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In the tunnel...seeing the light?
I took this shot about 100 times while I was there, probably made security think what in the hell was I doing. Finally got a single person at the right point to line up with the light. I love this.
Seen in Explore 7.21.2009
By far, this is not the most perfectly composed shot. The beauty of what Fall represents might make up for some of it, I hope.
When I think of this leaf, it was a unique part of something greater. Maybe it still is in a new way. Being a part of the Plum Tree, it offered shade for the squirrel to sit under and laugh at the dog. It's beautiful color attracted birds to come sing in the tree. A safe haven for the high energy hummingbirds to take a little break. And it's shade even gave yesterday's pic part of it's lovely dimension as it enjoyed a gentle breeze. And it was there to nourish the tree itself.
I'm happy for everything this leaf has brought as we celebrate what Fall means.
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Love sings,
When it transcends the bad things,
Have a heart and try me,
'Cause without love I won't survive.
I'M BACK
Hopefully for good this time.
I have A LOT to say; I'll try to not waste all of your time with random things about what I've been doing, most of you will glance over all of it anyway, so here goes nothing!
Alright, so you all know that I was an avid Flickrer up until a couple months ago. My 365 was going great for a while, and then it fell through. I started not taking pictures everyday and just editing old ones. Nothing was working and I had absolutely no motivation to go out and take pictures, so I stopped my 365 on day 314. I was so close to the end, but I would have finished it and not been very proud of my final stretch. With that said, I am now BACK and ready to fulfill my 365 project, starting today at 315. I will try my HARDEST to take pictures everyday, which for a while I will upload pictures from this MASSIVE shoot that I did (the main reason because I left my camera charger in California somewhere). I hope to not disappoint you all with the end of my 365 and I really do hope that I can get back to being a good Flickr friend to all of you. I know I've been away for a very long time.
Well all about what has happened to me since you last heard about my life! If you don't want to read some rant about nothing, then skip this :)
Well… school has been rather hectic, getting through with my Junior year and trying very hard not to get too stressed because of it. I have to prepare for college (yes, I am already doing that) and my finals/AP tests at the end of the semester. I took my SAT for the first time and I'm taking a class to improve my scores starting in the next month. My grades are great, but I was struggling for a while (part of the reason for stopping my 365). Anyway, I have found someone who motivates my creativity and is willing to trek all the way to nowhere to take pictures with me.
I introduce to you, Josh (featured above).
We went out on this photo shoot and pretty much had the time of our lives, both of us haven't taken pictures in ages, so this was good for us. We are proud of ourselves for getting back into photography and above is the product of long suppressed creativity. I hope everyone enjoys the photos as much as we enjoyed taking them :)
With all of that said, I'm glad to finally be back in the swing of things and I hope to hear everyone's feedback!
Oh and while I was away… my Pro Account expired, hopefully I can find enough money soon to re-buy it.
I dearly love you all :)
-Mare
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A fotografia de Mário Silva captura a essência da arquitetura rural portuguesa, com um foco particular num elemento arquitetónico singular: uma chaminé adornada com um catavento artístico.
A imagem apresenta uma chaminé de formato cónico, revestida em metal oxidado e coroada por uma figura humana estilizada, com um chapéu de abas largas e um casaco esvoaçante.
O catavento, com as suas pás metálicas, gira ao sabor do vento, adicionando um toque de movimento à composição estática.
A fotografia é enquadrada por ramos de uma árvore, que emolduram a cena e criam uma atmosfera bucólica e nostálgica.
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A chaminé, elemento fundamental da arquitetura rural, transcende a sua função prática e adquire um significado simbólico.
Ela representa o lar, o calor, a vida doméstica e a tradição.
Na fotografia de Mário Silva, a chaminé é exaltada como uma obra de arte, com a figura humana do catavento conferindo-lhe um caráter único e expressivo.
O catavento, além da sua função utilitária de indicar a direção do vento, é uma expressão da criatividade e do senso estético dos construtores.
A figura humana estilizada, com as suas linhas sinuosas e o movimento sugerido pelas pás, confere à chaminé um caráter lúdico e poético.
A fotografia não se limita à representação da chaminé, mas inclui também a paisagem circundante, com o telhado de telhas e os ramos da árvore.
Esses elementos contribuem para a criação de um contexto e situam a chaminé dentro de um ambiente rural e tradicional.
