciences, à Niitsu-Niigata, Japon. Trois sculptures en acier inoxydable au cœur de l’université : «la Vie» 285 x 130 x 125, “Croissance” 305 x 80 x 65, “Amitié” 105 x 185 x 105.
< モニュメント作品「生命」ステンレス、守る、285×130×125cm
成長305×80×65cm集合105×185×105cm 新潟薬科大学新津校舎に設置（新潟市）
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A beautiful place! I enjoyed a lovely afternoon here walking through their gardens, enjoying the amazing view, and meditating for a little while in their lovely chapel.
I was able to get extremely close to a hummingbird for the first time. A lady who frequents the Lake Shrine told me while I was chatting with her that there is a legend around the Shrine that if a hummingbird shows himself to you it is the Master Paramahansa Yogananda. I saw the same bird there 3 times during my short visit. He seemed to be following me around!
I felt so at peace and happy here!
The Lake Shrine Temple is located a quarter mile from the end of Sunset off the Pacific Coast Highway. It is a serene 10-acre spiritual sanctuary which surrounds a spring-fed lake filled with swans, ducks and koi. The grounds beneath the Self-Realization Fellowship temple recognizes all the religions of the world and promotes peace and fellowship among all men. Most prominent is a memorial containing some of the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi.
With my new PX 600 silver shade film
taken on a Polaroid Impulse AF camera.
On the crest of Mt. Washington, five miles from downtown Los Angeles, Paramahansa Yogananda established the Self-Realization Fellowship headquarters and meditation grounds in 1925.
The first realization in MVRDV's home town Rotterdam is a rooftop house extension. On top of an existing monumental house and atelier, the bedrooms are positioned as separate houses, optimizing the privacy of every member of the family.
The first realization in MVRDV's home town Rotterdam is a rooftop house extension. On top of an existing monumental house and atelier, the bedrooms are positioned as separate houses, optimizing the privacy of every member of the family.
Nikon D700 | Tamron Adaptall 17/3.5 SP
You know you are a big contender on the political scene when you roll deep in an Alto. As I've mentioned before, Japanese law limits the number of citizens you can simultaneously campaign to, so politicians often drive around or stand on street corners making campaign promises.
A path leading to the Temple of Leaves. Benches are gathered around an old pepper tree where Paramahansa Yogananda often gave classes.
Do you know that the Soul also has enemies? The enemies of the Soul are all within us. They are our anger, pride, greed and lust. One can only become free from these enemies after Self Realization.
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Messe Basel - New Hall
Basel, Switzerland
Project 2004-2012, realization 2010-2013
Urban and entrepreneurial planning
The concentration of exhibition halls around the Messeplatz (Exhibition Square) is the key entrepreneurial aim of the Messe Basel leadership in its further development. Building the Messe Tower and replacing Hall 1 with a highly modern building and optimum exhibition areas were the first components in this strategy, followed by the continuing construction of new halls.
This concentration of exhibition centre activities is also an important urban planning matter for the development of the surrounding Kleinbasel neighbourhood, aimed at regaining outlying exhibition spaces on the present Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) area for apartments, offices and small businesses while simultaneously upgrading the Messeplatz as a focal point in Kleinbasel.
Necessary demolition
Achieving this entrepreneurial as well as urban planning aim of congegrating the Messe and at the same time retaining the important Watch and Jewellery Fair within Basel, required the replacement of two halls on the Messeplatz (Hall 1 at the front and Hall 3). These halls no longer fulfilled modern exhibition requirements in terms of ceiling heights, column spacing or load bearing capacity of the floors. It was also important that all halls be interconnected to ensure flexibility for various events, and that nearby car parking facilities should be retained.
Necessary construction
Fulfilling exhibition requirements for large volumes and uninterrupted floor areas, the New Hall is a three-storey extension of Hall 1 along the Riehenring. To provide indoor connection to all exhibition halls, the new building bridges over the Messeplatz and creates a covered public space, perhaps comparable to a railway station concourse or indoor market, realized in a modern design language. This key architectural and urban planning element defines the south end of the Messeplatz and is illuminated from above by a generous circular opening.
Planned for many uses and events that will take place during and between exhibitions, and featuring restaurants and shops intended for a mix of international, local, exhibition, and public visitors, we have named this new outdoor hall the City Lounge. Open at all times, the City Lounge not only defines the entrance to the fair spaces, but will be a focal point of public life on Clarastrasse (the main shopping street in Kleinbasel) and will significantly enliven the street culture around the Messeplatz. For example, during the autumn fair the partially covered hall will create a fascinating atmosphere with smaller booths and aisles open to, yet protected, from the elements.
