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In dreams, I see shapes and colors like these and I hear music as the shapes and colors change. It seems perfect to imagine those feelings and sensations with fractals.
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I had been 'playing' with this concept for a while in my head. I called it (instead of the Silence of the Lambs) the Silence of the Bird. When I had the final result, it came to me immediately: VISUAL SILENCE.
I don't often 'dive' into the digital 'magical' darkroom that photoshop can be, but for certain projects it is a great creative tool!
Here, in the case of visual silence, what is being absorbed is not sound but gaze.
If silence is the absence of noise, then this visual silence is defined as the gradual absence, the vanishing, of what surrounds it, where we burrow from the visible surface to the invisible core. Our focus on the image involves a diminution of the optic field:
in this sense, visual silence is like a poem, its power arising from its sheer vulnerability. The image cannot be penetrated even by the most powerful of gazes because it is already open, in full view... and yet the transparency of the image, one that does not attempt to hide anything, is still capable of mystery.
Visual silence arrests us because it is the interface between two realms of partial knowledge: between he who does not know he is being watched and those who do not know what they are watching.
Some images leave us speechless, we watch them in silent awe.
Ultimately the camera is merely an extension of the human eye, it only sees and cannot wholly know what it is seeing.
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Etude by Frederick Chopin with Red Campion Flowers
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All manipulations were created in Adobe PS 2024, and Studio 2 Stained Glass filter.
Musical texture overlay by Anna Lenabem # 17.
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Tahai, Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Chile.
The three ahu of Tahai
But without a doubt, the great focus of attention at Tahai are its three ahu or ceremonial platforms located on the small rocky cliff that rises above the sea. The altars form a visual line that stars in this magnificent setting. If you look straight at the platforms, the first group on the left with five moai statues is the Ahu Vai Uri, the next one is the Ahu Tahai and the last one with a single statue wearing a pukao or hat is the Ahu Ko Te Riku.
Ahu Vai Uri
The Ahu Vai Uri, whose name could be translated as dark water or green water, is the platform with the largest number of erected statues. Its construction dates from 1200 AD. and its five restored moai are a sample of the different styles of how they were carved.
The first one on the right is currently a piece of rock that is barely recognizable. However, the one that follows, much better preserved as such as the first on the left, has a lower and more robust body than the rest and shows a grim expression.
Ahu Tahai
Ahu Tahai has a single solitary moai about 4.5 meters high. The figure, which is very eroded, shows a thick torso and a wide neck, and rises on the oldest platform of the complex built around 700 AD.
Despite the enormous wear suffered by the moai over time, it still shows the greatness and pride of the ancestors they represent and, in some way, still transmits that mythical power called mana.
Ahu Ko Te Riku
Ahu Ko Te Riku is the last and singular platform located further north. Above it rises a single moai of 5.1 meters high that was restoredwith all the elements that adorned the old finished statues.
On his head it carries a pukao, a cylindrical piece carved in red scoria from the Puna Pau volcano. This form, which according to different opinions, represents a hat or a hair bun, was placed in the last phase of construction of the ahu. It is believed that the original pukaoof this moai was used to carve the Christian cross that is found in the nearby cemetery to Tahai, but there is not even the certainty that it had one. The other differentiating element of Ahu Ko Te Riku is that it supports the only moai that has eyes of the whole island.
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Here is my first attempt at architecture. I admire people who can just take those photos that are perfectly aligned or even know how to edit them so they are straight.
Well I dont know either but I do know that to see all these shapes in one place at a time aligned with the light and shadow is utter magic.
Here is a special thank you to my friend who brought me there. And saw me freaking out at this sight (:
not sure what to say about this image......simply messing around yesterday with old photos and this is one of the things that happened.
Perfomance with Oregon Painting Society on December 12th, 2008 at Rotture
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Visual is a dance troupe that consists of (not exclusively)
Morgan Alexandra Ritter
Dana Dart-McLean
Kersti Jan Werdal
Brenna Murphy
Barbara Kinzle
Lynn Dunham
Asia Wong
Molly Pringle
some of my long time flickr friends may "get"
this more readily , knowing that most often i
can be found in a garden , either whenever
the seasonal maintenance & climate allows
OR
-- those regions of my mind may propel --
ps: HFF and happy positive resolutions 😃
"Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.” Stewart Lewis
I don't know what Marbled Hot Springs Rd. would be without the American Bitterns! While we were there the reeds hadn't had a chance to grow very tall so the Bitterns were pretty easy to spot. Raising their heads up generally in position with the vertical reeds I'm sure they are imagening they are hidden from sight...I didn't realize until this picture what an incredible 'visual perspective' they have of everything around them in this position!