A oxidação do metal e a presença de musgo nos ramos da árvore conferem à fotografia uma pátina de tempo e evocam a passagem dos anos.
Essa patina do tempo acrescenta um valor sentimental à imagem, tornando-a um documento histórico e uma homenagem à tradição.
A composição da fotografia é equilibrada e harmoniosa.
A linha diagonal da chaminé conduz o olhar do observador para o alto, enquanto os ramos da árvore criam um enquadramento natural.
A luz natural, suave e difusa, envolve a cena em um halo de poesia, realçando as texturas e as cores.
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Em conclusão, a fotografia "Tradicional chaminé e catavento artístico" de Mário Silva é uma obra que celebra a beleza da simplicidade e a riqueza do património cultural português.
A imagem, ao mesmo tempo poética e documental, convida-nos a apreciar a beleza das pequenas coisas e a valorizar a tradição.
A chaminé, com o seu catavento artístico, torna-se um símbolo da identidade cultural de uma região e um testemunho da criatividade e do engenho do homem.
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Texto & Fotografia: ©MárioSilva
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Are you rising above the limits of what you can do? How are you overcoming what sets you back?
Your power is defined solely by you. You decide what you are capable of but often times we put a cap on that. It is our duty as humans to transcend beyond the limits we set forth for ourselves.
What will you do today to take one step further?
Educate yourself. If you feel uneasy or uncertain about how to proceed next, do a search for educational content or things to read.
What will you do tomorrow?
Put into practice what you learned today.
What about the rest of the week?
Keep practicing until you master what you learned, then move into the next phase of growth.
Little by little you’ll build something amazing because you worked with one block at a time.
Création artistique Photoshop à partir d´une feuille blanche virtuelle.
Merci pour vos visites et pour vos commentaires.
Covered the carcass of time with flowers
To send the scent of blame to the grave
Set the darkest thoughts on fire
And watched the ashes climb to Heaven's gates
picture and writing below inspired by my roleplay character.
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Time transcends, and the soles of her slender feet pad through the hallway with each moving step. The world around her remains silent; the distant sound of echoing church bells being the only audible break in the endless arguing of her thought process. The grip on fresh cut roses is knuckle white, the thorns digging in to palms purposefully - they are keeping her teetering on the brink of reality.
No matter the distance that her legs carry her, the hallway continues. The disorienting view of checkered tile for miles, her eye rolling in her skull until it seems to settle on her footsteps. Whether head should turn left or right, the woman will find herself met with endless rows of doors.
She knows this path, having walked it so many times before. The weathered book of her journal holds the history of each visit to this hallway - the doors she has slipped behind, the memories that remain there. If she could be so lucky, the church bells remain quiet at times when entering one of the rooms, and the revelation of forgotten days of the past will be pleasant instead. They will be warm rays of sunshine kissing her shoulders, the lips of a lover that never fades in to a mirage.
But these doors are so volatile.
Some of the doors prove to be passageways to memories she can not yet encounter. Those forbidden entrances remind her that she is merely a visitor here, a damaged mind no longer proving to be a home.
The journey carries on and though she was convinced that she was moving away from the sound, the bells grow louder until they are at deafening volumes. The mouth of a gutted church was opening wide and ready to swallow her whole, encouraging her to pick up the pace and to seek shelter in doors with keys that she seems to be avoiding.
The slow winded stride of bare feet against tile no longer feels cool and sleek, instead like heated coals. A burning sensation sparks and trickles up her ankles, over her thighs and guns for the core of her chest like an untamed forest fire. Somewhere along the way, these things she holds dear to ground her have slipped, long since left behind.
Before she can stop it, the sky is raining crimson petals and they are all ablaze. No amount of calling to her will grant the ability to drown out those bells, and while in such a trance she will listen to inner dialog that no longer belongs to her - dialog that tells her she must do what it takes to survive being trapped in a room full of smoke.
Starved for oxygen while encountering rooms of the past, in the present she has no ability to see how she paints new ones red. She is a prisoner until it cracks open again, spitting her out and slamming behind like nothing ever happened.
The tile floor returns with reality, and no one else seems to have any evidence of the fire she was trapped in. But she wakes, each and every time, mouth full of soot.
Je me suis amusée à photographier des montres...Certaines ont plus de 100 ans et fonctionnent encore ! C'est étonnant.