City Lounge and Messeplatz
With the addition of the New Hall, current activities on the Messeplatz will continue, but they will take place in a space with different proportions. What was once an elongated rectangle that more or less ran into Clarastrasse without noticeable demarcation is now almost a square with clearer urban definition.
A new “lane” between the New Hall and existing multi-storey car park offers better access to Messeplatz for pedestrians. Connecting east to the adjacent residential area around Riehenstrasse and Peter Rot-Strasse, this “lane” is a continuation of Isteinerstrasse and creates a new east-west link which integrates the Messeplatz into the quarter. Service and supply to the New Hall will be mainly through an underground route, thus reducing truck traffic on Riehenstrasse.
The Messeplatz is a pedestrian and cyclist precinct. Together with the adjacent Rosentalanlage, the Messeplatz will be the main outdoor space for the many residents of the Messe district. The green belt along the Messeplatz-Wettsteinplatz link will be enhanced by more trees on Riehenstrasse to visually connect the exhibition centre to the Rosentalanlage.
What is an exhibition hall today?
Ideally, exhibition halls should be as spacious as possible, rectangular in layout, with wide spans and ceiling heights of around 10 m, in order to provide the flexibility and versatility required for exhibition purposes. In recent years, the demand for such generous spaces has further increased.
Taking Baselworld as a leading example of a modern international exhibition, where the halls are animated by the individual exhibitors’ stands, the goods on display and the crowds of visitors, the question of an exhibition hall architecture does not seem to be a primary demand. Architecture is only perceptible in public areas and stairways and only there can an interface with the wider public landscape of the city emerge. The best illustration of this is the round courtyard in Hall 2. Regrettably, this courtyard is only accessible during exhibitions as it is undoubtedly one of the most attractive public areas in Basel and, especially during Art Basel in June, one of the most successful urban meeting points in the whole of Switzerland. The City Lounge aims to turn the inward-looking architecture of the round courtyard towards the outside and to make it accessible all year round.
How do we design an exhibition hall on the outside?
Viewed from the outside, exhibition halls are actually nothing more than a stack of big boxes. They require very few windows and architectural distinctions are deemed as impractical restrictions on interior flexibility. The architectural results are generally composed of vast, monotonous facades of brick as in Hall 2 or glass for Hall 1. To avoid this repetitive sameness, we took a different approach for the New Hall.
The New Hall features three exhibition levels. The entrance level, the lowest, is at grade with the street and outdoor square, permitting a natural and casual coming-and-going. Ground floor entrances seamlessly link the City Lounge to the existing Hall 1, former Hall 3, the new event space for 2’500 spectators, and a number of shops, bars and restaurants in the foyers. The dynamic sweep of the street level facade reacts to the flows of people and corresponds to the space required at the tram stop and entrances to the exhibition centre and Event Hall. Here, large expanses of glass create the spatial transparency both necessary and appropriate in order to achieve the openness envisioned for the exhibition hall complex and the enlivening of public urban life. This vitalisation and acceptance will be crucial to the long-term success of the "Messezentrum in the city" concept.
Above the ground will be two exhibition floors. To avoid the “big box” effect, the two upper volumes are offset from each other as separate entities, which indeed they are! The New Hall therefore consists of three individual elements, one on top of the other, each projecting over the street in varying degrees, and allowing them to respond to different urban conditions. From each point of view – whether from the Riehenring, Messeplatz or Riehenstrasse – the New Hall offers a different perception every time and thus avoids the monotony of uniform facade lines.
This constant architectural variation is reinforced, paradoxically, by applying a homogeneous material (aluminum) over all exterior surfaces. The facade of articulated twisting bands strategically modulates and reduces the scale of the large exhibition volumes to its surroundings. This is not simply a decorative element but a practical means to regulate the fall of natural light on adjacent properties and to frame specific views from individual spaces, primarily the social areas above the City Lounge, towards the public life of the city.
Herzog & de Meuron, 2013
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www.herzogdemeuron.com/index/projects/complete-works/201-...
Eric Anthony Dorsa
Dragged Out of the Closet
When Eric came out of the closet as a gay man and again as a drag queen, he simply opened a door. What he thought were identities he soon realized were, in reality, masks he wore in order to leave his closet and face a cruel world that had put him there in the first place. When those masks came off, he was left with the same fear, shame, and isolation he had always felt. Which left him with a choice—either accept himself without the masks and labels, or live with the reality that these masks were, in fact, wearing him. Once he decided to leave the closet without any masks and labels, he came to a powerful realization. He was
no longer stepping into his perception of a cruel world that demanded he remain in a closet; he was stepping into his life—one that had been waiting for him all along and in which he fully belonged.