My favourite time of year is Fall because it is such a visual delight. The wonderful colors, the smell in the air and everything that goes with it. This area of Fish Creek shows a river gently winding through an area of colorful trees.
Photographer - Visual Distress MM#510136
Model - Myself - Red Rhapsody MM#375616
Hair/MU/Wardrobe - Myself
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National Visual Arts Gallery, Petronas Towers and Palace of Culture - Titwangsa Lake - Kuala Lumpur.
The Istana Budaya, Kuala Lumpur's source of national pride, is Asia's first and state-of-the-art theatre. It is a venue for musical theatre, opera, and classical concerts in the city. Also seen here are the famous Petronas towers and the National Visual Arts Gallery.
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Day 24 of 365
I took this photograph couple of days ago while we were heading to library with Aura. In my mind this picture compares very closely to Day 19. Not only is it taken almost from the same spot, but the light is a bit similar and again the whole picture is based on a very well known visual motif of silhouette figure. I hope the guy is at least someone else this time! When I took that earlier picture, I wrote about feeling mixed about it because pictures which are too much based on known visual motifs become clichés easily. Looking it now, I feel I need to lighten my stance and focus it a bit.
I don't want to be against visual motifs. If you look at the history of photography, it quickly becomes clear that it isn't reasonable stance to take. As a matter of fact, many classic photographs can be considered, if not only to be based on visual motifs, but also something which have created them in the first place. Like someone who commented my earlier picture said, there are only a finite number of different visual motifs, maybe just a few hundred. And being 'language of photography' they can be put to use in different ways, which means that the motifs don't control photography as much as one would think. So, yes I'm lightening my stance here, but here comes the focus part. I think that if photography is solely based on repeating these visual motifs, it is reduced, I think, to be repeated for didactic purposes. To me, some genres of photography are close to this, but I can understand there are different approaches to this. In my mind I would like to think that good photography also needs a context, a story or some other 'interpretative dimension' to make them something more than just 'pictures of the world'. I know it's a challenging claim to make, but it is also very much something that I need to learn myself too.
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(Cut outside, across the street from the club, to the spot where the pop-up coffee vendor was previously parked. The lot is dark and unlighted now, Ronan, Sienna, and Mateo are waiting when Caly jogs up.)
Caly: Where is Lucas?
Sienna: We were hoping he hooked up with you.
Ronan: I don't think he's her type.
Sienna: Picture me punching your arm for that dumb visual. (to Ronan) I mean, I thought he might have met you (to Caly) on your way here.
Caly: He did not, and we can't wait. (motions for the black-clad trio to follow her across the street, toward the landscaping beside the stone front entrance gate)
(Cut to the quartet reaching a side door of the club, Caly trying the door.)
Caly: Locked, and there appears to be a guard inside so I can't risk breaking in, here.
Ronan: I'd have infiltrated if I knew they were going into lockdown.
Caly: You didn't know. We'll find another way. (looks around) Mateo, take them to the place you got in, before. It sounds like they don't consider it important, but if you get in, wait for my signal.
Mateo: Where are you going?
Caly: I can get into places the two of you can't.
Ronan: So can I.
Caly: I want you to stay with them, as muscle.
Ronan: I feel so empowered. (preens)
Caly: All of you, this is a deadly situation. I want you to use the weapons I gave you on anyone you encounter. Don't ask questions, don't wait to decide if they're human or inhabited. If they're human, it won't hurt them. If they're inhabited, they're your enemy. Understand?
Mateo: We're fighting evil alien invaders. Got it.
Caly: (smiles) Good. I'll meet you inside. (she darts away, vanishing into the darkness)
Sienna: She forgot to tell us what the signal will be.
Ronan: She's a tenet. It's bound to be -- obvious.
(Cut to Lilitus draining another human while Trajan absorbs the life essence of another inhabited human.)
Lilitus: I can't recall the last time I delighted in so many courses! Wait, I do remember. The soirée on that human's island, with all the delectable girls.
(Cut to outside, Caly's skirting the building when a hand reaches out from a ground level window, touching her ankle. She kicks away the hand, spinning and drawing her weapon.)
Levi: (his smiling face is framed in the window) Getting old, tenet? You should have sensed me.
Caly: (drily) Maybe I did.
Levi: Acerbic. (motions) This way.
Caly: I have others with me.
Levi: I saw them. They're going in through a service entrance. We'll meet up with them. Coming? (vanishes into the interior darkness)
(Caly doesn't hesitate, slipping through the open window, and closing it behind her.)
(to be continued)
Thank you to the cast!
Levi: Erebus
Caly: TB