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I had fun photographing watches ... Some are over 100 years old and still working! This is amazing.
Prawn trawler Transcend BF 61 slowly coming into Buckie on Monday morning at the high tide. Was positioning to work on their nets.
My local doll community friends helped me think of a name for him. One of them mentioned "Ares" - The god of war. I think it's a beautiful name. I just wish it was a little longer.. <3
There are many ways to be free
One of them is to transcend reality by imagination
As I try to do
-- Anais Nin
If you are interested the wonderful and talented Buonaluce Photography has interviewed me at his blog, which you can read here. Also be sure to check out his amazing photographs while you are there, you will be glad you did!
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I think this is the most important chart in technology business.
(It's an updated version of Ray Kurzweil's published work, posted with permission, and updated here through 2016. Further UPDATE here, post Tesla AI Day.)
In this abstraction of Moore’s Law, Kurzweil plots computational power on a logarithmic scale, and finds a double exponential curve that holds over 100 years (a straight line would represent a geometrically compounding curve of progress).
In the modern era of accelerating change in the tech industry, it is hard to find even five-year trends with any predictive value, let alone trends that span the centuries.
Ray argues that through five paradigm shifts – such as electro-mechanical calculators and vacuum tube computers – the computational power that $1000 buys has doubled every two years. For the past 30 years, it has been doubling every year.
Each dot is the frontier of computational price performance of the day. One machine was used in the 1890 Census; one cracked the Nazi Enigma cipher in World War II; one predicted Eisenhower’s win in the 1956 Presidential election.
Each dot represents a human drama. They did not realize that they were on a predictive curve. Each dot represents an attempt to build the best computer with the tools of the day. Of course, we use these computers to make better design software and manufacturing control algorithms. And so the progress continues.
Notice that the pace of innovation is exogenous to the economy. The Great Depression and the World Wars and various recessions do not introduce a meaningful change in the long-term trajectory of Moore’s Law. Certainly, the adoption rates, revenue, profits and economic fates of the computer companies behind the various dots on the graph may go though wild oscillations, but the long-term trend emerges nevertheless.
Any one technology, such as the CMOS transistor, follows an elongated S-shaped curve of slow progress during initial development, upward progress during a rapid adoption phase, and then slower growth from market saturation over time. But a more generalized capability, such as computation, storage, or bandwidth, tends to follow a pure exponential – bridging across a variety of technologies and their cascade of S-curves.
Moore’s Law is commonly reported as a doubling of transistor density every 18 months. But this is not something the co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, has ever said. It is a nice blending of his two predictions; in 1965, he predicted an annual doubling of transistor counts in the most cost effective chip and revised it in 1975 to every 24 months. With a little hand waving, most reports attribute 18 months to Moore’s Law, but there is quite a bit of variability. The popular perception of Moore’s Law is that computer chips are compounding in their complexity at near constant per unit cost. This is one of the many abstractions of Moore’s Law, and it relates to the compounding of transistor density in two dimensions. Others relate to speed (the signals have less distance to travel) and computational power (speed x density).
Unless you work for a chip company and focus on fab-yield optimization, you do not care about transistor counts. Integrated circuit customers do not buy transistors. Consumers of technology purchase computational speed and data storage density. When recast in these terms, Moore’s Law is no longer a transistor-centric metric, and this abstraction allows for longer-term analysis.
What Moore observed in the belly of the early IC industry was a derivative metric, a refracted signal, from the bigger trend, the trend that begs various philosophical questions and predicts mind-bending futures.
Moore’s Law is a primary driver of disruptive innovation, such as the iPod usurping the Sony Walkman franchise , and it drives not only IT and Communications and has become the primary driver in drug discovery and bioinformatics, medical imaging and diagnostics. As Moore’s Law crosses critical thresholds, a formerly lab science of trial and error experimentation becomes a simulation science and the pace of progress accelerates dramatically, creating opportunities for new entrants in new industries.
This non-linear pace of progress has been the primary juggernaut of perpetual market disruption, spawning wave after wave of opportunities for new companies.
I just watched Transcendent Man, so I have Kurzweil on the mind.
"O ser sempre transcende a aparência.Assim que você começa a descobrir o ser que há por trás de um rosto muito bonito ou muito feio, de acordo com seus conceitos e preconceitos, as aparências superficiais somem até simplesmente não importarem mais."
A cabana - Willian P. Young
eu te amo #O
Sometimes love is not as bright as we expect it to be. Sometimes it’s more rustic and on the dark side.
Editor's note: It is a fairly long read but hopefully worth the time.
It used to be that, in my generation, we made friends first at our neighborhood, then at school/college and finally at work, or by pursuing common interests like sports, hobbies or artistic activities, to name a few. Then the Internet appeared and soon after, social networks. We were then able to connect with our current friends at a level in which physical distance was no longer an issue. We were reminded of Birthdays and were able to witness, virtually, anything that our friends wanted to share. They also provided the means to find people who shared a common interest, all over the world.
For those of us who had a very important yet extremely private and “unaccepted” interest, the Internet opened a new world of information and realization. We were no longer alone and the fact that we could share something so private with someone who was continents apart, would create a special bond that, in my case and many of you, was stronger than the one we had with lifelong friends.
The next step was to try to meet these dear online friends in person and make the virtual bond something real and tangible. I will not expand on this as I wrote extensively about my experiences at the first conferences that I attended. However, after not going to a large conference for over 7 years, my attending Keystone in 2022, helped me realize, again, the importance and relevance of giving that online friend a real hug. Yes, I continued to meet with close friends, from previous events, every year, but in small groups in which almost everyone knows everyone from before. Being able to talk to and hug friends you know online but have never met in person is something that I had missed for some time and found gratifying in Harrisburg, last month.
There are no emojis that can effectively express the satisfaction of a real hug, a smile, or a laugh from a friend! Nothing beats laughing together and seeing friends’ expressions as they smile or tell a joke or an anecdote. An emoji is generic, you see it and then forget it, but personal interactions are indelible memories that will last a lifetime!
If you ever have a chance to attend any TG conference, I encourage you to do all you can to be there and experience what I am trying to convey here. I am sure that if you never attend any other again, you will never forget it, and if you have the chance to attend again, you will do it for as long as you can.
You may have noticed that after Keystone I have focused on posting photos where I am with friends and not of myself, because that is what mattered the most to me. Yes, I had the opportunity to participate in a couple of exciting adventures and took a lot of photos of Cristy by herself, but those photos, although I will eventually share them, are mostly relevant at a personal level. On the other hand, photos with friends are reminders of that bond that becomes stronger with each face-to-face encounter with someone you don’t see often but feel closer to your heart and soul than most of your longtime friends from the “normal” life.
People often ask me how I manage to dress only for that one time a year and then put Cristy in hibernation. Well, the memories I gather through that week along with a continued online interaction, mostly with the friends I have met in person, make it easy to deal with the long wait.
About the photo: It was taken by the queen of selfies, Miss Jamie Kendall. I am not going to identify who is featured in it to protect Jamie's, Christina's, Nora's, Sophia's and my own privacy. :P
The Keystone Logo is used without express written consent of the Organization but I hope they understand :-)
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Nota: Es una lectura larga pero espero que valga la pena
Solía ser que, en mi generación, hacíamos amistades primero en el vecindario, después en el colegio/universidad y luego en el trabajo, o por intereses en común como deportes, pasatiempos o actividades artísticas, entre otros. Luego surgió Internet y poco después, aparecieron las redes sociales. Esto nos permitió estar en comunicación con nuestras amistades sin importar la distancia. Ya no se nos olvidaban los cumpleaños y podíamos presencia, de manera virtual, cualquier cosa que nuestras amistades quisieran compartir. También nos permitieron encontrar personas en todo el mundo que compartieran algún interés personal que tuviéramos.
Para quienes teníamos un interés muy importante pero que no era aceptado, el Internet abrió un nuevo mundo de información y descubrimiento. Ya no estábamos sol@s y el hecho de poder compartir algo tan privado con alguien que estaba en otro continente, produciría una conexión que, en mi caso y el de much@s de ustedes, era más fuerte que la que teníamos con amistades de toda la vida.
El siguiente paso era intentar conocer en persona a estas amistades en línea y hacer que esa conexión virtual se hiciera tangible. No me voy a extender en esto porque ya lo he descrito al relatar mis experiencias en las primeras convenciones a las que asistí. Sin embargo, luego de no asistir a una conferencia grande por más de 7 años, el asistir a Keystone 2022, me ayudo a recordar la importancia y relevancia de dar a esa amistad en línea un abrazo real. Es cierto que continué reuniéndome con amigas cercanas, de eventos anteriores, cada año, pero en grupos pequeños en los que todas nos conocíamos de antes. El poder conversar y abrazar a alguien que conoces en línea pero ves en persona por primera vez es algo que extrañaba y me llenó de satisfacción en Harrisburg, el mes pasado.
¡No hay emojis que puedan expresar de manera efectiva la satisfacción que producen un abrazo, una sonrisa o una carcajada real de una amiga! Nada se compara con reírse juntas y ver las expresiones de tus amigas cuando sonríen o cuentan una anécdota. ¡Un emoji es genérico, lo ves y lo olvidas, pero las interacciones personales producen recuerdos indelebles que duran toda la vida!
Si alguna vez tienes la oportunidad de asistir a una conferencia TG, te recomiendo que hagas todo lo posible por ir y experimentar lo que trato de expresar aquí. Estoy segura que si no vuelves a asistir a otra, jamás la olvidarás y, si puedes repetir la experiencia, lo harás cada vez que te sea posible.
Habrán notado que tras volver de Keystone, me he enfocado en compartir fotos en las que estoy con amigas y no solamente yo, porque eso es lo que más significó para mí. Es cierto que tuve la oportunidad de participar en varias aventuras interesantes y tengo muchas fotos de Cristy sola pero esas fotos, aunque eventualmente las compartiré, tienen relevancia a nivel más personal. En cambio, las fotos con amigas son recuerdos de esa conexión que se hace más fuerte con cada encuentro cara a cara con alguien a quien no ves con frecuencia, pero con quien sientes más cercanía que con la mayoría de tus amistades de toda la vida.
Con frecuencia me preguntan que cómo hago para sobrevivir vistiéndome solo una vez al año y poner a Cristy a hibernar. Pues bien, los recuerdos que acumulo durante esa semana junto a las interacciones en línea, principalmente con las amigas que he conocido en persona, hacen de la larga espera algo muy manejable.
fotografía tomada por la Reyna de las Selfies, Jamie Kendall.
Just out and about with Hallbadorn. We planned to go for coffee and a pizza. I really liked the feel of the Downtown Transcend Coffee.
I did a soft shallow depth of field natural light shot and a strobed wide depth of field shot. Let me know which one you like. Each have their own feel.
My favorite place, where even if I can't reach up and physically touch the sky, I feel the closest to it on a soul level. A sense of freedom, peace and strength.
Taken in Cairo, during my last visit.
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Globe by Close-Act Theatre (NL)
GLOBE is a child’s perspective of the real world, where the central character creates a domain that transcends religion, esotericism and cultural traditions.
Using circus techniques, pyrotechnics, and video projection to create the visualization of liberty and the joy of flying, GLOBE is an alienating, fairylike spectacle full of symbolism.
GLOBE is presented in and around a large sphere. Props are exposed and accompanied with sound from all sides, reminiscent of a pop concert. The audience is, thus, literally part of the fantasy world created by Close-Act.
About Close-Act Theatre
Established in 1991, Close-Act is an international street theatre company that combines various disciplines of performing arts, like dance, music and circus, with stunning visual representations. Close-Act’s magical, hypnotic performances have a narrative character, and are presented by performers who operate impressive mobile objects and extraordinary air machinery. Especially suitable for urban public areas, the performances are interactive and surprising, often with performers moving amongst the audience. Close-Act Theatre is led by artistic and general directors Hesther Melief and Tonny Aerts, with a team of artists, technicians, industrial designers and costume designers. The company performed mostly in Europe in the early years, but now present their shows and acts worldwide.
Image courtesy of Close-Act Theatre.
Globe by Close Act is a standing show, recommended for participants age 5 and above. Please keep your children close to you at all times. Wheelchair users may enjoy the performance at a designated area. Please approach our Festival Assistants for assistance.
Security advisory
Security measures will be taken to ensure the safety of all festivalgoers and performers. Participants are advised to travel light and arrive an hour before the show starts for screening and bag checks.
The following items are not permitted at Cathay Green: Weapons, illegal substances, foldable chairs, luggages, pets, buggies and bicycles and mobility devices. Do keep our grounds clean by not littering and keep bags on you at all times. Electronic devices may be used at your own risk.